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Pastimes : Come Play With Me - 'Name That Tune' -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: appro who wrote (10592)	12/22/2003 3:37:07 AM
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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997) (TV) I stumbled onto this 96 minute gem playing on the True Stories cable TV channel a few days ago and I really enjoyed it. There is only so much time in life. I cannot (or will not) watch all the wonderful documentaries available 24 hours a day now on cable - BUT this one is special and I am glad I saw it. I never knew the story behind Blue Note Records. It is a fascinating perspective on music and those who love it enough to record and produce it. It is as entertaining as it is enlightening. It is peppered throughout with great jazz artist and classic recordings. I enjoyed hearing the great mix of insiders, music lovers and collectors give their views and insights into a music art form born in America but appreciated and held in higher esteem in Europe. Best of all, it made me think about things I take for granted. An example was discussion of the transition from 78 RPM records with twelve minutes per side in a brown sleeve to the 33 1/3 RPM LPs which now require 20 minutes per side with liner notes and artwork to sell. This helped create a written history of recordings which had not always been easily determined for the earlier recordings. The initial inability to make the necessary adjustments in their catalog and marketing nearly destroyed Blue Note Records but in the end became one of the things for which they are admired and copied to this day by many modern musicians including Hip Hop artists and producers. I guess you can buy coffee table books featuring their album artwork. That's another story well covered in this special. Hearing Kareem Abdul-Jabar compare a great jazz improvisation combo to a basketball team was classic. More than anything else it is a story about people and their shared love of music that moves them. Pure entertainment, IMHO. Catch on it cable if you can. >>>>>>>>> The story of Blue Note Records is the story of Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff, two German Jews from Berlin, who emigrated to New York in 1939 and made a profession out of their love for black music. Like the USA's oppressed minority of the black population, the two find a second home in this music. From Thelonious Monk to Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, through to Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor: Unlike any other record label, Blue Note drew our attention over several decades to a number of the most important jazz musicians and set unsurpassed standards. Blue Note was the first record company to understand that there was a link between the look of a record and the music featured on it. Consequently, Blue Note records not only influenced musicians but also designers, filmmakers, actors and even sportsmen. The film covers music history from the company's beginnings in boogie woogie through swing, bebop, hardbop, modern jazz and avantgarde to the present day. At the same time, the film looks at the fascinating combination of European heritage with the purest form of American culture - jazz. << german-cinema.de <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< IMDb gives it 7.5 out of 10 us.imdb.com Here is Blue Note Records' website bluenote.com Guess now I will have to try out that link to their streaming Blue Note Radio...