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        The Sound of Jazz-(1957)

        Formaat : X264/MKV
        Bron    : BR
        Jaar    : 1957 (2015 BR uitgave)
        Taal    : engels
        Subs    : 
        Type    : muziek
        Tijd    : 54 min
        Web     : https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00UN7F9DS
         
        ---- Historische opnames, verplichte kost voor Jazz fanatics ---  
        ---- Beeld kwaliteit anno 1957! ---

        The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time,
        live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York City.
        The show was hosted by New York Herald-Tribune media critic John Crosby,
        directed by Jack Smight, and produced by Robert Herridge. Jazz writers Nat
        Hentoff and Whitney Balliett were the primary music consultants.

        The Sound of Jazz brought together 32 leading musicians from the swing era
        including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Jo Jones and
        Coleman Hawkins; the Chicago style players of the same era, like Henry "Red"
        Allen, Vic Dickenson, and Pee Wee Russell; and younger 'modernist' musicians
        such as Gerry Mulligan, Thelonious Monk, and Jimmy Giuffre. These players played
        separately with their compatriots, but also joined to combine various styles in
        one group, such as Red Allen's group and the group backing Billie Holiday on
        "Fine and Mellow".

        The show's performance of "Fine and Mellow" reunited Billie Holiday with her
        estranged long-time friend Lester Young for the final time. Jazz critic Nat
        Hentoff, who was involved in the show, recalled that during rehearsals, they
        kept to opposite sides of the room. Young was very weak, and Hentoff told him to
        skip the big band section of the show and that he could sit while performing in
        the group with Holiday.

        During the performance of "Fine and Mellow", Webster played the first solo.
        "Then", Hentoff remembered:

        Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and[br]        Holiday] were looking at each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and
        she was sort of nodding and half–smiling. It was as if they were both
        remembering what had been—whatever that was. And in the control room we were all
        crying. When the show was over, they went their separate ways.

        Within two years, both Young and Holiday had died.

        Noting that the cameras were employed as "straight reportorial tools", Jack
        Gould observed in a New York Times review: "It was the art of video
        improvisation wedded to the art of musical improvisation; the effect was an hour
        of enormously creative and fresh TV."
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