1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival
Format: Music Documentary
Produced By: Unicorn Performance Series
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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The New Orleans Pop Festival was a rock festival held on Labor Day weekend (August 30 - September 1, 1969), two weeks after the Woodstock Festival. It was held at the Louisiana International Speedway in Prairieville, Louisiana, about 65 miles up the Mississippi River from New Orleans and 15 miles south of Baton Rouge. Over 26 bands performed during the three days of the festival, including 7 veterans of Woodstock. It had a peak attendance of 25,000–30,000 people.

America's Music Legacy - Blues
Format: Music Documentary
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Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved. The America's Music Legacy series was recorded 1983-85 and produced by 20TH Century Home Entertainment. It showcases the musical legends performing the songs that continue to attract and entice the whole world, because they truly are the best of all that is America. The program is hosted by Brock Peters and features performances by B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Pee Wee Crayton, Jimmy Rushing, Ernie Andrews, and many more.

Art Tatum: The Art Of Jazz Piano
Format: Music Documentary
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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The Art of Jazz Piano is still the only documentary portrait of the greatest jazz pianist ever. Using photographs and some rare footage of Tatum and his contemporaries, the film reconstructs his genius. Included are interviews with musicians

Black Lips - Kids Like You & Me
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Format: Music Documentary
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Kids Like You & Me, directed by Bill Cody, documents a journey through one of the most exciting regions in the world including three groundbreaking stops in Egypt. (The last known American rock band to play Egypt being The Grateful Dead in 1978!) Get on the bus with Black Lips and their good friends, Lebanese indie rockers, Lazzy Lung. See the people of the Middle East the way they really are. Shopkeepers and restaurant owners. Skaters, graffiti artists and musicians. Revolutionaries and dreamers. Kids like you and me. You’ll never look at the Middle East the same way after seeing this film.

Blues And The Alligator - The First Twenty Years Of Alligator Records
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Format: Music Documentary
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This film was shot twenty years ago for Swedish TV and tells the story of Alligator Records. Features interviews of Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks, Kenny Neal, Billy Branch and Lucky Peterson as well live perfomance clips and a behind-the-scenes look of life at Alligator.

Brian Torff And Manfred Fest - Some Call It Jazz
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Format: Music Documentary
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Classic Rhythm And Blues -With Ben Sidran Vol 1
Format: Music Documentary
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Celebrated and highly respected jazz musician Ben Sidran hosts this musical retrospective that examines the work and influence of some of the biggest names in rhythm and blues. Using archival footage, Sidran helps viewers appreciate the mastery and skill that goes into the creation and orchestration of music performed by such stars as Corky Siegel, David Bromberg with John Sebastian, and Geoff Muldaur.

Classic Rhythm And Blues Vol 4 - Hosted By Ben Sidran
Format: Music Documentary
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Ben Sidran presents the classic rhythm & blues performances of the 1980s with his personal insight into each song, the artist and the performance. Track List: Baby Doo Caston - Low Down Dog, John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom, John Mayall - Rolling With The Blues, Nick Gravienties - Down In The Bottom, Long John Baldrey - Going Down Slow, John Sebastian - Dixie Chicken, John Mayall - Riding On The Law.

Classic Rhythm And Blues Vol 5 - By Ben Sidran Vol 5
Format: Music Documentary
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Classic Rhythm & Blues Collection Vol. 5: The Sixties. album for sale was released Jul 17, 2001 on the Time/Life Music label. Full title: The Classic Rhythm & Blues Collection Volume 5: The Sixties. Classic Rhythm & Blues Collection Vol. 5: The Sixties. CD music contains a single disc with 20 songs.

Como Se Forma Una Rumb - How To Creata A RUMBA
Format: Music Documentary
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Documentary on the origins and roots of some of the most popular Cuban rhythms. As well as featuring testimony from some of its greatest exponents, the film features Afro-Cuban jams, colloquial jokes and a parade of Cuban All-Stars.

Count Basie - Then And Now - Count The King
Format: Music Documentary
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Documentary about jazz musician William 'Count' Basie. The film explores the career of the pianist, bandleader and composer, featuring performance footage and interviews with those that worked with him.

Cuba - The Island Of Music
Format: Music Documentary
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The film is a behind-the-scenes look at Afro-Cuban music's role in the daily life of Cubans. Filmmaker Gary Keys (Memories of Duke and Dizzy's Dream Band) brings the audience into the heart and soul of Havana, through a vibrant mosaic of street musicians, big bands, dancers, religious rituals, and classic cars. Keys shows us Afro-Cuban music in New York City, with the music and commentary of jazz legends Billy Taylor, Candido Camero, and Chico OFarrill.

Django Reinhardt - The King Of Jazz Guitar
Format: Music Documentary
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Django Reinhardt - King of Jazz Guitar movie was released Oct 30, 2007 by the Music Video Distributors studio. Deceased guitarist Django Reinhardt is paid tribute to in this careful examination of the man and his unique playing style. Django Reinhardt's music still looms as the standard to be attained some 50 years after his death. The gypsy guitarist, who played with only two fingers of his left hand, was Europe's first jazz superstar. He's the unschooled genius who created his own musical and compositional style and became a legend. Discover his music, his melodic abilities, and his skill at achieving simultaneously technical precision and deeply meaningful tonal nuances in this unique tribute to the king of jazz guitar Django Reinhardt.

Genres In Music - From Handel To Hip Hop
Format: Music Documentary
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Throughout history, musicians and musical works have reflected the fashion, culture, and social attitudes of their times. Music today is more diversified than ever, from the megahits of teen pop stars to the depth and emotionality of gospel choirs, to the tones and textures produced by large-scale orchestras. Add to this the unstoppable forces of MySpace, YouTube, the iPod, and a rapidly expanding community of independent labels and producers, and the result is a kaleidoscope of styles, movements, and voices. This program gives students an overview of musical genres, including forms of classical music, rock and pop, musical theatre, 20th and 21st century film music, heavy metal, and rap. Viewable/printable educational resources are available online.

In Flight - So This Is Love
Format: Music Documentary
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Inflight and the making of their album "So This Is Love" David O'Reilly, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the band Inflight shows us what it is really like living and playing in a band, focusing on Inflight's new album "So This is Love". Throughout the film samples of each song are played while David explains the process of making this new album.

Jamal Ahmad Live
Format: Music Documentary
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One of the most individualistic pianists, composers, and arrangers of his generation, Ahmad Jamal's disciplined technique and minimalist style had a huge impact on trumpeter Miles Davis, and Jamal is often cited as contributing to the development of cool jazz throughout the 1950s. Though Jamal was a highly technically proficient player, well-versed in the gymnastic idioms of swing and bebop, he chose to play in a more pared down and nuanced style. Which is to say that while he played with the skill of a virtuoso, it was often what he chose not to play that marked him as an innovator. Influenced by such pianists as Errol Garner, Art Tatum, and Nat King Cole, as well as big-band and orchestral music, Jamal developed his own boundary-pushing approach to modern jazz that incorporated an abundance of space, an adept use of tension and release, unexpected rhythmic phrasing and dynamics, and a highly melodic, compositional style.

Liz Story - Solid Colours
Format: Music Documentary
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Story's remarkable 1983 debut is the intellectual sister of Winston's December--a discursive series of solo piano improvisations that draw on the rich jazz harmony of pioneers like Bill Evans, Story's acknowledged chief inspiration. Yet Colors is almost minimalist next to Evans's more densely textured works--a spacious blend of polychords, breezy runs, and finely timed sustenutos, with an accessible spirit and memorable melodies--like the uplifting figure she plays over a simple descending bassline in "Hymn," or the indelible major-key main theme of "Things with Wings." More economical than Keith Jarrett, more florid and changeable than Winston, Story finds a compelling middle ground here between jazz harmony and classical technique, outside improv and sturdy songcraft, complex performance and inner stillness.

Looking For Bon
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Format: Music Documentary
Produced By: Planet Blue Pictures US
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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