Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.
Music City News was founded in 1963, by country music singer Faron Young. In 1967, the publication began to confer annual awards; in 1978, it began televising them, with the inclusion of artist performances. These awards were not decided by a secretive committee or by an "association," but by fan...
Woody Herman: Blue Flame - Portrait of a Jazz Legend
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The life, music and legacy of bandleader and clarinetist Woody Herman is explored in this documentary that includes interviews with the master, himself, along with musicians and jazz historians such as Dan Morgenstern, Terry Gibbs, Joe Lovano, Jeff Hamilton and many others
