"Actor: Art Blakey"

• A Great Day In Harlem | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Story and Sounds Behind the Most Famous Photo in the History of Jazz! In August of 1958 in front of a Harlem brownstone first-time photographer Art Kane assembled 57 of the greatest jazz stars of all time and snapped a picture that would live forever. Narrated by Quincy Jones this ""irresistible"" (Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times) Academy Award-nominated documentary examines the fascinating lives of the musicians who showed up that day to make history. Through remarkable interviews with nearly 30 jazz greats (including Dizzy Gillespie Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey) home movies shot by Milt and Mona Hinton and rare archival performance footage A Great Day In Harlem tells the story behind a legendary photograph that is still alive and kicking - and jammin'!

• A Great Day In Harlem | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Track Listing:1. Esquire Shoot2. Legendary Strides3. Early Call4. Idols & Contemporaries5. Loading The Film6. Surrendering To The Art7. The Magic Moment8. End Titles 1. Red Allen2. Buster Bailey3. Count Basie4. Emmett Berry5. Art Blakey6. Lawrence Brown7. Scoville Browne8. Buck Clayton9. Bill Crump10.Vic Dickenson11.Roy Eldridge12.Art Farmer13.Bud Freeman14.Dizzy Gillespie15.Tyree Glenn16.Benny Golson17.Sonny Greer18.Johnny Griffin19.Gigi Gryce20.Coleman Hawkins21.J.C. Heard22.Jay C. Higginbotham23.Milt Hinton24.Chubby Jackson25.Hilton Jefferson26.Osie Johnson27.Hank Jones28.Jimmy Jones29.Jo Jones30.Taft Jordan31.Taft Jordan Jr.32.Max Kaminsky33.Gene Krupa34.Eddie Locke35.Marian McPartland36.Charles Mingus37.Miff Mole38.Thelonious Monk39.Gerry Mulligan40.Oscar Pettiford41.Rudy Powell42.Luckey Roberts43.Sonny Rollins44.Jimmy Rushing45.Pee Wee Russell46.Sahib Shihab47.Horace Silver48.Zutty Singleton49.Stuff Smith50.Willie The Lion Smith51.Rex Stewart52.Maxine Sullivan53.Joe Thomas54.Wilbur Ware55.Dickie Wells56.George Wettling57.Ernie Wilkins58.Mary Lou Williams59.Lester Young Disc 1 - Bonus Features 1.Stories From The Making Of: A Great Day Harlem2.Art Kane3.The Next Generation: Bill Charlap & Kenny Washington4.The Copycat Photos Main FeatureDisc 1A Great Day In Harlem DocumentaryChapters:1.Esquire Shoot2.Legendary Strides3.Early Call4.Idols & Contemporaries5.Loading The Film6.Surrendering To The Art7.The Magic MomentBonus FeaturesDisc 1• ‘Stories from the Making of A Great Day in Harlem’ Featurette•‘Art Kane’ Featurette•‘The Next Generation: Bill Charlap & Kenny Washington’ Featurette•The Copycat Photos’ FeaturetteDisc 2•‘Explore the Photo/Musicans A to Z’–Video profiles of every musician featured in the picture

• Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Live in '58 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Live

• Art Blakey - Live At Ronnie Scott's | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers were the quintessential ""hard bop"" ensemble rooted in the core elements of Swing and Blues. As Jazz became more prevalent and expansive the characteristic ""hard bop"" of the Messengers became accepted as the global definition for Jazz music. Art Blakey it's eldest and most eloquent exponent was its master. This brilliant performance at Ronnie Scott's from February 21st 1985 is testament to this fact. Tracklisting: 1.On The Ginza 2.I Want To Talk T

• Art Blakey: Live In 65 (Including Blue Moon And Crisis) | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Art Blakey, batterie - Freddie Hubbard, trompette - Nathan Davis, saxophone - Jaki Byard, piano - Reggie Workman, contrebasse

• Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded in 1976 the concert features outstanding solo performances from Blakey and members of his band performing on a makeshift stage in the Umbrian square to a huge crowd.

• Jazz Legends | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £5.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (38.00%)   |  RRP £7.99

  These are the legendary jazz names that commanded the ultimate respect - Dizzy Gillespie John Lee Art Blakey Willie Dixon Stan Getz. They were living legends in their own lifetimes. On this DVD you can experience them playing live at their best with the very people who brought out the best in them.

• Jazz Collection - Vol. 2 | DVD | (03/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Stan Getz Dexter Gordon Dizzy Gillespie Red Rodney... These are names synonymous with the great Jazz Age. The Legends Series features all these wonderful artists and others doing simply what they loved and lived for playing Jazz. Dizzy Gillespie Born John Birks Gillespie 21st October 1917 Cheran South Carolina USA. Died 6th January 1993. Acquired his nickname in the '30s as a result of his zestful behavior on and off stage. In the history of the development of Jazz trumpet

• Art Blakey And Jazz Messengers Live | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-7.38 (-29.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Art Blakey and his band The Jazz Messengers helped redefine jazz offering a harder version of be-bop that is much imitated but never bettered. Sadly Blakey passed away in 1990 but his legacy is so timeless that the music sounds as fresh as ever. This live concert recording was shot in 1982 at the Vanguard club in New York. Set Play List: Fuller Love (2 mins and 5 secs) Miz B.C. (11 mins and 31 secs) My Ship (13 mins and 30 secs) Bonus set Featuring Johnny

• Giuseppe Verdi - Aida | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £116.08   |  Saving you £-5.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £110.99

  Concerts By Art Blakey/Dizzy Gillespie/Louis Armstrong Etc

• Jazz Life - Vol. 2 - Mike Mainieri Group And Art Blakey | DVD | (26/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  JAZZ LEGENDS: Jazz Life Volume 2:The two groups are recorded live at the Seventh At Avenue South club in N.Y.C. Art Blakey started as a professional musician with Fletcher Henderson and Mary Lou Williams in the years 1939-1941. He had his own band in Boston and was later with Billy Eckstine and Buddy De Franco before he started his first jazz Messenger Group with Horace Silver in 1954. When he left Silver he kept the name and had The Jazz Messengers for five decades. During this time some of the most important musicians in modern jazz were members of the Messengers. Donald Byrd Kenny Dorham Lee Morgan Freddie Hubbard Woody Shaw Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard (tp); Curtis Fuller (tb); Lou Donaldson Jackie McLean (as); Benny Golson Wayne Shorter Johnny Griffin and Branford Marsalis (ts); Bobby Timmons Chick Corea Keith Jarrett and Mulgrew Miller (p). The highlight of this video is Wynton Marsalis' rendition of 'My Ship' which definitely dispels the notion of many critics who say that Marsalis is all technique and no soul.Mike Mainieri began to play vibraphone at the age of 12 inspired by Lionel Hampton. When he was 17 years old he played with Buddy Rich and became his arranger and musical leader. Later he earned his living as a studio musician in New York. He has recorded with Jeremy Steig Buddy Rich Sonny Stitt and Art Farmer. He was one of the musicians who formed the extremely successful group Steps in 1979 later called Steps Ahead - STEVE SCHEIN 2000.* Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - From Seventh At Avenue South1. FULLER LOVE - 2:052. MX'B C. - 9:113. MY SHIP - 9:004. THEME - 4:30* Mike Mainieri Group:5. SARAHIS TOUCH 9:466. BAMBOO - 7:157. BULLET TRAIN - 13:08Total Time 55:02

• Art Blakey/Jazz Messengers - Paris 1959 | DVD | (01/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

• Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers | DVD | (21/06/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers are captured at a joyful outdoor gig at the Umbria Jazz Festival on July 20 during the scorching summer of 1976. Here, in his third decade of leading the band, Blakey's enthusiasm runs high throughout a set lasting almost exactly an hour across six compelling numbers. The opening "Backgammon" is a 13-minute showcase for Blakey's masterful drumming and virtuoso improvisation from trumpeter Bill Hardman, with especially fine contributions from pianist Mickey Tucker. There are strong exchanges between Cameron Brown's bass and Tucker's keys on "Along Came Betty" and, while the ten-minute workout that is "Uranus" may be the most exploratory cut, the almost equally lengthy "Blues March" keeps up the tempo. Tucker is again the star of the classic "All the Things You Are", before the set reaches an uplifting conclusion with the breathtakingly interlocking dynamics of "Gipsy Folk Tales". This may not be one of the classic Messengers line-ups, but there's no doubting the commitment and dazzling precision of the musicianship. Likewise the rapt audience and romantic courtyard setting lend a magic which only happens when all the right elements come together, as they undoubtedly do in this highly enjoyable set. On the DVD: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers on disc has trailers for other TDK jazz releases and a text biography of Art Blakey. The 4:3 picture is sometimes slightly soft and displays the usual faults of live concert footage shot on video, but is generally much better than expected for its age. The sound defaults to good stereo but the Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 remixes add considerably to the sense of a occasion. The DTS track is particularly weighty and almost tangible in its presence.--Gary S. Dalkin

• Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cool jazz from superstar Art Blakey. In the case of Art Blakey the name 'Jazz Legend' is wholly appropriate. Born in 1919 Blakey served his musical apprenticeship in the bands of Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie where his reputation as a drummer grew. The Jazz Messangers were formed in 1955 and were pivotal until Art's death in 1990 in nurturing the hard edged be-bop sound and the jazz greats of the future. When one considers the diversity of this array of talent it is amazing that Blakey had the strength of personality as a leader and musical geneous to put the stamp of the Jazz Messengers on each of them. This unique DVD also contains a set by Johnny Griffin.

• Art Blakey - Live In Sam Remo 1963 | DVD | (01/03/2008) from £17.79   |  Saving you £-8.80 (-97.90%)   |  RRP £8.99

• Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Jazz Masters | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Art Blakey was an acknowledged musical master a founder of modern jazz drumming and a father figure to three generations of jazz superstars. His Jazz Messengers first appeared on the scene in 1954 and the alumni is a who's who of great jazz names including Lee Morgan Donald Byrd Johnny Griffin Wayne Shorter Keith Jarrett and many more. Here Wynton Marsalis makes his debut appearance as Blakey's trumpeter. From the first distinctive Blakey drum roll the Messengers deliver a sizzling hard bop concert playing Little Man New York Webb City and an extended version of Kurt Weill's My Ship which features Wynton as trumpet soloist.

• Art Blakey - Live | DVD | (08/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As the virtuoso drummer and driving force behind the hard edged be bop sound that redefined jazz in 1960s, Art Blakey features here in a classic 1982 performance with his band the Jazz Messengers. One of the most influential jazz combos of all time, Blakey s Messengers nurtured jazz pioneers like Donald Byrd, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis. Tracks Include: Fuller Love Miz B.C. My Ship This DVD also includes a bonus set by saxophonist Johnny Griffin.

• Jazz Legends - Art Blakey/Mike Mainieri - From Seventh Avenue South | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (-7.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers:Art Blakey (drums)Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)Billy Pierce (tenor sax)Branford Marsalis (alto sax)Donald Brown (piano)Charles Fambrough (bass)Mike Mainieri Group:Mike Mainieri (vibes)Bob Mintzer (tenor sax)Warren Bernhart (piano)Eddie Gomes (bass)Omar Hakim (drums)