44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 5/10
1. Who is Sonny Rollins? (Dick Fontaine, 1967) Fascinating, quite beautiful short doc. Dick Fontaine would pick up this story again in...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 4/10
1. Jackie McLean On Mars (Ken Levis, 1980) “ He is a king, man. Can’t he be a God and a king? The man’s 60. He’s been out here starving...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 3/10
1. Free The Jazz (Czabán György, 2008) This was such an obvious documentary to make that for years nobody bothered making it.Once was a...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 2/10
1. Listen Up! The Many Lives of Quincy (1990) This got panned on release. Critics hated what they saw as a failed effort at an artsy...
44 recommended jazz docs: Pt 1/10
1. Mingus: Charlie Mingus (Thomas Reichmann, 1968) I have a thing for this uncooked, ‘straight, no chaser’ style of documentary, where...
101 Miracles of Eighties Jazz: Pt 10(1989)
1. David Murray - Deep River (DIW) David Murray (tenor sax) Dave Burrell (piano) Fred Hopkins (double bass) Ralph Peterson Jr. (drums) An...
101 Miracles of Eighties Jazz: Pt 9(1988)
1. Sun Ra - Live In Japan (DIW) Sun Ra (piano, synth, vocals) June Tyson (vocals, violin) John Gilmore (tenor sax, timbales) Marshall...
101 Miracles of Eighties Jazz: Pt 8(1987)
, 1. Kenny Wheeler - Flutter By, Butterfly (Soul Note) Kenny Wheeler (flgh, cornet) Stan Sulzman (tenor & sopr sax, flute) John Taylor...
101 Miracles of Eighties Jazz: Pt 7(1986)
1. Ran Blake - Short Life of Barbara Monk (Soul Note) Ran Blake (piano) Ricky Ford (tenor sax) Ed Felson (double bass) “I worked as a...
101 Miracles of Eighties Jazz: Pt 6 (1985)
1. Irakere - Tierra En Trance (Areito) Chucho Valdes (piano, keyboard) José Crego, Juan Munguia (trumpet) German Velazco (alt & tenor...
