"Actor: Gerry Mulligan"

• Jazz On A Summer's Day | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival was a true musical watershed, as Jazz on a Summers Day reveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita ODay intermingle with the hard bop of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and the smouldering fusion overtones of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Theres a crisp contribution from Chuck Berry, a typically feel-good set from Louis Armstrong--including a hilarious duo with Jack Teagarden--and, as evening shades into night, a heartfelt performance from Mahalia Jackson, closing with a melting rendition of "The Lords Prayer". Bert Stern has assembled all these and more into a satisfying sequence, complete with footage of an enthusiastic and informal audience. Shots of the yachting line-up from the Americas Cup round out a blissful and what now seems blissfully naïve occasion. On the DVD: Colour picture quality has worn well, whereas sound has deteriorated notably at times: Thelonius Monks quarter-tones could easily be a semitone flat! Even so, its worth putting up with this to enjoy a tour through music-making whose relaxed spontaneity would be impossible to emulate today. --Richard Whitehouse

• Billie Holiday - The Ultimate DVD Collection | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £18.30   |  Saving you £-5.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Universal are delighted to present the very first multi-region DVD collection dedicated to one of the great legends of jazz Billie Holiday. The DVD includes performances of ""My Man "" ""Please Don't Talk About Me Since I'm Gone "" and ""Billie's Blues"" from 1956's Stars Of Jazz previously unavailable since their original airings her film debut and four other rare TV and film performances plus full videos of Billie's biggest influences Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. In addition the DVD includes five rare audio tracks a complete 1955 rehearsal session and a rarely heard 1956 radio interview with legendary journalist Mike Wallace. Further included is a robust timeline that allows for an interactive tour through the entire DVD linking dates from her humble birth to her star-studded funeral including interviews with musical collaborators a discography and literally hundreds of rarely viewed photos documents and posters. Film & TV Performances: 1. Saddest tale 2. The Blues are brewin' 3. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans 4. My man (Mon homme) 5. Please don't talk about me when I'm gone 6. Billie's blues 7. Fine and mellow 8. What a little moonlight can do 9. St. Louis blues - Bessie Smith 10. I cover the waterfront - Louis Armstrong Audio Performances: 1.Swing! Brother swing! 2.They can't take that away from me 3.Do nothing till you hear from me 4.I'll get by 5.I wonder where our love has gone Audio Interviews: 1. John Hammond Shraft's Restaurant New York NY July 17 1972 2. Jo Jones Markwell Hotel New York NY July 20 1971 3. Roy Eldridge Jimmy Ryan's New York NY July 21 1971 4. Barney Josephson The Cookery New York NY December 3 1971 5. Tiny Grimes Linda Keuhl's New York NY July 21 1971 6. Billy Eckstine Musso & Frank's Hollywood CA September 8 1971 7. Jimmy Rowles Monteceito Hotel Hollywood NY August 23 1971 8. Sylvia Syms Yonkers Hospital New York NY January 20 1973 9. Corky Hale Corky Hale's New York NY November 17 1971

• All Star Jazz Show: Live From Lincoln Center | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £14.65   |  Saving you £4.33 (37.14%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Originally broadcast as The Original Rompin' Stompin' Hot And Heavy, Cool And Groove All Star Jazz Show on CBS television in 1977. This award winning DVD from filmmaker Gary Keys contains performances from Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Max Roach, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, and Joe Williams. The witty program traces the birth of jazz from spirituals all the way to the wild sounds of the 70s via live performance, dance and narration. Hosted by Dionne Warwick. Winner of a 1977 Daytime Emmy.

• Ladies Sing The Blues | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-7.38 (-29.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This acclaimed compilation brings together full-length rare performances from the great ladies of song: Billie Holiday Bessie Smith Peggy Lee Lena Horne Dinah Washington Sarah Vaughan and Ethel Waters. Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as ""a grand parade of American miracles"" ""Ladies"" captures the excitement of the most distinctive female vocalists in Jazz. Tracks include: 1. St Louis Blues - Bessie Smith 2. Darkies Never Dream - Ethel Waters 3. Quicksand - Ethel Waters (with

• Gerry Mulligan/Art Farmer Quartet - Live In Rome | DVD | (01/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  This DVD features rare film of the famous piano-less quartet filmed in Rome in 1959 showing Gerry Mulligan and Art Farmer at their best. Mulligan and Farmer had first played together in Manny Albam's band in 1957 before recording their first piano-less quartet tracks in 1958 with the same rhythm section as here - Bill Crow on bass and Dave Bailey drums. The same year they had a track featured on the famous Jazz On a Summer's Day film. Farmer plays trumpet (rather than flugelhorn) throughout and Mulligan does in fact contrary to their reputation play piano on two tracks. Tracklist: 1. Announcement by Gerry Mulling/Tuning up 2. As Catch Can 3. Walking Shoes 4. Baubles Bangles And Beads 5. Just In Time 6. I Can't Get Started 7. News From Blueport 8. Moonlight In Vermont 9. Spring Is Sprung Bonus Audio Tracks 10. Blueport 11.Utter Chaos

• Jazz Shots From The West Coast Vol.2 | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Outstanding DVD series pays homage to the two US coasts namely the cities of New York and Los Angeles which have contributed so fundamentally to the whole history of Jazz. The focus is exclusively on live performance - clubs festivals TV studio engagements -- without any comperes or introductions.One hour & seven minutes of music on film from Wes Montgomery Gerry Mulligan Shorty Rogers Paul Desmond Teddy Edwards and Lester Young (placed in this category because of his influence on West Coast saxophonists)