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• 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

• The Sound Of Jazz | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Wienerworld proudly presents The Sound Of Jazz. A truly original and unique broadcast from the CBS Studio 58 in New York on 8 December 1957 hosted by John Crosby. Featuring well known sounds as Count Basie and Billie Holiday this DVD truly is the spectacular Sound of Jazz. Tracklist: Fast And Happy Blues Wild Man Blues Rosetta Eyes Of A Stranger I Left My Baby Dickie's Dream Fine And Mellow The Train And The River East of the Sun (Sarah Vaughan with Count Basie

• Various - Jazz Shots from the West Coast Vol. 3 | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-18.10%)   |  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 Dave Brubeck Jimmy Giuffre Stan Kenton Jim Hall Hampton Hawes and Frank Rosolino.