A Great Day in HarlemThe Spitball Story

Product Description A Great Day in Harlem (1994, 60 min.) - 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 Academy Award-nominated documentary includes interviews with nearly 30 jazz greats like Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey, home movies, and rare performance footage. The Spitball Story (1997, 21 min.) - A short film about the firing of Dizzy Gillespie by Cab Calloway for one too many practical jokes. Tienda And what a day it was: nearly 60 jazz musicians, gathered on a Harlem street one morning in 1958 for what photographer Art Kane rightly, if immodestly, calls "the greatest picture of that era of musicians ever taken" (incredibly, it was also Kane's first professional shoot). Like Ken Burns's Jazz, this 60-minute documentary, an Oscar nominee in 1995, is a mixed-media affair: still photographs and 8 millimeter color footage (shot by bassist Milt Hinton and his wife) of the day itself are combined with interviews, background music, and performance clips of some of the players involved (from legends like Lester Young, Count Basie, Charles Mingus, and Thelonious Monk to lesser-knowns like Maxine Sullivan, Red Allen, and Vic Dickenson) to tell the story. There are anecdotes about 35-cent dinners, all-night jams, and film loaded upside down; about pianist Horace Silver's vegetarian diet and trumpeter Roy Eldridge's high notes; about old friends reuniting and what Hinton calls "just sheer happiness." Looking at the photo years later, Dizzy Gillespie sums it up simply: "There's a whole lotta people I like on there!" And speaking of Diz, the DVD also includes "The Spitball Story" (produced, like the Great Day documentary, by Jean Bach), an entertaining if slight tale about the trumpeter's days with bandleader Cab Calloway. Seems Gillespie, a renowned practical joker, delighted in launching spitballs at his fellow musicians. Calloway wasn't amused--especially when one particular projectile landed onstage near him. Although Gillespie for once was not the culprit, the two had a nasty confrontation, resulting in Dizzy's firing from the band. It was, he recalls, "the best move I ever made in music." --Sam Graham

Detalles del producto Relación de aspecto : 1.33:1 Clasificación de MPAA : Unrated (Not Rated) Dimensiones del paquete : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 pulgadas; 2.93 Onzas Formato multimedia : Color, NTSC, Blanco y negro Fecha de lanzamiento : Junio 22, 1999 Actores : Great Day in Harlem, Spitball S Idioma : Inglés (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) Estudio : Image Entertainment ASIN : B00000ILEQ Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº211,036 en Películas y TV (Ver el Top 100 en Películas y TV) nº11,359 en Documental (Películas y TV) Opiniones de clientes: 4.8 de 5 estrellas 12 calificaciones Relación de aspecto : 1.33:1 Clasificación de MPAA : Unrated (Not Rated) Dimensiones del paquete : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 pulgadas; 2.93 Onzas Formato multimedia : Color, NTSC, Blanco y negro Fecha de lanzamiento : Junio 22, 1999 Actores : Great Day in Harlem, Spitball S Idioma : Inglés (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) Estudio : Image Entertainment ASIN : B00000ILEQ