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Dedicated To Chaos JAZZ volume 3(from the 1940s to the mid-1950s)  Ken
BurnsJazz Film Project Inc, 2001 2 video box set £15.00 Volume Three of JAZZ takes up the story of the artform from 1940 to the mid 1950s. When America entered World War II, jazz was part of its arsenal. In Europe, where musicians like the Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt continued to play despite a Nazi ban, jazz became a beacon of hope. In America, it became the embodiment of democracy, as bandleaders like Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw enlisted and took their swing to the troops overseas. Yet underground and after-hours, jazz was changing. In a Harlem club called Minton's Playhouse, a small band of young musicians, led by the trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie and the brilliant saxophonist Charlie Parker, had discovered a new way of playing - fast, intricate, exhilarating, and sometimes chaotic. One song would change everything. That tune was called Ko Ko, the sound was destined to be called "bebop" and once Americans heard it, jazz would never be the same. On the West Coast, California musicians created a mellow sound called cool jazz, and Dave Brubeck mixed jazz with classical music to produce a million-seller LP. But one man remained determined to give jazz popular appeal on his own terms, the trumpet player Miles Davis… |
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