Jazz Casual - Ralph Gleason
6 videos • 695 views • by Julio Cortázar Os vídeos desta lista de reprodução respeitam a ordem do box "The Complete Jazz Casual Series". "All 28 episodes from America's first television jazz series are featured in the eight-DVD boxed set The Complete Jazz Casual Series, where a huge number of legendary musicians such as John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie displayed their prowess between 1961 to 1968. Whereas Burns' series is slick and sometimes droning, Jazz Casual is raw and immensely more enjoyable - but marred by basic production gaffes that cause extra frustration because they are so easily correctable. Jazz instructor, columnist and Rolling Stone magazine cofounder Ralph Gleason hosted the half-hour programs for the U.S. National Education Television Network. The black-and-white shows are prototypical public television of the era - bare-bones stages, basic camera shots, mediocre audio and a stuffy overall atmosphere. But the lack of gloss is mostly a plus, as there's nothing to supply entertainment beyond the musicians who were given complete freedom to perform however they so chose - and without excessive intrusion most play superbly." (Mark Sabbatini, AAJ) http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/artic...