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Music CD - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - A Musical Journey
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Music CD: Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - A Musical Journey
List Price: $139.98
Our Price: $91.08
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Manufacturer: Sony
Starring: Nathaniel Lee Jr., Tommy Redmond Hicks, Susan McWilliams, Mya, The Coasters
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780738903897
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0738903892
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: Sony
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-10-14
Running Time: 780
Studio: Sony
Theatrical Release Date: 2003-09-28
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: For true fans of the Blues
Comment: If you love music and love the Blues, this is a must have for your collection.
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Summary: B-O-R-I-N-G treatment of an awesome genre of music.
Comment: Save your money and instead borrow this set from your local public library. There is nothing about any of these DVDs that you'd want in your permanent collection. I guess I was hoping for more of a well organized documentary and less "filler". I mean, how many shots of BB King staring quietly out of his bus window do we need to see? This whole series is a collection of disconnected, rambling pieces that could have been better organized. All the parts are probably there, but it's like handing the viewer a pile of jigsaw puzzle pieces and saying "here's a nice oil painting".
This mess has Scorsese's name on it for marketing reasons only. It's clear that, other than the single DVD that he directed, the only message the other directors got was "put something together about the blues".
Out of the 900+ minutes of video here, I'd estimate that there are about 240 minutes worth of interesting material for the blues aficionado (I'm not talking just music here; for example the thread about Rosco Gordon was touching and worthwhile). The majority is senseless filler. Who cares about a rap musician's interpretation of a blues classic? Who cares about Clint Eastwood playing his piano?
A much better approach to this would have been to start with the roots of this wonderful music, and then highlight notable musicians and performances in chronological order. Connections of "who influenced whom" and "who worked with whom" would help tie it together. Sometimes presenting something in a simple, organized manner is the answer, rather than lathering every trick in the director's book on top of the project.
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Summary: This is real
Comment: I learned blues this DVD. This is my teacher about blues.
I met several musicians in this DVD, I remembered lot's of person.
Thank you Mr. Maetin Scorses.
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Summary: Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues
Comment: I purchased this for my son for Christmas. He likes it very much.
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Summary: A Must For ALL Blues Lovers
Comment: This DVD set takes you to all reaches of the musical spectrum and is a MUST for all blues lovers. You will learn the beginnings of the Blues music and can appreciate the sound and the feeling that inspired the music.
If you are a Blues musician, you have got to get this and learn the origins of this genre and pull from it. And watch your your own music soar. Plus, as a blues dancer, you use all all the feleings a rhythms into your dance.
As Willie Dixon said, "The Blues are the roots, and everything else is the fruits.
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Editorial Reviews:
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It may have been underrated when first broadcast on PBS on consecutive nights in the fall of '03, but executive producer Martin Scorsese's homage to the blues is a truly significant, if imperfect, achievement. "Musical journey" is an apt description, as Scorsese and the six other directors responsible for these seven approximately 90-minute films follow the blues--the foundation of jazz, soul, R&B, and rock & roll--from its African roots to its Mississippi Delta origins, up the river to Memphis and Chicago, then to New York, the United Kingdom, and beyond. Some of the films (like Wim Wenders's The Soul of a Man and Charles Burnett's Warming by the Devil's Fire) use extensive fictional film sequences, generally to good effect. There's also plenty of documentary footage, interviews, and contemporary studio performances recorded especially for these films. The last are among the best aspects of the DVDs, as the bonus material features the set's only complete tunes. Lou Reed's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" and the ElektriK Mud Kats' (with Chuck D. of Public Enemy) hip-hop-cum-traditional updating of Muddy Waters's "Mannish Boy" are among the best of them; on the other hand, a rendition of "Cry Me a River" by Lulu (?!) is a curious choice, even with Jeff Beck on hand. The absence of lengthier vintage clips, meanwhile, is the principal drawback. For that reason alone, Clint Eastwood's Piano Blues is the best of the lot; a musician himself, Eastwood simply lets the players play, which means we get extensive file footage of the likes of Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Nat "King" Cole, as well as new performances by Ray Charles, Dr. John, and others. Overall, this is a set to savor, a worthwhile investment guaranteed to grow on you over the course of repeated viewings. --Sam Graham
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