| All Artists: Various Artists Title: Best of Ken Burns Jazz Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 5 Label: Sony Original Release Date: 11/7/2000 Release Date: 11/7/2000 Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists Styles: Cool Jazz, Modern Postbebop, New Orleans Jazz, Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Bebop, Dixieland, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Traditional Vocal Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 074646143926, 731454908023, 074646143926, 007464614392 |
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 | Various Artists Best of Ken Burns Jazz Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists Ken Burns, America's premier documentary filmmaker, scores another hit with his landmark 10-part, 19-hour PBS documentary, Jazz. This sampler is a smaller version of the accompanying five-CD box set, with 22 selections spa... more »     |
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Amazon.com Ken Burns, America's premier documentary filmmaker, scores another hit with his landmark 10-part, 19-hour PBS documentary, Jazz. This sampler is a smaller version of the accompanying five-CD box set, with 22 selections spanning the music's many styles: from Benny Goodman's 1938 classic rendition of "King Porter Stomp" to John Coltrane's immortal "Giant Steps." Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan form a sweeping spectrum of jazz singing with their varying styles. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker's "Groovin' High," Thelonious Monk's riff blues "'Straight, No Chaser," and Miles Davis's modal masterpiece "So What" are among the music's "greatest hits" compiled here. Louis Armstrong's down-home treatment of Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust" and Duke Ellington's rousing "Cotton Tail" show why they are the alpha and the omega of this music. Although the documentary and the sampler omit the avant-garde and Latin jazz, this is, overall, good one-stop shopping for those just getting in the groove. --Eugene Holley Jr. Similarly Requested CDs
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Member CD Reviews Theodore C. from MESA, AZ Reviewed on 11/17/2022... Nice collection of jazz. Dan B. from EAST BERNE, NY Reviewed on 1/15/2010... Great introduction to the moods and changes in jazz. It doesn't come close to covering the people, but does approach what was going on as jazz progressed. 1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful. Donna P. from COTTAGE GROVE, OR Reviewed on 12/24/2009... It's a good mix of styles, with all the original voices. 1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful. Rick S. from MORGANTON, NC Reviewed on 8/10/2006... let's just say a valuable collection on one disc
CD ReviewsEssential for any jazz lover or Ken Burns JAZZ series collec Johnny Boy | Hockessin, DE | 06/14/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "Don't feel like buying every single artist in the 'Ken Burns JAZZ' series? Well, now there's a solution. 'The Best of Ken Burns JAZZ' offers all of the highlights from the discs you can buy in the series on one CD!
All of the jazz giants are here. Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie are all on this disc. These artists all had discs in Burns' series. Another pleasant treat? The inclusion of artists that were not in the series! Jelly Roll Morton, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and several others that did not get the Ken Burns "royal treatment" are getting it now on this specially priced compilation. Overall, if you want a quick look at Ken Burns' series at a great price, than do buy 'The Best of Ken Burns JAZZ.' You won't be disappointed. You'll get a lot of bang for your buck. Highly recommended for any jazz or 'Ken Burns JAZZ' series collector. You won't regret this purchase. ENJOY!!!" |
