All You need is Love - Jungle Music Jazz
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All You need is Love - Jungle Music Jazz. George Shearing on defining jazz. It must be disciplined. 00:45 Chick Corea playing keyboards. 01:20 Al Rose defines jazz. More Chick Corea playing. Al Rose claims jazz is not linked to blues or ragtime.03:20 New Orleans jazz band. Al Rose dismays notion that the Storyville red light area in New Orleans was the birthplace of jazz.04:10 Shots of burlesque cabaret stripper. Storyville had brothels which housed bands but a misconception that these were jazz bands. Often only solo pianist playing classics. 05:14 shots of New Orleans, Bourbon Street, old paddle cruiser.06:00 Al Rose - musicians learned to play from records but sped tunes up.07L10 (c) Dixieland band recording in New York.07:50 Hoagy Carmichael- two step predated jazz , it was similar to calypso 09:27 Hoagy demonstrating jazz styles in the 1920's - akin to Bix Beiderbecke. 11:55 (c) Kid Ory playing. 12:17 Storyville closed. A few musicians headed north, jazz spread. 12:13 (C0 Louis Armstrong. 14:16 Al Rose - Chicago jazz was now a separate entity to New Orleans jazz. 14:39 GV's Chicago. Chicago musicians of the time had to perform during prohibition in speakeasys, Trumpet players were sacked from bands as they were the noisiest , they would attract attention to bands playing in clandestine venues.15:41 Interview Earl 'Fatha' Hines. A lot of money spent by Chicago gangs, 18:35 John Hammond on Harlem (c) Cotton Club. 19:25 John Hammond on New York segregation. Hammond describes how Duke Ellington was ripped off by his manager and lawyer.21:00 Hammond claims prejudice killed the best music. 21:15 (c) Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden. 22:30 (C) Count Basie playing. 23:50 Hammond on record label exploitation. 24:30 (c) Tin Pan Alley version of jazz - sanitised, awful. Paul Whiteman. 26:50 Dizzy Gillespie on being a spokesman for a generation alongside Charlie Parker. 28:50 On playing with Charlie Parker (c) Parker playing.28:55 Dizzy Gillespie on bebop, singing scat . 30:45 John Lewis on piano. 32:00 (c) Modern Jazz Quintet. 32:34 Dave Brubeck playing 'Blue Rondo A La Turk'.. He claims jazz was European than African. 35:00 Claims jazz was too arranged, not enough improvisation. 35:35 Dave Brubeck saying his sons think they can play free jazz, it's a telepathic thing. .36:28 (c) Miles Davis and John Coltrane playing 'Round Midnight'. Brubeck says being creative is the best way to make a living.38:29 George Shearing interview and performing. 42:27 Charles Mingus playing double bass. 44:25 Ian Carr on jazz becoming boring due to tedious soloists and virtuosos .Self indulgent. 45:15 Norma Winstone singing. Ian Carr claims jazz doesn't get enough exposure as not commercial .Always been a minority interest. 47:20 Chick Corea- jazz is constantly evolving. 48:48. Mike Gibbs playing.