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Bluesland

Keith David (Actor), Albert Murray (Actor), Ken Mandel (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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With traditions that variously intersect and parallel those of jazz, the blues has likewise emerged as a uniquely American musical dialect that has powerfully influenced music from the early 20th century forward. Whether tuned to the stark individuality of country blues, with its often-harrowing, adult themes of sex, death, and violence, or keyed to the livelier cadences and more boisterous moods of the urban strains that would later evolve into R&B, the blues have become uniquely pervasive.

This 85-minute documentary, part of a six-segment jazz and blues project funded by a multinational coalition of producers, benefits from a creative visual presentation and a smart selection of performers and interview subjects to explore not only the various regional and chronological styles of the blues itself, but also the music's alternately subtle and striking impact on other styles from swing and rock & roll to jazz itself. The blues' vital odyssey from the Mississippi Delta through the South and on to increasingly distant American cities is traced, as are the varying rural and urban styles of such masters as Son House, Leadbelly, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, and T-Bone Walker. Giving this portrait a broader, rightly inclusive sense of how the blues has threaded through African American culture are performances by nominal jazz and rhythm & blues masters including Count Basie , Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, and Dinah Washington, among others. Perceptive interview segments with writers including Albert Murray and the late Robert Palmer further illuminate a fertile terrain that has managed to regenerate itself through successive periods of rediscovery. --Sam Sutherland

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5.0 out of 5 stars Start "The Year of The Blues" by Watching This!, Feb 1 2003
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William E Donoghue "Fessor Mojo" (Healdsburg CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bluesland (DVD)
The first five minutes tells it all with fine editing of a diddely bow, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Miles Davis into a mosaic of images and music that define blues and blues-based jazz for all time. You will find some new insight at which to marvel everytime you revisit this classic. One of the very finest blues documentaries ever made. You don't have to be a blues historian of even a fan to enjoy this fine DVD and gain new insights into the history not only of bluesmen or Blacks but America. The diaspora, the great migration from the deep South to the North was, at the time, the greatest peacetime migration in human history and its story is told in Bluesland. Toby Byron and his associates are to be celebrated for this excellent work of art.
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30 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Start "The Year of The Blues" by Watching This!, Jan 31 2003
By William E Donoghue "Fessor Mojo" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bluesland (DVD)
The first five minutes tells it all with fine editing of a diddely bow, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Miles Davis into a mosaic of images and music that define blues and blues-based jazz for all time. You will find some new insight at which to marvel everytime you revisit this classic. One of the very finest blues documentaries ever made. You don't have to be a blues historian of even a fan to enjoy this fine DVD and gain new insights into the history not only of bluesmen or Blacks but America. The diaspora, the great migration from the deep South to the North was, at the time, the greatest peacetime migration in human history and its story is told in Bluesland. Toby Byron and his associates are to be celebrated for this excellent work of art.

12 of 17 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars This DVD sucks. Buy somethign else., Jan 13 2006
By Matty Rue "mattyruemorgue" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bluesland (DVD)
More stock footage woven between three old guys too busy talking about, to actually live the blues. The rare footage of Bessie smith, Billie Holiday, etc., etc. (almost all the greats are listed as having footage on here) is non-existent and pretty much adds up to a couple of promotional photos. Lame. To top it all off, it's even incfredibly short, but I didn't even notice that much. Poor.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect condition and at a great price, Dec 17 2011
By Alexxis Maae - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bluesland (VHS Tape)
This VHS was shipped and arrived quickly. It was very affordable and Im happy with my buy. I saw this documentary on tv once and loved all the information I obtained from it and am glad that I now have it to watch whenever I want, my boyfriend and I have been having a lot of fun with showing this video to our friends to help open their eyes more on music and the roots.
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