Search Results: 16 Items Found

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  Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue

  Follows jazz legend Miles Davis after the release of his 1970s Bitches Brew album, which went on to inspire numerous musicians. Features Davis performing at the Isle of Wight that same year and interviews with Carlos Santana and Miles Davis.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/589-miles-electric

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  Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue

  Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue captures Davis in an entrancing performance of his Bitches Brew album at the 1970 Isle of Weight Music Festival.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/577-miles-electric

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  Blue Note: A History of Modern Jazz

  The story of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff - two Jewish immigrants who founded Blue Note Records, the record label that helped bring jazz music to the mainstream.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/487-blue-note

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  Music

  http://www.ovationtv.com/pages/14-music

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  Round Midnight

  Inspired by the life of Bud Powell, this Academy Award-winning story of an American expatriate musician who tried to make order of his life during the great jazz millieu of 1950's Paris, stars real-life tenor-sax great Dexter Gordon and Herbie Hancock.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/30-round-midnight

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  Paulo Conte: A Face on Loan

  A revealing profile of eclectic Italian musician Paolo Conte.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/101-paulo-conte-a-face-on-loan

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  Bird

  Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood delivers a compassionate portrait of jazz visionary of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/249-bird

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  Blue Note: A History of Modern Jazz

  The story of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff - two Jewish immigrants who founded Blue Note Records, the record label that helped bring jazz music to the mainstream.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/443-blue-note

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  Claude Nobs: The Montreux Dream

  An intimate and engaging profile of the Montreux Jazz Festival's history featuring its charismatic founder Claude Nobs.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/94-claude-nobs

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  The Miles Davis Story

  A definitive portrait of the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis, the best known and most influential jazz musician of the last 50 years.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/344-the-miles-davis-story

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  Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Havana

  Dizzy was one of the first American jazz musicians to incorporate the electrifying sound of Afro-Cuban rhythms into a big-band setting. Forty years later, the legendary jazz trumpeter is invited to Cuba to headline the Fifth International Jazz Festival.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/574-dizzy-gillespie

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  Masters of American Music: Count Basie

  Profile of Count Basie, leader of one of the greatest swing bands of all time. Featuring interviews with fellow Basie band stars Harry Sweets Edison, Earle Warren and Claude Williams.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/569-masters-of-american-music

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  Masters of American Music: Billie Holiday

  A look at the many faces of Billie Holiday, who, along with Louis Armstrong, invented modern jazz singing. Stage and screen star, Ruby Dee, reads from Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues adding more insight to Holiday's beautiful music.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/576-masters-of-american-music

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  Masters of American Music: Sarah Vaughan

  Recounts the career of the incomparable singer from her beginnings at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, to her debut at the Apollo Theater and her preeminence in nightclubs and jazz festivals worldwide.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/573-masters-of-american-music

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  Masters of American Music: Story of Jazz

  A captivating trek through the stylistic changes that have kept jazz so fresh for all these years: New Orleans traditions, Stride, Swing, Boogie Woogie, Big Band, Jump Band, Bebop, Afro-Cuban, Cool, and Free-form.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/585-masters-of-american-music

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  Satchmo: Louis Armstrong

  Tells the story of Louis Armstrong through home movies, live clips and excerpts from some of his movies. Features interviews with Dexter Gordon, Tony Bennet and Wynton Marsalis.

  http://www.ovationtv.com/programs/575-satchmo-louis-armstrong