Description
A Portrait in American Music
The blues is a celebration, a joyful, complex and compelling artform built on self-expression and entertainment.
Bluesland - A Portrait in American Music explores the blues - with all its poetic irony and sly humor, its eroticism, and timeless power.
A uniquely creative and highly visual look at American blues, Bluesland travels the expansive landscape of the music, tracing its roots from the beginning of the 20th century through the Mississippi Delta to Lousiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago.
With brilliant footage - both rare and contemporary - Bluesland explains and elucidates the riches of this fabulous artform.
From a clear historical point of view, Bluesland comprehensively traces blues' many tributaries as the music flows into the sophisticated jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, the rhythm and blues of Louis Jordan and Dinah Washington and the rock and roll of Chuck Berry.
Bluesland is a most moving, authentic and illustrative overview of the blues - a must for all music lovers.
Director(s):
Ken Mandel
Producers:
Toby Byron; Richard Saylor
Actors:
Louis Jordan,
Muddy Waters,
Count Basie,
Son House,
Leadbelly
Details for Bluesland - A Portrait in American Music DVD:
Studio: Bmg Special Product
Format: Color / Compilation / DVD-Video / Full Screen / Letterboxed / NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Disc: Single Side, Single Layer
Run Time: 85
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Production Year: 1994
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Number of Discs: 1
Packaging: Keep Case
UPC: 723338008790
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