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Last of the Blue Devils
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Last of the Blue Devils
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Features: DVD
Documenting a 1974 reunion of count basie, joy mcshann, big joeturner and others, ricker creates a sense of period by addingrare performance and interview footage.
Editor's Note
A magnificent documentary on a fabled time and place in American musical history, an "open city" with a wild and woolly nightlife of booze, gambling and prostitution, supported by the mayor who took his city and said "to hell with prohibition, let's party." This musical documentary chronicles the Kansas City blues and jazz scene, and includes interviews and archival footage of many of the greats, notably, the big-band sound of Count Basie and his Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and his Quintet, and Ernie Williams -- who called himself "the Last of the Blue Devils."
Plot Summary
This musical documentary chronicles the Kansas City blues and jazz scene, and includes interviews and archival footage of many of the greats, notably: the big-band sound of Count Basie and his Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and his Quintet, and Ernie Williams -- who called himself "the last of the blue devils."
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Letterbox - 1.66 | | Audio:
| Mono - English | | Stereo - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Outtakes | | Audio Commentary: Bruce Ricker - Director | | Interactive Features:
| Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Kino Video |
| Release Date: 8/14/2001 |
| Running Time: 90 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1979 | | Catalog ID: 1682 | | UPC: 00745475016827 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew | Charlie Parker | | Dizzy Gillespie | | Count Basie | | Bruce Ricker - Director |
| Memorable Quotes| "You kids be cool. All down here, I know backwards." ---- Ernie Williams to neighborhood children | | "A big fine chick in Texas ---- Claudia used to sleep with a pearl--handled, nickle--plated .45 on the dresser. If she say, 'Sit down,' you sit down. When she say, 'You have breakfast,' you have breakfast." ---- Big Joe Turner |
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