Product Description

Jazz Icons: Quincy Jones features Q conducting what he called his Â"dream band.Â" With an 18-piece orchestra of world-renowned players such as Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Sahib Shihab, Budd Johnson and Benny Bailey, this 80-minute program featuring 17 songs, is one of the fi nest examples of big band jazz ever to be captured on fi lm. Shot in Switzerland and Belgium in 1960, these two concerts are the only known visual documents of this legendary tour—an important lost chapter in an illustrious career which has spanned six decades.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40905 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-26
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Black & White, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 80 minutes

Jazz Times
"Jazz Icons is doing for jazz what the Criterion Collection has done for classic and important films".

From the Director
JAZZ ICONS(tm) is an ongoing DVD series featuring full-length concerts and in-studio performances by the greatest legends of jazz, filmed all over the world from the 1950s through the 1970s. Beautifully transferred from the riginal masters, none of these concerts has ever been officially released on home video, and in many cases, the material was never broadcast. Each DVD is produced with the full support and cooperation of the artists or their estates. JAZZ ICONS(tm) comes to you from Reelin' In The Years Productions, GRAMMY Nominated producers of the American Folk Blues Festival DVDs 1962 - 1966.

Customer Reviews

'A DREAM COME TRUE FOR ME'
FINALLY I GET TO SEE WHAT I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO FOR OVER 40'S YEAR'S. WHAT A BIG BAND! PHIL WOODS,
BENNY BAILEY,JEROME RICHARDSON,SAHIB SHIHAB,JIMMY CLEAVELAND 18 MUSICIAN'S OR MORE.
THE PLAYING IS JUST AS GOOD AS THE RECORD'S. 17 TUNES;"STOCKHOLM SWEETNIN',"MOANIN",
"WALKIN","BIRTH OF A BAND","I REMEMBER CLIFFORD" ETC. 80 MINUTES OF GREAT JAZZ. A MUST!!!

Quincy Jones Live in '60
What a great band Quincy put together. Of all the bands of that era that was one of the best.
Ron Chambers

Quality of DVD
Two of the three videos are of excellent quality, but one looks to be a kinescope copy, and the video is blurry and very contrasty. In all three, the audio quality is good, however.