Brad Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 In yesterday's New York Times New Archive of Concerts and Interviews from International Jazz Festival in Bern "The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem has received a vast new archive of concert footage and interviews covering 20 of jazz’s most underexplored years. The Jazz and Blues Art Box comprises 230 concerts and 96 interviews, all filmed at the International Jazz Festival Bern in Switzerland from 1983 to 2002. It contains performances by most of jazz’s biggest stars from the era, including Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Wynton Marsalis and Dizzy Gillespie. Each of the concerts was originally broadcast on Swiss television, and is rendered here in full. The DVD collection, which comes in a nearly-four-foot-tall black cabinet, was donated by the jazz impresario George Wein, who served as an adviser on the art box project." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Weil Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 ...."At a retail price of $8,500, the box is not built for the casual collector.".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted April 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 A mere bag of shells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 Geez. Too pricey for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 I was at the Kursaal in Bern for about 15 years' worth of these concerts. There'll be some great performances in that box! Different networks of the Swiss system carried different shows, as I recall...some in German, Italian, etc... There have been a bunch show up on Youtube over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 UP because I need to find a source for this cornocopia of riches (yeah I spelled it wrong so what?) Specifically, Disc 6 of 1987: Video of Percy France exists! Disc 6. Sammy Price's Tenor Boogie (Sammy Price, piano, vocal ; George Kelly, tenor sax ; Percy France, tenor sax ; Leonard Gaskin, bass ; Ronnie Cole, drums ; Bonus track, interview with Sammy Price) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Dan Gould said: UP because I need to find a source for this cornocopia of riches (yeah I spelled it wrong so what?) Specifically, Disc 6 of 1987: Video of Percy France exists! Disc 6. Sammy Price's Tenor Boogie (Sammy Price, piano, vocal ; George Kelly, tenor sax ; Percy France, tenor sax ; Leonard Gaskin, bass ; Ronnie Cole, drums ; Bonus track, interview with Sammy Price) Is there a list of all the performances/artists somewhere? Would be fun to puruse sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted August 9, 2019 Report Share Posted August 9, 2019 12 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said: Is there a list of all the performances/artists somewhere? Would be fun to puruse sometime. https://www.jazzfestivalbern.ch/index.php?id=26&L=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 On 4/22/2018 at 6:09 AM, Simon Weil said: ...."At a retail price of $8,500, the box is not built for the casual collector.".... Makes the recently released and no longer available Woodstock box look like pocket change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 15 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said: Is there a list of all the performances/artists somewhere? Would be fun to puruse sometime. Here is a better source: https://www.worldcat.org/title/jazz-and-blues-art-box-collection-1987/oclc/1031029445&referer=brief_results#relatedsubjects This link has the 1987 ARTBOX DVD contents. Change the search term to other years in the box at the top and you will see the exact festival lineup for the year chosen. So you can see 1983-2002, the years covered by this mammoth set.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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