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Great Performances - Season 22 - Episode 14 - Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters: Verve Records at 50
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Watch Series: Great Performances Released in (1971) - Season 22 - Episode 14 ,airing date 1994-05-18 produced by USA, The TV Series categorized in Comedy, Documentary, Drama, and content rating TV-PG with duration 120 min broadcasted as these networks PBS, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Sheldon Epps, Brian Large, David Horn, Kirk Browning. The Carnegie Hall gala was part of the 50th birthday party last month for Verve Records, the jazz label founded by music innovator Norman Granz that helped chronicle the careers of such greats as Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and Lester Young.
Vanessa Williams and Herbie Hancock take turns at the podium, introing and at times performing tributes to Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Miles Davis , Count Basie, Art Tatum and Wes Montgomery.
Williams, known as a pop singer, shows another sides, warbling a tasty version of “Tea for Two” at the outset. Backed by several of the genre’s most notable talents — Joe Henderson, Kenny Burrell and Ray Brown among them — Williams’ vocal chops easily cross over.
Other perfs are equally classy, such as the vocals delivered by former “Wiz” star Dee Dee Bridgewater on the Fitzgerald signature nugget “Shiny Stockings.”
While the effort by Betty Carter on the classic “How High the Moon” is a joy to watch, it is vocalist Abbey Lincoln who brings the house down on her reading of “I Must Have That Man.”
Appearances by contemporary musicians Bruce Hornsby and Pat Metheny, in their respective tributes to their influences, is an added bonus to the black-tie event.
Instrumentalists are well represented, particularly by the sax work of Henderson and the stellar guitar by Burrell on Parker’s “Now’s the Time.”
Used as the closing number, the tune offered a who’s who of jazz, ending the spec on a resounding high note.
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Drama
Actor: Bray Poor, Julie Andrews, Walter Cronkite, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, David Foster, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Thomas Hampson, Audra McDonald
Creators: Sheldon Epps, Brian Large, David Horn, Kirk Browning
Country: USA
Languages: en, N/A,
Episode: 14
Runtime: 120
Date Modified: 2018-07-17 23:32:31
Air Date: 1994-05-18
Year Released: 1971
Rating: 4.9 out of 10
Content Rating: TV-PG
Views: 29
Quality: HD
Networks:
PBS,
