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Inside Jazz: Everybody's Welcome
Producer/ Director: Robert Albers, Co-Producer/ Editor: Holly Giesman
Video DVD/ Duration-56:46/ In stereo/NTSC
US $19.99

This is an award winning one-hour documentary about how the jazz tradition is passed from one generation to the next. Featuring the acclaimed trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Rodney Whitaker and Michigan State University's "Professors of Jazz", and other guest artists, Inside Jazz takes the viewer inside a world of jazz performances, lessons, and master classes. This is a world of teamwork, musicianship and love of music, where "older cats" make themselves available to the young artists who admire them. We hear some of the world's best musicians in concert, listen to their thoughts about jazz, and watch as they work with students in lessons and classes. The DVD is divided into chapters to allow viewers to look again at favorite sections or to use the DVD as a teaching tool.

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That's what swingin' is: A master class with Wynton Marsalis
Producer/ Director: Robert Albers, Co-Producer/ Editor: Amol Pavangadkar
Video DVD/ Duration-50:00/ In stereo/NTSC
US $11.99

Videotaped live at Michigan State University in April 2003, Jazz Great Wynton Marsalis guides students through Duke Ellington’s “Cottontail” and “The Shepherd”. Using humor, his extensive knowledge of jazz history and performance, and an unerring sense of what will bring jazz music alive, Marsalis engages a large audience of musicians and music lovers in a fast moving mix of music, teaching, and insight. The audience is treated to an audible transformation of the MSU Jazz Band I, as Marsalis cajoles and coaches greater expressivity and power from the surprisingly able young musicians.

In this interactive DVD, Marsalis touches on multiple jazz themes, ranging from phrasing to call and response to dealing with nerves to the “groove” in swinging. Viewers can watch the entire 50-minute class or find topics of particular interest in the chapter index. Special Features include excerpts from a lively post-class question and answer session with Wynton Marsalis.

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