John Jeremy: Jazz Is Our Religion (Video)

KAY Video Jazz 018KJ (UK) [cover]

1972

* 50 min, b/w, mono. A distillation in images, words and music of the jazz life, with photographs by Valerie Wilmer. Music by Johnny Griffin, ten sax, leading a quintet of Dizzy Reece, tpt; Ignatius Quail, pno; Coleridge Goode, bass; Terri Quaye, conga; Rudi Henderson, drs, with Jon Hendricks, voc, playing 'That´s enuff', 'Now´s the time', 'Dean St. blues', 'Alone again', 'Livetime' and 'Jaygee blues'. Big band tracks by the Clarke-Boland Band with Alan Shorter, tpt, Lol Coxhill, sop sax, drum tracks by Art Blakey, Sunny Murray, Kenny Clare, Guy Warren. Jazz poems by Langston Hughes and Ted Joans, read by the latter. With the voices of Rashid Ali, Art Blakey, Marion Brown, Kenny Clare, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Griffin, Jo Jones, Jon Hendricks, Blue Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Dewey Redman, Guy Warren and Eddie Gomez.

* John Jeremy: Jazz Is Our Religion (Movie, Soundtrack)

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