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| Category | Jazz DVDs, Music Video - Classical Movies, Music Video Videos, Documentary, Pop Music Videos, Music (General), Musical, Oldies, Jazz, Jazz Musicians, 1930s, 1940s | | Starring | Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Charlie Parker | | Director | Bruce Ricker |
A magnificent documentary on a fabled time and place in American musical history, an "open city" with a wild and woolly nightlife of booze, gambling and prostitution, supported by the mayor who took his city and said "to hell with prohibition, let's party." This musical documentary chronicles the Kansas City blues and jazz scene, and includes interviews and archival footage of many of the greats, notably, the big-band sound of Count Basie and his Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and his Quintet, and Ernie Williams, who called himself "the Last of the Blue Devils." This musical documentary chronicles the Kansas City blues and jazz scene, and includes interviews and archival footage of many of the greats, notably: the big-band sound of Count Basie and his Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and his Quintet, and Ernie Williams -- who called himself "the last of the blue devils." A magnificent documentary on a fabled time and place in American musical history, an "open city" with a wild and woolly nightlife of booze, gambling and prostitution, supported by the mayor who took his city and said "to hell with prohibition, let's party." This musical documentary chronicles the Kansas City blues and jazz scene, and includes interviews and archival footage of many of the greats, notably, the big-band sound of Count Basie and his Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and his Quintet, and Ernie Williams -- who called himself "the Last of the Blue Devils." Copyright 1979 the Last of the Blue Devils Film Co., John Kelly, Bruce Ricker and Edward Beyer.
Additional cast: Buddy Anderson, Speedy Huggins, Budd Johnson, Baby Lovett, Paul Quinichette, Herman Walder, Jimmy Forrest, Crook Goodwin, Curtis Foster, Paul Gunther, Sonny Kenner, Jesse Price, Buster Smith, Richard Smith, Claude Williams, Milton Morris.
Additional credits: John Arnoldy (script), Mitchell Donian (executive producer), Arnie Johnson (cinematographer), Eric Menn (cinematographer), Bob Gardener (cinematographer), Rocky Rude (sound), Wally Gaspar (sound).
Shown at the Chicago International Film Festival in November, 1979. Last Of The Blue Devils Quotes/Excerpts: "You kids be cool. All down here, I know backwards." -- Ernie Williams to neighborhood children
"A big fine chick in Texas -- Claudia used to sleep with a pearl-handled, nickle-plated .45 on the dresser. If she say, 'Sit down,' you sit down. When she say, 'You have breakfast,' you have breakfast." -- Big Joe Turner Last Of The Blue Devils Reviews: "...No jazz video collection should be without THE LAST OF THE BLUE DEVILS....Still packs an enormous wallop..." -- Rating: A
-- Chip Deffaa, Entertainment Weekly "...A public service as well as a musical delight..."
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times "...You'll learn a lot here about how a filmmaker can make a documentary look as if it's taking lace within a compressed time frame, even though the footage was shot over a long period..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today Last Of The Blue Devils | List Price | $29.95 (You save $7.66) | | Studio | Kino on Video | | Orig Year | 1979 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  31171  | | CD Universe Part number | 2033481 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 14, 2001 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 90 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color; Mono & Stereo Sound; Digitally Mastered; HiFi Sound |
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