Press Release
'MUSIC ON EARTH' - VOL. 1
COLLECTORS LIMITED EDITION 2-DISK DVD SET
STÉPHANE GRAPPELLI
- A LIFE IN THE JAZZ CENTURY
DISK 1, a 2-hour 'in depth' profile - DISK 2, over an hour of bonus features
On disk one Stéphane tells his own incredible story. A Paris orphan busking on the streets, goes on to sell out Carnegie Hall enjoying an
unprecedented 77-year career. Further he does it on the violin - an instrument with no apparent place in Jazz. Richly illustrated with contemporary archive film of 'The Jazz Century'. The story contains
archive musical performance and contributions from:
Django Reinhardt, Martin Taylor, Diz Disley, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Coleridge Goode from the Hot Club Quintet - still performing at 87,
George Shearing, John Etheridge, Michael Parkinson, Yehudi Menuhin, Kennedy, Lew Grade, Teddy Wilson, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang and the
Paul Whiteman Orchestra.
Throughout the DVD we offer an unprecedented choice. The many
complete musical illustrations are untrammeled by voiceover. If however you wish to continue the narrative
one push of a button takes you to the next speech contribution. You can also opt to
turn the narration off completely or to listen to the director's commentary.
Disk 2 offers a treasure trove of archive film including:-
- the worlds most bootlegged 'music video' - Stéphane with Django Reinhardt - 5 years in litigation, digitally restored and available officially for the first time since 1936.
- Stéphane with George Shearing in 1948 - the lost film the British Film Institute didn't know it had - unseen for 50 years.
- Rare previously unavailable footage of Art Tatum
- A 'virtual' jukebox - 8 decades of Stéphane's music making.
- A storyteller's chronicle - the 18-year struggle to get this story told.
- Stéphane's shoebox - a musical gallery of his favourite snapshots.
- Stéphane's Montmatre - an interactive map of his 'wild village'.
- Jazz comes to Europe - an illustrated timeline.
Not seen on TV and reaching beyond the possibilities of that limited medium
- is this the future for intelligent music video ?
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