Product Details

• Actors: Sonny Fortune, Willie Pickens
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: View Video
• VHS Release Date: February 6, 1996
• Run Time: 59 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303421679
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #384,903 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

NAIRD Award- Honorable Mention

Given by: The National Association of Independent Record Distributors

Product Description

It would be impossible to overstate the importance of master drummer Elvin Jones in the evolution and current mainstream jazz. Elvin followed older brothers Hank and Thad onto the Detroit jazz scene, where all forged eminent careers. By the Mid- 1960s he was playing with Coltrane's groundbreaking quartet, and was looked to by musicians who wanted to know was where jazz headed and to feel how deep the human spirit it could still reach.

Today Elvin Jones stills plays with thunderous power, leading to generations of players that come out smokin' and go from there. Veterans Sonny Fortune and Chip Jackson brilliantly orchestrate the power of the drums; while young confreres saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and pianist Willie Pickins, dig in and scale the sheer rockface of their mentors' unyielding energy.

V.I.E.W. Video takes you into the volcanic heart of jazz, with a multi-generational band that is keeping the faith and developing the musicians who will safeguard it into the future.

PROGRAM:
Is There A Jackson In The House?
Ray El
Doll Of The Bride

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smokin'! Elvin Jones is a volcano of rhythm., July 16, 1999

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This review is from: Jazz Machine [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Percussion powerhouse Elvin Jones, the rhythm dynamo who propelled the classic John Coltrane Quartet, brings his screaming intensity to his Jazz Machine in this stirring video that features Trane's son Ravi on tenor as well as veteran saxman Sonny Fortune and Chicago mainstay Willie Pickins on piano. Songs include "Is There a Jackson in the House?", "Ray El" and "Doll of the Bride". #1346 (58 min, Hi-Fi Stereo)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elvin Jones Master JazzMan, November 5, 2006

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N. Padilla (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elvin Jones' Jazz Machine / Elvin Jones, Ravi John Coltrane, Sonny Fortune (DVD)

He is not just a drummer, he is what Jazz is all about. Pure Joy and Freedom of Expressive Poetry. Everyone should have this in their DVD video Jazz collection.

Nelson
NY

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars God bless Elvin Jones, February 24, 2006

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Bill Allegretti - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elvin Jones' Jazz Machine / Elvin Jones, Ravi John Coltrane, Sonny Fortune (DVD)

A must for Be-Bop lovers. Elvin Jones is the master and, regretably, there will probably never be another drummer who even comes close to his combination of talent, skills and ability.