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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 27 min.) ; 519788234 bytes |
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*Coarse language*In the final episode of The Blues, director - and piano player - Clint Eastwood (Play Misty for Me, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby) explores his life-long passion for the piano blues.This episode contains a treasure trove of rare historical acts as well as interviews and performances by such living legends as Pinetop Perkins and Jay McShann, as well as Dave Brubeck and Marcia Ball. Eastwood also focuses on the likes of Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Dr John - each masters in different ways of the blues piano.Eastwood says the piano is the most important musical instrument. "George Bernard Shaw wrote its invention was to music what the printing press was to poetry," he says. "At the beginning of the 20th century the piano began to make its way into the roots of American music, becoming one of the key instruments in playing the blues.Piano blues could be heard in the saloons, lumber camps, brothels, churches, honkey tonks, all the way down the Mississippi to Louisiana, Alabama and Texas.Soon it settled in New Orleans, quickly spreading to Chicago and Harlem and Kansas City. From the 1920s to the present, piano blues has remained a steadfast foundation and the fountain of American music. It has embraced boogie woogie, jump blues, stried, gospel blues, the Spanish tinge, rhythm and blues, urban blues and all kinds of jazz."Many piano players have made their deep mark in the blues and this is their story |
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Broadcast 2015-06-28 at 00:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Blues (Music)
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Music appreciation.
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Musicians -- Psychology.
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Piano -- Performance.
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Piano music (Blues)
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Streaming video
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Eastwood, Clint, director
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