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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0016351633293
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Shanachie
Manufacturer: Shanachie
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Shanachie
Release Date: March 04, 2008
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 10396
Studio: Shanachie
Theatrical Release Date: March 04, 2008
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Congo Square is a musical tribute to New Orleans composed and performed by Wynton Marsalis trumpet master from New Orleans and Yacub Addy an African master drumer -- a unique collaboration where a Lincoln Center's great jazz orchestra mingles with an African percussion ensemble in a 2 hour concert of original music filmed at the 2007 Montreal Jazz Festival.System Requirements:Running Time: 120 minsFormat: DVD AUDIO Genre: MUSIC DVD/LIVE PERFORMANCES Artist: MARSALIS WYNTON UPC: 016351633293 Manufacturer No: SHA-DV6332
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Rating:  -
This dvd is presented with the best picture of any I've seen in a long time. They could have done a better job with the sound by us 5.1 instead of stereo, but the music is so powerful that you won't miss it.
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Let me not talk about the technical mastery and excellent (Ghanian) African percussion and Jazz displayed herein... Instead wish to focus on the fun present in this presentation not only could you tell the audience had a blast but the love and joy expressed by the performers of this music is evident and infects you and moves you to shake your body!
I often find it ironic that many of Wynton Marsalis' detractors accuse him of being too classical making Jazz antiquated and stifling ... Read More
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If you've got blood in your veins, Congo Square will move it. This collaboration of Jazz at Lincoln Center and Ghanaian percussion ensamble Odadaa! boils with intensity from start to finish, a fitting tribute to Congo Square, once a tiny island of release for the slaves of New Orleans.
The cinematography is basic, but who cares? You don't have to watch the screen. The mix of African sounds and American jazz conjures the tumult, the chatter, and the dancing with compelling drums, horns, ... Read More
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It took two great and unique musicians - the African drummer Yacub Addy and Wynton Marsalis - to blend Ghanaian percussion and songs with jazz forms on this level. The result is amazing. This is a culturally historic masterwork, but it's also some of the most dynamic and hot music you've ever heard - it lifts the spirit and moves the body.
Each of the musicians of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Yacub Addy's ensemble Odadaa! have made a great effort and the love shows.
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