"Improvisation", Gjon Mili & Norman Granz's legendary 1950 jazz film, is finally presented here in itscomplete and final form, including additional camera angles and never before seen rushes. Inarguably oneof the most important figures in 20th-century American music, jazz impresario Norman Granz introducedlive jazz to mainstream audiences with his Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series.This program celebrates Granz' pioneering legacy with live-performance clips of many of jazz'simprovisational masters, including Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lester Young.Also includes performances by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Joe Pass and Oscar Peterson. Also featuredare the photographs taken on the set by Mili's assistant Paul Nodler, interviews about Charlie Parker andthe sessions, a gallery of David Stone Martin's drawings, introductions by Nat Hentoff and the completeOscar nominated 1944 short film "Jammin The Blues", Granz & Mili's first cinematic collaboration. This is a2DVD release.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

Mili's Studio Sequence 1950

1. Opening Title
2. Ballade
3. Celebrity
4. Ad Lib
5. Pennies From Heaven
6. Blues For Greasy

Duke Ellington at the Cote D'Azur

1. Blues For Joan Miro

Count Basie At Montreux Jazz Festival 1977

1. Nob's Blues
2. Kidney Stew
3. These Foolish Things

Joe Pass 1979

1. Ain't Misbehavin'
2. Prelude To A Kiss

Ella Fitzgerald 1979

1. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
2. Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

Oscar Peterson At Montreux Jazz Festival 1977

1. Ali & Frazier