Clint Eastwood-Piano Blues ('Martin Scorsese Presents : The Blues' - Episode 7) (2003)

Director -and piano player- Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical acts as well as interviews and performances by such living legends as Ray Charles , Fats Domino and Dr. John. (-DVD Cover)



Eastwood is asking Ray Charles about early influences, and they both say Meade Lux Lewis at the same time, laughing
You sit at the piano and hit tones, what comes out evolves into the movie expansiveness of Tatum and Peterson, Nat King Cole's mysterious precision (from Ellington's abstract sparsity), or the raw elegance of Professor Longhair (who practiced on thrown-out pianos). Eastwood clarifies Tatum's florid lines and Peterson's nervous ones, shows rather Cole's virtuosity, and the Professor repaired those pianos himself. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0287198/usercomments)




Polymaths like Ray Charles of the crackling sparkling big-city sound and Dave Brubeck with his full orchestrations, Dr. John's Bartók-Gottschalk Orleans blues, the great Jay McShann (for whom there's only fast and slow) with Big Joe Turner, jazz pro Pete Jolly in an uptempo/ballad, et al., are seen to stem from a piano tradition whose increments are Paderewski, Dorothy Donegan and whatnot. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0287198/usercomments)




"The blues is the basis of everything," and all the varieties are related. Marcia Ball plays Longhair in the finale, Fats Domino boogie-woogies "Swanee", Pinetop Perkins boogies, Otis Spann has two-hand or one-hand tremolos under "Ain't Nobody's Business", Henry Gray gives a foursquare blues in fine singing style (he had to sneak out of the house to learn it). (http://imdb.com/title/tt0287198/usercomments)




Eastwood hears it all very clearly. Fats Waller was his original. He brings up bebop with Dr. John, who hears it out of Louis Armstrong, "a little thing", Thelonious Monk is seen at it, Dr. John echoes it for the camera, also gets the sound of Professor Longhair's singing voice in the keys. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0287198/usercomments)




Brubeck has a ripping uptempo blues, Charles Brown a jumping blues. Count Basie and Oscar Peterson take a turn on two pianos. Eastwood begins a slow stretto of performers in bits and pieces, Oscar Peterson and André Previn two-pianos, McShann and Brubeck four-hands in the studio, McShann and Perkins, the Doctor and Henry Gray, all leading up to one of Charles' renditions of "America the Beautiful", beginning with the fine verses of the third stanza, ending on a gospel note with many a vocal invention on the first stanza. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0287198/usercomments)








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