Jazz Icons: Series Four (Eight-Disc Box Edition)

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Review "Jazz Icons" offers little- or never-seen European performances by musicians you wish you'd seen. Mostly shot in black-and-white in the '60s, the fourth installment of this landmark series gives you a front-row seat at concerts by Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Smith, Erroll Garner, Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Anita O'Day and Woody Herman. You can buy them individually ($19.99 list price) or buy them all as a box set ($119.99) and get a bonus DVD with additional performances by Smith, Garner and Hawkins. -- Boston Herald, Larry Katz, December 15, 2009"Jazz Icons" offers top-drawer DVD sets of jazz notables appearing on European and Scandinavian television from the late 1950s to mid-1970s. The new fourth series, shot in black and white, again provides scintillating visual and aural entertainment. There's organ maestro Jimmy Smith with a percolating "Got My Mojo Working." Jazz diva Anita O'Day romps through "Tea For Two" and "Green Dolphin Street." Tenor saxophone innovator Coleman Hawkins digs into the opus "Ow!" and the ballad "Lover Man." Drum dynamo Art Blakey's band with Freddie Hubbard nails the trumpeter's intense "Crisis." Piano marvel Erroll Garner delivers his trademark love song, "Misty," and the undulating "One Note Samba." A bonus DVD includes more Hawkins, Smith and Garner. -- Nj.com, Zan Stewart, December 4, 2009Also highly recommended: the latest "Jazz Icons" DVD set (Naxos/Reelin' in the Years), featuring live performances, most from the '60s, by Jimmy Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Art Farmer, Erroll Garner, Woody Herman, Art Blakey and Anita O'Day. (Discs are sold individually, as well). -- Richard Scheinin, San Jose Mercury News, December 2009