Home > FILM & VIDEO > Rarely Seen Videos From The Private Collection of Jazz Historian, Hal Miller

• Tweet
• Outlook
• ICAL
• PRINT
• Email
• Feedback

• RSS

• Official Website
• Buy Tickets
• Add to My Favorites

Rarely Seen Videos From The Private Collection of Jazz Historian, Hal Miller

Presented by Regent Theatre at Regent Theatre

April 29, 2010

Add Review/Comment
Comment on Facebook

7pm: "Boston in Jazz: A Long and Lustrous Tradition" 9pm: "A Century of Jazz Greats" For the first time in Boston, jazz historian and video collector / producer Hal Miller will present two distinct programs of rare and treasured concert and TV program footage from his personal, 15,000 piece collection featuring many of the most revered and significant jazz musicians of all time. Miller will introduce and briefly discuss each video excerpt, providing historical context and related anecdotes. 7:00pm "Boston in Jazz: A Long and Lustrous Tradition" In keeping with the theme of JazzBoston's JazzWeek '10 “Made In Boston—Played in Boston,” this program will focus exclusively on Boston-area musicians who have made their mark in this music. In the course of the past century, the city of Boston has been home to an astounding number of major jazz musicians. Artists such as Harry Carney, Sonny Stitt, Jaki Byard, Roy Haynes, Rebecca Parris,George Wein, Jimmy Woode, Alan Dawson, Charlie Mariano, Tony Williams, Jerry Bergonzi, Ruby Braff, Ricky Ford, Terri Lyne Carrington, and many, many others have been prime contributors to the jazz art form and all were/are sons and daughters of this famed city through birth or longstanding association. Home of the Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, Boston continues to nurture and polish some of the most important student-practitioners of jazz. 9:00pm "A Century of Jazz Greats" Some wonderful jazz moments have been captured in US and foreign films and TV broadcasts over the years. This program will feature video excerpts of some of the essential jazz artists of the past. The artists highlighted will be those no longer with us but whose works still constitute an essential record of the best of jazz in its first century of documented existence. While most of the names are familiar—Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Count Basie, Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Miles Davis, Johnny Griffin, Wes Montgomery,Oliver Nelson, Max Roach, Billie Holiday, Mary Lou Williams, Oscar Peterson, et al—the video excerpts shown will not be.