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Nov 2, 2003 · Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music: Directed by Ken Mandel. With Keith David, Albert Murray, Robert Palmer, Albert Ammons. Documentary about American blues musicians.
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- 2003-11-02
May 7, 2002 · The first five minutes tells it all with fine editing of a diddely bow, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Miles Davis into a mosaic of images and music that define blues and blues-based jazz for all time.
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The documentary Bluesland - A Portrait In American Music travels the expansive landscape of the blues, tracing its roots from the beginning of the 20th century through the Mississippi Delta to Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City, and Chicago.
Mar 30, 2010 · A uniquely creative and highly visual look at American blues, Bluesland travels the expansive landscape of the music, tracing its roots from the beginning of the 20th century through the Mississippi Delta to Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago.
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Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales, chords, and progressions of blues as a musical form can be found in styles from jazz to rock to contemporary R&B.
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Narrated by Keith David, Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music explores the creation and development of America’s most ubiquitous genre of music: the blues. Born in the Deep South after the demise of slavery, blues blended work songs, religious music, and West African musical forms to create a wholly new, uniquely expressive style of music.
