MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES SEALED DVD BOX SET

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
Brand New & Sealed - 7 Disc DVD Box Set

 RRP £69.99 - Region Free - Will Play On All DVD Players  

"Possible the greatest music documentary’s ever made and certainly the best film about the wonderful world of The Blues."

"With 7 DVDs which run for 13 hours! this is a set to savor, an undoubted bargain and worthwhile investment guaranteed to grow on you over the course of repeated viewings."

About The Box Set:
It may have been underrated when first broadcast, but executive producer Martin Scorsese's homage to the blues is a truly significant, if imperfect, achievement. "Musical journey" is an apt description, as Scorsese and the six other directors responsible for these seven approximately 90-minute films follow the blues--the foundation of jazz, soul, R&B, and rock & roll--from its African roots to its Mississippi Delta origins, up the river to Memphis and Chicago, then to New York, the United Kingdom, and beyond. Some of the films (like Wim Wenders's The Soul of a Man and Charles Burnett's Warming by the Devil's Fire) use extensive fictional film sequences, generally to good effect. There's also plenty of documentary footage, interviews, and contemporary studio performances recorded especially for these films.

The last are among the best aspects of the DVDs, as the bonus material features the set's only complete tunes. Lou Reed's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" and the ElektriK Mud Kats' (with Chuck D. of Public Enemy) hip-hop-cum-traditional updating of Muddy Waters's "Mannish Boy" are among the best of them; The absence of lengthier vintage clips, meanwhile, is the principal drawback. For that reason alone, Clint Eastwood's Piano Blues is the best of the lot; a musician himself, Eastwood simply lets the players play, which means we get extensive file footage of the likes of Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Nat "King" Cole, as well as new performances by Ray Charles, Dr. John, and others. Overall, this is a set to savor, a worthwhile investment guaranteed to grow on you over the course of repeated viewings.

7DVD Box Set - Contains The Complete Set Of Films:
1 Soul Of A Man - Directed By Wim Wenders
2 Piano Blues - Directed By Clint Eastwood
3 Red White & Blues - Directed By Mike Figgis
4 Godfathers & Sons - Directed By Marc Levin
5 Warming By The Devils Fire - Directed By Charles Burnett
6 Road To Memphis - Directed By Richard Pearce
7 Feel Like Going Home - Directed By Martin Scorsese

The films also feature rare archival performance footage of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Eric Clapton and more Plus Over 100 newly filmed performances by contemporary artists singing classic blues songs, including B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Beck, Lou Reed, Tom Jones, Los Lobos, Jeff Beck, and Lucinda Williams.

Plus Over 3 hours of special feature material:
Live performances not seen in the film,
Including footage of B.B. King, Cassandra Wilson, Chris Thomas King, Lou Reed, Lulu, Otis Rush, Koko Taylor, The Electrik Mud Kats ( With vocals by Chuck D and Common), Jeff Beck, Hubert Sumlin & David Johansen, Willie Dixson and many others.
Director Commentaries
Director Biographies and filmographies
Special Menu Option To Scan For All Music Performances
5.1 Surround Sound And Stereo Mixes
The Blues Trailer

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