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MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES DVD ARCHIVE
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES DVD FULL

MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES DVD FULL

Scorsese assembles seven leading directors, himself included, to each provide a full feature length film on an aspect of the blues. " Martin Scorsese (from sleeve notes to The Blues DVD series). And if you've never heard the blues, and you're coming across it for the first time, I can promise you this: Your life is about to change for the better. " If you already know the blues, then maybe these films will give you a reason to go back to it. Martin Scorsese presents the blues (DVD 2004) 7 DVD set

121: Balling the Jack: The Birth of The Nu-Blues.

122: Introducing Kenge Kenge, by Kenge Kenge.

123: Feel Like Going Home, by Martin Scorsese, dir.

124: Møya og Myten, by Eplemøya Songlag.

125: Enregistrés Pour Yehia le Marabout, by Super.

127: Jazz Greats: Summertime, by Sidney Bechet.

130: The Rough Guide to Asian Underground, by Vari.

131: Medieval Music, by Gerald English with the Ja.

138: Impossible Broadcasting, by Transglobal Under.

140: Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, by Gogol.

142: Pyramid, by The Modern Jazz Quartet.

143: Valiha Madagascar, by Various Artists.

146: Dark Nights, by Avishai Cohen's Triveni.

147: Music from Azerbaijan, by Gochag Askarov and.

149: East of the River Ganges, by The Kumba Mela E.

150: Pleasing Melody 2, by Hlaing Win Maung.

151: Standing in the Way of Control, by Gossip.

If there ever was a film that you can listen to as you would an album, it would be this one. The story it tells is fascinating and touching, and the arguments are compellingly made (even if I don’t wholly agree with them), but the music is something else. There are absolutely tons of music documentaries out there, covering every sort of music you can imagine, but Feel Like Going Home is one of the best I’ve ever seen. I wish I could have been there under those trees with them! Makes you wonder what other stuff they played together that never made it into the film. Nevertheless, collaborations between the two never cease to be intoxicating for me, as long as they’re done well, and this jam between Harris and Touré most definitely is. The idea of West African music – especially Malian music – being the starting point for the evolution of the blues is a really attractive one, although a literal ‘Malian music → blues’ timeline, such as is presented in Feel Like Going Home is a little too over-simplistic. You can watch a little bit of that section here, where they play a beautiful mash-up of the classic ‘Catfish Blues’ and Touré’s song ‘Mahini Me’: We see and hear him jamming with old bluesmen Sam Carr and Willie King in Mississippi, with Otha Turner and his fife and drum band, and, most thrillingly, with Ali Farka Touré in Niafunké in Mali.

MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES DVD ARCHIVE

There’s a bunch of cool archive footage of blues legends such as Son House, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker, but the real draw is the performances recorded especially for the film, and Harris is often involved too. It’s interesting and entertaining as it should be, but the reason I’m including this film on an album blog is really because of the music. And then even even further back, with a trip to Mali, where he meets Salif Keita, Habib Koité and Ali Farka Touré. The film follows bluesman Corey Harris as he travels around the Mississippi delta getting to grips with the story of the blues, from his own contemporary take, to the delta guitar styles and even further back to fife and drum music and field hollers. For the first of the series, though, Scorsese took the reins himself, for a dive into delta blues and its roots. Because it’s my blog and I get to allow things like that.įeel Like Going Home is the first of seven films collectively known as Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, where different directors – from Wim Wenders to Clint Eastwood – were drafted in to look at different aspects of the blues, and they all have their different methods, with historical documentary, contemporary interviews, reconstructions and even a fiction screenplay. But it’s a film about music, with tons of great music in it that you’re not gonna be able to hear elsewhere, so I’ll allow it. Okay, controversial: this isn’t an album. However, it is really cheap to buy on DVD second-hand on Amazon. Americans can probably watch it on the PBS Vimeo page, and non-Americans can watch the trailer there instead. I’m having trouble finding anywhere to watch this online in the UK – legally or otherwise – but if you know anywhere, please let us know.