As is proper, almost all of this is from the band's early years all but two of the songs were recorded between September 1969 and June 1971, and none of them postdate 1979. Dcouvrez ds maintenant lalbum Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Allman Brothers Band par The Allman Brothers Band.
So, with Martin Scorsese overseeing a series of films for PBS with the overall name The Blues in 2003, much the same sort of campaign was launched, and this 15-track compilation of Taj Mahals work from the late 60s to. Blues-rock, however, was a foundation of their music, and that's what you'll hear on this compilation, which is part of the Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues CD series, issued in conjunction with the television documentary series The Blues. When the Ken Burns documentary series Jazz premiered on PBS in 2001, a series of artist compilations were released using the series as a brand name, and they sold quite well. And that only demonstrates its pervasive influence.As any fan knows - heck, as anyone who's listened to the radio since 1970 knows - there was much more to the Allman Brothers Band than blues. Martin Scorsese recently produced a successful 7-film series about the blues. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
If the album doesn't really work as a collection, despite the individual talents and performances included, that may suggest that "the blues" has long-since become an umbrella term covering many different musical styles, not all of which work well together. Listen free to Son House Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues (My Black Mama, Pt. Martin Scorseses latest tells the provocative true story of former Wall Street stockbroker Jordan Belfort (played by DiCaprio) a man who did not hold. But that is in keeping with the series of films on which the five-CD set and this highlights disc are based. Purists may object reasonably that it covers a very wide range, from the rural blues of Robert Johnson to the Southern rock of the Allman Brothers Band and the - what can one call it? - designer blues of Keb' Mo'. At the very least, it contains many indisputably classic blues performances by some of the indisputably major blues artists. But the way one judges this disc may depend upon whether it is trying to be "the best of the blues" or "the best of 'The Blues.'" It hasn't much hope of being the former, but as a one-CD sampler of the five-CD set, it does just fine. Even if all of that other material didn't make it clear, the absurdity of reducing the blues to a one-hour, 17-track album would be obvious anyway. And you might say it all boiled down to this single-disc distillation, which draws upon the vaults of major labels Universal and Sony. Find album reviews, songs, credits and award information for Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix by Jimi Hendrix on AllMusic - 2003 - As part.
A massive media campaign comprising seven documentary films broadcast on public television and released as a DVD box set, plus accompanying soundtrack albums, a 13-part radio series, a companion book, 12 individual artist compilations, and a five-CD box set, The Blues, executive produced by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, threatened to be even more all-pervasive than Ken Burns' Jazz project, after which it was clearly patterned.