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Documentary/Music - 1959 - B&W - 59 Min.    1959 was the seismic year jazz broke away from complex bebop music to new forms, allowing soloists unprecedented freedom to explore and express. It was also a pivotal year for America: the nation was finding its groove, enjoying undreamt-of freedom and wealth social, racial and upheavals were just around the corner and jazz was ahead of the curve.    Stars: Miles Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet

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00:00In 1959, four major jazz albums were made that changed music forever. Miles Davis, Kind

00:13of Blue, Dave Brubeck's Time Out, Charles Mingus, Mingus Arm, and Ornette Coleman's

00:21The Shape of Jazz to Come.

00:241959 was a very important jazz year for me and my own development and the evolution of

00:31jazz up until now and beyond.

00:37It was a year that saw the biggest selling jazz album and single of all time.

00:43Time Out was going where I envisioned jazz should go.

00:51I said, boy, this is fine.

00:53This is going to work.

00:57Jazz was pushed to new heights of innovation, beauty, and groove.

01:06You know, the things would swing.

01:09Yeah, it'd lift you right out of your seat.

01:13It was the end of the Eisenhower era, 2.5 children and the white picket fence.

01:19In 1959, jazz is reaching white America in a big way.

01:31Jazz musicians didn't really join the civil rights movement.

01:36The civil rights movement actually joined them.

01:41And with Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come, 1959 saw the birth of a whole new

01:48free jazz movement.

01:50When you talk about somebody speaking through their instrument, like actually hear it as

01:56a human, that's Ornette.

02:00He changed everything.

02:021959 was a phenomenon.

02:05It was on another level.

02:08That's all you can say.

02:21Miles, where are you going to work now?

02:23Right here.

02:24OK, because if you move back, we don't get you.

02:27When I play though, I'm going to raise my horn a little bit.

02:29OK, just you four guys in this right now.

02:34Ready?

02:44Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is the biggest selling jazz album ever made, shifting over

02:51five million copies.

02:53It regularly tops best jazz album polls, as well as featuring high in lists of the greatest

02:59albums of any category.

03:02Kind of Blue continues to convert more people to jazz than any other recording.

03:07All this 50 years after it was released.

03:11Yeah.

03:12Let's hear a little bit of it.

03:15Right.

The Year That Changed Jazz 1959 (1959) - Trailer (Music Documentary)

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