[Jazz Is All]

I was listening to Flying Home on YouTube and then spotted these clips of the biographical video, Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story. This is wonderful stuff with him playing as well as interviews of him, Lionel Hampton and Sonny Rollins.

Flying Home:

The Illinois Jacquet Story Pt. 1 and Pt. 2

Enjoy -- this music is timeless even if its creators have left us.

I think we should never let all the great players like Illinois Jacquet be forgetten because they're our heritage. That's the best way to pay our respects for what they have given us, but if you want to say a few words or place some flowers, or play your sax, Illinois Jacquet lies in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

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[mrpeebee]

Thanks for posting, always good to see IJ stuff .

We discussed Flying Home and this IJ video also in this SOTW-thread, which contains some nice background on IJ and others. Posts #17, 54 and 55 are about the video.

 

[Jazz Is All]

Thank you so much for that link MrPeeBee, I hadn't seen that thread or the other videos linked to in it. I did a search yesterday on SOTW and only found a much older thread asking about the DVD but it was from before it had been uploaded to YouTube, which is why I posted this. I didn't realize it was a duplicate thread, but anyway maybe it will serve to turn more young people on to the film and IJ's playing.