Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music(1993)

🎬85 min
📅1993-11-02
🎭Documentary, Music
⭐6.0/10

Overview

Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales, chords, and progressions of blues as a musical form can be found in styles from jazz to rock to contemporary R&B.

Production

Multiprises LLC, Taurus Film

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Cast

Keith David
as Self - Host
Robert Palmer
as Self - Commentator
Albert Murray
as Self - Commentator
Chuck Berry
as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
as Self (archive footage)
Count Basie
as Self (archive footage)
Big Bill Bronzy
as Self
Willie Dixon
as Self
W.C. Handy
as Self
John Lee Hooker
as Self

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