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Summary: DECEIVING
Review: A commercial. A long commercial. 'Nuff said.
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Summary: Clint Eastwood should be ashamed!
Review: Clint Eastwood should be ashamed to have executive produced such a piece of garbage. The other reviews are on the money. I was so disappointed in how falsely the cover art and commentary (mis)represent the actual content of this video that I complained to Warner Home Video and forced Circuit City to let me exchange the DVD for a different one. If you're looking to hear some good Jazz, look elsewhere.
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Summary: I wish it were possible to give this DVD 0 stars
Review: I echo everyone else's sentiments about this DVD. It's not
for Jazz fans. I don't know who the intended audience is. But if
you're expecting to see some complete performances from this legendary festival, look elsewhere. If you want informative commentary about the music, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Too much people talking and few people playing
Review: I purchased that DVD to see and to hear jazz music, instead ofthat I saw and I heard a lot of people saying how good were those 40years.
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Summary: A disc for music historians, not music .
Review: If you are expecting some wonderful vintage performances from this disc, you are wasting your time. There are no musical performances on this disc. Just a bunch of people talking about the history of the festival. Instead of getting to watch Mile Davis or Lady Day, we are treated to a discussion with the lady who put the rolls of toilet paper in the johns!!DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! This was a true disappointment.
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Summary: What a ripp off !!!
Review: Just conversation about the Monterey Jazz Festival. Absolutely no music. Absolutely deceitful. What a ripp off. Shame on the producer(s) and all who took part in this joke on music / jazz lover. Your karma sucks!
LSmith
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Summary: Please let me rate this ZERO!
Review: Just want to add my two bits as a warning to anyone who may not have got the point from the other reviewers (unlikely). Thia can only have been some kind of ego trip for Clint - it doesn't score as either a jazz performance compilation or as a documentary of the festival. What hurts - heartbreakingly, gutbustingly hurts - is that there ARE hours of performance footage extant from Monterey (and, no, I don't mean 2 minutes of Cannonball in "Play Misty For Me"). Surely someone could buy the rights to this stuff and make a REAL Monterey DVD?
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Summary: TOTAL JIVE (...)
Review: NO STARS!!This review will be totally redundant as it's all been said but I'm actually enjoying joining in trashing this bogus pomp more than watching it! Sure wish I had read just a couple of these reviews (the first all negative reviews I've seen on a topic I'm interested in)before I picked this turkey up. A lot of very uninteresting, boring, behind the scenes stuff that drags on forever! It says "vintage performances" HA! A few seconds of footage with elevator "jazz" instead of what you're glimpsing. It also says "And What about Ella, Louis, Dizzy, Sarah, Dave, Monk, Clark Terry even Lady Day?" THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW CLINT. Forget this and get Bert Stern's Excellent "Jazz On A Summer's Day".
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Summary: DOCUMENTARY WITHOUT JAZZ MUSIC
Review: Seeing this documentary was a complete disapoitment.I was expecting to see live performances of the jazz artists that are shown in the dvd cover, but felt like a complete idiot when I didn't hear a single note of music. I think that they should mention that there's no music in the disc.It was a complete waste of money.
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Summary: Run - don't walk - away from this DVD!
Review: Shame, shame, Clint Eastwood. This DVD isn't worthy of ANY stars. Of the names and performances promised on the packaging of this DVD, you're lucky if one of them is actually "shown" playing or singing for more than a minute and a half. It isn't advertised as a documentary, but a performance compilation. You might catch this on public television someday, but you would only catch this at my house when I "frisbeed" it out my back door. Treat this DVD like musical kryptonite! You've been forewarned!
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