Dizzy Gillespie, Etta James and Bobby “Blue” Bland star in this video assemblage of footage from the famous Jazz Festival.

A DVD I borrowed from Edinburgh Libraries in the hope it would somehow match the perfect Jazz On A Summer’s Day. This is far less cinematic. Most of the live performances are pretty awesome but often truncated mid song. Which would be just about acceptable if there weren’t also a few painful sequences of the organiser’s awkwardly rattling through dull introductions to fascinating artists. Let the music speak for itself, man.

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Perfect Double Bill: Ella Fitzgerald – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (1975)

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