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Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

6.0 85 mins Documentary   Music   1993
Multiprises LLC   Taurus Film  
Director(s): Ken Mandel

Release Date: 02 Tue, Nov 1993

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.

Casts of Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

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

Son House

as Self

Mick Jagger

as Self

Louis Jordan

as Self

B.B. King

as Self

Charlie Parker

as Self

Bessie Smith

as Self (archive footage)

Dinah Washington

as Self (archive footage)

Muddy Waters

as Self (archive footage)

Sonny Boy Williamson II

as Self (archive footage)

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