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2 Rare VHS Jazz Tapes - Rahsaan Roland Kirk Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1972  "The One Man Twins" - 50 minutes Color Only Released on VHS & CD 3 Piano Portraits  Jaki Byard 1980 B&W 25 min Anything for Jazz Cyrus Chestnut 1997 Color 15 min Nutman's got the Blues Barry Harris 1985 Color 23 min Passing it On.                       Shipping in US only no exceptions 
This live recording is a documentary called The One Man Twins. Released for the first time in 1996, both audio and video gives both fans and the uninitiated a glimpse of the century's most colorful performers and most complex jazz musicians. 's band for the date was comprised of pianist , bassist , drummer , and percussionist . Only  and  were  regulars. The set is absolutely electrifying. From the few short raps  offers the crowd, one cannot be prepared for the honking, shouting, funky, gritty sets that follow.  begins with "Seasons," a careening rush of flute acrobatics, and on into a deeply moving rendition of "Balm in Gilead," where  evokes the spirit of , and then into arguably the greatest version of "Volunteered Slavery" on record, a slamming R&B stomp of literally epic proportions, where  uses each of his horns and starts blowing different notes on each simultaneously. There is a gorgeous solo medley where  combines 's "Satin Doll" and an improvisation on its two themes and comes up with something completely new, yet reverentially sound. The set ends with "Serenade to a Cuckoo," which moves across scalar dimensions and tonal registers with a deep, funky grace, and finally, "Pedal Up," a standard  crowd-pleaser that brings all of his elements -- the spectral, the spiritual, and the carnal -- into full play. The band, with new players, can barely keep up with , but  keeps them right in line with the master's shifts in mood, mode, and tempo while keeping the entire gig harmonically on course no matter which instrument  chooses to play. This is a hell of an introduction to one of the least-understood figures in jazz history, and an absolute necessity for fans.
Anything for Jazz, a short 1980 documentary on Byard based on film that director Dan Algrant gathered in the late 1970s. There are even two clips of Bill Evans talking about Byard. Evans looks very ill, so I suspect the interview was conducted in late 1979 or early '80. A reminder of what brilliant jazz artists sacrificed for the music and the suffering many black artists endured from a lack of widespread recognition and praise. A good way to end the week.