Inside Jazz: Everybody's Welcome is a one hour documentary about how the jazz tradition is passed from one generation to the next. Featuring the acclaimed trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsallis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Rodney Whitaker and Michigan State University's "Professors of Jazz", and other guest artists. Inside Jazz takes the viewer inside a world of jazz performances, lessons, and master classes. This is a world of teamwork, musicianship, and love of music, where "older cats" make themselves available to the young artists who admire and follow them.
The traditions of jazz performance are best learned in intense interactions between teacher and student, and Inside Jazz shows us masters and their apprentices working together to hone skills and develop understanding. There is respect, love, and a resounding sense of family amoung these musicians. They are, in the words of Wynton Marsalis, "United by the swing, and by the consciousness of jazz. If jazz is to be reduced to a single word, it is about love". Inside Jazz shows us the love and respect for the music and for other musicians that is the hallmark of this unique American tradition.
A film by Robert Albers and Holly Giesman
Program length: 58:45
In stereo 4/3 standard definition
Produced by:
Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media And the Jazz Studies Program Michigan State University c2006
