Films:
Mr. Boogie Woogie
From the early days of 3/4" portapak color video...
"'We called him Mr. Boogie Woogie,' Memphis Slim explains, in his affectionate tribute to his less successful colleague...Vinson's Holly Springs boyhood as the son of a Saturday Night musician, his failure as a sharecropper, his involvement with the Baptist church, his lonely life now... all are captured with striking visuals... The intimacy that the samll-format video medium can provide is displayed here to its fullest extent... Vinson's world is beautiful, troubled, and important."
- Film Library Quarterly
"A straightforward look at blues pianist Mose Vinson - the interviews from his boyhood home in Mississippi intercut with the man at his piano, singing in his soulful wail, which is where he really shines."
- L.A. Weekly
28 minutes, 3/4" video, black & white, edited 1981 from 1977-78 feature-length production co-directed by Alexis Krasilovsky, Ann Rickey and Walter Baldwin.
Category: Documentary
Plot Keywords: African-American studies, African-American culture, Blues, Boogie Woogie, ethnomusicology, Memphis, Mississippi, music, musicians, piano
Available on DVD:
- Home Use $39.95 Buy Now
- Institutional Use $150.00 Buy Now
Special Features Include:
- Mose Vinson Plays the Blues (audio)
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