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If the album doesn't really work as a collection, despite the individual talents and performances included, that may suggest that "the blues" has long-since become an umbrella term covering many different musical styles, not all of which work well together. The album features two previously unreleased blues inspired performances.
JIMI HENDRIX MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES SERIES
But that is in keeping with the series of films on which the five-CD set and this highlights disc are based. Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix is a ten track companion release to the critically acclaimed television documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues shown on PBS in September 2003. Purists may object reasonably that it covers a very wide range, from the rural blues of Robert Johnson to the Southern rock of the Allman Brothers Band and the - what can one call it? - designer blues of Keb' Mo'. At the very least, it contains many indisputably classic blues performances by some of the indisputably major blues artists. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Jimi Hendrix - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues at Discogs. But the way one judges this disc may depend upon whether it is trying to be "the best of the blues" or "the best of 'The Blues.'" It hasn't much hope of being the former, but as a one-CD sampler of the five-CD set, it does just fine. Even if all of that other material didn't make it clear, the absurdity of reducing the blues to a one-hour, 17-track album would be obvious anyway. And you might say it all boiled down to this single-disc distillation, which draws upon the vaults of major labels Universal and Sony. performed by Jimi Hendrix, 1942-1970 (MCA/Universal Pictures, 2003), 1 hour 16 mins.
JIMI HENDRIX MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES PLUS
A massive media campaign comprising seven documentary films broadcast on public television and released as a DVD box set, plus accompanying soundtrack albums, a 13-part radio series, a companion book, 12 individual artist compilations, and a five-CD box set, The Blues, executive produced by filmmaker Martin Scorsese, threatened to be even more all-pervasive than Ken Burns' Jazz project, after which it was clearly patterned. Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Jimi Hendrix.