Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen

The look and dress is total 1970s as the seven piece band of Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen romp through nine selections on this very short - forty-five minute and fifty-three second - 1979 tape of two concerts and interview footage featuring Kenny Ball. Producer and Director Ray Selfe does a better job with the interviews than the band footage, the camerawork sometimes shaky, sometimes not capturing all seven players. Even the track selection is bizarre, only four of the songs posted on the menu; the navigation on this particular DVD extremely difficult. Five of the "Jazzmen" contribute vocals on the traditional classic "I Shall Not Be Moved" combined in a medley with another African American spiritual, "Amen", bassist John Benson taking the lead voice. The band is in fine form through the course of this presentation, the horns a chirping, the piano providing a good foundation with the rhythm section. There's an impressive duel between the stand-up bass and banjo, these journeymen havin