This release brings together the recordings for Louis Panassie's historic film made between 1969 and 1972. The film is one of the most important in...

This release brings together the recordings for Louis Panassie's historic film made between 1969 and 1972. The film is one of the most important in jazz history and it gave birth to two wonderful 12'' LPs in 1972. Over thirty years later (2005), Laurent Verdeaux founded the jazz label Odyssey Records in order to preserve this music legacy, and he began restoring and digitizing these legendary titles - whose sound quality, it has to be said, was exemplary for the period. Apart from the beauty of these moments of truth in music, this album offers a golden opportunity to revisit the 70's in the company of some of the figures whos emusic went straight to the heart of seminal jazz and blues, from Milt Buckner and John Lee Hooker to Willie ''the Lion'' Smith and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.