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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A musical road movie, Return to Gorée follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to honor its victims. From Atlanta to New Orleans, from New York to Bordeaux and Luxembourg, the songs...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Anita O'Day was one of the greatest of American jazz singers, and this documentary tells her story--a journey of survival and, above all, the endurance of her talent, told in a number of frank interviews with her and with those who know her. Her career was long and eventful, spanning seven decades; her last album recorded when she was 84.
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