Music Inn Trailer

A trailer for Music Inn, a documentary film:

There was a time in the 1950s when musical giants strutted the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts. Be-boppers, folk singers, African drummers, blues singers, jazz legends, poets, and musicologists gathered at a place called Music Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, just a stone's throw away from classical music's most famous summer festival at Tanglewood, to share their converging traditions and go looking for roots most people didn't think even existed. In their search, they created not only the first summer-long Jazz Festival, and the First School of Jazz, but a new movement in American music. It was that kind of unique, magical configuration of people and ideas that rarely occurs in the arts, but permanently alters the cultural landscape. In this case, it changed the world of American music, how we understand the meaning of America, and how the world came to appreciate the art of jazz.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• music
• jazz
• history
• documentary
• film
• folk
• movie
• barenholtz

[maukor80]

Great document for Music History!!! How can I purchase it from Italy?

[bbarenholtz]

Hey maukor80. Thanks for the comment. We're working on the film's distribution right now. I'll let you know when we get the details worked out.

[sankfinatra]

Hot Tuna was the first concert I went to at the Music Inn. Never missed one after that!

Nils Lofgren, Pablo Cruise, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Etc.... Amazing Place!!!

[vocedivinax]

My boyfriend's grandfather is Randy Weston, he's in this film!

[Lysander1941]

I saw 2 concerts at the Music Inn:Joan Baez and the Eagles. Hoyt Axton was the warmup for one of them, but I do not remember which one.

[jpgilson4]

Boy oh boy I grew up in Lenox Ma and was a kid during the late 60s and 70s Saw most of all the conerts on the lawnat the Music Inn!! Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor,Byrds. The Band. Original Eagles ($5.oo ticket price) Orleans Weather Report Poco Lou Reed Too many to name!! Not to mention Tanglewood at this time The Who, Janice Joplin Iron Butterfly,Sly and the Family Stone What a magical time Jack