If you have seen Rock'n'Roll Revue and Rhythm
and Blues Revue, you might come to the conclusion that this is
pretty much more of the same - a collection of live-performances of some
of the finest black musicians of their day at the famous Harlem Apollo
Theatre, hosted by Willie Bryant and
with comedy by Nipsey Russell and Mantan Moreland, the
latter two doing another one of Mantan's famous (and quite hilarious) infinite
talk routines -, and of course you are right ... but that is not to
say that Basin Street Blues is a bad film, quite the contrary: It's
another great testimony of the vibrant black music scene of the 1950's and
its inflence on pop music that can be felt to this day, half a century
later.
Any music lover will want to, will have to watch this !
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