The dancers are just amazing, but what I really love is the way the musicians pick up the groove and build it up and up - so beautifully sophisticated and effortless. There's a line in a biography of Billie Holiday about "the lost art of rhythm guitar", meaning the four-to-a-bar acoustic guitar style of pre-electric jazz, and watching that film you can see what they mean.
The dancers are just amazing, but what I really love is the way the musicians pick up the groove and build it up and up - so beautifully sophisticated and effortless. There's a line in a biography of Billie Holiday about "the lost art of rhythm guitar", meaning the four-to-a-bar acoustic guitar style of pre-electric jazz, and watching that film you can see what they mean.