Cat No DVDIJ514

Issued for the first time ever, this outstanding DVD presents a filmed concert by the famous Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band recorded live in Prague in 1967 - and includes such outstanding players as Johnny Griffin, Benny Bailey, Idrees Sulieman, Tony Coe, Ronnie Scott, Jimmy Deuchar, Dusko Goykovich, Don Menza, Sahib Shihab, Ake Persson, Nat Peck, and Ellington bassist Jimmy Woode. Besides Kenny Clarke, the band included a second drummer, the British Kenny Clare, who plays a duet with the master at the concert's end. Ronnie Scott himself said : "If I were to form a band, these are the guys I would pick." This DVD includes all 68 minutes captured by the TV cameras during this exceptional evening of music - however, sadly, the band played on unrecorded for another 40 minutes, and then received a 10-minute ovation from the audience.

Pianist Francy Boland had classical training and was brought to the attention of Count Basie and Benny Goodman by pianist Mary Lou Williams. He then went to the United States to arrange for them and for Woody Herman and Dizzy Gillespie before returning to Europe in 1957.