"This is like the discovery of a
bonanza of previously unknown
manuscripts of plays by
William Shakespeare."

—Nat Hentoff
Wall Street Journal

"Louis Armstrong's sound transcends time and style. This DVD captures that intangible power and allows us to gaze upon it in wonder."

—Wynton Marsalis

"Amazing! To see the Art Blakey band playing "Moanin'" a month after I recorded them—it's like watching my own birth."

—Rudy Van Gelder
(engineer of the original Moanin' LP)

“These nine historic DVDs are among the most important visual/aural documents to be mined from the ever-yielding, seemingly hidden jazz treasury. Now, most importantly, they are available to the entire world.”

—Ira Gitler, co-author,
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford)

“Considering the almost alarming proliferation of jazz DVDs on the market today, and their extremely variable quality, it is good to know that Reelin’ In The Years can be trusted to bring viewers nothing but the best—in content and presentation.”

—Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University; author, Living With Jazz (Pantheon Books)