Fess Up (with Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together)

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FESS UP is a New Orleans music lover’s collectible boxed set: two DVDs with three hours of content, plus a 38-page hardbound volume of archival images and commissioned essays. Disc one has PIANO PLAYERS RARELY EVER PLAY TOGETHER (1982, 76 minutes), Stevenson J. Palfi’s revelatory documentary about the essential creation narrative of jazz. Disc two is FESS UP (2018, 95 minutes), a conversation at the piano with Henry Roeland Byrd at Tipitina’s in New Orleans.