"Piano Blues", like all previous films in the Scorsese series, boasts some impressive interviews. Eastwood is looking at the piano talking to the likes of Ray Charles, Pinnip Perkins, Marcia Bell, Dave Brubeck and D -Johnon, all for whom the role of piano in American music history. 67-minute film and all other episodes of "Blues", can be purchased on DVD via the PBS web site. Or you can get the soundtrack CD. CDs are cool again.

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Eastwood, a slightly realized musician, was able to talk intelligently about the music with the above legends, and his celebrity, no doubt, made some of the musicians happy to participate. Eastwood, we can recall, a 1997 record called "Eastwood after hours: Live at Carnegie Hall", featuring the results of several Eastwood films. He even played a little on that record.

While Eastwood was lending director of the Piano Blues, his production partner, Bruce Reeker, was a true lubator of the two. Reeker's idea was to make the Eastwood piano segment "blues". Reeker had previously produced, with Eastwood, the doctor in 1988 "Body Monk: directly without Haser", and it was Reeker who produced "Eastwood after hours". Unfortunately, That monk biopic Never done.

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After the couple worked on Scorsese's Blues series, Eastwood and Reeker continued to explore the genre, with Eastwood either producing or serving as an executive producer of Reeker's additional projects, all those biographical documentaries. Reeker made "Bud Buticher: One can do it" in 2005, "Tony Bennett: Music never ends" in 2007, and "Nyoni Mercer: The dream is on me" in 2009 before joining Brubeck to make "Dave Brubeck: in 2010".

As for this writing, Eastwood will turn 95, and Scorsese is 82 years old. Scorsese is still active while Eastwood has yet to be officially retired (though His drama in the courtroom in 2024, "Juror #2", He was invoiced as his potentially final film), so it is not completely impossible to work again. Time will say.