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Pat Metheny Group: The Way Up
by Doug Collette
Titled with his customary forward-thinking optimism, The Way Up is Pat Metheny's first project for Nonesuch Records. For all its intricacy, this ambitious group endeavor, a single extended composition in four parts, brings to mind the earliest, and comparatively simpler, works of the guitarist composer when he first established a four-piece band under his own name ...
The Best of 2004
by Doug Collette
Brad Mehldau Trio Anything Goes Warner Bros.and...Brad Mehldau Live in Tokyo Nonesuch Recorded in just one day, the fluid interaction of the trio creates music out of their improvisations that is arguably as memorable as the selection of standards themselves. ...
The Grateful Dead Movie: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead Movie: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Grateful Dead Productions 2004 Grateful Dead Productions have set the standard for music-related DVD packages. From the unsurpassed audio and video quality of the content itselfto the special features of the discs that make interactivity fun, then on to the ...
Seven Degrees of Combustication: Medeski Martin & Wood and Soulive In Concert
by Doug Collette
Are there levels of funk? Is it one or the other: you're funky or you're not? Seeing these two trios in quick succession answers the questions, yet leaves the mystery of how funk quotient is actually attained a delightful conundrum. At the midway point of a short tour of clubs this early winter, Medeski Martin & ...
U2 & R.E.M.: Bands of Brothers
by Doug Collette
Once dual figureheads of a new rock movement, R.E.M. and U2 helped shepherd what was dubbed alternative rock into the mainstream, not only by their commercial success, but through their artistic integrity. The former from the American south the latter from fiery Ireland paralleled each other's progress until a few years ago... Like a young jazzman ...
Hot Tuna In Concert: The Triumphant Return of Higher Ground
by Doug Collette
Hot Tuna Higher Ground South Burlington VT December 2, 2004 Higher Ground reopened to the resoundingly positive note(s) of an evening with Hot Tuna on Thursday December 2nd. The club brought an end to its six-month hiatus, as the venerable blues-rockers christened its new South Burlington location with a ...
From The Green Mountains to The Hub: The Derek Trucks Band Live Fall 2004
by Doug Collette
Derek Trucks is a legend in the making. Whether you see him with The Allman Brothers Band or his own quintet, as on two recent dates in the northeast, you are witnessing the constantly evolving young guitarist display an utter command of his instrument as well as the down to earth pragmatics of a working musician(and ...
Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock et. al: A Marriage Made in Heaven
by Doug Collette
Miles Davis Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1963-1964 Legacy Music 2004 Highly esteemed as one of the premier ensembles in modern jazz, The Miles Davis Quintet comprised of Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Wayne Shorter excelled at both composition and improvisation, to the point the one was ...
Live Licks: The Rolling Stones On Tour 2002-2003
by Doug Collette
The Rolling Stones Live Licks: The Rolling Stones On Tour 2002-2003 Virgin Records 2004 Leave it to the Stones, the band that cannot be killed with conventional weapons. They tour the world presenting a show rife with circus-like theatrics, then release a live two-CD set culled from those ...
The Best of Prestige Records
by Doug Collette
With their cover graphics and CD booklet design uniformly simple, and perhaps, unadorned to a fault, Prestige's Best of... series nevertheless speaks volumes by dint of the music contained on the discs themselves. The West Coast counterpart to Blue Note's New York subsidization of the jazz art form, Prestige's significant contribution becomes clear as you read ...


