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Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued
by Doug Collette
Elvis Costello/Jim James/Marcus Mumford/Taylor Goldsmith/Rhiannon Giddens Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued Eagle Vision 2015 Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued was originally broadcast on the Showtime network at the time of the release of The New Basement Tapes: Lost on the River (Harvest, 2014), in part to take the place ...
Romantic Warriors III - Canterbury Tales
by Roger Farbey
Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder (Directors/Writers) Romantic Warriors III -Canterbury Tales Zeitgeist Media 2015 Progdocs third documentary film on the progressive music scene hits the motherload focussing on the very start of it all. The so-called Canterbury Scene started with The Wilde Flowers, a nascent version of Soft ...
Abbey Rader Get Free
by Hrayr Attarian
Artist Abbey Rader Abbey Rader: Get Free Swampvalve Pictures 2015 Drummer Abbey Rader is one of the most relentlessly explorative and idiosyncratic improvisers in jazz. He has a unique approach that stems from his rich and multifaceted experiences that has shaped his overall life outlook. So how can all this ...
J Geils Band: House Party Live in Germany
by Doug Collette
J. Geils Band House Party: Live in Germany Eagle Vision 2015 It's arguable the original lineup of the J. Geils Band remained in its prime all the way from their splendid eponymous debut album through a series of almost equally potent but ever so slightly varied successors in the Seventies into ...
Jazz on Film: Caveat Emptor
by S.G Provizer
There are good documentaries about jazz. A person can see the films listed on this site and walk away without reaching for the gas pipe. But, as the furor around the film Whiplash (well, to jazz people it was furor) reminds us, it's wise to keep the bar low. When Hollywood does jazz, it should stick to ...
Profound Pianistic Presentations: Jazz Heaven DVDs from Jean-Michel Pilc and Enrico Pieranunzi
by Dan Bilawsky
There's more to music than the simple absorption and understanding of notes, rhythm, melody, and harmony; there's more to jazz than what naturally meets the eyes and ears; and, most daunting of all, there's more to learn than we can ever possibly imagine. But fear not, for there are resources out there to help aspiring musicians ...
Vijay Iyer, Prashant Bhargava: Radhe Radhe - Rites of Holi
by Vincenzo Roggero
Vijay Iyer, Prashant BhargavaRadhe Radhe: Rites of Holi ECM Records* * * * È possibile trovare un punto d'incontro tra “The Rite of Spring" di Igor Stravinsky e Holi, la più eccitante e caotica celebrazione Indu della primavera? A giudicare dal risultato di questo DVD, senza ombra di dubbio. Da una ...
Fred Hersch: My Coma Dreams
by Alberto Bazzurro
Fred Hersch, Herschel GarfeinMy Coma Dreams Palmetto Records* * * ½ L'antefatto è il seguente: nel 2008 Fred Hersch, com'è noto da tempo affetto da AIDS, è stato colpito da una grave forma di polmonite, per cui i medici hanno deciso di porlo in uno stato di coma indotto in ...
The Girls in the Band
by Richard J Salvucci
The Girls in the Band Collective Eye (Educational version) 2011 That there are problems of race and gender in the history of American jazz comes as no surprise. Music, and popular music (as swing was in the 1930s and 1940s), is a part of everyday life. Why should jazz be any ...
Rockin' The Wall: How Music Ripped The Iron Curtain
by Glenn Astarita
Various Aritsts Rockin' The Wall: How Music Ripped The Iron Curtain The Video Project 2014 This documentary focuses on the connotations of freedom and innate power of rock music, and its role in bringing down the Iron Curtain. Nonetheless, it's an intriguing history lesson for baby boomers and more importantly, Generation ...
