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From Straight to Bizarre - Zappa, Beefheart, Alice Cooper and LA's Lunatic Fringe
by AAJ Italy Staff
From Straight to Bizarre - Zappa, Beefheart, Alice Cooper and LA's Lunatic Fringe Sexy Intellectual Prod. Valutazione: 3,5 stelle Quasi tutti i DVD finora pubblicati dalla Sexy Intellectual si sono rivelati decisamente interessanti e ben fatti, affrontando argomenti e personaggi della storia del Rock degli anni '60 e '70 secondo un'ottica documentaristica caratterizzata da un formato ...
Artistry Jazz Group: Live For The First Time
by Chris Mosey
Artistry Jazz GroupLive For The First TimeVolenza2012This DVD records a big day in the small world of Scandinavian jazz: after two first class studio albums, Artistry Jazz Group performing live for the first time. And it does so in Södra Teatern, Stockholm's oldest theater, built in 1859 on ...
Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day
by Nenad Georgievski
Led Zeppelin Celebration Day Three P Films Limited 2012 Many biographies and history books reveal that in the early autumn of 1968, in a stuffy London rehearsal room, guitarist Jimmy Page gathered together a group of newly found musical colleagues--singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, ...
Woody Herman: Blue Flame - Portrait Of A Jazz Legend
by Dan Bilawsky
Woody HermanBlue Flame: Portrait Of A Jazz LegendJazzed Media2012 Innovation and boundary pushing is often seen as a young man's game, so the obvious question is, how did clarinetist/saxophonist/vocalist/bandleader extraordinaire Woody Herman manage to keep things fresh for virtually his entire half-century run? The answer is so ...
Barry Guy / London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Harmos Live At Schaffhausen
by John Sharpe
Barry Guy / London Jazz Composers OrchestraHarmos Live At SchaffhausenIntakt2012For those who thought they had missed their chance to see one of the most impressive agglomerations of talent in European improvisation, the 2008 appearance of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra in Switzerland was manna from heaven. Having last ...
Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project
by John Kelman
Pat Metheny The Orchestrion Project Eagle Eye Media 2012 When guitarist Pat Metheny released Orchestrion (Nonesuch) in 2010, it almost immediately became one of his most controversial recordings since Zero Tolerance for Silence (Warner Bros., 1992). Why, in a jazz world, where interaction with other musicians is so fundamental to its ...
Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
by Nenad Georgievski
Anton Corbijn Inside Out CTM Films 2012There are plenty of documentaries about all kinds of bands and musicians, but there aren't many documentaries about photographers that have helped put them on the music pedestal. Probably the only existing documentaries on music photographers are those about photographers Annie Leibovitz and Robert Knight. ...
Takayuki Kato/ Yasuhiro Yoshigaki/ Kumiko Takara: Tu-Mu-Go #1
by Eyal Hareuveni
Takayuki Kato/ Yasuhiro Yoshigaki/ Kumiko TakaraTu-Mu-Go #1Studio Ba-Lu-Lu Ba-Lu2012 This Japanese trio is comprised by one of the most innovative and inventive guitarists on the Japanese scene, Takayuki Kato, who rarely plays outside Japan; prolific drummer and percussionist Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, leader of his own percussion ensemble, Orquesta ...
Copernicus Live in Prague
by AAJ Italy Staff
Copernicus Live in Prague Copernicus Nevermore Inc.(distr. Moonjune Records) Valutazione: 3,5 stelle Era l'estate dell'anno di grazia 1989, il muro di Berlino sarebbe crollato a novembre e incredibilmente, già dalla primavera, dai paesi vicini all'Unione Sovietica, cominciarono ad arrivare richieste di performance di musicisti occidentali. Perfino di artisti occidentali indisciplianti come Copernicus, un visionario cantautore americano ...
Steven Wilson: Get All You Deserve (Limited Deluxe Edition)
by John Kelman
Steven Wilson Get All You Deserve (Limited Deluxe Edition) Kscope 2012 When Steven Wilson decided to go solo after fronting the popular progressive/psychedelic group Porcupine Tree for 20 years, it was an opportunity to stretch beyond the confines that he'd ultimately created for himself in a group that also began as ...
