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Robert Plant's Blue Note [DVD]

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Robert Plant's Blue Note Sexy Intellectual Prod. Valutazione: 3,5 stelle Robert Plant è universalmente noto per essere il cantante dei Led Zeppelin e rimane nel firmamento della musica rock per la sua voce potente e flessibile, capace di evocare epiche cavalcate fra le stelle. Ma questo lungo documentario su DVD (oltre due ore e mezzo) ci ...

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Down the Rhodes

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Benjamin Bove - Gerald McCauley Down the Rhodes Autoprodotto Valutazione: 4 stelle Questo bel documentario di quasi due ore, montato con un moderno linguaggio televisivo, racconta la storia del piano elettrico Rhodes, meglio noto come Fender Rhodes. Harold Rhodes ne mise a punto il principio base, quello del martelletto che si ispira ad una forcella da ...

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Peter Gabriel: What a Difference Two Decades Make

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What do you do when you're an aging pop/rock star and the mind may be willing but the body is, more and more, simply not up to the task? For some, it seems the answer is: either make a jazz record, or collaborate with an orchestra. In the past decade, Rod Stewart has decimated the Great ...

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Searching for Sugar Man: The Musical Mystery of Rodriguez

Read "Searching for Sugar Man:  The Musical Mystery of Rodriguez" reviewed by Christine Connallon


RodriguezSearching for Sugar ManSony Pictures Classics2012Sometimes truth is indeed more fascinating than fiction. A perfect example is the story of Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, a quietly powerful musician whose politically charged songs rivaled those of Bob Dylan in a similar era but who fell into the abyss after his ...

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Morocco Fantasia

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Morocco Fantasia Al Di Meola Inakustik Valutazione: 4 stelle Nel bene e nel male, Al Di Meola è il Maciste della sei corde. Una mano sinistra d'acciaio, potente, veloce, pulita, precisa, agile come un gattopardo tra le corde. Gli anni in cui impreziosì i Return to Forever sono davvero lontani, ma la sua ricerca tra le ...

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Sade: Bring Me Home - Live 2011

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SadeBring Me Home: Live 2011Epic2012There is no need for the singer Sade to sucker the fans with this sort of ploy. The Once In A Lifetime tour started in April 2011 and ended nine months later with shows in America, Canada, Europe, South America and Australia--106 shows to ...

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The Jeff Healey Band Live in Belgium

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The Jeff Healey BandThe Jeff Healey Band Live in BelgiumEagle Rock Entertainment2012The early 1990s were the height of Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey's popularity, particularly spurred by his conspicuous appearance in the 1989 Patrick Swazye film Roadhouse (United Artists). Healey, who passed away in 2006 at age 41, was ...

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New Thinking in Jazz Education: Lee Konitz and Jean-Michel Pilc

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The idea of making the mold while breaking the mold may seem paradoxical, but it's appropriate when exploring education. The education sector has become obsessed with standardization--in regard to everything from pedagogy and methodology to content--but nobody seems to address the fact that much of the content itself wouldn't exist if not for original thinkers who ...

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Andrea Rossi Andrea Ground Plane Antenna: Per kelli fini que ki contene

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Andrea Rossi Andrea Ground Plane Antenna Per kelli fini que ki contene Splasc(H) Records Valutazione: 3,5 stelle Per kelli fini que ki contene (già annunciato nel' intervista ad All About Jazz) è un documentario sonoro, che aggiunge una prospettiva nuova al concetto di “alterità" espressiva. Al suo interno c'è un microfono senza voce, un discorso senza ...

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Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991

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Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 Miles Davis Eagle Eye Media Valutazione: 5 stelle Questo monumentale box di 10 DVD parte con una piccola delusione ma poi riguadagna il terreno perduto e alla fine chiude trionfalmente il cerchio vitale legato alla vita di uno dei più grandi artisti della storia. La piccola ...


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