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Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
by Ken Dryden
Billie Holiday Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday Naxos 2009 Billie Holiday has long been acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time. With her extensive catalogue of recordings for several labels, Holiday's music has been readily accessible though relatively little live footage with audio ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)
by John Kelman
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)IndiePix Films2009 Distilling a groundbreaking, four-part, four-hour television documentary--one which finally examined the evolution of jazz in a contemporary, rather than purely historical, context--into a shorter theatrical version is no mean feat. When Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense aired on ...
Tenor Sax Legend: Live and Intimate
by Michael Steinman
Ben Webster Tenor Sax Legend: Live and Intimate Shanachie 2009 Although he looked like a frog or a bullmastiff (hence his nicknames Frog and The Brute), saxophonist Ben Webster was splendidly photogenic, his emotions nakedly on his face. This DVD brings together three concert performances and one documentary ...
The Convoy Tour: 25 Years of The Ex
by Eyal Hareuveni
The EX The Convoy Tour: 25 Years of The Ex Ex Records 2009 Dutch group The Ex might be one of the greatest jazz bands ever. Not, most certainly, because it has mastered a traditional, neo-con agenda, but because it rebels constantly against all such paradigms and conventions, ...
Stefano Bollani: Carioca Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
Stefano Bollani Carioca Live Ermitage (2009) Valutazione: 4 stelle Di calciatori brasiliani in Italia ce ne sono tanti. Raffinati solisti o caparbi incontristi. Alcuni bravi, altri bidoni venduti a prezzi imbattibili. Vengono da noi per i soldi, la celebrità e la bella vita, ma anche per “rubare" i segreti di tattica. Per questo la nazionale carioca ...
The New Village - Live In Sardinia
by AAJ Italy Staff
Enzo Favata Tentet feat. Tenores di Bitti The New Village - Live In Sardinia Isola dei Suoni (2009) Valutazione: 4 stelle Questo DVD documenta un concerto New Village di Enzo Favata, che unisce un sestetto di jazzisti con un tradizionalissimo quartetto vocale “a cappella" come i Tenores di Bitti. Il concerto si è tenuto presso l'auditorium ...
Live In Montreux 1996
by Jeff Stockton
Wayne ShorterLive at Montreux 1996 Eagle Eye Media2009 Wayne Shorter may look 20 years younger than 76, but he is quite simply one of the last giants, every bit as influential and artistically significant as Sonny Rollins, perhaps second only to John Coltrane when one considers ...
Masters of American Music Series: Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
The Story of Jazz Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk: American Composer The Many Faces of Billie Holiday Naxos 2010 These four DVDs--separate broadcasts of the Masters of American Music TV series, originally released in eighties--seem by today's standards, like some ...
Count Basie: Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968
by Graham L. Flanagan
Count Basie Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968 Impro Jazz 2009 Every jazz fan, while listening to an album by one of their favorite legends of the genre, occasionally closes their eyes to imagine what it might have been like actually to be there for the recording itself. ...
Billy Martin: In Concert: Coconuts Feeding Birds
by Doug Collette
Billy Martin In Concert: Coconuts Feeding Birds Vongole Films 2009 In March 2008, drummer and percussionist Billy Martin was commissioned by The Houston Community College Department of Fine Arts in Texas to perform at the Heinen Theater. The school set the stage and documented what proved to be one of ...
