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Lenny Breau - Brad Terry: Live at the Maine Festival
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lenny Breau - Brad Terry Live at the Maine Festival Art of Life Records (2009) Valutazione: 3 stelle Ancora un reperto quasi archeologico per la Art of Life: in questo caso vengono riesumati circa venti minuti di video di qualità medio-bassa da un punto di vista tecnico ma di grande interesse da un punto di vista ...
Edna Golandsky: The Art of Rhythmic Expression
by Don Glanden
Edna Golandsky The Art of Rhythmic Expression The Golandsky Institute 2005 The Art of Rhythmic Expression is a three-DVD set featuring lectures given by Edna Golandsky at Princeton University in the summer of 2004. The lectures represent the next chapter in the presentation of the Taubman approach to ...
Let Yourself Go: The Lives of Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch
by Chris Kompanek
Fred Hersch Let Yourself Go: The Lives of Fred Hersch AHA! DVD 2008Katja Duregger's intimate documentary about virtuoso pianist Fred Hersch has the personal touch of a home movie. Broken down into four sections that are viewed individually on the DVD, the film covers all aspects of his ...
Marco Benevento & Friends: Live in NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency
by Doug Collette
Marco Benevento & Friends Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency The Royal Potato Family 2009 Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency makes an ideal companion piece to the other high point of Marco Benevento's solo career so far, Live At Tonic (Ropeadope, 2007) and it ...
Tail Dragger: Live at Rooster's Lounge
by John Barron
Tail Dragger Live at Rooster's Lounge Delmark Records 2009 For those prohibited by distance from experiencing authentic Chicago blues in a West Side club, Delmark Records provides a next-best-thing-to-being-there solution with Tail Dragger's DVD Live at Rooster's Lounge. A gravel-voiced mainstay on the Chicago scene since the 1960s, Tail Dragger ...
Little Feat: Skin It Back: Live in Germany
by Doug Collette
Little Feat Skin It Back: Live in Germany Eagle Vison 2009 When the original four-man lineup of Little Feat splintered, founding members guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Lowell George, keyboardist/vocalist Bill Payne and drummer/vocalist Richie Hayward enlisted percussionistSam Clayton, bassist Kenny Gradney (from Delaney and Bonnie's band) and guitarist Paul Barrere, at the same ...
Marco Benevento & Friends: Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency
by Chris May
Marco Benevento & Friends Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency The Royal Potato Family 2009 In January 2008, coinciding with the release of his monumental gumbo of retro-modern jazz, rock, pop and funk, Invisible Baby (Hyena, 2008), pianist Marco Benevento took over New York's then brand new ...
Stefano Bollani - Portrait in Blue
by AAJ Italy Staff
Stefano Bollani Portrait in Blue Harvey Film (2009) Valutazione: 3,5 stelle Qual è il pubblico di Stefano Bollani? Da un lato abbiamo la nicchia dei cultori di jazz, che l'hanno scoperto con Enrico Rava e apprezzano le sue qualità espressive, e dall'altro l'ampia audience attratta sia dalla sua musica che dalle doti di showman e dalla ...
Jazz Icons, Series 4
by Ken Dryden
Jazz Icons Series 4 Naxos 2009 The fourth volume of the Jazz Icons DVD series, available individually or in a boxed set, compiles live videos by seven jazz greats never issued commercially, all with detailed liner notes and a bumper crop of period photographs. The performances are in black and ...
Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart
by John Kelman
Béla FleckThrow Down Your Heart Docurama Films2009 With Throw Down Your Heart Rounder, 2009), banjo revolutionary Béla Fleck took his instrument full circle, back to Africa where the instrument originated. The third in his ongoing Tales from the Acoustic Planet series, it was the end result ...
