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Fred Anderson: 21st Century Chase

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Fred Anderson 21st Century Chase Delmark Records 2009 Saxophonist Fred Anderson turned 80 on March 22, 2009 and celebrated the occasion with a concert at The Velvet Lounge in Chicago. He called in fellow tenor player Kidd Jordan, bassist/cellist Harrison Bankhead, guitarist Jeff Parker and drummer Chad Taylor to join ...

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William Hooker: The Symbol of the Unconquered

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William Hooker The Symbol of the Unconquered Media Sanctuary 2009 It must be challenging to play the drums solo, but it must be even more so to improvise an hour-long soundtrack to a silent movie. Percussionist William Hooker took on this daunting task with the 1920 silent film, ...

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Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me

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Johnny Mercer Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me TCM 2009 Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker (Bird, 1988), during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea ...

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Elio Martusciello: To Extend the Visibility

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Elio Martusciello To Extend the Visibility ReR (2009) Valutazione: 3,5 stelle È impresa al di sopra delle possibilità di chi scrive inquadrare in poche righe la figura di Elio Martusciello. Musicista, compositore in bilico tra elettronica ed elettroacustica, improvvisatore obliquo, teorico, insegnante, instancabile esploratore del suono, visual artist e chissà cos'altro ancora. Insomma, uno di quei ...

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Giorgio Li Calzi: Aleksandr Nevskij

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Giorgio Li Calzi Aleksandr Nevskij CNI Music (2009) Valutazione: 4 stelle Da una parte c'è il film del 1938 di Sergej Ejzenštein, dall'altra una riappropriazione, per così dire sonora, di Giorgi Li Calzi. Cambiando il cambiabile, l'operazione Aleksandr Nevskij di Li Calzi non è dissimile dalla riscrittura che portò Giorgio Moroder a musicare il Metropolis di ...

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New Morning, The Paris Concert

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Autour du Blues New Morning, The Paris Concert Inakustik (2009) Valutazione: 2,5 stelle Questo DVD della Inakustik presenta un concerto registrato nei primi giorni del mese di dicembre del 2006 al New Morning di Parigi, un locale ormai storico che ha visto passare sul palcoscenico grandi jazzisti, bluesmen e rocker. In questo caso il package è ...

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New Morning Paris Concert

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Al Foster New Morning Paris Concert Inakustik 2009 Al Foster played with Miles Davis for several years in the '70s, appearing on Get Up With It, On The Corner, Big Fun, Dark Magus, Agharta, and reuniting with him in the '80s for The Man With The Horn, We ...

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Bobby Previte - Andrea Kleine: The Separation

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Bobby Previte The Separation Autoprodotto (2008) Valutazione: 4 stelle Buio in sala, sei fantasmagorici punti luce distribuiti sul palco, il suono sinistro di un organo e una breve frase pronunciata da una voce maschile, che sembra risuonare da un evo distante mille anni. Poi, improvvisa, inattesa, una sventagliata di chitarra accompagnata da un lampo accecante, che ...

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Fillmore: The Last Days

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Various Artists Fillmore:The Last Days Rhino 2009 The growing wave of reminiscence around the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock festival may be just the beginning of a nostalgia tide for this golden era of rock. Fillmore: The Last Days chronicles not just the music but also the burgeoning rock ...

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Please Call Home: The Big House Years

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The Allman Brothers Band Please Call Home: The Big House Years Bright Blue Sky Productions 2009 The DVD Please Call Home: The Big House Years tells the romanticized story of an early phase in the career of The Allman Brothers Band. Group archivist Kirk West makes no attempt ...


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