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Talmage Falow (DVD)

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 6, 2009

Tal Farlow Talmage Falow Inakustik (2007) Valutazione: 4 stelle Questo bel documentario firmato da Lorenzo DeStefano è prima di tutto un lavoro che testimonia l'amore per la musica del grande chitarrista Tal Farlow. Un eroe della chitarra jazz degli anni cinquanta, a partire dalla sua partecipazione al trio di Red Norvo, con Charles Mingus al contrabbasso. ...

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Elegy of the Uprooting

by Nenad Georgievski
December 28, 2008

Eleni Karaindrou Elegy of the Uprooting ECM 2008 There haven't been many female film music composers throughout the history of film. This list is comprised of maybe 10-15 names, with the likes of Rachel Portman, Wendy Carlos, Jocelyn Pook, Lisa Gerrard and especially Eleni Karaindrou standing out. In ...

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Johnny Winter: Live Through The '70s

by Mike Perciaccante
December 25, 2008

Johnny Winter Live Through The '70s Music Video Distributors 2008 Johnny Winter: Live Through the '70s is a treasure trove of rare, hard-to-find, powerful and lively electric guitar masterpieces. Featuring very good video (for its age) and clear (if a bit low in volume) sound, this DVD culls ...

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Soft Machine - Alive in Paris 1970 (DVD)

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 24, 2008

Soft Machine Alive in Paris 1970 Voiceprint (2008) Valutazione: 5 stelle Da tempo si favoleggiava di questo video dei Soft Machine registrato a Parigi ai primi di marzo del 1970 nella formazione in quintetto che per ora, escludendo recenti album dal vivo semi-ufficiali, aveva dato splendida prova di se' solo nel primo brano del mitico album ...

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Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer

by Victor L. Schermer
December 19, 2008

Anita O'Day Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer AOD Productions 2008Whatever else she was, Anita O'Day was a bundle of contradictions. Though one of the top four or five women jazz singers of her generation, she had little idea what she was doing with her life ...

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Joelle Leandre: Basse continue

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 1, 2008

Joelle Leandre: Basse continue Hors Oeil Editions 2008 2008 was a good year for French bass master Joelle Leandre: a biographical book A voix basse, assembling her talks with journalist and producer Frank Medioni; excellent discs, with bass comrade Barre Phillips--A l'improviste (Kadima Collective), with reed player Akosh S.--KOR (Leo), ...

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Live in '58

by Ken Dryden
November 15, 2008

Lionel Hampton Jazz Icons: Live in '58 Naxos Jazz 2008 Lionel Hampton was one of the incomparable showmen in jazz, especially when leading an always-swinging big band. This 1958 concert, filmed by Belgium public television at the Royal Theatre Opera House, finds him in peak form.Many ...

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Edgar Broughton Band - Rockpalast (DVD)

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 12, 2008

Edgar Broughton Band Rockpalast (DVD) Inakustik (2008) Valutazione: 3 stelle La Edgar Broughton Band fu una delle prime band del rock inglese a cavalcare temi sociali e politicizzati e a creare una sorta di community che si ritrovava nelle invocazioni trascinati del trio inglese. La loro stagione principale durò pochi anni, fra la fine degli anni ...

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Sonny Rollins Live in Vienne

by C. Michael Bailey
November 5, 2008

class="f-left" > Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins Live in Vienne EmArcy 2008 Sonny Rollins Live in Vienne provides a good companion DVD to Jazz Icons Series 3: Sonny Rollins '65 and '68. Taken together, the two DVDs juxtapose a 33 and 38 year-old Rollins with a 76 year-old ...

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Jazz Icons Series 3: Oscar Peterson Live '63, '64 and '65

by C. Michael Bailey
November 4, 2008

Oscar Peterson Jazz Icons Series 3: Live '63, '64 and '65 Jazz Icons 2008 Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) had but one peer on jazz piano, and that was Art Tatum. While greatly influenced by Tatum, Peterson nevertheless developed into the superior blues player of the two. ...