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Martino Unstrung: A Brain Mystery
by Victor L. Schermer
Pat Martino Martino Unstrung: A Brain Mystery Sixteen Films 2008 Martino Unstrung: A Brain Mystery is a running commentary about a man, his music, his friends and family, and his philosophy of life. The man is living legend and jazz guitarist, Pat Martino. The film could be thought of as an ...
Jazz Icons Series 3: Nina Simone Live in '65 and '68
by C. Michael Bailey
Nina SimoneJazz Icons Series 3: Live in '65 and '68 Jazz Icons 2008 Savage Dignity. Nina Simone is singular among jazz musicians. She had a vocal delivery that was more Charlie Patton than, say, Shirley Horn. Her cover of Bob Dylan's “The Ballad of Hollis Brown," presented on ...
Jazz Icons Series 3: Lionel Hampton Live in '58
by C. Michael Bailey
Lionel Hampton Jazz Icons Series 3: Lionel Hampton Live in '58 Jazz Icons 2008Jazz ambassadors are hard to come by. The first was Louis Armstrong, whose personality was so big and warm it couldn't help spilling out on everyone close to him. Then there was Dizzy Gillespie, the ...
Dave Specter - Live In Chicago [DVD]
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Dave Specter Live In Chicago Delmark Records (2008) Valutazione: 3 stelle Dave Specter è un chitarrista non più giovanissimo ma certamente appartenente alla generazione più recente dei musicisti emersi sulla scena della città che più ha legato il suo nome al blues elettrico del dopoguerra. Il 20 e il 21 agosto del 2007 ha dato due ...
Jazz Icons: Rahsaan Roland Kirk Live in '63 and '67
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz Icons: Rahsaan Roland Kirk live in '63 and '67Jazz Icons2008In her forward to the Jazz Icons Series 3: Rahsaan Roland Kirk live in '63 and '67, Dorthann Kirk praised the DVD for showing her husband's talent “as a complete musician and not just a musical freak who played three ...
Standards I / II
by AAJ Italy Staff
Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Jack DeJohnette Standards I / II ECM Records (2007) Valutazione: 4,5 stelle A completamento delle celebrazioni in casa ECM per i 25 anni di vita del trio più famoso della storia del jazz, che hanno visto dapprima la pubblicazione di un live inedito (My Foolish Heart), poi la ristampa in ...
Jazz Icons: Bill Evans Live '64 - '75
by C. Michael Bailey
Bill Evans Jazz Icons Series 3: Bill Evans Live '64 - '75 Jazz Icons 2008 A dweeb with a bad haircut or junkie messiah? The most significant jazz pianist since Bud Powell or an over-rated ivory noodler? Bill Evans is a delicious musical enigma whose ...
Phish Walnut Creek
by Doug Collette
Phish Walnut Creek Jemp 2008 Even in its comparatively stripped-down form (no special features included with a colorful two-disc but deceptively spare package) Phish Walnut Creek stands on its own terms as a unique document of a singular performance. The bonus CD, Left ...
Black Unstoppable
by John Sharpe
Nicole Mitchell Black Unstoppable Delmark 2008 The release of flutist Nicole Mitchell's Black Unstoppable as a DVD as well as a CD presents the listener with a difficult choice beyond the usual dichotomy of sound or (added) vision. Although the program is the same (though with two tracks ...
Jazz Icons Series 3: Cannonball Adderley Live in '63
by C. Michael Bailey
Cannonball AdderleyCannonball Adderley Live in '63Jazz Icons2008 What is the greatest hard bop jazz standard? Some might argue for Bobby Timmons' “Moanin'" as performed by the composer and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Others may hold out for Joe Zawinul's “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" or Richard Carpenter's “Walkin'" ...
