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Gustavo Assis-Brasil: In Concert
by Ian Patterson
Gustavo Assis-Brasil In Concert Abstract Logix 2008 There is much to be said for presenting material live as opposed to recorded in a studio, particularly if improvisation is at the core of a group; pianist Keith Jarrett's trio has been doing this to great effect for years. On ...
Gustavo Assis-Brasil: In Concert
by Mark F. Turner
Gustavo Assis-Brasil Gustavo Assis-Brasil: In Concert Abstract Logix 2008 With a sophisticated tone that's suffused with warmth and complemented by razor-sharp technique but, more significantly, the ability to play with emotion, guitarist Gustavo Assis-Brasil makes his sound and presence known on this eponymous DVD/CD combo.
Barry Harris and Mal Waldron: Passing It On / A Portrait
by Francis Lo Kee
Barry Harris: Passing It On / A Portrait of Mal Waldron Rhapsody Films 2008This DVD release collects two films about two significant jazz pianists—Barry Harris and Mal Waldron. The first film is a short (23 minutes) but wonderfully personable glimpse into the life of pianist/educator Harris, who describes himself at the film's ...
Robben Ford - In Concert Revisited (DVD)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Robben Ford In Concert Revisited Inakustik (2007) Valutazione: 3,5 stelle La Inakustik tedesca pubblica questo bel DVD che ci presenta il quartetto di Robben Ford registrato dal vivo a Baden Baden a metà del mese di settembre del 1997. La registrazione era stata fatta originariamente per il programma televisivo Ohne Filter (Senza Filtro) messo in onda ...
Daniel Lanois: Here Is What Is
by Nenad Georgievski
Daniel Lanois Here Is What Is Red Floor Records 2008 Sharing the Process: The Film Daniel Lanois' film, Here Is What Is, is one of those miraculous movies, a picture that seems to have come together by laws unto itself. It merely exists, like some inexplicable ...
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Abaton
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio Abaton La Huit 2007 Of all absolutely modern chamber music artists, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier perhaps comes closest to imitating the pirouettes, the leaps, the twists and turns of dancers' bodies. When she plays, her hands cross over as if the bodies of dancers were intertwined. ...
Hardcore Chambermusic: A Club for 30 Days
by Andrey Henkin
Koch-Schuetz-Studer Ensemble Hardcore Chambermusic: A Club for 30 Days A film by Peter Liechti Intakt 2007 The film Hardcore Chambermusic has a score that's less typical narrative movie music than nature documentary supportive music. The trio of Hans Koch (reeds, electronics), Martin Schuetz (cello, electronics) and ...
Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
by John Kelman
Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe EuroArts 2007“Nobody can play like Charlie Parker ever, you know, and there are so many hundreds of thousands of people who tried to live the life like him and to try to play his phrases and do it as freely ...
Dave Specter: Live In Chicago
by Nic Jones
Dave Specter Live In Chicago Delmark 2007 Specter is now a cornerstone of the Chicago blues scene and also the Delmark catalog. The label's faith in him is more than justified on this showing as he and his band know that the blues has never been about showy ...
Live at Rosa's Blues Lounge (DVD)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Little Arthur Duncan Live at Rosa's Blues Lounge Delmark Records (2007) La veterana etichetta Delmark di Chicago mette a profitto il vantaggio di risiedere in quella che fu la culla del blues elettrico negli anni quaranta, quando l'energia del blues rurale, prevalentemente acustico, eseguito solitamente in solo o in duo, si trasformò in una musica che ...
