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Meeting of the Minds: The Making of Floating Point
by Ian Patterson
John McLaughlin Meeting Of the Minds: The Making of Floating Point Abstract Logix 2008 “It's the music that drives everything" says H Sridhar, chief audio engineer of John McLaughlin's outstanding new CD Floating Point (Abstractlogix, 2008), a recording session well-documented on this DVD. One cannot but agree with ...
Little Arthur Duncan: Live At Rosa's Blues Lounge
by Nic Jones
Little Arthur Duncan Live At Rosa's Blues Lounge Delmark Records 2007 Delmark is as much in the business of social history as in that of capturing the present-day Chicago music scene with their DVDs, and this one is no exception. There's something downright honest about Little Arthur Duncan ...
A Tribute to Edith Piaf: Live at Montreux 2004
by Jerry D'Souza
Various Artists A Tribute to Edith Piaf: Live at Montreux 2004 Eagle Rock Entertainment 2007 The songs associated with Edith Piaf were celebrated at the 38th Montreux Jazz Festival in 2004, performed with heart-rending emotion. Like Billie Holiday's music, Piaf's songs reflected the joys and sorrows of life, bringing deep ...
Inside Out In The Open: A Film by Alan Roth
by Jerry D'Souza
Joseph Jarman, Marion Brown, John Tchicai, Alan Silva, Burton Greene, and others.Inside Out In The Open ESP Disk 2001/2008 Free jazz is probably a term more bandied about than understood. It means different things to different people, taking cognizance in the eye of the beholder. With Inside Out ...
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs
by Jerry D'Souza
Benny Carter Symphony in Riffs Rhapsody Films 2008 Benny Carter was a man of many parts. He played the trumpet and saxophone, he scored music for films and television, he was an educator, and he was an arranger in a class of his own. Carter was born in ...
Nicole Mitchell: Black Unstoppable
by Nic Jones
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble Black Unstoppable Delmark 2007 This DVD is representative of lighter, airier aspects of flautist Nicole Mitchell's music, and the seven- piece Black Earth Ensemble puts a whole new spin on the notion through skillful deployment. The music is never forced and always the product of ...
Soft Machine: Alive In Paris 1970
by Nic Jones
Soft MachineAlive In Paris 1970Voice Print2008 This could just as well be titled Very Much Alive In Paris since the DVD captures for posterity a couple of Soft Machine performances first broadcast on French television's POP 2 program on March 2, 1970. It features the short-lived five-piece ...
Non-Stop Travels With Michel Petrucciani/Trio Live in Stuttgart
by Jerry D'Souza
Michel Petrucciani Non-Stop Travels/Trio Live in Stuttgart Dreyfus Records 2008 Michel Petrucciani celebrated life. It was a short one (he died when he was 36 of a pulmonary infection), but he lived it to the brim. Jazz was his passion, which he shared through his numerous recordings and ...
Shibutabihazime: Shibusashirazuat at Shibuya O-East
by Eyal Hareuveni
Shibusashirazu Shibutabihazime: Shibusashirazu at Shibuya O-East, 2006/01/14 Avex-io 2007 There's no other ensemble like the Shibusashirazu (loosely translated from Japanese as “never be cool"). It's not only the huge number of musicians on stage (more than thirty including dancers and one painter), but also the breadth of its ...
Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live
by John Kelman
Eagle Eye Media 2001 (reissued 2008) Some artists are revolutionary, others are evolutionary. Some manage to be both, and guitarist Pat Metheny is one of a small group of artists who, always moving forward, occasionally make more striking stylistic leaps. With a string of consistently strong albums that began with Pat Metheny ...
