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7ft._Konka
by John Eyles
Artists: Michael Renkel & Sonja Bender 7ft._Konka Absinth 2006 This forty minute DVD, recorded live in Berlin, pairs Sonja Bender's video sampling with Michael Renkel's guitar and electronics. Despite decades of rock videos, the pairing of improvised music with images is still in its infancy, particularly if the ...
Protagonisti del jazz in storici filmati
by AAJ Italy Staff
Queste due video-compilation riprendono nel titolo la vecchia distinzione geografica tra il jazz di New York e quello di Los Angeles, che negli anni cinquanta si tinse oltre misura anche di contenuti stilistici. Com'è noto, il cosiddetto West Coast Jazz (un impasto di sensibilità cool, chiare forme melodiche, impasti timbrici levigati e raffinati arrangiamenti) rappresentò solo ...
Giustapposizioni e complementarietà: due titoli della Idéale Audience
by AAJ Italy Staff
La serie di DVD musicali intitolata “Juxtapositions”, prodotta da Idéale Audience, si arricchisce di due nuovi, fondamentali, capitoli: dopo Berio, Mahler, Stravinskij, Schoenberg, Part, Glass, vengono approfondite le figure di Boulez e Kurtag. Com’è noto, l’importanza dei due personaggi è ormai consolidata nel panorama contemporaneo. Da cinquant’anni il francese è noto sia per l’attività compositiva, erede ...
Bud Powell: In Europe
by Ken Dryden
Bud Powell In Europe: Paris 1959-Copenhagen 1962 Efor Films 2006 European television seems to have been more diligent than American networks about presenting and preserving jazz broadcasts from the late '50s and early '60s, as evidenced by this DVD compiling three separate performances by Bud Powell. On the ...
Barre Phillips - Live in Vienna
by AAJ Italy Staff
Barre Phillips Live in Vienna MVD Visual (2006) Valutazione: 4 stelle “...l’improvvisatore è colui che agisce spontaneamente, alla stessa maniera dell’artista che si esercita nell'action painting, e lascia scaturire dei suoni con gesto non premeditato. Tuttavia egli non può pretendere una totale gratuità, dal momento che la sua formazione di musicista, i suoi gusti e le ...
Bobby Darin: Seeing is Believing
by C. Michael Bailey
Bobby Darin Bobby Darin: Seeing is Believing Hyena Records 2006 Bobby Darin: Seeing is Believing is the follow-up to Hyena's previously released CD/DVD collection of rare appearances Aces Back to Back (2004). Darin (1936-1973) has been the subject of considerable interest as evidenced by Aces Back to Back ...
Gene Bertoncini: Art of Solo Jazz Guitar
by Karen Hogg
Gene Bertoncini Art of Solo Jazz Guitar Melbay 2006 The DVD Gene Bertoncini: The Art of Solo Jazz Guitar documents a Master Class with guitarist Bertoncini. A nylon-string guitarist who has worked with the likes of Buddy Rich and Wayne Shorter, Bertoncini answers questions from a small group ...
MPS: Jazzin' the Black Forest
by John Kelman
Various Artists/Documentary Jazzin' the Black Forest Monitorpop Entertainment 2006 If ever there were a record label in need of reissue on CD, it's the German MPS label. Formed in the mid-1960s by the late Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, it's hard to say what was more remarkable: that ...
Mike Arroyo: Performing Live
by Jim Santella
Mike Arroyo Performing Live Self Published 2006 This event, a live performance filmed at The University Interamerican of Puerto Rico and billed as a “Christian Jazz Night" concert, begins with an extended drum solo by Leobadis Gonzalez and then goes “Straight to Heaven, as guitarist Mike Arroyo's ensemble ...
Jazz on the West Coast: The Lighthouse
by Tom Greenland
Jazz On The West Coast: The Lighthouse Rose King Productions 2006 Jazz on the West Coast: The Lighthouse is a time capsule/oral history of the legendary Southern California venue active throughout the '50s. A collaboration between impresario John Levine and bassist/musical director Howard Rumsey, the Hermosa Beach club became the ...
