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Bill Withers: Just As I Am
by Jim Santella
Bill Withers Just As I Am Columbia/Legacy 2005 The 1960s and early 1970s were a time for social reform in the United States. Popular folk singers such as Bill Withers made a difference in our lives by helping to shape general attitudes and by pointing out where change ...
Clark Terry Sextet '77: Jazz in Montreux
by Jim Santella
Clark Terry Clark Terry Sextet '77 Eagle Eye Media 2005 Produced by Norman Granz on July 14, 1977, this concert performance brought a superb group of all-stars together for a sterling session of straight-ahead fun. Clark Terry's sextet took on a challenging program of standards and interpreted each ...
Dr. John: Live at Montreux 1995
by Jim Santella
Dr. John Live at Montreux 1995 Eagle Eye Media 2005 Dr. John brought a strong band to the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1995. Everyone solos hard and often. He sings at the piano and keeps the house rockin' with his unique delivery. Backup singers shadow much of what ...
Peter Bernstein Trio: Live at Smoke
by Tom Greenland
Peter Bernstein Trio Live at Smoke Mel Bay Records 2005 Peter Bernstein is the ultimate guitar anti-hero. Without the usual prestidigitation and pyrotechnics of his ilk, without an incessant impulse to chart new stylistic frontiers, Bernstein is nevertheless a guitarist's guitarist and a musician's musician. On his first DVD release, ...
Duke Ellington: Love You Madly / A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral
by R. Emmet Sweeney
Duke Ellington Love You Madly / A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral Eagle Eye Media 2005 With the glut of Ellingtonia on the market, it's impossible to separate the sublime from the merely wonderful. This release leans toward the former. Split into two programs, the first a televised ...
Eric Dolphy: Last Date
by A. Henkin
Eric Dolphy Last DateInterakt 2005 Though jazz has its fair share of premature deaths, few were as tragic as that of Eric Dolphy, both because it was avoidable and that it cut off a monumental player in his prime. The DVD issue of Last Date, a loving ...
Chick Corea: Rendezvous in New York
by AAJ Staff
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York (10-DVD box set) Image Entertainment ID1796IEDVD 2005 For three consecutive weeks, Chick Corea celebrated his 60th birthday. Nine different ensembles of his choosing held sway at New York's Blue Note two nights each week. Perhaps better to having been there, this ten-DVD/559-minute package not ...
Hendrix: Live at Woodstock Redefined
by Doug Collette
Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock Experience Hendrix/Universal Music Group 2005 One of the greatest ironies of Jimi Hendrix's career is that his set at the Woodstock Festival--one of, if not the most, notable live appearances in his brief history--was performed before a fraction of the total audience in ...
The Last Great Traffic Jam
by Doug Collette
Traffic The Last Great Traffic Jam Epic Records 2005 Steve Winwood has enacted some compromises during the course of his forty-year career--remember Roll with It and the beer commercials?--but he's never done a thing to sully the name or image of Traffic. The almost-mythic English band founded with ...
Buddy Rich: The Lost Tapes
by Jack Bowers
Buddy Rich and His Band The Lost Tapes Lightyear Entertainment 2005 In April 1985 --two years before his untimely passing --Buddy Rich and his band recorded a concert at One Pass Productions' King Street Studio in San Francisco using state-of-the-art equipment designed to capture the band “in a ...
