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Live in Sweden 1987
by Maurizio Comandini
Johnny Winter Live in Sweden 1987 MVD Visual 2016 * * * * C'era la neve a Stoccolma, a gennaio del 1987. E questa non è certo una novità. Ma nella capitale svedese c'erano anche Johnny Winter e il suo trio, senza dimenticare che a sorpresa era stato coinvolto per ...
Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home
by Victor L. Schermer
Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home Kemper Music, Sine Qua Non Music 2016 “Little" Jimmy Scott (1925-2014) was for a long time the world's greatest jazz singer nobody ever heard of. Enormously talented, with an intuitive grasp of the jazz idiom and the blues, he began his ascendance as a singer with ...
Janis: Little Girl Blue
by Maurizio Comandini
Amy Berg Janis: Little Girl Blue MVD Visual * * * * L'industria cinematografica aveva in agenda un documentario su Janis Joplin da decine e decine di anni. La sua storia dal tragico finale e i suoi immensi talenti artistici erano troppo intriganti per poter passare inosservati. Eppure ci sono voluti ...
Freak Jazz, Movie Madness and Another Mothers - Frank Zappa 1969-1973
by Mario Calvitti
Frank Zappa Freak Jazz, Movie Madness and Another Mothers -Frank Zappa 1969-1973 Sexy Intellectual 2015 L'interessante catalogo di documentari sul rock targati Sexy Intellectual si arricchisce di un nuovo capitolo dedicato a Frank Zappa, già protagonista di due precedenti titoli che esaminavano i suoi anni con i Mothers of Inventions ...
U2: Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris
by Nenad Georgievski
U2 Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris Interscope 2016 Music's soothing powers in times of tragedy and upheaval have proven to give comfort, inspire dialogue and open people's minds. Giving succor to victims of tragedies and terrorist attacks is in a way music's noble employment. Music always provides ...
Charles Bradley - Live from the House of Soul
by Angelo Leonardi
Charles Bradley and Menahan Street Band Live from the House of Soul Daptone Records Valutazione: * * * 2016 Il cortile dello stabile dove ha sede la Daptone Records fa da scenario alla performance di Charles Bradley con la Menahan Street Band. Chi segue la scena del soul contemporaneo ricorderà ...
Eberhard Weber: The Jubilee Concert
by Mark Sullivan
Eberhard Weber Eberhard Weber: The Jubilee Concert Naxos 2015 German bassist Eberhard Weber's 75th birthday celebration has already been documented in audio form on Hommage à Eberhard Weber (ECM, 2015). This video document more fully captures the celebratory tone of the event, includes a bit of bonus material, and perhaps ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the Three Sided Dream
by William Levine
Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Case of the Three Sided Dream Monoduo Films 2016 Rahsaan Roland Kirk as the natural successor to Bird and Coltrane? It's certainly a debatable point, and it might overlook the place of Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman in the evolution of saxophone playing during the first ...
Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty
by Doug Collette
Johnny Winter Down & Dirty Megaforce Records2016 Johnny Winter's life and times were so colorful that even a painstakingly conceived and executed documentary such as Down & Dirty almost begs credibility. Yet as closely as the film delves into the albino bluesman's lifestyle in his later years, on the road and ...
Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped
by Doug Collette
Rolling Stones Totally Stripped Eagle Vision 2016 Eagle Rock's release of the Rolling Stones Totally Stripped is not another entry From the Vault but it may as well be because it's just as compelling and revelatory, if not more so, than Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990 (Eagle Vision,2015) or Hampton ...
