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Elvis Costello & The Imposters: Live in Memphis
by John Kelman
Elvis Costello and The Imposters Live in Memphis Eagle Rock Entertainment 2005 When Elvis Costello and The Imposters toured Canada in 2003, the apparent inability to pigeon-hole the group resulted in their being booked at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Ottawa Blues Festival and the Winnipeg Folk Festival. More a ...
Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis
by AAJ Staff
Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis A PBS television series LRSmedia & WTTW National Productions 2005 Here's cause for great celebration: for the first time in forty years, a American national network will air a weekly program devoted to jazz. Quite naturally, it's going to be on public ...
Erik Friedlander's Vanishing Point: A Road Journal
by John Kelman
Erik Friedlander Vanishing Point Arconomics ARC01 2005 One man and a cello. It's hard to imagine that the instrument could occupy a solo space for the duration of an entire album, let alone a concert performance. But when the cellist is Erik Friedlander, a remarkable player who has worked with ...
Steve Coleman: Elements Of One
by Norman Weinstein
Steve Coleman Elements Of One Chod 2005 This 90 minute documentary by Eve-Marie Breglia about the saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman sets a benchmark for just how intellectually engaging a film portrait of a jazz musician can be. The film records a six year odyssey highlighting Coleman's career in the ...
Michel Petrucciani: Power of Three & The Manhattan Project
by John Kelman
When French pianist Michel Petrucciani finally succumbed, at the age of 37, to the debilitating illness that plagued him for his entire life -- osteogenensis imperfecta, an illness that stunted his growth and caused his bones to be so brittle that they were all too-easily broken -- the jazz world lost a player who, while contributing ...
Gary Husband/Mondesir Brothers Collaboration: To the Power of Three
by John Kelman
The Gary Husband/Mondesir Brothers Collaboration To the Power of Three RSJ Groove Productions 2003 As time progresses, the true strength and diversity of drummer/keyboardist Gary Husband becomes increasingly evident. Whether contributing powerhouse drum work to legendary guitarist Allan Holdsworth's records, drums and keyboards to projects by drummer Billy Cobham and ...
The Sound of New York Jazz Underground
by Jerry D'Souza
The New Talent Jazz Orchestra The Sound of New York Jazz Underground Fresh Sound New Talent 2004 Members of the New Talent Jazz Orchestra gathered at the Systems Two Recording Studios in Brooklyn over four days in 2003, to lay down tracks for The Sound of New York Jazz Underground, ...
Miles Davis: The Cool Jazz Sound
by John Kelman
Miles Davis The Cool Jazz Sound Disconforme 2869033 Recorded 1959; released on DVD 2004 Any chance to see archival footage of Miles Davis in performance is a treat, mainly because, for a career that spanned six decades, so little of it seems available. And so EFORFilms, responsible for releasing the ...
John Scofield: Live 3 Ways
by John Kelman
John Scofield Live 3 Ways Blue Note Recorded 1990; DVD released 2005 At long last Blue Note is digging into their archives and reissuing some of their concert footage, previously only available on long out-of-print videotape, on DVD. While these are bare bones releases -- nothing in the way of ...
Maynard Ferguson: Live -- At the Top
by Jack Bowers
Maynard Ferguson Live -- At the Top Brentwood Home Video 1975/2005 I loved trumpeter Maynard Ferguson's bands of the early to mid-'60s -- great charts, great players, and they swung their butts off. By 1974, when Live -- At the Top was filmed at the Plaza Hotel in Rochester, NY, ...
