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The Grateful Dead Movie: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead Movie: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Grateful Dead Productions 2004 Grateful Dead Productions have set the standard for music-related DVD packages. From the unsurpassed audio and video quality of the content itselfto the special features of the discs that make interactivity fun, then on to the ...
The Peter Erskine Trio Live at Jazz Baltica
by John Kelman
The Peter Erskine Trio Live at Jazz Baltica Hudson Music Recorded 1993; DVD released 2004 American drummer Peter Erskine's mid-to-late '90s trio, featuring British pianist John Taylor and Swedish double-bassist Palle Danielsson, was arguably one of the best piano trios of the time, albeit never reaching the kind of broad ...
Bobby Darin Swings Again in Hollywood Biopic
by Daniel Kassell
Kevin Spacey Beyond the Sea Lions Gate 2004 The diminutive Bobby Darin first drew attention as a teen idol singer-songwriter with “Splish Splash." Confident of his talent as a Bronx, NY pianist, guitarist and drummer he then insisted on doing an album of standards That's All that reflected his admiration ...
The Complete Jazz Casual Series
by Mark Sabbatini
The Complete Jazz Casual Series Various ArtistsEfor Films2004 If Ken Burns' 10-disc “Jazz" is a freshman lecture, this is a senior recital.All 28 episodes from America's first television jazz series are featured in the eight-DVD boxed set The Complete Jazz Casual Series, where a huge ...
Mingus In Greenwich Village
by Mark Sabbatini
Charles Mingus Mingus In Greenwich Village Efor Films 2004 As he waits for police to arrive with an eviction order he plays piano, discusses Nazism and fires a rifle into his apartment ceiling as his 5-year-old daughter watches. There's a reason Charles Mingus is known as the “angry ...
Tribute to John Coltrane/Tribute to Bill Evans: Double Time Jazz Collection
by John Kelman
Various Artists Double Time Jazz Collection: Tribute to John Coltrane/Tribute to Bill Evans Eagle Eye Media 1987/1991; Reissued 2004 In its ongoing series of reissues under the Double Time Jazz Collection moniker, Eagle Eye Media has put together two tribute shows on one DVD that demonstrate how a ...
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue
by John Kelman
Miles Davis Electric Miles: A Different Kind of Blue Eagle Eye Media EE39020-9 2004 By the time Miles Davis hit the stage at the British Isle of Wight Festival on August 29, '70, he was fomenting yet another stylistic leap forward, this time with a concept that revolved around ...
Miles Electric: A Different Kind Of Blue
by Mark Sabbatini
Miles Davis Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue Eagle Rock Entertainment 83 minutes 2004 I hated Bitches Brew. A bunch of lengthy, rambling, ear-assailing nonsense by a legend too strung out to play well and was therefore suckering audiences with a so-called “new thing."
Ella & Basie '79: The Perfect Match
by Mark Sabbatini
Norman Granz' Jazz in Montreux Ella & Basie '79: The Perfect Match Eagle Rock Entertainment 64 minutes 2004 This disc is lucky to emerge from the flames of failed expectations and end up merely average. Ella & Basie '79: The Perfect Match is ...
The Richard Thompson Band: Live in Providence
by John Kelman
The Richard Thompson BandLive in Providence In the USA: SpinART Records In Canada: True North Records 2004 There are few singer/songwriters who have garnered the kind of widespread critical acclaim for such a lengthy career as Richard Thompson. From his earliest days with the British folk/rock band Fairport Convention, ...
