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On the Road With Ellery Eskelin w/ Andrea Parkins and Jim Black
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
On the Road with Ellery Eskelin w/ Andrea Parkins & Jim Black Prime Source DVD 3010 2004 What is life like on the road? Music enthusiasts often wonder. As part of the 10-year anniversary celebration of his trio, saxophonist Ellery Eskelin offers a glimpse of touring on his new DVD On the ...
Rhapsody Films Double Feature: Elvin Jones and Jaki Byard
by John Kelman
Rhapsody Films Double Feature: Jaki Byard - Anything for Jazz (1980) Elvin Jones - Different Drummer (1979) Rhapsody Films 2004 As part of its ongoing reissue of classic jazz titles on DVD, Bruce Ricker pairs two documentaries - Ed Gray's '79 Elvin Jones film, Different Drummer , with ...
American Drummers Achievement Award: Honoring Steve Gadd
by John Kelman
Steve Gadd American Drummers Achivement Awards: Honoring Steve Gadd Hudson Music 2004 One would be hard-pressed to find a drummer who has been as widely-recorded and as widely-varied, style-wise, as Steve Gadd. Sure, there are drummers out there who are as readily recognizable - in jazz Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, ...
Branford Marsalis Quartet Performs Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam
by John Kelman
Branford Marsalis Quartet Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam Marsalis Music 2004 It takes a lot of gumption to tackle a classic like John Coltrane's A Love Supreme , and saxophonist Branford Marsalis has chosen to do it not once, but twice; first on the '02 ...
Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Live in Amsterdam
by Jim Santella
Branford Marsalis Quartet Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Live in Amsterdam Marsalis Music 2004 Branford Marsalis' extended performance of “A Love Supreme" provides his audience with 49 minutes of continuous improvisation. Memorable to all dedicated jazz listeners, John Coltrane's repeated theme occupies the quartet's focus throughout this heartfelt celebration. ...
Three From Rhapsody Films featuring Bill Evans and Jim Hall
by John Kelman
With praise coming from sources as diverse as Dan Morgenstern, Clint Eastwood and Richard Pena, Bruce Rickert's Rhapsody Films is rapidly making a name for itself as an imprint devoted to reissuing some of the more important archival jazz, blues and world music releases, originally only available on video, on DVD format. While some of their ...
On The Road With Ellery Eskelin w/ Andrea Parkins & Jim Black
by Jerry D'Souza
On the Road with Ellery Eskelin w/ Andrea Parkins & Jim Black Prime Source DVD 3010 2004 When Ellery Eskelin was about to embark on his Spring Tour 2003 of Europe with Andrea Parkins and Jim Black, he took along his camcorder and a whole lot of blank tapes. That was an ...
Big Head Todd & The Monsters: Live At The Fillmore
by Doug Collette
Big Head Todd & The Monsters Live At The Fillmore Sanctuary Records 2004 On both DVD and CD, Live At The Fillmore is as deceptively and unassumingly rewarding as the band who made it. Colorado-based Big Head Todd & The Monsters have played their way through the rock scene dubbed ...
Masada: Live at Tonic 1999
by John Kelman
Masada Live at Tonic 1999 Tzadik 2004 With the growth of saxophonist/composer/bandleader/producer John Zorn's Masada project into a veritable cottage industry that includes Masada Recital , Masada String Trio , Masada Guitars , Electric Masada and The Unknown Masada , it may be easy to forget how, ten years ago, ...
Gentle Giant: Giant on the Box
by John Kelman
Gentle Giant Giant on the Box Alucard 2004 Amidst the plethora of so-called progressive rock bands of the '70s, Gentle Giant stood out as a group like no other. By the time of the performances documented on this newly-released DVD, Giant on the Box , Giant had settled into the ...
