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Music With A View: Into The Evening
by Jim Santella
Various Artists Concord 2003 Compiled from Blues, Bop & Ballads, In Blue, Silent Pool, For Hamp, Red, Bags, and Cal, Sway, Bossa Nova Years, Soft And Mellow, Soul Sauce: Memories Of Cal Tjader, Blue Skies, Goodfellas, and Lotus Blossom, this program of lyrical ballads includes four “camera angles,” which portray ...
Music With A View: Rhythm And Waves
by Jim Santella
Various Artists Concord 2003 Compiled from Concord’s Turn Up The Heat, Drive, Both Sides, Reunion, Hypnotic, California, La Samba, Keep Reminding Me, Caribbean Breeze, Come With Me, Heaven and Joyful, this program of Latin-tinged, easy listening favorites includes four “camera angles,” which portray different visual aspects of the ocean’s wave ...
Music With A View: Visions Of Christmas
by Jim Santella
Various Artists Concord 2003 Compiled from A Concord Jazz Christmas, Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas, Late Night Christmas Eve, White Christmas, The Charlie Byrd Christmas Album, and A Concord Jazz Christmas 2, this program of winter holiday favorites includes four “camera angles,” which portray different visual aspects of the holiday season. ...
Just Another Day In The Park
by Jim Santella
Raul Rekow & Karl Perazzo Warner Bros. 2003 Using split-frame, picture-in-picture video mechanisms, percussionists Raul Rekow and Karl Perazzo are able to show the viewer how their 9-piece Salsa band works from the inside and out. Percussive song selections grip you with intensity, as the band flails away with rhythmic ...
One Night With Blue Note
by Norman Weinstein
This DVD is a richly supplemented version of a videotape of the 1985 Town Hall concert celebrating the relaunch of the Blue Note record label. Sound quality has been vastly improved over the videotape version, some video editing adds welcome visual variations, and four previously unreleased selections enrich the experience. Of the four ...
One Night With Blue Note
by Jim Santella
One Night With Blue Note Blue Note 2003 This February 22, 1985 concert at Town Hall in New York featured a cast of jazz artists who’ve become legendary. Blue Note has inserted informative narrative documentary between numbers, so that the concert now comes to us up close and personal with ...
Pat Metheny Group: Speaking of Now Live
by Gregory J. Robb
The Pat Metheny Group's Speaking of Now Live visually presents a new generation of prime players to the PMG's established musical core. This two-hour Digital Video Disc (DVD), recorded in Japan, serves to remind us how change refreshes the human tendency towards habit. In this case, it makes a good concert video. Initiating new ...
Miles Davis: The Miles Davis Story
by Jim Santella
Sony’s film biography of Miles Davis approaches its subject with a warmth of spirit that’s not always found in the narrative adventures of an artist or in the documentary of a genre such as jazz. Director Mike Dibb combines essential aural and visual elements to bring his production to life. Many of the film segments and ...
Space is the Place: The Mutha Ship Connection
by Rex Butters
In 1974 the original Brother From Another Planet, Sun Ra, participated in a legendary low budget indie sci-fi film based on the Ra myth. Shot in 16mm around Oakland’s Merritt College and San Jose’s Rosicrucian Museum, Space Is The Place stars Ra as a crazy wisdom-cracking alien come to transport black folks to an Edenic planet ...
Buddy Rich: The Channel One Suite
by Steven McBride
In April of 1985, two of Buddy Rich’s historic sets: The Channel One Suite, and West Side Story were recorded at One Pass Production’s King Street Studio in San Francisco. The tapes were among the first ever recorded with a Digital Surround track and had never been released in their original form with surround sound. But ...
