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Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye
by Gregory J. Robb
Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye is an excellent 53-minute memorial to the fabulous proceeds of a lifetime musician, as well as the human legacy that Linton Garner forged in the shadows of a famous sibling. For a man who could have sought much greater fame, Linton Garner changed many lives. I Never Said Goodbye was ...
Space Is The Place
by AAJ Staff
Space is the Place Featuring Sun Ra Directed by John Coney Plexifilm 2003 There's so much mystery and intrigue surrounding Sun Ra that it's quite hard to discern his identity. Was he really from Saturn? Biographer John Szwed, author of the book Space Is The Place, made big ...
Cuban Odyssey: Spirits Of Havana
by Jim Santella
EMI Music Canada 2003 Jane Bunnett and Larry Cramer have dedicated much of their lives to becoming acquainted with Cuba’s cultural roots as they apply to modern jazz. Their documentary has quite a history, since the couple has returned to Havana time and again as musical missionaries in search of hope.
The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration
by Mark F. Turner
If you happened to miss the rare of event of the entire Marsalis family performing onstage together for the first time, then the DVD of the live performance is the next best thing to being there. “The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration” concert was held on August 2001, in honor of the father Ellis Marsalis’ retirement ...
Cuba Island of Music: A Music Documentary
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Little good, lots of bad, a bit of ugly too... The Good: Viewers get the opportunity to see filmed snapshots of daily life in Havana. The DVD also affords the chance to see various musical groups from Cuba play their music, ranging from the venerable Orquesta Aragón to a ...
The Beat Diacritic: Buddy Rich
by Gregory J. Robb
Buddy Rich and His Band: Channel One Suite emphasizes the two main purposes of the man: to reanimate big band music and to look forward. This retrospective Digital Video Disc (DVD) was restored from the ruins of fire and water to stunningly portray Rich’s last recorded performance on April 3, 1985 in San Francisco. Channel One ...
Pat Metheny Group: We Live Here
by Gregory J. Robb
Pat Metheny Group ‘We Live Here:’ Live in Japan is a visually superb Digital Video Disc (DVD) display of Pat Metheny’s improvisation skills and the power of the PMG on October 12, 1995. Individual talent is at the heart of this 110 minute collection – a chronicle rooted in the multiple ...
Truly Unplugged: The Sound of Jazz
by Gregory J. Robb
The Digital Video Disc (DVD) chronicle, The Sound of Jazz, should live forever as an example of why our reach should always exceed our grasp. Television is no replacement for the imagination. Technically speaking, one would be hard pressed to find a rougher statement of black and white television production in ...
Style Wars
by AAJ Staff
“I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start writing to do canvases. I started writing to bomb... destroy all lines." So says Skeme, one of the main characters of Style Wars, the landmark 1983 documentary chronicling the throes of New ...
Virtuosic Saxophones: Montreux Jazz Festival
by Gregory J. Robb
The White Foundation’s Digital Video Disc (DVD), Virtuosic Saxophones Sax Competition · Montreux Jazz Festival (2002) , ranks as lesson one to music educators, aspiring musicians and its producers. This 115 minute DVD showcases outstanding technical talent on stage, but not so much in the effective use of light, sound and cameras. The 15 ...
