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Pat Metheny Group: The Second Circle
by Gregory J. Robb
Imaginary Day Live represents an emphatic statement of The Pat Metheny Group's compositional and performance evolution--a superb 93-minute live declaration of the band's most powerful recording of the '90s. This Digital Video Disc (DVD), released in 2001, is a bookmark of the band's creatively titanic 1997 album, Imaginary Day. All but three ...
The Future 2 Future DVD- A Feature 4 Feature MVD (Most Valuable Document)
by Phil DiPietro
Herbie Hancock continues to build on his larger-than-life legacy by not only having been there when, but by continuing to consistently be there then. In no small part this is what makes him, at a dashing 62 (last year, Herbie told one Mr. Letterman, in front of a nationwide audience, somehow with absolute total class, that ...
Miles Davis: Live in Montreal
by AAJ Staff
The debate will continue to rage over whether Miles Davis' later period output (post-1980) is creative music or simply an aberration to an otherwise creative career. One thing is clear however; that the best way in which to experience the later Miles Davis bands is not through the overproduced studio albums cut for Warner Bros., but ...
Ahmad Jamal Live
by AAJ Staff
No matter what era or manifestation, the Ahmad Jamal trio has always been one of the true “treats” to experience in live jazz. The incredible dynamics, responsiveness, and penchant for high drama within the Jamal trio is of a truly legendary status, and something one must truly witness in person to be able to fully appreciate. ...
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by Javier AQ Ortiz
If Star Trek’s Data were to research violinists for a Jazz concert presentation at the Enterprise, featuring him on violin and Number 1 on trombone, Stéphane Grappelli: A Life in the Jazz Century would be his main source of information. Grappelli lived and shaped the Jazz century; hence, the need to seriously consider his ...
World of Rhythm
by C. Michael Bailey
Straight up, this is a very fine recital. Almost twenty years old to the day, World of Rhythm records the fabulously telepathic piano trio of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Billy Cobham. Comparing this recording with two recently released Keith Jarrett videos (Standards and Standards II), World of Rhythm wins hands down.The ...
Gil Evans and his Orchestra
by C. Michael Bailey
Recorded Live at Palazzo del Congressi, Lugano, Italy, January 27, 1983. It seems that every live performance has a hero who may or may not be the leader of the band. In the case of Gil Evans and his Orchestra, of the four recently released concert films from the early ‘80s, that hero is Howard Johnson. ...
Chet Baker Live at Ronnie Scott
by AAJ Staff
Though he tragically died 15 years ago, Chet Baker remains one of Jazz’s most beloved and misunderstood modern legends. In this new video from Rhino, Baker’s early autumn is captured in its mournful glory. No longer the teen idol playing with the likes of Parker and Mulligan, Baker now enlists the tenuous talents of Elvis Costello ...
The Dave Brubeck Quartet live Take Four, Five And More! - The Best of the Dave Brubeck Quartet
by Javier AQ Ortiz
It's 2001 and for little more than an hour, the Jazzopen in Stuttgart -soaked in audience- is the playground for Dave Brubeck's youthful old hands at play. EuroArts films this concert with their usual expertise, thus preserving quite a deserving presentation from a jazz rugged figure. They did take Four, Five and a bit More on ...
