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Kenny Garrett Live: Combustion
by Gregory J. Robb
Kenny Garrett no longer deserves to be dubbed “The Guy Who Worked with Miles.” He has proven his musical autonomy. Garrett is now empowered to do for his young band what Miles Davis did for him. If Davis was watching, he smiled widely as the Kenny Garrett Quartet sizzled 70 people for 65 minutes at ...
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 ...
"One Quiet Night" with Pat Metheny
by Gregory J. Robb
The latest offering from contemporary jazz guitarist Pat Metheny will again put him front and center. Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night (released by Warner Jazz) will feature Metheny on baritone guitar.One Quiet Night is the result of Metheny's solo explorations in one evening of November, 2001. The native of Lee's Summit, Missouri set up ...
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 ...
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 ...