Great Concert from Level 42 @ Estival Jazz Lugano 2010 with new formation on the Band > Mark King - Bass, Vocals; Mike Lindup - Keyboards, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals; Pete Ray Biggin - Drums; Nathan King - Guitars, Backing Vocals; Sean Freeman - Saxophone, Backing Vocals. Must Have DVD.
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(The Winning of DVD-Jazz 2008) (VERY RARE DVD)
Hiromi’s Sonicbloom Live in Concert – recorded in December 2007 at the Tokyo International Forum Hall and Winner of the 2008 Jazz Video Award in Swing Journal Magazine – features the same rhythm section of Grey and Valihora, but also includes the unique sound of guitarist David “Fuze” Fiuczynski. All four musicians played together as Hiromi’s Sonicbloom on the pianist’s two most recent studio recordings, Time Control (2007) and Beyond Standard (2008), prompting JazzTimes to call them “a quartet of fusionistas in Deep Purple mode.” Armed with a double necked guitar (one neck fretted and the other fretless), Fiuczynski – whose credits include work with John Medeski, John Zorn, and his own Screaming Headless Torsos quartet – brings to the party an edgy, pyrotechnic counterpoint to Hiromi’s daring and highly expressive piano work.
The quartet performance highlights much of the material from Time Control, including the intense yet playful “Deep in the Night,” the effects-heavy “Time and Space,” and the sometimes fiery and sometimes ambient “Time Control, Or Controlled by Time.” Also in the mix are the experimental “Note from the Past” – with unusual effects created by Hiromi reaching inside her Yamaha and plucking piano strings or Valihora dispensing with the stick and slapping the cans with his palms – and the rollicking, no-holds-barred encore, “Return of Kung-Fu World Champion.”
In 2008, shortly after the release of Beyond Standard, Hiromi and her crew of Grey, Valihora and Fiuczynski scored high praise from Keyboard magazine: “Hiromi’s penchant for deep grooves, abrupt changes in direction, engaging orchestration, and blending jazz idioms both old and new are clear…This band can blow, and they know how to have a good time.”
But this isn’t just a party for the players. Everyone’s welcome. Settle in with either or both of these live DVD recordings and witness one of the bright new lights of twenty-first-century piano jazz. RUNNING TIME : 106 minutes
AWESOME ... !!! (-_^)
Incognito - far more than just a band. The sound visionary Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick has been pioneering in the mercurial acid jazz scene, and as a talent factory, Incognito has rolled out the red carpet for vocal prodigies, such as Jocelyn Brown and the best musicians from the British groove community. Short-lived musical trends have done nothing to damage the popularity of this multi-cultural band with their driving rhythms and elegant melodies and they have become a trademark all over the world, especially live. This DVD is taken from Estival Jazz Lugano 2010 2-DVD > Part.1 : 10 Songs - Running Time 55 minutes, Part.2 : 8 songs - Running Time 45 minutes.
A Must have DVD for INCOGNITO Fans!!!
Special two disc (CD + DVD PAL/Region 0 DVD) pressing of the 2007 digitally remastered 30th Anniversary edition of this influential Electronic album features a bonus DVD that contains a live performance filmed in HD, behind the scenes footage, 5.1 surround sound mix of the album and more. Famed for it's melodic lushed spaced-out Electronica, this is the album that captured keyboard maestro Jarre at his zenith. The lead single 'Oxygene IV' is one the most recognizable Electronic pieces in recent history. The son of famed French film composer Maurice Jarre, Jean-Michel Jarre is a synthesizer wizard, who had a number of instrumental hits, beginning in 1977 with "Oxygene", the success of which propelled him to pop-star status. In the ensuing decades, he has continued releasing albums and mounting enormous stage spectacles around the globe.
If you are a Jarre or an Oxygene fan, you will most likely enjoy this DVD.
This two-CD set is a better bet than last year's A Night in Monte Carlo: it celebrates the same creative funkiness of the mid-80s Miles Davis bands that bass guitar virtuoso and composer/arranger Miller had a big hand in, but here in more focused form, without symphony orchestras or singers. The canny Miller still goes for a soul-pop bravura and some technical posturings Miles would have avoided (hard to imagine the Prince of Darkness doing anything as uncool as swapping quotes from Sonny Rollins's St Thomas with his sidemen, or letting his bass guitarist acknowledge a sharp sax solo with a congratulatory sliding-note whoop) but there's a lot of very inventive jazz-making here, particularly from the gifted young partnership of trumpeter Christian Scott and saxophonist Alex Han. Powerful 80s Miles themes – notably Splatch, Portia, Tutu, Full Nelson and Human Nature – mingle with earlier jazz landmarks, like a tender bass clarinet account of In a Sentimental Mood, and a brisk So What that includes Miller playing the famous Miles 1959 solo as a bass guitar feature. It's as much a general jazz celebration for funk audiences as it is about Miles alone, but Christian Scott is the ideal bearer of the late trumpeter's legacy.
This triumphant concert was the height of an extensive tour in celebration of the release, a few months before, of Sixun's ninth album, "Palabre" ('palaver'). The DVD features the repertoire of the CD, yet better developed and magnified by the magic of the live performance.
Painting with Words and Music Live 1998
(Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd, Steve Smith, Victor Wooten, John Patitucci, Horacio Hernandes, etc) (2DVD)
