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Review Quantum Leap / Jazz Collection - Vol. 1 [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Willie Dixon
  • Kenny Drew
  • Dexter Gordon
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Red Rodney
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.95

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Review Tdk UK Ltd / ESP - A Tribute To Miles [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Randy Hall
  • Adam Holzman
  • Robert Irving III
  • David McMurray
Release date: 2002-04-29
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.89

Review ESP - A Tribute To Miles [1994] / Tdk UK Ltd:

Recorded live at the Jazz Open in Stuttgart in 1994, ESP 2: A Tribute to Miles features former members of Miles Davis' bands reunited for the second time since his death in 1991. Over the course of his career, Davis led bands that included, among others, John Coltrane, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans. While the players here are frighteningly proficient, none of them are quite of that calibre and their dress sense certainly doesn't measure up to their forbears: ESP 2 are a mess of ballooning trousers and garishly mismatched shirts. It falls to saxophonist David McMurray to take the lead. Respectfully, no one replaces Miles Davis on the horn, though his familiar, muted trumpet sounds do feature on "Desiree's Desire", replicated hauntingly on sampled keyboards as if broadcast from the hereafter. The "Opening Medley" is the best thing here, recalling the frenetic crosstown fusion fury of Miles' early 70s work. Occasionally, ESP 2 are guilty of lapsing into the somnambulant jazz-funk blandness that characterised Miles' last work. Still there are fitful moments of beauty here-the sepulchral ambience of "Blue `n' Green", for example-which distinguish this from a mere session musicians' workout, while "The Man with the Horn" affords an interlude of soulful warmth, courtesy of guest vocalist Carla Cook. Otherwise the band are as self-absorbed and uncommunicative as Davis himself notoriously was. On the DVD: A Tribute to Miles comes to disc with no extra features. [+]
The digital 5. 1 soundtrack is clear as cut-glass, however, while the video aspect ratio is 4:3. -David Stubbs.

Review Music Video Distributors / Ohne Filter - Musik Pur: Go Jazz All Stars in Concert [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • The Go Jazz All-Stars
Release date: 2004-03-23
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £8.81

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Review Dixie Dregs / Dixie Dregs: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1978
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £15.19

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Review Music Video Distributors / Leo Kottke: Home & Away Revisited [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leo Kottke
Release date: 2006-04-04
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £7.96

Review Leo Kottke: Home & Away Revisited [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Music Video Distributors:


Review Geneon / The Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Rodby
  • Lyle Mays
  • Steve Rodby
  • Mark Ledford
  • Paul Wertico
  • Pat Metheny
Release date: 2001-09-11
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £21.94

Review The Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Geneon:


Review Duke Ellington / Duke Ellington: The Big Band Feeling [1952]
Release date: 2005-04-19
Price: £3.80

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Review Blue Note / One Night With Blue Note: The Historic All-Star Reunion Concert [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Various Artists
Release date: 2003-11-04
Price: £7.95

Review One Night With Blue Note: The Historic All-Star Reunion Concert [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Blue Note:


Review Blue Note / Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wayne Shorter
  • Bud Schaetzle
  • Bobby McFerrin
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 55 min.
Price: £8.87

Review Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Blue Note:


Review Friend N Fellow / Friend 'n' Fellow: Live [2003]
Release date: 2004-01-20
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £8.38

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Review Quantum Leap / Blues Collection - Live At Wilebski's [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Dr. John
  • John Lee Hooker
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.93

Review Blues Collection - Live At Wilebski's [2000] / Quantum Leap:


Review Shanachie / Compay Segundo [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Compay Segundo
Release date: 2003-10-21
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £9.16

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Review Pat Metheny / Pat Metheny: The Way Up - Live [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2006-10-03
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £6.51

Review Pat Metheny: The Way Up - Live [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Pat Metheny:

Pat Metheny fans know by now what to expect from a recorded performance by the guitarist and his group, and it's all here on The Way Up - Live: superb, versatile musicianship, mixing virtuoso soloing with telepathic ensemble interplay and sustained moments of majestic passion and intensity; intricate rhythms and time signatures; sweeping textures punctuated by some memorable melodic passages; and, from a purely technical standpoint, superior sound and visuals. Yet The Way Up is a bit different, and a good deal more challenging. First heard on the group's 2005 CD of the same name (this performance was recorded in Seoul, South Korea), it's a long, ambitious piece of music consisting of four lengthy parts, all played without pause. For a live audience, it's more like taking in a classical music concert than a jazz or rock show; there are melodies and grooves, but no tunes, per se, as the piece mostly lacks the song-like appeal of much of the Metheny Group's best known work. Composed by Metheny and Lyle Mays, his longtime partner and keyboardist, the music constantly evolves over the course of its 70 minutes (Metheny himself changes guitars like Cher switches costumes), to the point where you might not actually recall much of it when it's over. But you'll certainly remember the experience of watching and listen to these seven brilliant musicians at work; and like the Seoul audience, you will be wowed. An interview with Metheny is the sole bonus feature. -Sam Graham.

Release date: 2004-01-07
Run time: 222 min.
Price: £39.59

Review George Benson, Ray Charles, Miles Davis: A Jazz Collection [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Jazz Collection:


Review Rykodisc / Steve Earle And The Dukes - Transcendental Blues
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Earle
Release date: 2004-04-19
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.92

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Review Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine - Swing Era [Spanish Import] [2003]
Release date: 2003-06-18
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £13.72

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Review Music Video Distributors / Swing Era: Sarah Vaughan & Friends [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Mamie Smith
  • Ethel Waters
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Lena Horne
  • Ida Cox
Release date: 2004-04-13
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £4.00

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Review Shakatak / Ohne Filter - Musik Pur: Shakatak In Concert [2004]
Release date: 2004-10-26
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Ohne Filter - Musik Pur: Shakatak In Concert [2004] / Shakatak:


Review Sony International / La Cuba Mia [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Miliki
  • Celia Cruz
  • Oscar Gomez
Release date: 2003-09-30
Price: £6.98

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Review Homespun Tapes, Ltd / Country Swing Back-up Guitar
Actors & Directors
  • Nick Forster
Release date: 2006-10-30
RRP: £21.99
Price: £21.98

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Models & Brands:
Jazz Collection - Vol. 1 [2000], ESP - A Tribute To Miles [1994], Ohne Filter - Musik Pur: Go Jazz All Stars in Concert [2004], Dixie Dregs: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1978, Leo Kottke: Home & Away Revisited [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Pat Metheny Group: Imaginary Day Live [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Duke Ellington: The Big Band Feeling [1952], One Night With Blue Note: The Historic All-Star Reunion Concert [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Friend 'n' Fellow: Live [2003], Blues Collection - Live At Wilebski's [2000], Compay Segundo [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pat Metheny: The Way Up - Live [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), George Benson, Ray Charles, Miles Davis: A Jazz Collection [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Steve Earle And The Dukes - Transcendental Blues, Billy Eckstine - Swing Era [Spanish Import] [2003], Swing Era: Sarah Vaughan & Friends [2004], Ohne Filter - Musik Pur: Shakatak In Concert [2004], La Cuba Mia [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Country Swing Back-up Guitar

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