Billy Martin: In Concert
Medeski, Martin & Wood’s drummer upfront
Videos
Dianne Reeves: The Early Years
As a historical document, this collection of two half-hour Ad Lib TV programs, dating from 1980 and ’82 and featuring the young Dianne Reeves, is … Read More “Dianne Reeves: The Early Years”
Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996
On par with his Miles and Weather Report days
Mike Stern Band: New Morning: The Paris Concert
A stunning performance from the guitarist
Jazz Icons Releases a Thrid Volume of Vintage Live Performances
With their dramatically drooped heads and shoulders, the members of Bill Evans’ 1964 trio look like an early, pre-electric shoegazer band in a Swedish broadcast … Read More “Jazz Icons Releases a Thrid Volume of Vintage Live Performances”
Paul Bollenback/John Hart: Dueling Guitars1
Turns out Dueling Guitars1 has nothing to with oneupsmanship and everything to do with simpatico. Small wonder, then, that during this series of guitar duets, … Read More “Paul Bollenback/John Hart: Dueling Guitars1”
Sonny Rollins: In Vienne
It’s instructive to compare Sonny Rollins’ performance at this June 2006 French concert to the 1965 and ’68 TV footage recently released as part of … Read More “Sonny Rollins: In Vienne”
: Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe
Jan Garbarek, the Norwegian saxophonist, states the theme of Julian Benedikt’s instructive 90-minute documentary early in the program. “We’ll never be Charlie Parker,” he says, … Read More “: Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe”
Al Di Meola: Speak a Volcano
Back in 1974, Al Di Meola was the boy wonder, a shy 19-year-old fretboard shredder who rapidly ascended to international fame with Return to Forever. … Read More “Al Di Meola: Speak a Volcano”
: Norman Granz Presents Improvisation
When the footage of Charlie Parker on the “Gjon Mili Studio Sequence” from 1950 first appeared as a video in 1996 it was like discovering … Read More “: Norman Granz Presents Improvisation”
