Tivoli

Starring:Alfonso Arau, Pancho CÃ³rdova, Lyn May, Carmen Salinas, Mario GarcÃa 'Harapos', HÃ©ctor Ortega, Dorotea Guerra, Ernesto GÃ³mez Cruz, DÃ¡maso PÃ©rez Prado, Don Facundo, Willy (XI), Gina Morett, Francisco Muller, Consuelo Quezada, Margarita Alfaro, Zuzy D'Tornell, Alfredo de Soto, German FÃºnes, JosÃ© Luis Aguirre 'Trotsky', Juan JosÃ© MartÃnez Casado
Director: Alberto Isaac
Studio: Desert Mountain
Product Type: DVD

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Live from the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, the legendary Benny Goodman gives an unforgettable concert featuring many favorites performed in his inimitable style. Benny Goodman is accompanied by Sven Osmussen on violin, Chaly Antolini on drums, Don Haas at the piano, Jimmy Maxwell on trumpet, Harry Pepe on guitar and Peter Witte on bass. This historic concert by one of the greatest performers on our time is a "must see" for music lovers of all ages.

Includes Lady Be Good, Poor Butterfly, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise, I'm Confessing That I Love You, Don't Be That Way/Stomping At the Savoy, I Should Care, If I Had You, After You've Gone, Send In The Clowns, So Easy To Remember/So Hard To Forget, Airmail Special, Goodbye.

Customer Reviews:

Benny Goodman at age 71.......2007-06-06

Benny is still playing well at 71 even though he sits out on a couple of songs. For his best jazz sound I would suggest my favorite Benny Goodman CD--Small Groups. Also excellent are Trio and Quartet Sessions, and The Benny Goodman Sextet featuring Charlie Christian. Vol. 6 of The Yale University Music Library (also a live recording) has a similar but maybe slightly better sound to this DVD. The video quality of the DVD is just good. Maybe the lighting at the Tivoli was just fair. Enjoy it for the memories, and because I think it is the only Goodman DVD concert.

Duke Ellington - Live at the Tivoli Gardens

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"Love You Madly!"
Poor audio and video quality
Desert Island Treasure

Duke Ellington - Live at the Tivoli Gardens
Starring: Duke Ellington , Cootie Williams , and Paul Gonsalves
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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Duke Ellington - Copenhagen Parts One and Two
The Intimate Duke Ellington
Count Basie at Carnegie Hall
Love You Madly/A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral
On the Road with Duke Ellington

ASIN: B0000CG8GQ
Release Date: 2003-11-11

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Call him the Duke of Denmark, as this is the second superb Ellington performance recorded in that country to be released in 2003 alone. It's also an appropriate follow-up to The Intimate Duke Ellington; whereas the latter showcases Ellington as a solo pianist and in small group settings, Live at the Tivoli Gardens features the Ellington Orchestra in all its splendor. It includes two approximately 70-minute sets recorded a few days apart in 1971, when the Duke was 72. But although the repertoire ("Take the 'A' Train," "Satin Doll," and a medley of other familiar Ellington compositions, along with some less familiar fare) is similar, the performances are hardly identical--no surprise there, considering the presence of superb improvisers like trumpeter Cootie Williams and saxophonists Paul Gonsalves and the great Ben Webster. The sound quality, while decent, is nowhere near as vivid as on, say, the Keith Jarrett Trio's recent DVD releases, but little matter. When it comes to music of this caliber, we're lucky that it exists at all. --Sam Graham

Customer Reviews:

"Love You Madly!".......2006-01-17

This dvd is a musical feast. The recording is bottom-heavy and out of balance. This especially hurts on "Quadruped", when the four saxophones cannot be heard clearly. But the audio is in nowhere as bad a shape as, say, the Andy Williams Christmas specials from around the same time--and those were featured on PBS in recent years. The video quality is good--if you're old enough to remember what TV looked like in the early Seventies. It may not be as sharp as some digital show produced for your 60" plasma TV, but let's not get greedy, okay?

The show itself features Ellington with his re-assembled big band, and some young jazz singers. Most all the brass gets to have a turn in the spotlight. There's even a flute featured in one song. A bombastic drum solo reminds us that this is the era of classic rock.

Ben Webster has the stage mannerism of a deaf man--glancing around, paying no mind to Ellington's stage patter, keeping an impassive face. Nothing wrong with what comes out of his horn, though.

A neat contrast in styles for jazz fans occurs on one ballad, featuring first Paul Gonsalves. Gonsalves really milks it, getting his shoulders into his performance, wringing all the soul out of that lovely melody. Ben Webster plays the song next for an encore. His performance is more reserved and cool, but one's left thinking that maybe he may have dug the deepest after all. The only comparable contrast I can think of is Flip Phillips and Charlie Parker going head-to-head on one of the Jazz At The Philharmonic cds.

Ellington looks dapper in a crisp suit, his only concession to the times--the early Seventies--being a ridiculous little mullet curling over his collar. He's got the crowd in the palm of his hand throughout. His stage patter is a little prolix, mixing scat & hepcat anachronisms with some current events observations. He seems a little stiff moving around the stage, but his piano playing is astounding; the dvd box copy kids you not.

Ellington's piano playing is wonderful, running through a lifetime worth of moods and styles. One moment his playing is all starlight and bouquets, then some toe-tappin' swing, and then abstract jazz (though he didn't like to call his music that) of almost Monkish obliqueness. But he never forgets and never fails to show the audience a good time. I wonder if the rapt Danish crowd in the theater knew how good they had it. It certainly must have been very different from the audiences Duke played for in the Twenties.

The whole show is a wonderful treasure, and I hope to explore more of this series at Tivoli.

Poor audio and video quality.......2005-05-29

Ellington had some of the best music engineers in the studios he recorded for various labels, these records sound like they were recorded yesterday. Sadly the same cannot be said for video footage. This DVD was a flat out waste of money, it sounds and looks as if were a high school talent show shot by someone's mother in the crowd. "The Intimate Duke Ellington"
is the only "Must Have" Ellington DVD I own, out of 4.

Desert Island Treasure.......2004-02-20

This dvd from 1971 has it all. Beautiful video and sound (the advantages of European television technologies from that era are evident), great big band jazz. But much more. The Danish crew that filmed this set of two concerts (note, there is some repetition, but worry not, there is plenty to go around and no Duke orchestra ever did it the same each time) captures the intimacy and excitement not only of the concert itself, but of the magnificent Duke and his band in their final years. I saw them a year or so earlier at UC Berkeley, where Duke was given an honorary doctorate, and for years have dreamed of the moment when somebody, somewhere, would release a video of it, or a similar event. This is as close as it gets.

It's all here. The spotlight on soloists (including appearances as regular band members by Cootie Willians and Ben Webster, both of whom had many compositions written just for them, and were long-departed from the band) for whom Duke composed many of his great pieces, and the fabulous style and humor Duke brought to everything. More than that, much of the video is filmed from directly behind Duke, so you not only get an intimate view of the master, but of the band as he saw it. What you'll see is a hard working group, fascinating individual expression and the improvisation and powerful ensemble work that Duke got from his bands. There is an added meaning because the great Johnny Hodges had recently died and within three or four years Duke, Paul Gonsalves and other stalwarts would be tooting for the angels.

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A nostalgic film of the infamous Tivoli Theater which had its heyday in the 40s and early 50s in Mexico City. The theater showcases burlesque performances with incredible costumes and sets, seductive stripteases and comedic variety acts. A plan to tear down the theater by politicians and city officials is met with resistance by the entertainers. "A re-creation of the nightlife of Mexico City which has disappeared forever.

Customer Reviews:

excelente trabajo cinematografico.......2003-06-25

pelicula mexicana que nos retrata de forma correcta y agradable una parte de la historia del D.F.,filmada bajo la mano de uno de los mejores directores mexicanos el señor:Alberto Isacc que logra mostrarnos una parte de las tradiciones que mas gozan los mexicanos:El teatro del burlesque.

Simpatica y nostalgica.......2003-04-04

Bajo la dirección impecable de Alberto Isaac, "Tivoli" nos relata la historia de los días postreros del teatro Tivoli de la ciudad de México, que fue la Meca del espectáculo de revista de los años 50 de la entonces provinciana capital mexicana.
Todos los personajes están bien caracterizados, las anecdotas bien seleccionadas, los diálogos cuidados y aparecen varias gratas sorpresas, como Pérez Prado y el enano Margarito.
Quien adquiera "Tivoli" gozará de un par de horas de agradable diversión y hará una excelente compra.

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Tivoli
Starring: Pancho Córdova , Ernesto Gómez Cruz , Lyn May , Carmen Salinas , and Alfonso Arav
Manufacturer: Desert Mountain
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ASIN: B00062IYBY
Release Date: 2005-05-03

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Tivoli (1969)
Starring: Duke Ellington
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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Duke Ellington - Copenhagen Parts One and Two
The Intimate Duke Ellington
Love You Madly/A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral
Count Basie at Carnegie Hall
Duke Ellington - Live at the Tivoli Gardens

ASIN: B000BC8T4Q
Release Date: 2005-12-26

Description

Duke Ellington may have turned 70 in 1969, but he was never short of energy, creativity and innovations. At the time of this Nov. 2, 1969 concert in Copenhagen, Ellington had been leading his orchestra for 44 years, but he still never really looked back in time or sought to recreate the past. Even when he performed older favorites, they were rearranged and full of surprises, and Duke's own piano playing was modern, percussive and unpredictable. Twelve soloists are heard from during this 83-minute set including such veterans as trumpeters Cootie Williams and Cat Anderson, trombonist Lawrence Brown, altoist Harry Carney and Paul Gonsalves on tenor. Along with exciting versions of "C Jam Blues," "Rockin' In Rhythm" and "Take The 'A' Train," the highlights include a three-song Johnny Hodges medley, a haunting "La Plus Belle Africaine," and a tenor battle among Gonsalves, Harold Ashby and Norris Turney on "Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue." Filmed in color and with close-ups that give listeners the experience of being onstage with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, this DVD saves for posterity an exciting concert, one well worth experiencing many times.

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If you loved his PBS special!

This Is the Moment: Live at Tivoli
Starring: Stig Rossen
Manufacturer: DPTV MEDIA
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This Is the Moment: Live at Tivoli

ASIN: B000A7BQP6
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Customer Reviews:

If you loved his PBS special!.......2007-01-20

I accidently caught Stig on PBS while web surfing. I was mesmerized! I fell in love with his voice and the program was fabulous. I purchased the DVD and was more than pleased with being able to watch the concert over and over again but the additional interviews and especially the concert with comentary was very moving. He explains why he chose the songs he did and explains them. He seems to be very caring and lyrics mean a lot to him. He definitely feels the lyrics when he's singing! You won't be dissappointed in the DVD!

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Tivoli
Starring: Tivoli
Manufacturer: Westlake Entertainmnt Inc
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ASIN: B000IOM2BI
Release Date: 2006-09-12

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