Standards II

Starring:Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Description

Dynamic music legends and frequent collaborators Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette combine their talents for this rich, melodic performance recorded live in Tokyo at the Hitomi Memorial Hall. A number of beloved standards come to life as never before in this celebration of the past century's greatest musical accomplishments. Tracks: You Don't Know What Love Is, With a Song in My Heart, When You Wish Upon a Star, All of You, Blame It on My Youth, Love Letters, Georgia on My Mind, You and the Night and the Music, When I Fall in Love, On Green Dolphin Street, Woody'n You, Young and Foolish.

Customer Reviews:

"Standards II" a Masterpiece.......2005-09-14

As I listened to each tune the thought kept coming to mind that this is the best I've ever heard this song being played. I want to thank Jarrett, Peacock and DeJohnette for making my life so much richer.

A Different Experience Than Their Albums.......2004-01-25

I bought this DVD because I would like to see how the trio played, and also because of the music itself. The experience you get when seeing them play rather than just hearing an album with them is all the details. Keith Jarrett's dance-like movements for example. The concert is visually not so exciting, especially compared to other music DVD realeases such as Coldplay, U2 and so on. But musically it's as good as it can possibly be.

The concerts starts off with a quiet You Don't Know What Love Is, then continuing with a faster With A Song In My Heart. Then a surprise, for me at least: When You Wish Upon A Star. But that song is beutifully played, with just the right amount of the melody itself and improvisation. When I Fall In Love is also on the DVD, which is a favorite by the trio, and it's played really well here. There's also an extra song which you have to unlock every time by taking a small quiz. If you know just a little about Keith Jarrett, that shouldn't be a problem.

If you want to buy this DVD, then make sure you buy it for the right reason. Actually, I think that the "bare" albums speak more to me than this release, because you focus naturally on the three - on Keith Jarrett particularly - when watching, so if you want to hear the best music buy the albums instead. If you have never seen his style when playing, however, it is a delightful experience.

Pure soul........2000-02-16

As Keith Jarrett's biggest fan, I was delighted to find that his video opens up a whole new dimension on the man. Any Keith Jarrett fan knows how pure and ethereal his music is, but to watch him play is another world entirely.

The man oozes soul, and watching him play his piano in an almost sexual manner will give any serious fan a pleasing and enjoyable new angle to his music. VERY RECOMMENDED.

A revealing look at the work of a master jazz improvisor........1999-03-02

This video presents a live concert in Japan from 1986 featuring Keith Jarrett on piano, with Gary Peacock (bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums). This is a great, intimate look at one of the best trios in modern jazz. It showcases Keith's brilliant, sometimes volcanic improvisations, and both the sound and video quality are excellent. You can see in this concert how inside the music Keith is, as his body literally rises and falls, following the arc of tension and release that good jazz exemplifies. This is NOT light, cocktail piano jazz; this is what jazz should be: honest, impassioned, personal, and fiery. A feast for both the ears and eyes of jazz fans.

Average customer rating:

an astonishing concert
Engelbert Rocks forever
Pure Fun
God's Gift
Engelbert is good...DVD quality is not

Engelbert Humperdinck - Live
Starring: Engelbert Humperdinck (II)
Director: David Millard
Manufacturer: Delta
ProductGroup: DVD
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Engelbert Humperdinck - Totally Amazing
Engelbert Live
Engelbert Humperdinck - Engelbert Live (Bonus CD)
Engelbert: What's in a Name?: The Autobiography

ASIN: B00003ETPB
Release Date: 1999-07-24

Description

Engelbert shows why he is regarded as one of the world's top performers in this spectacular and stylish concert. Capture the excitement of a night with the King of Romance as he takes an audience through a collection of classic favorites as well as more recent hits.

Menus: English • Spanish • Chinese • Japanese
Subtitles: Spanish • Chinese • Japanese

Running Time: 81 min.

Customer Reviews:

an astonishing concert.......2004-12-30

This 1990 concert from the Hippodrome in Burlingham has a slight "bootleg" quality to its audio/video...quite a bit of fuzziness when the lighting is bright, and some feedback from the mike, but it is astonishing in its energy, and the variety of this man's talent that is displayed.
This is not "The King of Romance" in a smooth and polished performance (for that, see the "Live" concert from 1995), but rather a rowdy, raucous, brilliant and electric show from a man who truly loves his audience, and in this case it's a crowd that appreciates the sometimes bawdy aspects of this particular concert.

Some of it is laugh-out-loud hilarious; his impressions are first rate, and he does Frankie Vaughn, Liberace, tells a joke as Jerry Lewis, sings a song a la Dean Martin, and does an Elvis that is a masterpiece. He captures the voice and the body language, and with great comedic flair, takes it a few steps further.
Engelbert also sings some songs he wrote: "I Get Lonely", "Step Into My Life", "What Am I Going to do Without You", and "Someone to Love", and he also dances and plays the piano...and gives his all...and then gives more, pouring himself out to his audience, body and soul (and quite literally...as he is soaked with sweat). He is in his early 50's here, and in remarkable physical shape.

For vocal artistry there is Edith Piaf's "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)", and the encore, "I Believe", both sung with a heartfelt emotion that is contagious, and hard to listen to and keep a dry eye, and though there are other lovely songs like "This Moment in Time", and a medley of his early hits, those two songs are musically the standouts.
And then there is Ellen, a young woman from the audience who gets teased a lot, and kissed a lot. She's a really good sport, and I'm sure enjoyed every minute of it...and her husband, who was fortunately not in the audience, must love this DVD. I bet he gets teased at the local pub about it.
This is the down-home Engelbert...you'll even get a very funny midlands language lesson. It's a rare treat, from a very rare talent. Total running time is 90 minutes.
Track list:
1: "I Get Lonely"
2: "This Moment in Time"
3: "Still"
4: "The Wanderer"
5: "After the Lovin'"
6: "Release Me"
7: "Hurry Home"
8: "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)"
9: "I Can't Help Myself"
10: "Wild Thing"
11: "Step Into My Life"
12: "What Am I Going to do Without You"
13: "Someone to Love"
14: Medley ~ "Love is All I Have to Give", "Les Bicyclettes", "Quando, Quando, Quando", "There Goes My Everything", "Spanish Eyes", "The Last Waltz", "Release Me".
15: "I Believe"

Engelbert Rocks forever.......2003-02-14

Engelbert, the name screams romance and the best voice in the world. Even at the age of 66, he is still the best there is and a humble man to beat. This concert was fun to watch and the DVD was more fun to view than just a video tape.
Enjoy the best, listen to Enge.
Hugs
Lucy

Pure Fun.......2002-11-16

I have only recently discovered Engelbert Humperdinck's music, and ordered this video to round out my new collection of his CD's. He has a great sense of humor about himself and gives of himself to the audience in a free, generous way that cultivates playfulness and fun, in addition to the requisite romantic moments. The more I watch it, the more I enjoy it. His ability to belt out a ballad is impressive. I think he's a great entertainer.

God's Gift.......2002-05-14

You cannot compare any other voice to Engelbert < especially in the video "Love Unchained" and :Live at the London Palladium" I realize these are not the ones I have rated, but I have followed his career since 1967, I find that the audio is bad in the "Engelbert Live" one, Other than that it"s great, as he is.

Engelbert is good...DVD quality is not.......2000-11-23

It's a shame such an excellent ballad singer as Engelbert was only capable of having such a low quality DVD produced. For starters, the picture quality is the worst of my entire DVD collection. The lame 2-channel sound is not much better. There is constant feedback through his microphone while he is singing, which is often annoying, during the show. Although he sings decent on most songs, he is far too often goofing off with the audience, in a manner not becoming of a superstar. Perhaps his other DVD release is a better production and provides a better representation of what Humperdinck show is actually like. This one is not a winner.

Great Women Singers of the 20th Century - Nancy Wilson

Average customer rating:

Not as I remembered her growin' up :(
Better that than nothing
this woman is brilliant
Growlin' Her Way Thru The Songs

Great Women Singers of the 20th Century - Nancy Wilson
Starring: Nancy Wilson (II)
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000A3XZ3Q
Release Date: 2005-08-30

Description

When Nancy Wilson won her second Grammy in 2005 for "Outstanding Vocal Jazz Performance," it capped a great career that began when she was 15 in Columbus, Ohio. In 1961 she embarked on a recording career at Capital records that would see her second only to The Beatles in album sales on that label, topping even Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and the Beach Boys. Two albums, "Broadway My Way" and "Hollywood My Way", made her a household name.

Nancy Wilson has never allowed herself to be classified as just a jazz singer. She has worked hard to offer her audience a wide spectrum of songs that include both jazz and the best of American popular music. She has successfully recorded over 40 albums and CDs for both the Capitol and Columbia labels. In 1991, she recorded a very successful CD "With My Lover Beside Me" with Barry Manilow, who wrote music to unpublished lyrics of Johnny Mercer, for her to record, exclusively.

Nancy Wilson, a beautiful woman who is also an actress of note, has been seen in performance many times. However, this 1993 evening of singing at the famed Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. was originally intended for A&E's "Biography" but was never released. It is a definitive evening of Nancy's, during which she performs many of her well known songs including her GRAMMY winning "How Glad I Am," "I Have Never Been To Me" and the classic "Guess Who I Saw Today?" This "ENCORE" concert presents Nancy Wilson at her memorable best.

Customer Reviews:

Not as I remembered her growin' up :(.......2007-01-04

Ahhh, the '60s and '70s! I was a mere teen! They were also the best years to acquaint myself with this gorgeous vocalist, while familiarizing myself with some of the best sung standards, ballads, and show tunes of that era, then accompanied by commendable jazz groups, big band leaders, lush orchestrations and strings arranged by such greats as Cannonball Adderley, Billy May, Oliver Nelson, Gerald Wilson, Sid Feller, and others! Sadly, those days are gone, and regretfully so has Nancy's style that I've become accustomed. This dismal show does little justice for Nancy. The poor club ambience is so dark and dreary the only people you see during the whole show is Nancy and her bassist, and an occasional profile shot of her piano player. The drummer, Roy McCurdy -- forget it. He's somewhere behind the scene, just over Nancy's left shoulder. The audience?? Absolutely no shots of the audience who occasionally applaud Nancy when she hits one of her spine tingling notes (which I can count on one hand). The poor audio engineer must have been asleep at the wheel since Nancy depends mostly on waving her microphone back and forth during her singing emitting this echoing, reverberating/wavering timbre that sometimes made my head spin. The song selection was just as dismal, and her medley of '60s/'70s hits (that made her famous) closed the show. I never much got into Nancy's music once she left Capitol Records, and there is nothing significant from her Columbia years, but seek her Japanese CDs on the Denon label, and that's as close as you get to hearing the best of Nancy, post Capitol. [Note: As an avid audiophile, I used the JAZZ CLUB audio setting on my receiver, backed by a 5.1 speaker setup, despite this item being produced in 2.0 stereo playback. Songs: Guess Who I Saw Today, Sweet Pumpkin, Save Your Love For Me, How Glad I Am, When Did You Leave Heaven, and a few medlies, timing in at 43 minutes for the complete show.

Better that than nothing.......2006-04-12

One reviewer here (Lee, from Malaysia) was right on many accounts about this DVD and Ms Wilson: Mannerisms,growling,changed voice... And yet, I had to see it! There isn't very much video stuff with Wilson to see, so I thought, Let's go! I was sure she wasn't that bad (she is very very good on her 2 last albums w. Ramsey Lewis and her RSVP album.). She isn't a young thing anymore...
The first review, on top of it, a professional one, tells us about a great career and so many records with Capitol label, blahblahblah, the usual empty stuff you can find anywhere (and I mean anywhere on the net, try it!). Did somebody thought about warning us that this DVD has both an awful sound and filming? Is it believable that such a great singer, even if she camouflaged her aging voice (but not her talent), can be seen almost only in such a bad quality product? Who filmed that? Amateurs? Hey! Please, it was intended for a biography on her... It is better not done. BUT, it is better to see that than nothing.
This DVD is for die-hard fan only. Wanna see her in something better? Try the Carnegie Hall show she did, available on DVD. Still the mannerisms, etc (she seems to do that a lot Live, not as much on albums) but a pro job. She will surprise you.
Ms Wilson has retired approx. a year ago. I truly hope that she didn't see that DVD coming out on the market... Or that she said like me: Better that than nothing...

this woman is brilliant.......2005-11-14

nancy wilson is one of the greatest singers alive.i
dont often right reviews but the only one was this
Lee eng kong. this concert captures the essence
of a remarkable artist who while yes mannered,
has an approach that is all her own. do ur
self a favor and see for yourself.

Growlin' Her Way Thru The Songs.......2005-09-14

Nancy Wilson is a beautiful woman. From her early cds on Capitol, I know she has a wonderful voice. Somewhere in the 80s, she suddenly became a very mannered singer and all the bad points are on ample display in this short concert. Why must she insist on growling her way through her songs just to sound bluesy? This results in a contorted exxpression on her face all the time. By the time this concert was staged, she has lost some of her vocal range. To compensate, she has resorted to weird phrasing in all the songs. Her hits are here but unrecognisable in the mess. In stark contrast, her Grammy-winning cd RSVP shows her in excellent voice and back to her 60s roots. Let's hope for a better concert in her next dvd if there is one.

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