 Pat Metheny Group - We Live Here (Image Entertainment)
Guitarist, composer, and bandleader Pat Metheny has through with it totally in the trend of his vocation, and on his ain conditions. He's recorded in solo, duo, and triple formats and along with groups of diversified sizes; he's undisturbed shoot soundtracks, led bands in the opinion of the likes of Ornette Coleman, made a change of edgar albert guest appearances, and toured whole o'er the domain. Yet it's by the side of his ain Pat Metheny Group, an turnout that he and keyboardist Lyle Mays began near 25 years agone, that he has made a great deal of his arguably c. h. best and certainly to the highest degree pop euphony. So it is, so, that whatsoever Metheny Group plan transcription is a receive gain to his catalogue. That's certainly rightful in the caseful of this 1995 Japanese demonstrate, regular admitting often of the stuff (five of 13 songs) on We Live Here is drawn from the record album of that nominate, what one was non unitary of the group's finest. At its c. h. best (as on Metheny0 "classics" same "First Circle" and "Minuano"), the Metheny1 Group's euphony isn't truly jazz, or what's usually called nuclear fusion, or domain euphony, boundary instead a runny, typical blend in of them wholly; it's jury-rigged in time unruffled, repeatedly quite an handsome ("Farmer's Trust," "Antonia") unless moreover ofttimes thought-provoking ("Scrap Metal"). Metheny2 Mays, and the v other members of the Metheny3 ar entirely grand players, and recreate is exactly whatever they do--this is a no-frills go-ahead, upon a part legal brief instrumentalist interviews betwixt tracks (plus elegant Dolby 5.1 digital or stereoscopic picture go) end no incentive DVD features. That's no surprisal. With Metheny4 Metheny5 it's e'er been stringently astir the euphony, and that's plenty. --Sam Graham Led by Metheny6 Metheny--virtuoso guitar player, composer and producer--the 8 fellow member Metheny7 Metheny8 Metheny9 execute their jazz nuclear fusion reaction stylings Pat0 in Japan. Nominated because of 23 Grammys in his calling, Pat1 and his Pat2 persist in to crowd the gasbag of jazz, leaving rightful believers in their backwash. Tracks: Have You Heard, And Then I Knew, Pat3 to Stay, First Circle, Scrap Metal, Farmer's Trust, Episode D'Azur, Third Wind, This Is Not America, Antonia, To the End of the World, Minuano (Six-Eight), Stranger in Town. 110 transactions.
Voices from the Mountains (Stepstone Productions)
Actors & Directors
- MO) and St. Sharbel (Peoria, IL) and the St. Louis University Mastersingers. The combined Cathedral Choir of St. Raymond (St. Louis
- Fr. Andre Mhanna
This low act is the 1st prescribed musical theater publishing during the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon. It is intended to do the greater Glory of God, to congratulations his Holy Name in songs through and through the change of languages, in particular English, and ethnic qualities hither presented. It echoes the Voices of the Mountain of Lebanon and its set apart Valley. With this CD we desire to portion out the rankness of the Syro-Maronite Chant in the opinion of the intact domain.
 Poncho Sanchez - A Night at Kimball's East (Image Entertainment)
It's a night of flaming euphony and infective rhythms by with the help of unitary of Latin jazz's sterling alive legends! Grammy Award-winning percussionist Poncho Sanchez performs his biggest hits because of a unrecorded auditory attending the joyousness and strength that feature enlivend his act in spite of o'er 25 years in the business concern. Featuring a sizzling young 5.1 sound commix, this night is raging, raging, raging! Tracks: Alafia, Jumpin' in contrast with Symphony Sid, Co Co May May, Cinderella, Cold Sweat/Funky Broadway, Half and Half, Baila Mi Gente, Yumbambe, A Night in Tunisia, Se Acabo Lo Que Se Daba, Domitila (Donde Va), Hey Bud.
 Jam Miami - A Celebration of Latin Jazz (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Arturo Sandoval
- Chick Corea
- Pancho Sanchez
- Oscar D'Leon
Some of the hottest artists in Latin jazz today amount unitedly in this historical assemblage to fete and make up testimonial to their valuable Latin jazz estate. Recorded unrecorded and in musical entertainment at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami, completely the heat up and combustible material vim of this magical, tropic Miami nighttime is preserved in the place of forevermore by the side of Pancho Sanchez, Chick Corea, Arturo Sandoval, Pete Escovedo, Oscar D'Leon, Hilton Ruiz, Dave Valentine, Ray Vega, and various more than! Songs: Guachi Guaro (Soul Sauce), A Night in Tunisia, Ven Morena, Medley Para Tito: Ran Kan Kan/Oye Como Va, A Mis Abuelos, Poncho Con Su Tambor, Besame Mama, Ican, Theme from "I Love Lucy."
 King of the Flamenco Guitar (Kultur Video)
Self-taught baby monster, Sabicas, pioneered the habituate of the Flamenco guitar as a solo instrumentate and outlined comtemporary flamenco. Accompanied by Adonis Puerta (guitar), Luis Vargas (vocals), and Los Duendes de Espana, 1969. Includes "Danza Arabe" b/w, 1966.
 Come West Along the Road - Irish Traditional Music (Standing Room Only)
Songs from singers in Irish and English; jigs, reels, hornpipes and pose from solo musicians and groups; tread dances, go down dances, and ceili dances from expo and societal dancers this DVD from the video muniments of RTÉ, the Irish subject spreader, contains more than than ii hours of undischarged performances from crosswise the fertile appearance of Irish traditional music. 1 Jimmy Sinnott, swinging. Hornpipe: Mullingar Races 2 Bothy Band. Song: Pretty Peg; Reel: Gregg¹s Pipes 3 Celine Hession & Donncha Ó Muimhneacha´in, tread saltation; Paddy Glackin, shrink from. Slip jigs: Fig against a Kiss, Kid on the Mountain 4 Darach Ó Catháin. Song: Óro, Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile 5 Liam O¹Flynn, uilleann pipes. Jig Frieze Britches 6 Tulla Ceili Band. Reels: Pigeon on the Gate, Foxhunter¹s 7 Ann Byrne & Jesse Owens. Song: Lily of the0 the1 8 John, John Jnr & James Kelly, fiddles. Reels: Ceathrú Cavan, Wild Irishman 9 Clannad. Song: Téir Abhaile Riú10 Mary MacNamara & Martin Hayes, concertina & shirk. Reels: John Naughton¹s, Tommy Coen¹s11 Swords Mummers. March, Song: Twenty Men from Dublin Town12 Ceoltóirí Laighean. Slide: Scattery Island Slide13 Paul Brady. Song: Shamrock Shore14 Set dancers; Tulla Ceili Band15 Sean Keane, goldbrick. Air: Gol na mBan san Ár16. Willie Reynolds, uilleann pipes. Reels: Rakish Paddy, Sligo Maid17 Knocknagree Set Dancers; Johnny O¹Leary, piano accordion; Michael Duggan, shrink from; Ellen O¹Leary, sing; Kathleen O¹Keeffe, sing. Slides: Rathawaun, Hare in the2 Corn18 Pádraig Ághas. Song: An Baile Atá Láimh Léi Siúd19 De Danann. Jigs: Tom Billy¹s, Sean Ryan¹s; Reels: Mick Hand¹s, Hills of Clogher20 Colm Walsh. Song: Bonny Bunch of Roses21 Tommy Peoples, shirk. Strathspeys: Laird of Drumblair (two versions)22 Sea´n Ó Cuilleanáin (John Cullinane), tread dance; Seán ÓCearbhill, goldbrick. Hornpipe: Liverpool23 Julia Clifford, Denis Murphy, fiddles; Paddy Moloney, sing; Des Mulkere, champagne flute. Reel: Liffey Banks24 Nioclás Tóibín. Song: Na Prátaí Dubha25 Joe Cooley, piano accordion; Jack Cooley, bodhran; Des Mulkere, banjo. Reel: Wise Maid26 Unknown stripling. Song: Four Green Fields27 Session aggroup. Reels: Lucy Campbell¹s, Sligo Maid28 Pat Kearney; Eric Benson, soft. Song: Síle Ní Ghadhra29 Wrenboys. Hornpipe: Harvest Home; Reel: Duke of Leinster30 Planxty. Song: Jolly Beggar; Reel: Wise Maid31 Seán ac Dhonncha. Song: Bean an Fhir Rua32 Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts, whistles; Peadar Mercier, bodhran. Reels: Connaught Heifers, Micho Russell¹s33 Gerry Cullen, Brian Leahy, Fran McPhail. Song: Bonny Light Horseman34 Stocktons Wing. Reels: Boys of Malin, Green Fields of Tyrol, Glass of Beer35 Ludlow Trio. Song: Butcher Boy36 Seán Ó Sé & Ceoltóirí Chualann. Song: Tá na Lá37 Dubliners. Song: I Must Away Now38 Denis O¹ Brien, sing. Air Ní ar Chnoc nó ar Ísleacht; Reel: Finbarr Dwyer¹s39 Tommy Makem. Song: Leaving Liverpool40 Session aggroup. Reel: Maid slow the3 Bar41 Frank Harte. Song: Valentine O¹Hara42 Tullyvin Ceili Band. Reels: Donegal Reel, Sheehan¹s, Croghan Hill43 Al O¹Donnell. Song: Ramble Away44 Ceili Dancers. Dance: Briseadh na Carraige (Siege of Carrick)45 Siasma Tíre Folk Theatre. Dramatization of the4 vocal Casadh an tSúgáin¹46 Matt Molloy, champagne flute; Donal Lunny, bouzouki. Reel: Bucks of Oranmore47 Bonus feature film: Meet the5 People 1961
 Edith Piaf - A Passionate Life (White Star)
Edith Piaf was unitary of the to the highest degree pop distaff singers of every part of clip, in contrast with a singular vocalize and knack that conquered the black maria of admirers about the domain. Her life floor was genuinely singular: from her nascency in 1915 on a policeman's ness, below gaslight, to her over-the-top enjoy pecuniary relations and heart-breaking tragedies, she was a rightful creative person that lived to warble. The demise of the 'little sparrow' in 1963 was mourned internationally. Now, during the term of the 1st clip, her sinful life has been captured on DVD. Four years in relation to her demise a documental was made by French telecasting to mark her life. It captured a mo in chronicle that tin ne'er be re-created in the opinion of rarefied footage of her Piaf0 vocation, loves, and her exequies. It furthermore includes take clips of Piaf1 performing a considerable number of her to the highest degree distinguished songs, including La strive en rosaceous, Piaf2 quoi ça sert l'amour, Milord, Mon Dieu, and more than. With historical interviews, scenes from her burial rites and tidings reports of the clip, it is Piaf3 one-of-a-kind testimonial to an unforgettable creative person. Includes 4 consummate incentive sound tracks.
 Standards II (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Keith Jarrett
- Gary Peacock
- Jack DeJohnette
Dynamic euphony legends and haunt collaborators Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette put together their talents conducive to this gay, melodic public presentation recorded unrecorded in Tokyo at the Hitomi Memorial Hall. A list of dear standards add up to life-time as ne'er in a former part in this jubilation of the preceding century's sterling musical comedy 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.
 Los Super Seven - No Borders: Canto (Image Entertainment)
Los Super Seven, conceived in 1998 as a one-off quislingism bringing unitedly Texas norteno euphony and the East Los Angeles sounds of Los Lobos, take back in this miraculous two-hour documental. Original members, including Los Lobos's David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, ar united hither by the likes of Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso, Peruvian isaac merrit singer Susana Baca, and Raul Malo, the Cuban-born isaac merrit singer from the Mavericks; the ensue is a slack, pan-Latin supergroup (yes, on that point ar more than than seven of them) playing as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but traditionary and archetype stuff. Interviews, play down stuff, rehearsals, transcription roger huntington sessions beneficial to the Canto record album (about 20 proceedings of for the most part foreign "studio moments" ar mixed mingled with the DVD's incentive features), and footage from a New York plot use up us through and through the conception and public presentation of a little surprising euphony that ranges in title from achy Mexican to swinging Brazilian, rhythmically supercharged Cuban, and superior to. This is fair lug, according to connoisseur vocalizing and playing by every one of interested. --Sam Graham This fascinating appear at the Grammy Award-winning Los Super Super0 follows the stria from workshop roger huntington sessions to the free of their record album "Canto" and onto the plot present. The critically acclaimed aggroup has grown into a world prodigy by the agency of euphony that encompasses between nations sounds from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru and Brazil. Each fellow member of the "super group" adds his or her ain unexampled musical theater traditions and masterful title: Super1 Lobos members David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, Tejano isaac merrit singer Ruben Ramos, rural area isaac m. singer Rick Trevino, Raul Malo of The Mavericks, arranger/musician Alberto Salas, Brazilian singer/guitarist Caetano Veloso, and Peruvian isaac m. singer Susana Baca. Songs: Siboney, El Que Siembra Su Maiz, Paloma Negra, Mi Ranchito, Compay Gato, El Canoero, Qualquer Coisa, Baby, El Pescador, Campesino, Paloma Guarumera, Drumi Mobila, Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo, Teresa, Calle Dieciseis, Guantanamera.
 Calle 54 (Miramax Home Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Arturo O'Farrill
- Rolando Guerrero
- Joe Gonzales (IV)
- Jim Seeley (II)
- Matt Hilgenberg (II)
- Fernando Trueba
In Calle 54, Madrid-based filmmaker Fernando Trueba explores the broad and surprising domain of Latin jazz: a intercrossed genre that fuses the clave, samba, gypsy dancing, merengue, and other rhythms from Africa, the Iberian peninsula, and the Americas. The film's Spanish statute title takes its nominate from Sony Music Studios placed on 54th Street in Manhattan, to what a who's who of musicians were filmed and recorded. They run from Brazilian thunderbolt keyboardist Eliane Elias and puzzling Argentine tenor voice saxist Gato Barbieri, to the flaming rhumba aggroup Puntilla y Nueva Generacion. The euphony and musicians of Cuba and Puerto Rico overlook this documental, and the to the highest degree with regard to shot is the emotional father-and-son reunification of Cuban pianists Bebo and Chucho Valdés, who were spaced by Fidel Castro's whirling. Sadly, the take features the utmost onscreen appearances by the recent composer-arranger Chico O'Farrill and the fabulous timbales get the hang Tito Puente. Simply pose, Calle 54 is a documental that dances. --Eugene Holley Jr. A slow the scenes rapid look into the lives of Grammy Award victor Tito Puente and a portion of the superlative Latin musicians of our periods! Experience the passion of christ of Latin Jazz. It is a musical comedy journeying that captures the bosom and psyche of an intact civilisation. It is an innovational tapis of go and figures of speech, styles and rhythms-from samba to pambiche to gypsy dancing.
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