Editorial Product Review: :Cobham's first album as a leader, in 1973--a jazz-rock classic. As on his slightly earlier outings with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham dazzles with rapid-fire pyrotechnics. But, listening carefully, he also does his job of rhythmic support--for this, he calls on his roots in drum-corps and Latin timbale drumming. His compositions here set fire to a stunningly tight band. The scowling, scurrying, skirmishing performance by the late rock-guitar ace, Tommy Bolin, is particularly memorable. He merges beautifully with Cobham's Mahavishnu bandmate, Jan Hammer (Moog/keyboards), who eggs Bolin on with warp-speed synthesized guitar ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:This double-disc firestorm was the first official live release from Vermont's favorite jam band, and it is both a roaring celebration of and, in many ways, a fitting conclusion to Phish's first decade of genre-bending, head-popping rock. Recorded in 1994, A Live One finds Phish wringing everything they can out of every song (four clock in at more than 10 minutes, another at more than 20, and a sixth, 'Tweezer,' at more than 30), whipping themselves (and the audience) into a frenzy with a high-octane attack long on ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Quartet expands upon the 'dream pairing' - begun by guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau on their 2006 Nonesuch collaboration, Metheny/Mehldau. This time they incorporate the members of Mehldau's trio, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, into a breathtakingly eclectic set, which ranges from the airy, pastoral 'Don't Wait' to straight-up rocking in the slowly building 'Towards the Light.' Last year, London's Evening Standard described Metheny and Mehldau as 'graceful, lyrical improvisers...It's a duo performance that deserves to tour.' Now the pair is indeed hitting the road, ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Quartet expands upon the 'dream pairing' - begun by guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau on their 2006 Nonesuch collaboration, Metheny/Mehldau. This time they incorporate the members of Mehldau's trio, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, into a breathtakingly eclectic set, which ranges from the airy, pastoral 'Don't Wait' to straight-up rocking in the slowly building 'Towards the Light.' Last year, London's Evening Standard described Metheny and Mehldau as 'graceful, lyrical improvisers...It's a duo performance that deserves to tour.' Now the pair is indeed hitting the road, ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Quartet expands upon the 'dream pairing' - begun by guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau on their 2006 Nonesuch collaboration, Metheny/Mehldau. This time they incorporate the members of Mehldau's trio, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, into a breathtakingly eclectic set, which ranges from the airy, pastoral 'Don't Wait' to straight-up rocking in the slowly building 'Towards the Light.' Last year, London's Evening Standard described Metheny and Mehldau as 'graceful, lyrical improvisers...It's a duo performance that deserves to tour.' Now the pair is indeed hitting the road, ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Quartet expands upon the 'dream pairing' - begun by guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau on their 2006 Nonesuch collaboration, Metheny/Mehldau. This time they incorporate the members of Mehldau's trio, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, into a breathtakingly eclectic set, which ranges from the airy, pastoral 'Don't Wait' to straight-up rocking in the slowly building 'Towards the Light.' Last year, London's Evening Standard described Metheny and Mehldau as 'graceful, lyrical improvisers...It's a duo performance that deserves to tour.' Now the pair is indeed hitting the road, ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Formed by John McLaughlin in 1971, the Mahavishnu Orchestra pioneered the fusion of jazz elements into rock music while still undeniably retaining the power and muscle of a full on rock band. With McLaughlin as the ever-present, the line-up went through various phases and these two concerts from Montreux showcase the band at distinctively different times of their career, with the seventies show featuring later stars Jean-Luc Ponty and Michael Walden and the eighties concert featuring saxophone maestro Bill Evans. Visual footage only exists of three tracks from the 1974 ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:Larger ensembles may have provided Pat Metheny with his most visible successes, but he's repeatedly fired up his most fluid and personal playing in leaner trio settings, starting with this, his 1976 debut as a leader. Bob Moses brings both delicacy and effortless dynamics to his drumming, but it's the late Jaco Pastorius's lyrical electric bass that clinches the guitarist's coming-out party: with Metheny already displaying the liquid tone and exquisite touch that define his sound, old friend Pastorius radiates a sympathetic lyricism and unerring sense of swing. ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:A spectacular melodic Latin jazz recording from legend Randy Brecker, together with the very best Brazil has to offer. Features well-known Brazilian musicians including Ruriá Duprat, who has been the recipient of a full scholarship through Quincy Jones to study at Berklee and Harvard.
Editorial Product Review: :In 1997, neoprogressive rockers John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater joined with keyboardist Jordan Rudess and veteran bass master Tony Levin to create an adventurous and joyously unrestrained musical environment. On volume 2, surging technical brilliance is abundant--and as provocative as it is impressive. These tracks were largely the result of extemporaneous jamming; each piece comes across as a finely crafted and flawlessly executed composition. Also striking are the enjoyably drastic changes of style. 'When the Water Breaks' and 'Another Dimension' are eclectic journeys, happily unpredictable. Quieter, more ...
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.
