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Release Date: 10 July, 2001 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: |
Dizzy's Dream Band Reviews
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It's 2 short!!!! Wow, what good music and it was good seeing some of the old timers :)
The performance cooks.
The title "Dizzy's Dream Band" is appropriate. A "dream band" is what is found on the disc. The picture quality is excellent. The sound quality is excellent. Many of the images feature closeups of hands playing instruments, e.g., hands on trumpet valves, or hands on congas, where each hand takes up one quarter of the screen. The camera lovingly rests on the "hand images" for an adequate amount of time (the camera does not rush from one angle to another angle). One particularly artistic shot shows Mr.Gillespie's trumpet and hands (close up and out of focus) while in the background, and bracketed by Mr.Gillespie's instrument, is Mr.Mulligan in sharp focus (looking on and listening). The disc features Mr.Roach's lecture/demonstration of the high hat. It is the same lecture/demonstration that he gave in 1982 on the Univ.of Wisconsin-Madison campus, on a program that featured Richard Davis on bass. I would have liked to see more of Max Roach (God) playing the drum kit, e.g., doing a 3-4 minute solo, but a developed percussion solo is not shown here. The disc also features Mr.Gillespie and Mr.Faddis in an amusing "squeaking contest." A nice surprise was a cameo appearance by Paquito D'Rivera, whom I'd not previously heard. At the next opportunity, I shall purchase a D'Rivera album. There are no disappointments in the disc being reviewed, though the opening minutes of the disc, which features a hand-clapping duet complete with a Jew's harp, made me somewhat apprehensive, and concerned that the entire hour might consist of hand-clapping. The title is "Dizzy's Dream Band, and so as it turns out, what you see is what you get (wysiwyg). Is anything missing? Yes, I would have liked to have seen Sonny Stitt on this disc, as I'd seen him perform twice before at Keystone Korner in San Francisco in the late 1970s, and once in a tiny venue in Milwaukee in early 1981.
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