Release Date: 19 April 2010
Label: Wienerworld
Packaging Type: DVD Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0760137504795
Genres: Soundtrack  Music Concert  
Release Date: 19 April 2010
Label: Wienerworld
Packaging Type: DVD Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0760137504795
Genres: Soundtrack  Music Concert  
Description
SOLOS: the jazz sessions is a 39 part television music profile/performance series. Each episode features complete musical pieces, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of today's most notable jazz artists. Shot in HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant, cinematic lighting designs, SOLOS: the jazz sessions showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond.
This DVD spotlights Andrew Hill, a great and arguably groundbreaking composer and pianist and is recognized as one of the most important progenitors of free jazz piano. His most-lauded work was recorded for Blue Note Records, spanning nearly a decade and producing a dozen albums. As a pianist, Hill had a flowing melodicism and an elastic sense of time. Like his composing, Hill's playing had an ever-present air of spontaneity and was almost completely devoid of clich. His album Dusk was selected as the best album of 2001 by both Down Beat and JazzTimes; and in 2003, Hill received the Jazzpar Prize (an annual Danish award for jazz excellence, held in Copenhagen).
Sidney Barnes
Sea Hags
Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford
Public Enemy
Vivabeat
L.A. Guns
Vivabeat
The Dictators
Yefim Bronfman; Wiener Philharmoniker; Andris Nelsons
Francesca Hayward; William Bracewell; James Hay; Lauren Cuthbertson; Bennet Gartside; Steven McRae;
Augustin Hadelich; Christiane Karg; Wiener Philharmoniker; Andris Nelsons
David Tennant; Antony Sher; Antony Byrn; Hugh Quarshie; Paapa Essiedu; Christopher Eccleston; Lucy
Isabella Gasparini; Giacomo Rovero; Sae Maeda; Valentino Zucchetti; Ashley Dean; Marcelino Sambe; F
Olga Smirnova; Jacopo Tissi; Giorgi Potskhishvili; Floor Eimers; Yuanyuan Zhang; Naira Agvanean; Ed
Mayara Magri; Thomas Whitehead; Liam Boswell; Matthew Ball; James Hay; Gary Avis; Calvin Richardson
Jonas Kaufmann; Czech National Symphony Orchestra; Jochen Rieder