'A night with Lou Reed' is an intimate visual record of Reed's legendary sold out performance at The Bottom Line in New York City 1983. For Reed whose career began in Greenwich Village when he founded the Velvet Underground this was a homecoming concert. His work qualifies him as a father of the New Wave and he has since been credited with ""inventing the seventies"". Here we see Lou Reed together with the most musically articulate band he has ever assembled. TRACK LISTING:
Bob Wilber salutes New Orleans jazz legend Sidney Bechet in a tribute concert featuring swinging versions of songs Bechet helped popularize. Sidney Bechet, was the first to bring the passionate sound of the soprano sax to jazz, playing with all the top musicians of his day including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Now it is the instrument of choice for many jazz super stars such as Branford Marsalis, Steve Lacy and Kenny G. Wilber's association with the music of Sidney Bechet goes back...
Art Blakey was an acknowledged musical master a founder of modern jazz drumming and a father figure to three generations of jazz superstars. His Jazz Messengers first appeared on the scene in 1954 and the alumni is a who's who of great jazz names including Lee Morgan Donald Byrd Johnny Griffin Wayne Shorter Keith Jarrett and many more. Here Wynton Marsalis makes his debut appearance as Blakey's trumpeter. From the first distinctive Blakey drum roll the Messengers deliver a sizzling hard bop concert playing Little Man New York Webb City and an extended version of Kurt Weill's My Ship which features Wynton as trumpet soloist.
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