Customer Reviews:
Amazing Webster!.......2008-02-06
This is a joy! Ben Webster surprises in this late stage of his career by playing very well indeed! In fact it looks like this makes Oscar Peterson and NHØP very happy as they are smiling more and more as the concert proceed.
Fine pictures and fine sound , - this must be recommended to all fans of swinging, no-nonsense jazz!
Two of the greats.......2007-02-02
Well this is quite something. The DVD cover might lead you to believe this is old grainy black and white film of Webster. But no, its colour film taken from a concert in Hanover in December 1972.
Sadly Ben Webster only lived 9 months after this recording. However if his playing isn't as fluid as it was back in the 50's its a joy to see him here, still in fine form. He's backed by the Oscar Peterson trio, with the late Neils Pedersen on bass.
They play:
1. Poutin' (a Webster original)
2. Sunday
3. I Got It Bad and That Aint Good
4. Perdido
5. Come Sunday
6. For All We Know
7. Cottontail
This part of the DVD lasts 55mins, the sound is good, and the playing is superb. As a bonus there are 3 extra tracks, "Ben's Blues" "In A Mellow Tone" and "Autumn Leaves" (a Peterson Piano solo). These tracks are audio only and were not filmed by German TV.
For any Jazz fan this is an essential purchase.
Customer Reviews:
Just another climbing holiday.......2008-01-12
This is a disappointing film and no more than a personal account of a small team's climbing 'holiday' to Malaku - the 5th highest mountain in the world. There were a few attempts to explain the psycological and physiological issues of climbing at high altitude, but overall the film degraded into a record of personal ambition and reflection.
As with so many climbing films, there is so much complaint about the conditions and difficulties encountered on such a venture that one starts to wonder why these people do it in the first place! Yes, the summit was reached by three members of the team, but for the viewer the film offered little in the way of explanation of the route or the environment in which they were operating. The filming and photography was also very poor with very few shots of the magnificent scenery which lay all around them.
I am glad that I only rented this DVD. Watching it once was enough, had I bought it, it would have spent the rest of its days gathering dust.
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