Dee Dee Bridgewater - J'ai Deux Amours Tour 2005 - Live in Antibes,Juan-Les-Pins, France

Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. She is a two-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Bridgewater is the first American to be inducted to the Haut Conseil de la Francophonie. She has received the Award of Arts and Letters in France. She also won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in The Wiz.

 Dee Dee Bridgewater is named as one of the top singers in both critics' and readers' Down Beat polls. Considering that she was a French denizen for some time (nearly 20 years). This DVD album is fabulous, and is one of the best concerts of DeeDee Bridgeater. I love this concert!

This DVD concert is sung primarily in French, although on a few standards, Ms. Bridgewater sang some songs in english. What makes this dvd so special, is the flexibility in Ms. Bridgewater's approach. She sings "J'ai Duex Amours" seductively,  "My Man" with a strong calypso beat; and "Girl Talk" as a strong, shouting funk. Then she does "La Belle Vie", starting with breathless seduction and morphing into strong, solid cabaret-style lines. My favorite is her unique take on "La Vie en Rose." The featured accordion playing, thus adding  the European flavor of the standards.

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Live in Antibes and Juan-Les-Pins

Tracklisting:

Intro
J'ai Deux Amours
La Mer/Beyond The Sea
Ne me Quitte pas
Mon Homme/My Man
Et Maintenant
Que Rest-il De Nos Amours
Dansez Sur Moi/Girl Talk
La Belle Vie/The Good Life
Avec Le Temps
Les Feuilles Mortes
La Vie En Rose

Steely Dan - Live at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Dec. 08 , 2006 Charlotte, New York City, U.S.A, Featuring Michael McDonald

Steely Dan is an American band built around two core members, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies.Becker and Fagen are well known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, which is one of the reasons why Steely Dan has reached cult-status with discerning music fans worldwide.The band has sold over 30 million records to date, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and still performs with passion.

In the last few songs of the concert - Michael Mcdonald was introduced by Walter Becker. Concert went on up to the last song titled "FM". The crowd shouted "more"!  Their final song was "My old School"  If you really dig Steely Dan's music. This one is a knocker!

TRACKLIST:

01. Intro

02. Bodhisattva

03. Time Out Of Mind

04. Aja

05. I Got The News

06. Hey 19

07. Josie

08. Green Earrings

09. Deacon Blues

10. Black Friday

11. Dirty Work

12. Band Intros/Show Biz Kids

13. Do It Again

14. Peg

15. Dont Take Me Alive

16. Kid Charlemagne

17. FM

18. My Old School

BIRELI LAGRENE, RICHARD GALLIANO, DIDIER LOCKWOOD. Live in Marciac, 2010

      

Richard Galliano, Bireli Lagrene, Didier Lockwood: a trio of three prestigious strong personalities. Probably accordionist, guitarist and violinist know they long. But this is the first time they have been grouped in a directory that gives pride to each and whose paternity, except for the Pent Up House, Sonny Rollins, Stephane Grappelli dear to their responsibility of one end to another. Fou Rire, Galliano, Place du Tertre Lagrene, Bequest of Lockwood, the tone and give a concert in which everyone has an opportunity to highlight its inspiration and superlative technique. It would probably be it excessive to speak of uniformity, but such a juxtaposition of talent has something to attract assistance clearly won.

Jacques Aboucaya

Credits
Richard Galliano accordéon
Biréli Lagrène guitare
Didier Lockwood violon

Jamie Cullum and the Heritage Orchestra - BBC -2010

BBC Proms  2010 - [Jamie Cullum and the Heritage Orchestra]

Singer and songwriter, pianist and guitarist, jazz leader and
pop collaborator Jamie Cullum has been doing it all for a decade.

In a highlight of the Late Night Proms series he
joins up with the Heritage Orchestra, the forward-looking,
 boundary-crossing collective formed six years ago to play at

London's Cargo club. Soon they were recording
a session for Gilles Peterson's Radio 1 show and
appearing at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Cullum has
devised awide-ranging programme that also features
 new arrangements and some special guest appearances.

Intro

All at Sea

Just One of Those Things

Get Your Way

If I Ruled The World

It Ain't Necessarily So

Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down

What a Difference a Day Made

You and Me are Gone

Solo (I Get Along With You Very Well)

London Skies

You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

Play The Piano

Mixtape

Jamie Cullum piano/vocalist

Heritage Orchestra

Jules Buckley conductor

There will be no interval.

Bireli Lagrene & Didier Lockwood - 35th Edition - Live Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz - 2010

Last January 24 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Belgian gypsy who has been, without doubt, the European jazz musician greatest of all time.

The two best players possible to make a tribute to Django. The guitarist, also Gypsy Bireli Lagrene which debuted just being a kid in the eighties playing acoustic guitar with blinding speed. He made some recordings with bassist Jaco Pastorius, but "never want to forget to Django." His records and his concerts are always an event and on this occasion, will have the collaboration of the great violinist of Calais (France) Didier Lockwood. Spiritual son of Stephane Grappelli, which received the violin Michel Waldrop thus perpetuating the chain of French violinists. He has performed at Carnegie Hall with Dave Brubeck and the Blue Note with Miles Davis, Marcus Miller and Lenny White and has worked with Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones and the Marsalis brothers.

Undoubtedly, Didier Biréli and make the best possible tribute to the memory and music of Django Reinhardt.


LineUp

Bireli Lagrene: guitar

Frank Wolf: sax

Jurgen Attig: bass

Didier Lockwood: violin

Setlist

01 Just The way You Are*

02 After YouпїЅve Gone*

03 Pentup House

04 Nuages

05 Barbizon Blues

06 Minor Swing

07 Performer Didier Solo

08 Autumn Leaves *

Bireli Lagrene & Didier Lockwood live Festival Jazz Cinq Continents Marseille 2010

Chris Botti in Boston - 2009

In his new PBS special, CHRIS BOTTI IN BOSTON, trumpeter Botti performs with an incredible group of featured guest artists, including Sting, Josh Groban, John Mayer, Yo-Yo Ma, Lucia Micarelli, Katharine McPhee, Steven Tyler and Sy Smith, with Keith Lockhart conducting the Boston Pops. The program was filmed at Symphony Hall in Boston. It premiered February 28 and broadcasted throughout March 2009 on most PBS stations.

Sting and Josh Groban -- singing on stage together for the first time -- perform Sting's "Shape of My Heart" with acclaimed trumpeter Chris Botti in Botti's new PBS special CHRIS BOTTI IN BOSTON.

The Manhattan Transfer - Live Christmas

Live in Concert Manhattan Transfer Live Christmas with an orchestra- 2008. The current group was founded in 1972 by singers Alan Paul, Janis Siegel, Laurel Massé and Tim Hauser. Performances at Max's Kansas City, Trude Heller’s and Reno Sweeney in New York City soon brought them a cult following, and it was at the latter venue that Ahmet Ertegün, founder and chairman of Atlantic Records, saw them and offered a recording contract which led to the release, in 1975, of their first album under the new line-up, The Manhattan Transfer. The album included the group’s first hit single, the gospel tune "Operator".

The group soon did very well in Europe, where the next two albums, Coming Out and Pastiche, brought a string of top 10 hits. One was a revival of Wayne Shanklin's "Chanson D'Amour", which went to number one in the UK in 1977 but failed to chart in the US. These hits were followed by a live album, The Manhattan Transfer Live. It was recorded in the UK and captured the group's great popularity in Europe at that time. Immediately after that album was recorded, in 1978, Laurel Massé was badly injured in an auto accident and was replaced by Cheryl Bentyne. The line-up has remained the same since then.

This Christmas Album is so wonderful to watch and listen. The selected Christmas songs are just perfect for the Holidays! Who else can beat Manhattan Transfer when it comes to Acapella. The blending of their voices is just awesome! Merry Christmas to ALL!


Video clip was taken from, Vatican, Italy



Tracklist:

1 Happy Holiday
2 Let It Snow
3 Christmas Love Song
4 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
5 White Christmas, (Alan's Solo)
6 Sleigh Ride, (Janis' Solo)
7 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
8 Caroling, Caroling
9 Good King Wenceslas
10 Christmas Is Coming
11 Snow Fall
12 Merry Christmas Baby, (Tim's Solo)
13 Santa Baby, (Cheryl's Solo)
14 The Christmas Song
15 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
16 Operator
17 Happy Holiday, (Reprise)
18 Goodnight
19 Happy Holiday, (Reprise)