Customer Review: While the melodies are lovely, and the music is well played, there is something missing from this recording. It doesn't quite reach the level of Gershwin's dramatic musicianship. Nice to listen to, but it would not be my first choice for this opera.
Customer Review: I purchased this based on my previous experience with some other assorted Miles Davis CD's. I'm on the third disc and honestly I have it on repeat and it is not tiring or fatiguing - both my wife and I (we are in our 20's) love it! There is so much music in this set that its a new experience... more info
Customer Review: Se trata quizás del mejor disco del gran arreglador Gil Evans. En esta grabación plasma una sonoridad más compacta y menos grandilocuente que por ejemplo en sus colaboraciones con Miles Davis. Un disco de lujo, fino, diverso y potente.
Customer Review: It's good to see Naxos moving into a a more experimental repertoire, and David Lang deserves it more than, I think, some of the other living American composers featured by the label. The works receiving their recording debut here ("Pierced" and "Heroin"--yes, an arrangement of the Velvet Underground... more info
Customer Review: Gil Evans clever arrangements and Cannonball Adderly's brillant solos on the first 8 tracks is Jazz at its' best.
All in All an outstanding CD.
Peter Christensen.
Customer Review: Evan Ziporyn is gradually building an impressive discography of his strong and subtle compositions. These range from conventional Western ensembles (like the piano trio) to Balinese gamelan with electric guitar. But with the exception of the beautiful Ngaben (a memorial to those killed in the... more info
Customer Review: Given to what The Oscars and popular music have been reduced to with the 2006 Oscar going to "the mack (c)rap" from 'Hustle and Flow',Miles Davis and Gil Evans collaboration of Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess' should be regarded as their most important work and should be seriously re-marketted.This is... more info
Customer Review: The 1986 film Absolute Beginners is sort of the British/European version of 1984's Streets of Fire(though Beginners was a film-musical fantasy epic about the 1958 British riots)...Both contained characters, themes and elements of rock, rebellion, and 50's noirish movie theatrics, boy meets girl or... more info