The fact that something was founded as a side project doesn't necessarily mean that the participants don't take it as seriously as they take their other endeavors. Blackfield, for example, started out as a side project for singer/multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson, who had been leading Porcupine Tree for a decade when he co-founded Blackfield with Israeli singer/songwriter Aviv Geffen in the early 2000s…
Not every grey is also an Eminence - but this person here definitely is: August-Wilhelm Scheer, baritone saxophonist and a passionate jazz musician, and for many years through the August-Wilhelm-Scheer-Foundation for Science and Art a sponsor of the jazz scene. He says, the jazz makes him free - like a bird in the air. If somebody like him who has earned his money as an enterpriser and university professor and impresses in more than one area, gets together with a legend of the jazz - or we better say, with another legend - something amazing can be expected. Especially, if the second legend is none less than Jimmy Cobb. Together one devotes himself to the work of a third, also a legend of jazz Thelonious Monk, to whom Scheer would like to raise a monument and give respect on A NYC tributes…
This show from New York's Madison Square Garden in January 2003 was one of 117 shows on the band's 40th anniversary tour, which played in stadiums, arenas and theaters around the world between 2002 and 2003…
This concert Blu-ray sees Phil Collins take his superb new album Going Back into the live arena. Filmed in June of this year in the intimate surroundings of New York s famous Roseland Ballroom, this is a real chance to get up close and personal as Phil Collins faithfully recreates the soul and Motown classics that he loved as a teenager…