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Stop for Bud es un retrato experimental del pianista de jazz estadounidense Bud Powell. La película se rodó con una cámara a veces en movimiento, en un blanco y negro pobre en contrastes, con un tono ligeramente onírico, mientras el célebre pianista recorría lugares de Copenhague como Kongens Have (un parque), un muelle y un vertedero. Las composiciones de las imágenes son a menudo poco tradicionales. El montaje no pretende crear un hilo conductor claro a través del material, sino que puede verse como una yuxtaposición suelta de una serie de imágenes o situaciones. La película también incluye una escena de un concierto en el club de jazz de Montmartre en la que el rostro y los dedos de Powell se estudian desde una serie de bellos y oscuros ángulos mientras toca, pero sin sonido sincrónico. Oímos tocar a Bud Powell en la banda sonora y, al principio y al final de la película, Dexter Gordon cuenta un par de anécdotas sobre Powell y su impacto innovador en el jazz.


Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. Having met by chance, together they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. He enters the frame, he leaves the frame, the camera follows him. We are far away and close. He looks up at us, Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. The montage is followed by footage from a concert at the Montmartre jazz club, though the sound isn't synchronized. Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand.
In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, opr better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

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Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy (1977)
Originally from New Jersey, Al Di Meola rose to fame playing in Chick Corea’s trailblazing jazz-rock group, Return To Forever, in the early 70s before forging a glittering solo career. Recorded in 1977, this was his second album and its material ranges from pyrotechnical displays of jazz-rock fretboard prowess (“Race With Devil On Spanish Highway”) to Flamenco-inflected acoustic pieces (“Mediterranean Sundance”). Here, Di Meola showed a musical depth and level of sensitivity that revealed he was much more than a lightning-fingered speed freak.

Killer cut: Race With Devil On Spanish Highway






Joe Pass - For Django (1964)
Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua is better known as Joe Pass, a New Jersey guitarist whose highly personal style was defined by melodic clarity, harmonic sophistication and a fine-tuned rhythmic subtlety. This was his 1964 homage to Belgian guitar genius Django Reinhardt – which included songs inspired by him as well as played by him – and it finds Pass leading a quartet that contains fellow guitarist John Pisano. There are many wonderful moments here, including a sublime reading of Cole Porter’s “Night And Day.”

Killer cut: Nuages






The Rosenberg Trio - Caravan (1993)
This 1993 debut album by a Dutch family threesome (brothers Stochelo and Nonnie Rosenberg, on lead and bass guitar, respectively, plus cousin Nous’che Rosenberg on rhythm guitar) reflected their love of Django Reinhardt’s hot gypsy jazz of the 30s. But as the opening song, “Viajeiro,” illustrates, the trio add a late-20th-century slant to the music which makes it seem simultaneously traditional and modern.

Killer cut: Viajeiro







Martin Taylor - Spirit Of Django (1994)
This MBE-decorated, Harlow-born guitar virtuoso spent 11 years touring with noted French violinist Stéphane Grappelli, who had played with Taylor’s idol, Django Reinhardt. He recorded this tribute to the Belgian guitarist in 1994, and though he interprets material associated with Reinhardt, Taylor is able to put his own distinctive stamp on the songs.

Killer cut: Night And Day






Gabor Szabo - Spellbinder (1996)
Szabo, originally from Hungary, served his apprenticeship in drummer Chico Hamilton’s pioneering West Coast band in the early 60s and was noted for blending the jazz lexicon with the indigenous gypsy sounds and styles of his homeland; contemporary rock and pop; and even elements drawn from Indian music (such as droning strings). Spellbinder lives up to its name, with Szabo displaying his genius on a judicious mixture of originals, jazz standards, and pop covers.

Killer cut: Gypsy Queen





Biréli Lagrène - Standards (1992)
A France-born guitarist with Romany gypsy roots, Lagrène emerged in the early 80s as a disciple of Belgian swing maven Django Reinhardt, but injected a contemporary sensibility into his musical vocabulary. This was his third and final offering for Blue Note, presenting the guitarist in a trio setting and taking on some of jazz’s most famous tunes. Ranging from bebop and swing to bossa nova and cutting-edge jazz, Lagrène astonishes with his versatility as much as his fretboard dexterity.

Killer cut: Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise




Django Reinhardt - Quintet Du Hot Club De France (1962)
When this compilation was released in 1962, gypsy guitar doyen Reinhardt had been dead nine years. It brought together some of the Belgian maestro’s influential late 30s sides with a quintet that featured French violin wizard Stéphane Grappelli. The music is propelled with an irresistible sense of swing and joie de vivre as the two central protagonists urge each other on to giddy heights of virtuosity. Though he’s mostly heard on acoustic guitar, “Swing 39” finds Reinhardt playing electric. A great collection from a guitarist who established the blueprint for continental swing jazz.

Killer cut: Swing 39

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"Feelin' The Spirit", otro gran disco del guitarrista Grant Green además de los otros dos suyos que figuran en la lista.