Zone (CD & Dvd)

Dave Weckl | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 9, 2001)
• Original Release Date: October 9, 2001
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Stretch Records
• ASIN: B00005Q6LK
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,129 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wet Skin

2. Alegria

3. High Life

4. The Zone

5. Wake Up

6. Lucky Seven

7. Tee Funk

8. Rhythm Dance

9. Serenalin

10. Amanecer

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Jazz Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-OCT-2001

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better think twice before you buy it., January 1, 2002

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Amir Eliakim (Rishon Le-Zion, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zone (CD & Dvd) (Audio CD)

The compliation is preety good , it contains songs from the latest 3 records . But the DVD is only 20 minutes long and it's not very intresting as well , because he only talks , he barely plays anything. So don't Expect for too much , because i'm dissapointed.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Dual Compliation and Sampler, October 23, 2001

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David W. Edwards (Montgomery, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zone (CD & Dvd) (Audio CD)

This is an interesting release because it features a CD and DVD. The CD is a kind of "Best Of" collection of the cuts from previous DWB CDs, plus a couple of cuts from the Japan releases. These are "Tee Funk" - although previously recorded on Dave's solo release "Heads Up" - it's fun to hear it done by the band. The other is Steve Weingart's "Serenalin" - if you don't have the imports, these are great additions.

The DVD is a so-called "sampler" of the brilliant trio of instructional videos released by Carl Fischer. As with Dave's previous videos, the information and performances are at once exciting and motivating. The view into Dave's new "body movement" style of play is a testament to his commitment to further development as a player and instructor. The segment with Freddy Gruber is funny and often surreal. It's a treat to hear and see this man that so many players look up to. The inclusion of the information on sound and miking is a rare glimpse into an art that is too often ignored. The DVD is well produced and has some production additions from the original videos. The DVD format is great for this type of instruction - you can simply skip to the section where you left off. Although I would have liked to have the sound encoded in Dolby 5.1, the quality of the audio is wonderful.

My only concern is the reason for this release. As a sampler of Dave's CDs and videos, it's a great overview and would make a wonderful introduction. However, a DVD sampler of videos found only on video cassette is a little dissappointing. I am hoping that this is a fortelling of Carl Fischer releasing all 3 videos on DVD. For people who don't want to purchase the set of videos (and I can't imagine why), this is a great alternative. But for those of us who already own the CDs and videos, it just makes you long for the DVDs.

Great work by a great musician and soul.

3.0 out of 5 stars music good, video is terrible, July 12, 2004

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David Weitz (Connelly, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zone (CD & Dvd) (Audio CD)

as you know from reading the previous reviews, the music is a compilation of tracks from his Stretch label recordings. No problem there, unless you have these recordings already; nothing new here. My problem is the extra video disc, which are just excerpts from his instructional videos. This was really boring, and I learned absolutely nothing from this. I am a drummer, so I was hoping to learn something; I know Dave Weckl is a monster player, but this 2nd disc was terrible. Fortunately, the price was discounted so it gets 3 stars instead of 2. I sold it because I have the other recordings (and the ones he did on GRP- Master Plan is my favorite; check out the drum duet with Steve Gadd).