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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Rent before you buy., December 12, 2003
This title is worth renting. The playing is excellent, and is easily worth 5 stars. However, I've given this DVD less than 5 stars for two reasons. First, the sound quality is mediocre. It's certainly good enough to enjoy the great playing. But it sounds like a copy of an analog copy of an analog master tape. There's a lot of background hiss, and when herbie plays a note or chord and holds it, the pitch is not perfectly steady - as if the analog tape player's motor is not passing the tape across the head at a perfectly constant rate. Perhaps more importantly, we've heard a lot of this before. In the 1980s and 1990s, most (perhaps all) of Herbie's straight ahead jazz features selections from the same fairly narrow repetoire, with similar arrangements. Now, don't get me wrong - the tunes are great, the arrangements are great, the solos are great. I certainly don't mean to offend any Herbie fans (and I'm a huge fan myself). But I have most of Herbie's CDs and DVDs, and I can tell you, the tunes and arrangements on this DVD are taken mostly from the same repetoire that has also yielded most of Herbie's other live straight ahead jazz recordings since the days of VSOP in the 1970s. So, this title is definitely not "essential", and is probably better rented than purchased.
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