Post by vickihb2 on Mar 31, 2005 23:33:11 GMT 10
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack De Johnette - Ovation, 31 March 2004.
A review sans musical critique.
I love watching jazz on TV especially as often TV directors don’t understand jazz so watching the final edit can be funny/distracting depending on one's hormones.
Tonight's performance on Ovation was great listening but one is forced to shut the old eyes or you just end up cracking up at the camera direction.
Here’s an example of just one number and the fascinating yet somewhat unorthodox editing techniques.
Keith is mid solo so let's get a cut away of his feet. Don’t show the hands please, there might be some piano students watching! Yes, very interesting, he is wearing brown suede shoes with black trousers, lets stay on the feet (close up) for five seconds. Feet not doing much so now tilt up to Keith's face again. (Shoes are a fashion faux pas anyway but not nearly as bad as the vest he has donned for tonight's performance, but that is moot).
Close up of KJ's face head on, shite the man keeps swaying out of shot, doesn’t he know the camera is on him? Crikey! Bass solo so back to Keith's feet, sorry make that foot, only one foot in shot! What has happened to the other foot? Shit!
Lets not freak out - ok tilt up, slowly, to his knee which is now bending slightly at an angle of approximately 37 degrees. Sixteen bars into bass solo we move to the bass player, but from behind, soft focus, as the focus still on Keith and a close up of his aging teeth. Finally we pan across slowly to get a wide shot of bass player and drummer. During the last two bars of the bass solo we begin to zoom in on slowly on the bass player.
And so it continues.
Thank God for radio.
A review sans musical critique.
I love watching jazz on TV especially as often TV directors don’t understand jazz so watching the final edit can be funny/distracting depending on one's hormones.
Tonight's performance on Ovation was great listening but one is forced to shut the old eyes or you just end up cracking up at the camera direction.
Here’s an example of just one number and the fascinating yet somewhat unorthodox editing techniques.
Keith is mid solo so let's get a cut away of his feet. Don’t show the hands please, there might be some piano students watching! Yes, very interesting, he is wearing brown suede shoes with black trousers, lets stay on the feet (close up) for five seconds. Feet not doing much so now tilt up to Keith's face again. (Shoes are a fashion faux pas anyway but not nearly as bad as the vest he has donned for tonight's performance, but that is moot).
Close up of KJ's face head on, shite the man keeps swaying out of shot, doesn’t he know the camera is on him? Crikey! Bass solo so back to Keith's feet, sorry make that foot, only one foot in shot! What has happened to the other foot? Shit!
Lets not freak out - ok tilt up, slowly, to his knee which is now bending slightly at an angle of approximately 37 degrees. Sixteen bars into bass solo we move to the bass player, but from behind, soft focus, as the focus still on Keith and a close up of his aging teeth. Finally we pan across slowly to get a wide shot of bass player and drummer. During the last two bars of the bass solo we begin to zoom in on slowly on the bass player.
And so it continues.
Thank God for radio.
i think i know the film you are speaking of