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David Axelrod
Live at Festival Hall (CD/DVD Set)
Genres: Jazz, Pop, R&B

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Paint It Black
2. The Edge
3. Song Of Innocence
4. Holy Are You
5. So Low
6. Tensity
7. Holy Thursday
8. Urizen
9. The Sick Rose
10. London
11. The Human Abstract
12. Smile
13. Norwegian Wood

CD Details

All Artists: David Axelrod
Title: Live at Festival Hall (CD/DVD Set)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Vampi Soul
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 10/14/2008
Genres: Jazz, Pop, R&B
Styles: Oldies, Contemporary R&B
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 8435008861766

Synopsis

Product Description

A Grammy award-winning producer for Capitol Records who helmed dozens of great jazz, funk, and soul records during the 1960s and '70s (David, McCallum, Lou Rawls, Stan Kenton, the Electric Prunes, Cannonball Adderley...), David Axelrod also forged a distinctive musical style while recording several of the most eccentric albums of the '70s. His music was rediscovered in the 90 s, and has been sampled by key hip-hop artists such as Dr. Dre, DJ Shadow, Lauryn Hill, and many others. This Vampisoul release offers you his very first UK orchestral performance, live at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Both formats, audio CD and double LP, come together with a DVD of the show itself!

CD Reviews

Genre Defying Music

Graveyard Poet | St. Louis, MO USA | 02/12/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"David Axelrod is a legend, a producer and engineer on the sessions of so many jazz artists of the 1960s and an eccentric genius whose genre-defying solo albums embody and exemplify the dreams, creativity, risk taking, and experimentation of that heady era more than anyone else. It is genre defying music: classical grandeur, jazz improvisation, funky grooves, psychedelic atmosphere, and the moods and textures found in the greatest film scores.

Dana Axelrod, David Axelrod's son, knew that his father's music was "must hear" and needed to be seen and listened to in a proper live setting. After years of working towards this moment, the concert at Royal Festival Hall in London finally resulted. Dana Axelrod captures an extraordinary experience that was overdue and a long time coming--you can feel the excitement of the high caliber musicians performing his father's compositions and his father conducting his work for the first time in a generation.

The set of tracks picked couldn't have been more perfect--the landmark Cannonball Adderley collaboration "Tensity", the now instantly recognizable "The Edge", some re-imaginings of "Paint It Black" and "Norwegian Wood" that travel in much more intriguing and engaging directions than the original songs, and, of course, the standout cuts from The Axe's genre-defying masterpieces, which are true hidden gems of the 1960s--Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Highly Recommended for the collection of any serious music lover."