Review: "Lenny Breau & Brad Terry: Live at the Maine Festival" DVD

by Staff.

Modern Guitars columnist Dr. Matthew Warnock reviews a live performance DVD by jazz duo guitarist Lenny Breau and clarinetist Brad Terry. From the review: "Lenny Breau & Brad Terry: Live at the Maine Festival is the latest DVD release from Art of Life Records. The DVD aims to provide an up close and personal look at this dynamic, though often overlooked, guitar and clarinet duo. Up until this point in time, any fan of the Breau-Terry duo had to be content with one bootlegged release, The Complete Living Room Tapes, which features the duo jamming during a house concert. With new archival performance footage from the 1980 Maine Festival, an interview with Terry, high-resolution audio files of two duo tracks and a complete discography of all of Lenny's recordings as both a sideman and leader, this DVD package showcases these two extraordinary musicians in a new and evocative fashion.

The concert footage on the DVD consists of two extended versions of the jazz classics "Emily" and "Autumn Leaves" totaling nearly twenty minutes of video. Both tunes can be found on the second disc of the reissued double CD The Complete Living Room Tapes and will provide fans of the duo with a new look into their interpretations of each piece. Both players are at the top of their games on each of these two tracks. Lenny, who uses his guitar case as a footstool for some unexplained reason, maintains a focused approach in both his comping and soloing, something that has been lacking in several other of his live recordings..."

The entire review is available on Dr. Warnock's column.

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