Dreyfus Jazz: Monte Carlo Jazz Festival presents Monaco Dreyfus Night — Live DVD

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Product Details:

• UPC: 3460503693098
• Catalog Number: EDV 725 (FDM 46050 369309)
• Product Type: DVD
• Brand / Label: Dreyfus Jazz
• Distributed by: Sony BMG
• Headline Artists: Biréli Lagrène, Philip Catherine, Steve Grossman, Sara Lazarus, Franck Avitabile, Rosario Giuliani, Géraldine Laurent, Olivier Ker Ourio, Hadrien Féraud, André Ceccarelli, Hono Winterstein, Diego Imbert, Franck Wolf, Damien Schmitt
• Directed by: Ted Tarricone
• Producers: Francis Dreyfus & Christian Pégand
• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Jazz (Live Concert)

Product Features

• Format: DVD (DVD-9)
• Discs: 1
• Region: NTSC, all regions
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9
• Audio: Stereo
• Audio Menus / Languages: French, English
• Recorded: Live, November 28, 2007 — Monte-Carlo Opera (Salle Garnier)
• Includes bonus features: rehearsal, interview, Django d'Or 2007, after-show reactions
• Condition: Used

Overview

Monaco Dreyfus Night captures a single evening at the Monte-Carlo Opera's Salle Garnier on November 28, 2007, staged under the patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco. Dreyfus Jazz brought together a deep bench of European and American players for a one-night program that moves from gypsy-jazz fire to ballads to hard-swinging standards.

Guitarist Biréli Lagrène anchors much of the night, opening with his Gipsy Project and trading lines later with Philip Catherine. Saxophonist Steve Grossman digs into "In A Sentimental Mood" and "Take The 'D' Train," vocalist Sara Lazarus takes "Polka, Dots And Moonbeams," and Olivier Ker Ourio's harmonica adds a rare color to the front line.

Fifteen performances make up the concert, backed by a rhythm section that includes André Ceccarelli and Diego Imbert. The DVD adds a generous bonus reel — rehearsal footage, a Francis Dreyfus interview, the Django d'Or 2007 segment, and after-show reactions — making it a full record of the event rather than just the set.

Interesting Facts

• The concert was recorded at the Salle Garnier, the opulent Charles Garnier–designed hall inside the Monte-Carlo Casino complex, the same architect behind the Paris Opera.
• Bassist Hadrien Féraud was barely in his mid-twenties at the time and already regarded as one of the most gifted electric bassists of his generation.
• The release was among the projects overseen by Francis Dreyfus, the influential French label founder, who died in 2010.
• "Manoir De Mes Rêves" is a Django Reinhardt composition — a nod to the gypsy-jazz lineage that Lagrène and Hono Winterstein carry forward.
• The evening was tied to the Django d'Or awards, the French honor celebrating jazz achievement, footage of which appears in the bonus section.
• The program leans heavily on the Great American Songbook, with pieces by Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, and Jule Styne sitting alongside original compositions by Rosario Giuliani and Franck Avitabile.

Track Listing

Concert

1. After You've Gone — 4:26 (Biréli Lagrène & The Gipsy Project)
2. Polka, Dots And Moonbeams — 4:29 (Sara Lazarus & Biréli Lagrène)
3. Down With Love — 3:10
4. Jim — 5:04
5. Just In Time — 5:20 (Géraldine Laurent)
6. Joseph — 12:13 (Biréli Lagrène & Hadrien Féraud)
7. Sun Waltz — 3:44 (Franck Avitabile)
8. Manoir De Mes Rêves — 7:14 (Philip Catherine & Olivier Ker Ourio)
9. P'tite Case En Paille — 7:16
10. Danae — 5:56 (Rosario Giuliani)
11. Seven Thoughts — 6:33
12. I'll Remember April — 7:53 (Biréli Lagrène & Philip Catherine)
13. In A Sentimental Mood — 9:51 (Steve Grossman)
14. Take The 'D' Train — 6:57
15. Star Eyes — 10:12

Bonus: Rehearsal · Drumsticks (Damien Schmitt) · Francis Dreyfus Interview (TSF) · Django d'Or 2007 · The Blonde Minute · After-Show Reactions

Publishers

Produced and released by Dreyfus Jazz (P & C 2008), distributed by Sony BMG. Directed by Ted Tarricone; festival direction by Jean-René Palacio. Catalog EDV 725.

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