5/5 The Legendary David Bromberg Big Band Live and Well and On DVD for the First Time
  by Tracy Leverton (Vienna, VA United States)
The legendary David Bromberg Big Band is live and well and on their own DVD for the first time. Forget everything you ever knew, loved, touched, heard of, stood next to, smelt, felt, or dreamed about just how good a concert experience could be. This is the one concert to take home and re-live in your living room, turned up loud. Everyone knows somebody who has seen David Bromberg live with his famed genre-bending Big Band, on some college campus in the 70's, at a rare club date in the 80's or 90's, or at a festival in the new millennium. Now you can stop being envious and start a new relationship with your big screen TV for an hour and a half of great musicianship with a time-tested band-of-brothers. If you like equal-to-Pavarotti lead singing, gorgeous acoustic guitar, searing electric guitar, down home mando & fiddle, brilliant sax, cooler-than-Hollywood trombone, Armstrong-like trumpet, in-the-pocket bass, to-die-for back-up vocals, and the best drumming on Earth, you'll find it here on stage with Bromberg and his motley crew. Unlike most artists, whose talent diminishes with age, David's singing and playing prowess has gotten smarter, deeper, and more adroit over time. 'nuff said: reading about great music is just silly, like watching someone else eat when you're hungry. Go get this gem now, watch it, then tell all your friends (both of them) to buy it too. I bet you can't watch it just once...