Charles Mingus

Parágrafos finais – de 22 totais – de release/histórico assinado por Peter Makowski no encarte do dvd “Live In Tokyo” (2014):

“Here we witness Beck as an artist who no longer shackled by history and legend is continually expanding his musical horizons, with an array of diverse influences including Donny Hathaway, Jaco Pastorius, Les Paul, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charles Mingus, Muddy Waters, to Nitin Sahwney, Puccini, Benjamin Britten and The Beatles to name a few. They are all in one form or another celebrated on this DVD which also features some new groundbreaking material including the cinematic/apocalyptic Massive Attack meets Kashmir set opener ‘Loaded’ and the Middle Eastern blues of ‘Yermin’, powered along by Meier’s [Nicolas Meier] hypnotic acoustic guitar. Jeff Beck has not only survived in a business that has killed off a major pool of talent and peers with either drugs, alcohol, egotism or blandness but he has done in his style.

‘Listening to my music should be like grabbing a bunch of albums from diferente categories’ declares Beck. ‘There’s punk with Mahavishnu style fusion, Rock, Desert Blues, Street Rap, Django Reinhardt and Heavy Metal. Unless you saw it live you wouldn’t know it was the same band’.

Here lies the evidence…“