Jazz Tornado on DVD

Today’s article is bit nostalgic. It was forgot and lost somewhere in my PC, this I have decided publish it. It will be not about SL, but about RL.

Some figure is tossed in space and time. He is running from one end of platform to another. Die-hard expression by keystroke and singing. Use of an instrument to let out sounds others than usual ones. Absolute and visible connection and fusion with music. An eye looks. Face expression. Interesting articulation. Super band and even strings. Exactly said quartet, which is something usually connected with classical music. Eruption of feelings, enthusiasm, passions. The euphoria of crowd is rising up to the ecstasy. Everything is crowned gorgeous surround and viewer atmosphere. Unrepeatable, two-hours experience, even if mediate one.

It is 1st July 2004 and the viewers are slowly coming and sitting in an auditorium banked with the beauty. We are in Blenheim Palace, which is family residence of Duke of Marlborough. Of course, we are in the United Kingdom of the Great Britain and the Northern Ireland. Suspense is rising. An after that, it is erupting. Pure and incredible jazz.

Stage shot and the young man in jeans and in sneakers is coming. He has a glass with half-drunk red wine. He is entering the stage and is emptying this glass with last sip to the bottom. And then it is beginning just the first bust. The viewers are slowly but surely getting to the boiling. When next song is coming, where the piano is becoming to totally other instrument, crowds are wild about that.

I never seen and heard such a thing yet. The piano is transformed into the percussion, when the sounds of bonga are mixed with other similar drums from somewhere from the heart of Africa. Own player then resembles a shaman in ecstasy. The shaman, who is dancing and drumming with hands all parts of the piano – sides, edges, upper board or string inside. Even he is lying down under the piano and is using his sneakers to give out some sounds. When he is regularly playing on keys, so he is not sitting, but staying, also by singing. Finally, he is jumping onto the upper board of the piano. Just genius.

So, this all can be found on DVD that live record of the concert in Blenheim Palace and then it is intercut by short clips and by interview from U.S.A. tour. You can find also several bonuses – clips to several his songs. That all I saw at one evening without any break (2hours) and I could not fall asleep.

And who is he?

His name is Jamie Cullum.