This weeks Music DVDS reviewed

PINK FLOYD
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Edgehill Publishing***

The lawyers were the only ones to emerge with any sense of dignity when Roger Waters left Pink Floyd and Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright decided to carry on without him. The first Waters-less effort was 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, which was essentially a Gilmour solo
album. While it received a rather muted response on release, its status has grown over the years, and this DVD attempts to explain why. With live-performance clips and interviews with an array of
talking heads from the music press, it attempts to be more a critical analysis of the album than a celebration of it. Very well-researched and put together, it does poke into quite a few corners, but it's likely that a release of this nature will only have a select appeal. BRIAN BOYD

KEITH JARRETT
GARY PEACOCK
JACK DeJOHNETTE
Live in Japan 93/96 ECM ****
With performances varying from sublime to excellent, there's little to choose between either DVD of these 1990s Tokyo concerts by the Standards Trio. The main interest lies in the fact that they were released only in Japan and have been long unavailable; the earlier concert has never been issued
outside Japan in any form, though the later one came out on CD as Tokyo '96, and theDVD of that date adds an exhilarating All the Things You Areand an encore, ( Tonk), to the CD content. What is most striking about the performances, apart from their consistently high level, is the way Jarrett can take wing into spontaneously created new material and how Peacock and DeJohnette lock into it; thus Solar morphs into Extension in the earlier concert  for nearly a half-hour's uninterrupted, brilliant playing, while Last Night When We WereYoungbecomes a jaunty Caribbean Skyand My Funny Valentinea beautiful Song on the later date.
www.musicconnection.org.uk RAY COMISKEY