Review: Concert Vault brings hundreds of live recordings to your iPad
All hail Groovebug. The folks who last year introduced the amazing Blue Note by Groovebug—an iPad offering that dug deep into the jazz label’s legendary vaults to give old recordings new life—have returned to provide the iPad with another astounding music app: Concert Vault for iPad, an offering created with seller Wolfgang’s Vault. It’s my favorite app of the year so far.
The app offers live audio performances by hundreds of bands, ranging from jazz to indie to blues to bluegrass. These performances come from Wolfgang's Vault's wide collection—the company owns master recordings from the archives of Bill Graham Presents for performances between 1965 and 1999, along with several other collections of live recordings. Users can create their own playlists, either matching entire performances together, or by taking select tracks from each performance to create something new and unique.
This isn’t an app for teenybopper music aficionados. (An App Store user critique complains that no performances by Avril Lavigne are available.) There’s a heavy emphasis on music from the 1960s and 70s here, though the collection isn’t limited to those decades. Artists range from Radiohead and Neil Young in the rock category to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and David Allan Coe in country to Jimmy Smith and Rebirth Brass Band in jazz.
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