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The British Invasion is Coming On DVD
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Michael Ricci
New DVD series captures classic artists of the original British Invasion with vintage complete TV performances from their heyday! Dusty Springfield - Once Upon A Time 1964-1969 Small Faces - All Or Nothing 1965-1968 Herman's Hermits - Listen People 1964-1969 Gerry & The Pacemakers - It's Gonna Be All Right 1963-1965 The Invasion Arrives March 23, 2010 Over forty-five years after the Beatles sparked the legendary 'British Invasion' that forever changed the face of popular music, Reelin' In The Years ...
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Eagle Releases 'A Concert by the Lake' in Blu-Ray Format Only - February 16
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Michael Ricci
An All-Star Blu-Ray Blast A CONCERT BY THE LAKE: Featuring Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Roger Taylor, and many others! Release Date February 16, 2010 New York, NY (January 11, 2010) --It's officially 2010, and Eagle Rock Entertainment is ready to keep the good times rolling for the concert Blu-ray circuit. On February 16, an all-star assemblage will be showcased on A Concert By The Lake [pre-book date January 22, MSRP $24.98]. Known as Band du Lac, this stunning supergroup amassed ...
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Music-Video "Living at Wal-Mart" Catches Momentum, Goes Viral
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Just Roots PR
What do you do when life hands you lemons? When musician and former Maine resident Pat Pepin found herself facing foreclosure, she did what she does best. She wrote a song.
Packing her personal belongings into her RV, she traveled south to Wilmington, North Carolina where, with the help of her friend, Michele Seidman, a musician, actress, and promoter of the Women in Blues Festival, they recorded this song and created a video for it which they posted on Youtube. ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Three from Douglas Ewart
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's check out some videos featuring Douglas Ewart, a multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder who will be in St. Louis on Saturday, January 30 to perform in a duo concert with bassist Zimbabwe Nkenya at the Kranzberg Arts Center.Born in Jamaica in 1956, Ewart moved to Chicago as a teenager and became involved with the city's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He would eventually go on to ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Four from the Bad Plus
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we turn our video spotlight on The Bad Plus, who will be returning to St. Louis next Wednesday, January 6 through Saturday, January 9 to perform at Jazz at the Bistro.The collective/cooperative trio, which includes Ethan Iverson on piano, Reid Anderson on bass, and drummer David King, is one of the most discussed and written-about jazz groups of the past decade. Their recordings of cover versions of songs usually ...
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Guaraldi with Spoon and Webster
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
This seems to be the week for unexpected videos to materialize. In the piece highlighted in the previous exhibit, Jack Berry joined me in lamenting that we could find no evidence of Vince Guaraldi on film or tape. Jazz writer Ken Dryden came to the rescue this morning with a reminder that Guaraldi's trio backed Jimmy Witherspoon and Ben Webster in a 1962 episode of Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual program on PBS. Here are two excerpts recalling one of ...
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Weekend Extra: Herman Before the Herd
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Two year after he took over the Isham Jones band, Woody Herman had infused it with his personality and leadership. We see and hear evidence in this piece from a film short made in 1938. It may seem a quaint choice of material, but in the late thirties, King Oliver's “Doctor Jazz" was still a minor staple in the repertoires of groups small and large. This is the polished pre-Herd Herman enjoying a novelty piece that he had recorded for ...
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