Video / DVD News

Lenny Breau & Brad Terry-"Live at the Maine Festival" DVD Video on Art of Life Records

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2009

Lenny Breau & Brad Terry-Live at the Maine Festival Art of Life Records DVD Video Now available.

This rare video performance, which was recorded live at the Maine Festival at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine on August 2nd, 1980, features the only known existing video footage of Lenny Breau playing his acoustic seven-string guitar.

Lenny and Brad perform two popular Jazz standards, “Emily" by Mercer & Mandel and “Autumn Leaves" by Prevert, Mercer & Kosma. The DVD Bonus Features include ...

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Sun Spin:Creedence Clearwater Revival

Source: JamBase
April 20, 2009

A CRY FROM THE STREETS AS THE SIXTIES TURNED TO THE SEVENTIES

Throughout the remainder of 2009, Sunday Spin will regularly celebrate and explore some of the seminal albums released in 1969 as they reach their 40th anniversaries. We couldn't think of a better slab to start with

Some folks are born wise, and John Fogerty is surely one of them. Two years on from the Summer of Love, Fogerty could see which way the wind was blowing, his ...

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Spring Has Broken Out All Over

Source: All About Jazz
April 17, 2009

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STLJN Video Showcase: Spotlight on Jon Faddis

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 12, 2009

This week, our video spotlight shines on trumpeter Jon Faddis, who will be in St. Louis next Saturday, April 18 to play at the Touhill Performing Arts Center as part of the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival. Faddis, who's now 55, emerged on the international jazz scene in the early 1970s as a teenage prodigy of Dizzy Gillespie. Playing bop and mainstream swing at a time when fusion was in ...

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Tale Ognenovski, Internationally Renowned Clarinetist on YouTube

Source: All About Jazz
April 12, 2009

Tale Ognenovski at YouTube

Tale Ognenovski Clarinet Solo - Brusnichko Oro Macedonian Folk Dance

Tale Ognenovski Clarinet Solo - Bukovsko Svadbarsko Oro Macedonian Folk Dance

Tale Ognenovski plays Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622: Allegro

Tale Ognenovski Concert for Clarinet No. 1 - Macedonian Classical Clarinet Solo

Tale Ognenovski Jazz Composition No. 1 - Macedonian Jazz Clarinet Solo

Tale Ognenovski Jazz Composition No. 6 - Macedonian Jazz Clarinet Solo

Tale Ognenovski Jazz Composition No. 7 - Macedonian Jazz Clarinet ...

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Sat Eye Candy: Rocket Man

Source: JamBase
April 12, 2009

HIGH AS A KITE ON A TIMELESS FLIGHT

On this day in 1970, Apollo 13, the third manned lunar landing mission, launched. Thanks to Ron Howard and Tom Hanks we all know how things turned out. Just two years after this snafu plagued flight, Elton John and his lyricist chum Bernie Taupin released one of the ubiquitous singles in modern music, “Rocket Man." (Very) loosely based on Ray Bradbury's tale from The Illustrated Man, the Honky Chateau standout has ...

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7 Things You Didn't Know About Chris Botti

Source: All About Jazz
April 11, 2009

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Video Showcase: Spotlight on Sean Jones

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 6, 2009

This week, let's get acquainted via video with trumpeter Sean Jones, who's coming to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, April 15 through Saturday, April 18 at Jazz at the Bistro.The 30-year-old Ohio native studied music at Youngstown State University and Rutgers University, and is known for his work as a lead trumpeter for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as well as for his five albums as a leader for ...

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