Video / DVD News

Neil Young Debuts Fork in the Road Clip

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

Neil Young was frantically writing songs about the economic meltdown and his LincVolt project during his 2008 world tour, playing as many as ten per show by the time the trek wrapped last month.

Just a few days ago he posted another new one on YouTube and his website with virtually no fanfare. Wearing a blue Tube Amp Repair t-shirt and eating an apple (with headphones plugged into it), Young sings about the economic collapse against a basic blues beat. ...

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DVD: Roland Kirk

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 15, 2009

Rahsaan Roland Kirk Live in '63 & '67 (Jazz Icons). One of eight DVDs in the impressive Jazz Icons third release, this finds Kirk touring Europe with his arsenal of horns. It is fascinating to watch him manage tenor sax, manzello, stritch, clarinet, siren and nose whistle. The forthright music he makes is even more gripping. Pianist George Gruntz, bassist Nels Henning rsted-Pederson and drummer Daniel Humair are among his accompanists in Belgium, Holland and Norway. Kirk's fourteen performances include ...

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J.P. Delaire's Music Video Celebrates Barack Obama's Inauguration

Source: Creativity in Music
January 12, 2009

Minneapolis Musician J.P. DeLaire offers moving music video to celebrate Barack Obama's Inauguration!

After several months of witnessing some of the music videos and messages that are currently being aired on TV and across the Internet by various artists, I was inspired to address my support for Obama's candidacy in a more serious tone. J.P. Delaire

“In My Life" touches on multiple world events that have affected our communities across the globe, and to our detriment here in ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Three from Dave Holland

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 11, 2009

This week, we've got three videos featuring bassist Dave Holland, who will be performing at the Sheldon Concert Hall on Saturday, January 24. Holland first gained wide public notice as a member of Miles Davis' electric band in the late 1960s, and has gone on to have a prolific and diverse career collaborating with many major jazz musicians and leading his own critically acclaimed groups, ranging from a big band to various ...

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Other Matters: Togetherness

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 5, 2009

This spring will see the release on DVD of a documentary film that dramatizes the degree to which we're all in this troubled world together. The film uses music to make that point and the further one that music can help heal our differences. Its producer, Mark Johnson, took video and sound equipment around the world. He spent ten years filming musicians and singers in South Africa, Moscow, New Orleans, Tibet and scores of other places, then melding their work ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Bad Plus Play "Flim" and "Big Eater"

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 4, 2009

This week, we catch up once again with The Bad Plus, who will be returning to St. Louis to play Wednesday, January 7 through Saturday, January 10 at Jazz at the Bistro. Today's first video, a version of the Aphex Twin composition “Flim" was recorded in May 2007 in Boulder, Colorado, and serves as a representative example of The Bad Plus' well-known penchant for transforming songs one usually not perceived ...

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Sat Eye Candy: Stephen Stills

Source: JamBase
January 4, 2009

OUR FAVORITE TREETOP FLYER TURNS 64 TODAY

There is a ribbon of timeless beauty and sadness threaded into the melodies and words of Stephen Stills. Very much the American cousin to '60s folk rock innovators like Bert Jansch and Roy Harper, Stills embodies the surge towards modernity that marked that tumultuous decade but with the streaming reverberations of crossroads, field hollers, madrigals and other bardic antiques. He holds up an unclouded mirror to himself and in doing so offers us ...

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Live Wilco DVD to Precede New Album

Source: Billboard Magazine
January 3, 2009

As first tipped here in August 2007, Wilco will release its first concert DVD, “Ashes of American Flags," chronicling February 2008 visits to Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and Tulsa, Okla.'s Cain Ballroom. The project is due in February or March from Nonesuch, just in advance of the next Wilco studio album, which the band is now recording. “Ashes" was assembled by longtime collaborators Brendan Canty and Christoph Green of Trixie Films, who previously worked on frontman Jeff Tweedy's solo DVD “Sunken ...

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