Video / DVD News

Scotty Anderson's Live DVD: Working Without a Net

Source: All About Jazz
December 1, 2008

Here’s what people are saying about Scotty Anderson’s new video Working Without a Net (Live at the Capital) “Having had the distinct honor of being able to produce Triple Stop and Classic Scotty as well as travel with him to various venues: NYC, Dallas, Nashville, etc as well as just talking with him and hearing him play close up, in complete candor I am out of superlatives!! When the guitarist's guitar player, Ted Green says “if he isn't the greatest ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Three Views of Nnenna Freelon

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 30, 2008

This week's video spotlight shines on singer Nnenna Freelon, who's coming to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, December 3 through Saturday, December 6 at Jazz at the Bistro. Now 54 years old, Freelon didn't begin singing professionally until she was in her late thirties, but since then she's more than made up for lost time, performing and recording with many well-known jazz artists including the Count Basie Orchestra, Ray Charles, ...

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Thanksgiving Eye Candy: Hendrix

Source: JamBase
November 28, 2008

EXCUSE US WHILE WE KISS THE SKY

If he were still with us Jimi Hendrix would be 66 years old today. As it is, he's been gone for 38 years but what he wrought in his short career remains blisteringly present. Within the three (yes, just three) studio albums he released in his lifetime and a series of incendiary live performances at high profile late '60s festivals like Woodstock and Isle of Wight, Hendrix laid down a musical tapestry people ...

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Toots Shor's New York Joint: When Giants Walked the Earth

Source: Michael Ricci
November 24, 2008

From movie stars to athletes to mob bosses, they rubbed elbows at Toots'.

Early on in “Toots," the new documentary about legendary New York saloon keeper Toots Shor, we get to see Frank Sinatra recalling the night Toots asked him to come to dinner at his joint with some of Toots' pals. The other pals? Bing Crosby, Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth. As the four sultans of mid-century America made their way through the restaurant to a private table, the ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Jeremy Davenport

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 23, 2008

This week's Saturday video post is dedicated to St. Louis native, trumpeter and singer Jeremy Davenport, who's coming home Thanksgiving weekend to play Friday, November 28 and Saturday, November 29 at Jazz at the Bistro. (Davenport also will play a special matinee at the Bistro on Sunday, November 30 as a benefit for PAN CAN, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network).Davenport is known mostly as a straight-ahead, swinging player, influenced heavily ...

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Instrumental Interplay at Heart of Rush DVD

Source: Billboard Magazine
November 19, 2008

For its new DVD, “Snakes & Arrows Live," Rush took a somewhat different approach than on its last two video releases, 2003's “Rush in Rio" and 2005's “R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour." “With this one we wanted to focus on the playing," singer/bassist/keyboardist Geddy Lee tells Billboard.com. “So a lot of the camera work features the interaction between Neil (Peart), Alex (Lifeson) and myself, a lot of the details that you don't normally cover in a DVD performance. So for ...

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Don Ellis: "Electric Heart" Special Edition DVD Now Available

Source: CSP-Media
November 18, 2008

The Don Ellis Electric Heart Special Edition DVD is here! “The most comprehensive collection of Film & Music ever put together in a single media format on the incredible story of the Man, his Times and his Music, Donald Johnson Ellis (1934-1978)" Electric Heart Award Winning Feature Length Documentary Film, (ENGLISH),73 MINUTES, GENERAL AUDIENCES - Sights & Sounds Films / Sleepy Night Records 2008 Segment by Segment breakdown of the Film Extended Menu includes: Extra Interviews with Maynard ...

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The Who Looks Back to '77 on Live DVD

Source: Billboard Magazine
November 18, 2008

A December 1977 concert from Kilburn, London, considered a holy grail by Who fans, was a somewhat ambivalent experience for the band, according to frontman Roger Daltrey. “I just remember it was kind of a weird day," Daltrey tells Billboard.com about the Gaumont State Theatre show, which was filmed for Jeff Stein's documentary “The Kids Are Alright" and is being released in its entirety tomorrow (Nov. 18) on the DVD “The Who at Kilburn 1977. “We did the show in ...

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