Video / DVD News

Warner Home Video Releases Four Jazz-Oriented Films

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Around Midnight Sees Light of Day Warner's DVD Release

Warner Home Video releases four jazz-oriented films this week. Bird (1988) tells the story of jazz pioneer Charlie “Bird" Parker and helped establish future Oscar-winners Clint Eastwood as a director and Forest Whitaker as an actor. Pete Kelly's Blues (1953) stars Jack Webb (Dragnet) as a Kansas City cornet player who fights the mob. Blues in the Night (1941) features a Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer score and more drama about musicians and ...

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Warner Home Video Releases Jazz Films

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

21 “Inspired by a true story," director Robert Luketic's movie is about a math professor at M.I.T. (Kevin Spacey) who recruits a group of brilliant students (including Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth) to master blackjack and win a bundle in Las Vegas casinos. Both single- and two-disc editions include a commentary by Luketic and producers Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca and three documentaries (21 - The Advantage Player, Basic Strategy: A Complete Film Journal and Money Plays: A Tour ...

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The Godfather Trilogy Gets Face Lift Restoration

Source: Michael Ricci
July 14, 2008

'The Godfather': A restoration offer they couldn't refuse The trilogy's face-lift took a team of experts, several hundred thousand dollars and two years. Expect more color and clarity, especially in key scenes.

Fans who pick up the recently announced “The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration," due out from Paramount Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray on Sept. 23, are likely to see things in the 1972 Mafia saga and its two sequels they've never noticed before. The differences could be subtle ...

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DVD: Hank Jones

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 11, 2008

Hank Jones, Jazz Master Class (Artists House). The pianist will be ninety at the end of this month. He was only eighty-six when he taught this class. Jones plays a solo concert, coaches and evaluates student pianists, charms his audience, chats with critic Gary Giddins and, in general, defies time. Together, the two DVDs in this package run more than five hours. They comprise one of a series of Artists House DVDs that capture producer John Snyder's master classes at New ...

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Holding Content over Beauty - Emiliano Salvador on Video

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
July 2, 2008

The digital age has greatly raised the bar on our demands for audio and video quality. We argue about the difference between file formats, looking for distinct differences in sound quality. We are able to carry hundreds of CDs in our pocket through MP3 players or move music wirelessly move music around our houses. Yet we still spend hundreds, and sometimes thousands of dollars on high quality players and speaker. We see the difference between digital movie theaters and old ...

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Third Series of Jazz Icons Debuts September 30!

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
July 1, 2008

New series of Jazz Icons DVD's features vintage unseen concerts featuring Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

“Jazz Icons is doing for jazz what the Criterion Collection has done for classic and important films." - Jazz Times

“The sound quality is first rate, and the performances are extraordinary." - Newsweek

“I can't say enough about the presentation of these DVDs. Not only have the producers gotten the best possible picture and ...

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Warren Haynes XMAS DVD

Source: All About Jazz
June 27, 2008

Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Vol. 8 DVD

Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Vol. 8 DVD is now available for purchase here.

As always, all the proceeds from the DVD and concert go to benefit Habitat For Humanity, an international non-profit organization dedicated to building housing for those in need of shelter. Enjoy over three hours of beautiful music from the 2006 Xmas Jam, and help build homes for people in need in the Asheville area and beyond. ...

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Phish: Walnut Creek DVD

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2008

PHISH: WALNUT CREEK; ALL NEW 2-DVD SET

Phish Phish is set to release Walnut Creek, a brand new 2-DVD set, in stores August 5, and available for pre-order now at Phish Dry Goods.

On July 22, 1997, Phish performed the second show of their U.S. summer tour at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in Raleigh, NC through a torrent of rain, thunder and lightning. Rather than cancel the gig, the band played on with the music mirroring the peaks of the storm's ...

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