Video / DVD News

Netflix Ends 'Profiles' Feature, Irks Customers

Source: PC Magazine
June 20, 2008

Online movie rental company Netflix has decided to do away with its “profiles" feature, which lets people set up separate movie queues within a single account. “Too many members found the feature difficult to understand and cumbersome, having to consistently log in and out of the Web site," according to a post on the Netflix blog. The company will end the service, which started in 2005, on September 1. With profiles, a person who has a subscription that lets you ...

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Solange Knowles New Music Video for "I Decided"

Source: Special Ops Media
June 19, 2008

Check out the terrific new video for “I Decided" from Solange Knowles. Geffen Records presents the sophomore release from Solange Knowles, SoL-AngeL and The Hadley Street Dreams due for release on August 26th. “I Decided" Video on Yahoo! Music Audio Stream Talented singer, songwriter, artist, and entrepreneur, Solange Knowles AKA SoL-AngeL, is ready to set the world on fire with a sound that is sure to breathe life into a sometimes stagnant music scene. With her ...

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Nu Jazz Records and Video to Enter High Definition Marketplace

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

Two new labels from production company Nu Jazz Entertainment aim to take jazz recordings to a new levelthe digital level. Nu Jazz Records and Nu Jazz Video plan to release more than 30 high definition audio and video projects each via NuJazz Entertainment. Artists working with the labels include saxophonist Jimmy Greene (pictured with Luques Curtis), drummer Geoff Clapp, saxophonist Wess Warmdaddy Anderson and Walter Blanding, Jr., one of the original Tough Young Tenors. By making all of our audio ...

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DVD: Peggy Lee

Source: All About Jazz
June 11, 2008

Fever, The Music of Peggy Lee (Capitol). This quasi-documentary sketches Peggy Lee's life and career. Its greatest contribution is the use of performance clips, interviews and informal films to create a portrait of a gifted artist whose human warmth matched her talent. She was terrific even in a shampoo commercial. Her first husband, the guitarist Dave Barbour, remained her great love even beyond their divorce. The bonus clip of Lee singing “I Only Have Eyes for You" to Barbour as ...

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Afro-Peruvian Jazz Videos

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2008

Todays modern musical world finds the Latin Jazz realm continually expanding with a variety of South American and Caribbean influences as well as modern jazz ideals. Although Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms formed the core of the genre through much of its history, were seeing the growth of Latin Jazz that utilizes music from Peru, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and more. In reality, these other directions have always been alive, theyve just been practiced among smaller communities, and we havent had ...

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Rare Marley, Hendrix Performances Sold Online

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

Deal between Wolfgang's Vault, Universal Music brings concerts to Web site VINTAGE CONCERT PERFORMANCES by such acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix will soon join the nearly 500 recordings already available for download purchase at the music and memorabilia site Wolfgang's Vault. The additions were made possible through a deal between Universal Music Group (UMG) and Wolfgang's Vault founder Bill Sagan. The recordings include live performances by UMG artists culled from thousands of concerts produced by late ...

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Free Bruford Sampler DVD and Catalogue

Source: Lori Hehr Public Relations
May 21, 2008

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Aria! Action! Making Opera a Director's Art

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2008

Walter Felsenstein Edition HERE is a treasure.

Opera DVDs tumble out by the dozens nowadays, too often featuring routine performances of recent productions that hardly seem worth preserving. In contrast Arthaus's scholarly and imposing “Walter Felsenstein Edition" offers a fascinating glimpse of an important moment in operatic history now vanished.

It all comes in a weighty 12-by-12-inch box: 12 discs containing seven opera productions directed by Felsenstein, filmed between 1956 and 1976; generous video extras showing him in ...

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