Video / DVD News

Three Historic Jazz Documentaries on DVD: Blue Note, Play Your Own Thing, and Joe Zawinul

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
February 13, 2008

NAXOS of America Releases Three Historic Jazz Documentaries on DVD: * BLUE NOTE - A STORY OF MODERN JAZZ * PLAY YOUR OWN THING - A STORY OF JAZZ IN EUROPE * JOE ZAWINUL - A MUSICAL PORTRAIT BLUE NOTE A Story of Modern Jazz Street Date: February 26 Featuring Bob Belden Joachim Ernst Berendt Art Blakey Ron Carter John Coltrane Bob Cranshaw Dexter Gordon Johnny Griffin Herbie Hancock Freddie ...

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Roy Hargrove Scores a New Movie!

Source: All About Jazz
February 7, 2008

Roy Hargrove wrote and performed the intricate jazz soundtrack and musical score for Fred Baker's new film Assata aka Joanne Chesimard. The film's World Premiere was this past Friday, Feb 1, in San Diego as the featured film in the recent San Diego Black Film Festival. Baker's film is about the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther revolutionary college girl--almost killed in a police shoot-up on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She was then in 77, falsely convicted ...

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Silard China Tour DVD Released

Source: All About Jazz
January 20, 2008

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Creating Authentic Buzz: Gabriel Alegria and Sofia Koutsovitis on Video

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2008

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SF Jazz Announces First Concert DVD Release: SF Jazz Collective: Live at Jazz a Vienne

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
January 11, 2008

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA)--SFJAZZ, the leading non-profit jazz institution on the West Coast and the presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, has announced its first concert DVD release: SFJAZZ Collective: Live at Jazz a Vienne. Originally filmed for broadcast on French Public television, the DVD captures the all-star octet live in concert in Vienne, France on July 10, 2007. This nine-song set features a mix of original compositions and Thelonious Monk songs including “Epistrophy," “San Francisco Holiday," and much more. ...

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V.I.E.W. Video Announces the Release to DVD of Live Performance Celebrating the Legacy of the Moscow Sax Quintet

Source: All About Jazz
January 8, 2008

(New York, NY) - V.I.E.W. Video, a leading home video label and producer of jazz, performing arts, and pop music programs, announced the January 2008 DVD release of the Moscow Sax Quintet: The Jazznost Tour.

The Moscow Sax Quintet is considered one of the finest Jazz groups in the world. They launched their Western career with a series of concerts in the U.S., appropriately named the “The Jazznost Tour." They not only received great critical acclaim from both ...

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New DVD of Legendary Jazz Drummer Elvin Jones Released!

Source: All About Jazz
January 8, 2008

(New York, NY) - V.I.E.W. Video, a leading home video label and producer of jazz, performing arts, and pop music programs, announced the January 2008 DVD release of Elvin Jones: Jazz Machine.

It would be impossible to overstate the importance of master drummer Elvin Jones in the evolution of current and mainstream Jazz. Elvin followed older brothers Hank and Thad onto the Detroit jazz scene, where all forged eminent careers.

By the mid 1960s he was ...

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Singer/Songwriter/Pianist Katherine Farnham to Appear on National DVD

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Recording Artist and singer/songwriter/pianist Katherine Farnham will be appearing on the upcoming DVD “Inside the Music Business: Strategies for Success". The DVD project, created by Inside the Music Business founder Eric Kline, will feature showcase performances by Farnham and 7 other artists as well as panels by music industry veterans. The panels include Co-Host Adam Gaynor of the band Matchbox 20, as well as music industry attorneys, promoters, and publishing experts. The DVD is due to be ...

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