Video / DVD News

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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Lisa Sokolov Solo Live New DVD

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 18, 2007

Extra-ordinary Sokolov is one powerful fierce open-hearted artist. She is a masterful technician and a channel of the human soul. She befuddles the business of music and challenges the world of art.

Laughing Horse Records announces the release of Lisa Sokolov's new DVD “Lisa Sokolov Solo Live"

Here is an opportunity to hear and see the singular vocalist/composer Lisa Sokolov solo live in concert. Sokolov is a force. Her work has been lauded internationally with dozens of “Best of the ...

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Marshall Crenshaw Song is Title Track of "Walk Hard" Movie and Soundtrack

Source: conqueroo
December 3, 2007

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - When the producers of the forthcoming movie Walk Hard needed a strong title track for the film about a fictional hard-living '50s rock 'n' roll singer, they turned to one of the most acclaimed real singer/songwriters around -- Marshall Crenshaw. The film's star, John C. Reilly, performs the song in the movie, which will open December 21 in most U.S. markets.

Walk Hard, a parody of the biopic genre, features Reilly as a fictional musician named ...

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Music Film Factor Releases New Flamenco DVD

Source: All About Jazz
November 15, 2007

THE STORY OF PETENERA AS IT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD BEFORE

Music Film Factor has just produced a new flamenco DVD with 2 hours of previously unreleased live performances featuring Seville's acclaimed maestro Jose Galvan and California's flamenco dancer Elena Marlowe. Petenera--a Flamenco Drama in Music and Dance is a unique collection of traditional flamenco repertory as it is seldom performed today. It includes a 26-minute dramatic account of the suffering and loneliness of Andalusia's femme fatale Petenera who has ...

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"A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story" and Boxed Set Documentary

Source: Now Forward Music
October 23, 2007

A four disc boxed set (3 CDs + 1 bonus DVD) celebrating the career of legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes

An unprecedented project offering a wild musical ride through 60 years of jazz featuring recordings licensed from nearly a dozen different labels of Roy Haynes with the Giants of Jazz: Miles, Bird, Monk, Getz, Coltrane, Corea, Metheny and more, and leading his own influential groups.

Entertaining and informative, Life in Time highlights the evolution of the artist and the medium, ...

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Jazzed Media Releases Marvin Stamm Quartet DVD

Source: All About Jazz
October 15, 2007

Jazzed Media has released a new performance video of the Marvin Stamm Quartet on DVD. Jazz trumpeter Marvin Stamm is joined by quartet members Bill Mays on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, and Ed Soph on drums.

The Marvin Stamm Quartet DVD/CD Alone Together (JM9002) includes a live performance of the Marvin Stamm Quartet in Los Angeles, California recorded in late 2006. A CD compilation of the music from the live performance DVD is included in the combo package.

Currently, ...

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New Blackmore's Night DVD/CD, "Paris Moon", to be Released November 6

Source: All About Jazz
October 10, 2007

Acoustic Renaissance Band Celebrates 10th Anniversary New York, NY (October 10, 2007)--For a decade, award winning singer/songwriter Candice Night, legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, and their fellow band of minstrels, have crafted an enchanting folk/rock sound with Renaissance overtones that has earned them the devotion of fans around the globe. On November 6, 2007 Blackmore's Night will release Paris Moon, a long-form concert DVD/CD shot September 20, 2006 at Paris, France's famed Olympia. Over the course of five internationally charting studio ...

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Bob Baldwin Releases Memoirs of the Hudson DVD

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
September 26, 2007

As All About Jazz eloquently described in 2004, “As a contemporary jazz keyboardist, composer, and producer ... Bob Baldwin is continually maintaining his status in the music industry as a person to watch."

An innovator in the fusion of R&B and pop, Baldwin has indeed been a staple on the contemporary jazz scene for nearly two decades.

Perhaps best known for his collaborations, Baldwin has worked with more major names in the biz than one can reasonably list: Will Downing, ...

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