Video / DVD News

Guitarist Allan Holdsworth DVD with Alan Pasqua

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2007

Brand New DVD from Guitar Legend Allan Holdsworth. With an approximate run time of 90 minutes, every song from this incredible tour is featured. Touring worldwide in 2007, this ensemble is a must see. Captured live in HD at Yoshi's, this incredible DVD features four of the world's most proficient jazz musicians today. Allan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua, Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip deliver one of the most awe inspiring performances ever seen. This DVD will surely top the stack of ...

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Kirk Nurock Starting Two Courses: Vocal Jazz Workshop - Improv and Interpretation + Songwriting Seminar - Jazz and Related Styles

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
March 5, 2007

Two Courses With Composer/Pianist Kurt Nurock

VOCAL JAZZ WORKSHOP - IMPROV and INTERPRETATION 7 Saturdays, 3:30-5:30pm (Note: 3/17 is at 1:00-3:00) March 10th-24th, April 14th-May 5th

SONGWRITING SEMINAR - JAZZ and RELATED STYLES 7 Tuesday evenings, 7:30-9:30 March 13th - April 24th

Singers' Forum 49W. 24th Street (at 6th) Manhattan http://www.singersforum.org/

$300 for each course ($100 deposit), $560 for both

Workshop limited to 12, Seminar to ...

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Bill Mays Trio, Live at Wvi Just Out, the DVD

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
March 1, 2007

Just out, the DVD: “Bill Mays Trio, Live at WVIA" Filmed before an in-studio television audience last year, the DVD features Bill Mays' long-standing trio with bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson. Three roaming cameras provide beautiful coverage of the trio at work: Martin's virtuoso pizzicato and arco work, Matt's wide, unusual array of drum and percussion toys, Bill inside the piano with strings strummed, plucked and muted (for you purists, he also use the ivories!). This is serious ...

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Dionne Watwick: Live - New Concert DVD on April 3

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2007

On the occasion of her 45th year in show business, Image Entertainment is releasing a new live concert DVD featuring legendary vocalist Dionne Warwick performing her greatest hits. The concert was filmed during a sold-out performance in England on Ms. Warwick's 2005 tour.

The songs on this 100 minute feature length concert DVD include: Heartbreaker - Walk On By - Do You Know The Way To San Jose? - That's What Friends Are For - I'll Never Fall in Love ...

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Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter Live at the Monteux Jazz Festival DVD in Stores Feb 27th

Source: Special Ops Media
February 22, 2007

Image Entertainment presents the DVD release of Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter: Live at the Monteux Jazz Festival in stores February 27th. In support of this release I have DVDs available for review and giveaway as well as video clip streams and other assets (press release, box cover, and photos). It began almost as a lark when Carlos Santana encountered his longtime friend and hero Wayne Shorter on the concert trail in Atlanta, GA, in 1987. Carlos said, “Let's start ...

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"The Sonny Rollins Podcast," a Monthly Video Series, Debuts

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
February 15, 2007

"The Sonny Rollins Podcast," a monthly video series focusing on Sonny Rollins, the man and his music, is now available for online viewing, download, and subscription at http://www.sonnyrollins.com. The series, conceived and produced by Bret Primack, tells Sonny's story through interviews with band members, friends, fans, family, and Sonny himself, and utilizes performances current and classic as well as backstage footage. “These Podcasts are essentially an ongoing documentary film that will unfold over the next year, chapter by chapter," reports ...

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Electric Heart: Don Ellis Documentary Film (Coming in Early 2007)

Source: CSP-Media
February 2, 2007

Donald Johnson Ellis 1934-1978, the Man... his Times and most importantly his Music is explored in the Feature Length Documentary Film, ELECTRIC HEART -don ellis. The Story of the one of the most innovative Composer, Arranger, Writer and Musicians' of all time, Ellis was the first to create a fusion between Jazz-Rock & Classical music. Pulitzer winning Composer Gunther Schuller appears explaining Ellis as the advent of his own coined phrase “The Third Stream". Debuting his Orchestra in 1966 at ...

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Bobby Darin - Seeing Is Believing: 19 Song DVD Collection on Hyena Records

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2006

BOBBY DARIN SEEING IS BELIEVING: 19 CLASSIC PERFORMANCES OF THE LEGENDARY ENTERTAINER AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON DVD

Featuring His Biggest Hits Like “Mack The Knife," “Dream Lover," “Splish Splash" and “Beyond The Sea" Plus Duets With Connie Francis and Bobbie Gentry

“Of the handful of people who could do it all, nobody did it all the way Bobby Darin did. And when it came to singing, any kind of song he wanted to sing, he could sing." ...

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