Video / DVD News

"LEGENDS OF JAZZ" DVD/CD Collection Brings Soaring Performances, Stellar Production to the Home Screen and Stereo

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2006

The acclaimed TV series “LEGENDS OF JAZZ with Ramsey Lewis," whose debut season is currently airing--to rave reviews--on PBS stations nationwide, is now being released in three groundbreaking DVD/CD collections, beginning with LEGENDS OF JAZZ: Volume One on Tuesday, June 27th.

LEGENDS OF JAZZ: Volume One comprises a DVD containing the first four theme-based episodes, bonus interviews with the guest stars, a behind-the- scenes photo gallery, interviews with the producer and host, and a specially mixed audio CD that captures ...

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Bob Cranshaw: Celebrating An Unsung Hero

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

Bob Cranshaw has been the bassist of choice for Sonny Rollins since 1959. Their forty-seven-year collaboration is the subject of a new video on Sonny's website, “Bob Cranshaw and Sonny Rollins, The First Gig." Created by Bret Primack, it features interviews with both Rollins and Cranshaw . Exclusive performance footage includes excerpts from The Sonny Rollins Group in Concert back in April in California. The content is also available as an MP3 download. Born December 10, 1932, the Evanston, Illinois ...

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New CD and DVD Releases from Delmark

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2006

NEW CDs & DVDs FROM DELMARK

Street Date: June 27, 2006

Delmark New Releases Deep Blue Organ Trio Going To Town: Live at the Green Mill Delmark DVD 1569 / DE 569

Here's what the critics said about Deep Blue's first CD Deep Blue Bruise (Delmark 556):

Organist Chris Foreman's “insistently swinging, blues-drenched solo lines are dripping with churchified soul and show a fertile imagination. Foreman stands to advance to the front ranks of the elite ...

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Tammy Hall's 'Reflections' Selected For Upcoming Film Festivals

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2006

Bay Area Musician Spans Both Coasts with Musically Artistic Original Film Odyssey

The Bay Area's best-kept jazz secret, Tammy Hall, and her debut musical odyssey portrayed in her newly released DVD Tammy Hall: Reflections, will be featured in two film festivals this spring. Both the Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, running from April 5-9 in Tampa, Florida, and the Mendocino Film Festival, running May 18-May 21 in Mendocino, California will be screening the film featuring Hall's jazz favorites and ...

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John McLaughlin/Remember Shakti "The Way of Beauty" New DVD Release

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2006

2006 DVD Release called The Way of Beauty from seminal jazz/world music unit Remember Shakti featuring John McLaughlin on guitar, Zakir Hussain on tablas, U.Shrinivas on mandolin, V.Selvaganesh on kanjeera and Shankar Mahadevan on vocals. This is a All Region NTSC DVD playable on all DVD players. This dvd features a 60 minute documentary (Shakti Timeless) on the band starting from the early seventies. 45 minutes of sound check footage with Remember Shakti from Paris 2004 as well as 55 ...

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MVD To Release Five New Jazz DVDs From Disconforme On May 16, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
March 30, 2006

MVD TO RELEASE FIVE NEW DVDs FROM DISCONFORME ON MAY 16, 2006 JAZZ SHOTS - EAST COAST VOL 1 JAZZ SHOTS - WEST COAST VOL 1 JAZZ VOICE - THE LADIES SING JAZZ VOL 1 JAZZ VOICE - THE LADIES SING JAZZ VOL 1 AMALIA RODRIGUES - SPIRIT OF FADO

MVD and Disconforme are pleased to announce the release of five new DVDs for US distribution. These titles ...

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"Showcase" First CD / DVD Release from "Legends of Jazz" Series

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2006

SHOWCASE - FIRST CD/DVD RELEASE FROM THE LEGENDS OF JAZZ TV SERIES

Multi-Media Programming Effort Supports Quality and Variety of Unique Recordings

LRSmedia announces the release of Legends of Jazz - Showcase, the inaugural CD / DVD package from the television series aired on PBS stations, hosted by multi GRAMMY award-winning composer / pianist Ramsey Lewis. The Showcase all-star package features jazz greats Al Jarreau, David Sanborn, Chris Botti, Dave Brubeck, Marcus Miller, Chick Corea, George Duke, Lee Ritenour, Jane ...

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Paul Anka DVD - Rock Swings - Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival - Out May 1st

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

Paul Anka - Rock Swings Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival

Featuring swing versions of Everybody Hurts, True, Hello, Eye Of The Tiger, plus the Anka classics Diana, Lonely Boy and My Way

DVD released by Globe Records - 1 May 2006

Following on from Paul Anka's Gold Selling Top 10 UK Album, Rock Swings, comes the DVD release of Rock Swings - Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival - available from May 1st, 2006 on Globe Records / Universal ...

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