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The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live
The Moody Blues
Days of Future Passed Live
Eagle Vision
2018
For an album that was, according to surviving members of the Moody Blues (guitarist/vocalist Justin Hayward, bassist/vocalist John Lodge and drummer Graeme Edge), recorded in a mere seven days, Days of Future Passed (Deram, 1967) remains one of the early masterpieces ...
Chicago: The Terry Kath Experience
Chicago: The Terry Kath Experience
FilmRise
2018
Michelle Kath Sinclair's The Terry Kath Experience is a combination of history and homage to the her late father, the guitarist and one of the founding members of Chicago. The film proceeds with a streamlined logic, not to mention an abiding sense of love ...
The Doors: Live At The Isle of Wight Festival 1970
The Doors
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Eagle Vision
2018
Inveterate naysayers will inevitably disparage continuing archive releases by the Doors and, to some degree, it's a point well taken: is there any band with a comparable catalog and a greater preponderance of reissues? Yet negativism ignores ...
Van Morrison In Concert
Van Morrison
In Concert
Eagle Rock Video
2018
The video equivalent of last fall's pair of albums, Versatile (Legacy, 2017) and Roll with the Punches (Caroline, 2017), Van Morrison's In Concert is comprised of not just one, but two concerts. The main feature was recorded for the BBC Music In ...
Django: A Film As Much About History and Culture as About A Musical Icon
Django
Director: Étienne Comar
Milky Way
2017
Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) practically invented jazz guitar. A product of gypsy culture and music, living and working in Paris in the 1930s-40s, he and his group, the Hot Club Quintet, which notably included violinist Stephane Grappelli, brought their own brand of swing to the ...
Saxophone Colossus Featuring Sonny Rollins: A Film By Robert Mugge
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus
MVD Visual
2017
Sonny Rollins' life and career is the stuff of legend, not the least of which intervals include the period he 'retired' to perfect his craft with practice sessions on 'The Bridge' in New York or his numerous influential pieces of recording, including the ...
La La Land
Damien Chazelle's film La La Land, although also partly jazz-based, comes as a stark contrast to his previous directorial project, the brutal and intense Whiplash (2014). In essentially what seems a typical boy-meets-girl romantic scenario, La La Land follows the relationship between Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a pianist and jazz traditionalist who wants to open his own ...
read moreJeff Beck: Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Jeff Beck
Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Eagle Rock
2017
As fashionable as concert sit-ins have come to be in recent years, such guesting can be the bane of the live performance. So often it is the case that such invitees can interrupts the flow and/or momentum rather than nurturing it. ...
Rolling Stones From The Vault: Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers at the Fonda Theatre 2015
Eagle Rock Video
2017
The Rolling Stones have been nothing if not savvy (most of the time) throughout their fifty- year plus history, so it's no surprise the release of their latest title, Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015, is ...
Frank Sinatra: Portrait Of An Album | Sinatra Sings
Frank Sinatra
Portrait Of An Album | Sinatra Sings
Eagle Rock Entertainment
2017
The third release in The Frank Sinatra Collection concludes with the compilation Sinatra Sings, a retrospective of particularly memorable moments across forty years of Sinatra performances in the studio, on the stage, and on TV, narrated by his ...
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Elvesang by Sigurd Hole
Story of the Day
The first jazz record I bought was Carmen McRae singing “Who Gave You permission?” Blew me away...
By Ellen Robinson
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