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Green Book: A Serious Comedy and Jazz Allegory
Green Book
DreamWorks Universal
2018
Starting perhaps in the 1930s, African American jazz musicians and bands from the north, midwest, and west toured the segregationist South. There they found to their dismay that as much as they were sought after for performances, they were compelled to live in separate hotels and use ...
Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (2CD/Blu Ray)
Steven Wilson
Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Eagle Records
2018
In a career now early in its fourth decade, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson has bucked almost every trend in the new millennium music industry. After spending over twenty years as the driving force behind Porcupine Tree, he made ...
Green Book Directed By Peter Farrelly
Green Book
Directed by Peter Farrelly
Universal Pictures
2018
For those unfamiliar with the guide or simply too young to know, the Green Book was a handbook for African American travelers seeking safe haven when trekking through the segregated Jim Crow South. The Green Book was an indispensable travel guide ...
Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge Uncut
Rolling Stones
Voodoo Lounge Uncut
Eagle Vision
2018
If there's anything better than issuing a previously-unreleased recording of some kind, it's putting out a fully-restored piece once available only in part. As indicated by its title, the Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge Uncut represents the full and complete performance, in proper running ...
Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge - 50 Years of Defining Culture
Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge: 50 Years of Defining Culture
Shout Factory
2018
In its two DVD's, six-chapters and four hours-plus total running time (which might well have been twice that length to be truly comprehensive_, Stories From the Edge ostensibly (and fitfully) covers history also laid out in the coffee ...
The US Festival 1982: The US Generation
Various Artists
The US Festival 1982
MVD Entertainment Group
2018
By title alone, The US Festival of 1982 might seem light years removed from the abiding fascination with festivals now pervading our culture. But if director Glenn Aveni's ninety-minutes plus documentary proves anything, it's that this event founded and sponsored ...
Lajos Dudas: Ein Künstlerportrait
Lajos Dudas
Lajos Dudas--Ein Künstlerportrait
Stadt Neuss Kulturamt
2018
The German city of Neuss honors an adopted son with this three-part video project (under the auspices of the Culture Department of City Neuss (GER)). German/Hungarian clarinetist Lajos Dudas has made his home there since 1973, leaving the freelance life to teach ...
Open Land: Meeting John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie
Open Land: Meeting John Abercrombie
Music Heritage Productions / ECM Records
2018
It's almost a year to the day since the world lost John Abercrombie and, for many of his fans, that loss remains something still deeply and palpably felt. A guitarist who managed to be instantly recognizable without relying on ...
Open Land: Meeting John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie
Open Land: Meeting John Abercrombie
Music Heritage Productions / ECM Records
2018
Named after John Abercrombie's 1999 ECM album of the same name (by his trio with organist Dan Wall and drummer Adam Nussbaum, plus guests trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, violinist Mark Feldman and saxophonist Joe Lovano), Open Land finds ...
BANG! The Bert Berns Story
BANG! The Bert Berns Story
Abramorama
2018
BANG! The Bert Berns Story compares favorably to The Terry Kath Experience (FilmRise, 2017), not just in the elevated quality of its conception and execution, but in its authorship by an offspring of the subject. Just as the Chicago guitarist's daughter, Michelle Sinclair, helmed the ...
