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30th Anniversary of Wattstax on Special Edition DVD
by Chris M. Slawecki
30th Anniversary of Wattstax on Special Edition DVD Warner Home Video 2004 In August of 1965, rioting that lasted for six days, killed 34 and destroyed hundreds of properties erupted in the South Central Los Angeles neighborhood known as Watts. In August 1972, this community reconvened for a ...
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
by John Kelman
Oscar Peterson Music in the Key of Oscar View Video 2004 With a career now in its seventh decade, Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson has seen some turbulent times, and no more evident is that fact than on Music in the Key of Oscar , which collects a two part television ...
King Crimson: Neal and Jack and Me
by John Kelman
King CrimsonNeal and Jack and MeDiscipline Global Mobile2004 More than any group that emerged from the so-called progressive rock era of the late '60s and early '70s, King Crimson has continued to reinvent itself. From orchestral bombast to faux-free jazz, from semi-fusion to nuevo metal, Crimson is one band that not ...
John McLaughlin: This is the Way I Do It
by Marco Anderson
John McLaughlin This Is The Way I Do It The Ultimate Guitar Workshop On Improvisation Mediastarz 2004 In the hands of all but a few other guitarists, this title would be a self-aggrandisement on a major scale (no pun intended). However, being the distilled ...
Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez: Live at the Modern Drummer Festival
by John Kelman
With a breadth of ability, drummer Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez still maintains strong roots in the traditional music of his native Cuba. Despite playing in a variety of contexts since relocating to New York City a few years ago, and recording with artists including Victor Mendoza, David Samuels, Steve Turre and, most notably, on Carlos Santana's ...
John McLaughlin: This Is The Way I Do It
by Walter Kolosky
John McLaughlin This Is The Way I Do It The Ultimate Guitar Workshop On Improvisation Mediastarz 2004 Leave it to John McLaughlin to revolutionize how guitar improvisation is taught to the masses. One gets the sense that if DVD technology had not come around, McLaughlin would ...
Drummers Collective: 25th Anniversary Celebration & Bass Day 2002
by John Kelman
The Drummers Collective, arguably the leading school for jazz drumming in the world, celebrated its 25th anniversary in '02, and thankfully Paul Siegel and Rob Wallis of Hudson Music were thereto record the event, featuring a wide range of drummers and styles. Mixing it in with the annual Bass Day celebration, the scope of the event ...
Sean Rickman: Compositional Drumming
by John Kelman
Drummer Sean “The Rick" Rickman, currently on tour with the M-Base-meets-hip hop fusion of Dapp Theory, delivers Compositional Drumming , a DVD that, while mainly an instructional DVD for drummers, is a fascinating look at how drums can (and should) be an equal part of the compositional process. While the role of a drummer may be ...
Buddy Rich At the Top
by John Kelman
Rescued from obscurity by Hudson Music, At the Top was a one-hour '73 performance of Buddy Rich and the Buddy Rich Big Band originally broadcast on Public Television in the United States. While the audio quality is a touch muddy, symptomatic of the recording capabilities for television at the time, it serves as an outstanding document ...
Charlie Hunter: Right Now Live
by Doug Collette
Something of a companion piece released same day as his new trio audio outing Friends Seen & Unseen , this DVD was recorded in winter of 2002 by 1k Studios when idiosyncratic guitarist Charlie Hunter was still working with his Quintet that recorded last year's Right Now Move. Its semi-animated graphics format conveys more than a ...
