Results for "Video / DVD"

Astronaut Cady Coleman and Ian Anderson - A Flute Duet out of This World

April 13, 2011

American astronaut Catherine “Cady" Coleman and Scottish flutist Ian Anderson from the band Jethro Tull played the first-ever flute duet between Earth and space. The duet played the tune Bourree in E minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was in honor of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin, who became the first man to enter outer space fifty ...

DVD: Peter Gabriel - Growing up Live (2003)

April 13, 2011

By Tom Johnson Perhaps it was a reaction to claims by fans and detractors alike that Peter Gabriel's previous live offering, Secret World Live, was really more “live" than live, that Gabriel decided to both offer up untouched soundboard recordings of each show on his summer tour and to quickly release a live DVD documenting a ...

"Nasty Jazz" DVD Release Scored by Chicago Jazz Composer Greg Spero

April 11, 2011

Chicago jazz composer Greg Spero and Artist/Technologist Doug Siefken combine forces on new Long Glance Media release: Nasty Jazz—a technologically innovative, genre-defining Single Panel Fluid Stills Digital Art and Music DVD designed for flat screen TVs Chicago IL, USA—Move over the Bluesand move on down the road, Rock n Roll! Nasty Chicago Jazz is now behind ...

Art Blakey in Paris, 1959

April 11, 2011

Drummer Art Blakey had a knack for attracting the best young talent to his ever-changing groups,collectively known as The Jazz Messengers. Over the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond,this was a proving ground for musicians to show their stuff. Blakey was often the biggest cheerleader as well as the one setting a perfect backbeat to showcase his soloists. ...

Steely Dan Sunday: "Kings" (1972)

April 11, 2011

Here's an early indication that Steely Dan wasn't going to dwell on romantic themes in their lyrics; songs about love in fact soon became the exception, not the rule. But a rock song about a late 12th century English ruler? Before you think that maybe the references to Richard the Lionhearted's foreign military adventures was meant ...

CD/DVD: Kronos Quartet - Rainbow: Music of Central Asia Vol. 8 (2010)

April 11, 2011

Volume 8 in the Smithsonian Folkways series on the music of Central Asia paired the Kronos Quartent with Afghan rubâb virtuoso Homayun Sakhi and Azerbaijani father-daughter singing duo Alim and Fargana Qasimov. The results of the collaborations were almost too good to be believed. The stories of how the compositions were put together are fascinating. In ...

Gary Lucas One-Take - "Q & A"

April 9, 2011

Former Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley guitarist performs a new instrumental piece entitled “Q & A" on Dusty Wright's One-Takes. About Gary Lucas A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, an international recording artist with over a dozen acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, Gary Lucas is on ...

Wayne Shorter Quartet - "All Blues" (2003)

April 7, 2011

Formulating an Effective Youtube Strategy

April 6, 2011

The accessibility of Youtube has ushered in an unprecedented level of focus on video content —both for bands and for fans. For any artist that wants to maximize his impact online, it is essential to develop a video content strategy for YouTube that not only represents them well, but also helps their fan base connect and ...

Mulligan's Birthday

April 6, 2011

Today is the 84th anniversary of Gerry Mulligan's birth. He died in 1996 at the age of 68. There are many contexts in which to remember Mulligan—as a precocious teenaged arranger for Tommy Tucker, Elliott Lawrence and Gene Krupa; one of the key figures in the Birth of the Cool recordings; the leader of groups from ...