Results for "Video / DVD"

Jazz Vocalist Magos Herrera Interview 2010

October 8, 2010

Brown, Green and Hamilton: "Cotton Tail"

October 7, 2010

While the Rifftides staff prepares the next installment of In Breve, we don't want you to feel abandoned. We have been holding the following video for just such an occasion—Benny Green, piano; Ray Brown,bass; Jeff Hamilton, drums; and the WDR Big Band conducted by John Clayton, in 1994, playing Duke Ellington's “Cotton Tail." In the right ...

Brown, Green and Hamilton: "Cottontail"

October 6, 2010

While the Rifftides staff prepares the next installment of In Breve, we don't want you to feel abandoned. We have been holding the following video for just such an occasion—Benny Green, piano; Ray Brown,bass; Jeff Hamilton, drums; and the WDR Big Band conducted by John Clayton, in 1994, playing Duke Ellington's “Cottontail." In the right hands, ...

DVD: Johnny Mercer

October 5, 2010

Johnny Mercer, This Time The Dream's On Me (Warner Bros). Producer-director Bruce Ricker does a masterly job of integrating new and old material into a thorough biography of the great lyricist. The story of Mercer's life and artistry melds film clips and recordings of Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Mercer ...

Archie Shepp - "In a Sentimental Mood" (1978)

October 5, 2010

Legendary Chicago Saxman Von Freeman Celebrates 88th Year! Happy Birthday Man!

October 4, 2010

Several years ago I had the pleasure to meet Von Freeman and for a while became a regular at the vaunted New Apartment Lounge Tuesday-night jam sessions on the south-side of ChiTown...(photo from http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/) where he has a band usually comprised of local jazz greats Matt Ferguson (stand-up bass), Mike Allemana (guitar), Michael Traynor (drums) that ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Joshua Redman Trio

October 3, 2010

This week, let's take a look at some video clips of saxophonist Joshua Redman, who will be in St. Louis this coming Wednesday, October 6 through Saturday, October 9 to play at Jazz at the Bistro. Often acclaimed as one of the top tenors of his generation, the 41-year-old ...

Sat Eye Candy: Don McLean

October 3, 2010

MORE TO THE MAN THAN A SLICE OF PIE There are very few songs that virtually everyone is familiar with, but “American Pie" and its tale of “the day the music died" is surely one of them. However, that 1972 ultra-hit is hardly the only thing Don McLean ever recorded, and in fact, he remains one ...

Diversion: Johnny Wittwer

October 2, 2010

During my early development as a listener, I was immersed in the works of Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Miles Davis when along came Johnny Wittwer. Wittwer was a Seattle pianist who had been been important in the traditional jazz revival on the west coast in the 1940s. Early in that decade he had a trio ...

Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969 out on DVD 11/23

September 29, 2010

FEATURES AN IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF WILSON'S SONGS THROUGH THE 60'S The songs Brian Wilson wrote for and recorded with The Beach Boys during the 1960s are re-assessed throughout Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969 which runs over three hours in length across two discs. The DVD will be released on November 23. There are exclusive contributions from fellow ...