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DVD: Joe Zawinul
Joe Zawinul: A Musical Portrait (ArtsHaus Musik). This well crafted documentary offers generous helpings of Zawinul's music while outlining his life and philosophy. Zawinul's luxurious existence in Malibu during his final years ("I have everything I want in life") contrasts with a visit to his boyhood home in Vienna and his account of surviving an Allied bombing in 1944. ...
Introducing "Dirt Road Blues" on truefire.com
Master Player and Teacher, Paul Rishell Releases Interactive Video Software for Learning Country Blues Guitar Just released! Featuring 16 songs taught and performed in 40 video segments with notation, text comments, interactive powertab, looping, frame advance, zoom, and other useful controls. Works on PC or Mac and also includes access to Truefire TV on the web. ...
New West Records Presents Norah Jones: Live from Austin, TX
New West Records proudly introduces Norah Jones: Live From Austin, TX, the latest DVD release from the acclaimed PBS Austin City Limits television series. Taken from the full ACL concert that was then edited into the half hour TV show, the DVD contains previously unreleased performances. The 18 song disc was filmed in Hi-Definition and has ...
Warner Bros. Celebrates Hollywood's Jazz Age
The cycle of gangster movies launched by Warner Bros. in the early 1930s often included scenes in speakeasies with anonymous musicians in the background. Anatole Litvak's “Blues in the Night" (1941) and Jack Webb's “Pete Kelly's Blues" (1955), which were released this month by Warners on DVD, reversed the perspective. These are Warner gangster pictures told ...
Vernon Neilly on DVD in Movie "Walk Hard"
Award Winning guitarist Vernon Neilly can now be seen in your living room, on your computer, and anywhere that you might have access to a DVD player, with the release of “Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story". Neilly, who has appeared in two other major motion pictures, “Along Came Polly" and “Starsky and Hutch", plays along ...
In Tense Times, James Brown Stays Cool
James Brown in the '60s' shows how the Godfather of Soul calmed Boston James Brown became a powerful symbol of black culture, thanks to such hits as “Say It Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud" and “I Got You (I Feel Good)." On April 5, 1968, James Brown stood as a voice of reason and ...
Guitarists Go Beyond Conventional Harmony & Chords with Modern Chord Melody
Jazz chord melody may very well be the most challenging of all guitar styles to truly master. Players must develop right-hand thumb and finger independence, a robust vocabulary of jazz voicings, a strong sense of melody and and arranger's feel for composition. And these are just the fundamentals. Once you have the “easy" stuff down, it's ...
Pixar's New Bunny Toon Steals Wall-E Show
PRESTO Well Worth the Price of Admission Alone Chances are you've been urged to check out Disney's animated robot flick “WALL-E," which has received critics' praise this summer. And you should--if only for Pixar's exuberant introductory short, “Presto," which steals the show as a throwback to classic Warner Bros. critter capers. The minifeature stars Presto DiGiotagione, ...
Billy Joel Will Be Last Shea Show
Billy Joel the Last Act Standing The razing of Shea Stadium later this year marks the end of an era for baseball fans, but it's also closing the door on a chapter of pop music history that began in 1965 when the Beatles became the first pop group to play a concert at a ...
Warner Home Video Releases Four Jazz-Oriented Films
Around Midnight Sees Light of Day Warner's DVD Release Warner Home Video releases four jazz-oriented films this week. Bird (1988) tells the story of jazz pioneer Charlie “Bird" Parker and helped establish future Oscar-winners Clint Eastwood as a director and Forest Whitaker as an actor. Pete Kelly's Blues (1953) stars Jack Webb (Dragnet) as a Kansas ...
