Results for "Video / DVD"

Nu Jazz Records and Video to Enter High Definition Marketplace

June 12, 2008

Two new labels from production company Nu Jazz Entertainment aim to take jazz recordings to a new levelthe digital level. Nu Jazz Records and Nu Jazz Video plan to release more than 30 high definition audio and video projects each via NuJazz Entertainment. Artists working with the labels include saxophonist Jimmy Greene (pictured with Luques Curtis), ...

DVD: Peggy Lee

June 11, 2008

Fever, The Music of Peggy Lee (Capitol). This quasi-documentary sketches Peggy Lee's life and career. Its greatest contribution is the use of performance clips, interviews and informal films to create a portrait of a gifted artist whose human warmth matched her talent. She was terrific even in a shampoo commercial. Her first husband, the guitarist Dave ...

Afro-Peruvian Jazz Videos

June 6, 2008

Todays modern musical world finds the Latin Jazz realm continually expanding with a variety of South American and Caribbean influences as well as modern jazz ideals. Although Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms formed the core of the genre through much of its history, were seeing the growth of Latin Jazz that utilizes music from Peru, Argentina, Puerto ...

Rare Marley, Hendrix Performances Sold Online

June 5, 2008

Deal between Wolfgang's Vault, Universal Music brings concerts to Web site VINTAGE CONCERT PERFORMANCES by such acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix will soon join the nearly 500 recordings already available for download purchase at the music and memorabilia site Wolfgang's Vault. The additions were made possible through a deal between Universal Music ...

Free Bruford Sampler DVD and Catalogue

May 21, 2008

Aria! Action! Making Opera a Director's Art

May 19, 2008

Walter Felsenstein Edition HERE is a treasure. Opera DVDs tumble out by the dozens nowadays, too often featuring routine performances of recent productions that hardly seem worth preserving. In contrast Arthaus's scholarly and imposing “Walter Felsenstein Edition" offers a fascinating glimpse of an important moment in operatic history now vanished. It all comes in ...

Maurice Jarre Tribute to David Lean

May 19, 2008

In honor of David Lean's upcoming 100th birthday, in 2008, Milan Entertainment has released a special edition DVD/CD of a tribute concert which was recorded live at the Barbican Center in London in 1992, a month after David Lean's death. Maurice Jarre, French composer, composed the scores to 4 of David Lean's films: Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence ...

An Essential Piece of History - Arturo Sandoval on Video

May 16, 2008

I first encountered Arturo Sandoval in 1991, driving home from a gig in the middle of the night. The local jazz station had buried their Latin Jazz show late Saturday nights, so I had a wealth of great music to accompany me on the ride home. I was still fairly new to Latin Jazz, so [...] ...

Marcia Ball at the Highline Ballroom

May 15, 2008

New York, NY -- Fresh off the release of her new studio album Peace, Love, and BBQ, critically acclaimed contemporary blues artist Marcia Ball (Alligator Records) is on the road and bringing her swamp-inspired sound to fans across the nation. Marcia and the band recently took their good 'ole hometown southern jives all the way up ...

Neil Young to Release Archive on Blu-Ray

May 6, 2008

Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios. Blu-ray discs hold much more data than DVDs, are easily updated over the Internet and offer better picture and sound quality. Young revealed his plans Tuesday at ...