New release Jazz DVDs for 2010

Louis Armstrong - Good Evening Ev'rybody

A musical celebration of Satchmo. "Good Evening Ev'rybody" brings together Louis Armstrong and musical guests for a never-before-released concert performance in honor of Armstrong's 70th birthday at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival.

Enjoy many of his greatest hits from rehearsal to concert, with an array of guests including Dizzy Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson, Jimmy Owens, Bobby Hackett, Wild Bill Davison, and Ray Nance, along with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Eureka Brass Band. More...

John Coltrane - World According To John Coltrane

With previously unseen footage, this DVD celebrates this extraordinary and passionate musician with relentless curiosity. The film includes extensive performance footage and culminates in a fascinating musical meeting between the Art Ensemble of Chicago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and dervish musicians in Morocco's Sahara desert in 1990. Included are Alice Coltrane, Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Heath, Wayne Shorter, Rashied Ali, Roscoe Mitchell, and more.

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Count Basie - Swingin' The Blues

In this DVD, a distinguished group of Basie alumni - including early band stars Harry "Sweets" Edison, Earle Warren, and Claude Williams, and later stars Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, and Joe Williams - lend their insights. The film is generously supported by vintage performance films beginning in the 1930s and master recordings of the greatest Basie sessions. Also featured are Al Grey, Jay McShann, and Albert Murray. Included are performances by Count Basie, Lester Young, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Al Grey, Joe Williams, Jimmy Rushing, Judy Garland, and many others. More...

Brian Culbertson - Live From The Inside

 DVD & CD

On June 3, 2009, Culbertston and a small army of well respected "smooth jazz" musicians descended upon the legendary Capitol Studios in Hollywood to film and record a live career retrospective of well loved tunes.

The resulting session is presented in full on a DVD directed by filmmaker Joey Castro. Also included is a CD with 12 of the tunes they performed, including the brand new song "Go." More...

Béla Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart

The banjo has its origins in Africa, and Bela Fleck traveled to the continent to study the instrument's history and collaborate with native musicians. Filmmaker Sascha Paladino joined Fleck for his journey, and Throw Down Your Heart is a documentary which follows the banjo virtuoso through Gambia, Mali, Tanzania, and Uganda, meeting with historians and musicologists and making music with artists from all walks of life, More...

Bill Frisell  -  Blues Dream

Guitarist Bill Frisell is one of the most singular musicians of his generation. Frisell has appeared on over 80 recordings, with performers like Don Byron, Wayne Horvitz, Lyle Mays, Paul Motion, Hal Wilner, John Zorn, John Scofield, Paul Motian, Charlie Haden, Ginger Baker, Gavin Bryars, Elvis Costello & Marianne Faithful.
Bill Frisell is in constant demand; his diverse musical concepts embrace jazz, blues, gospel, country, rock and pop.

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Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense

Jazz is the most uniquely American of all musical forms, a form of expression that's joyous, challenging and powerful. After more than a century, jazz remains a vital art form in which the lessons of great artists of the past are studied by fresh young talents who shape them in innovative directions. This DVD introduces viewers to some of the leading lights of contemporary jazz

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Jazz Legends In Concert

This historic jazz concert took place at The International Jazz Hall of Fame in 1993. This DVD captures a number of the legends of jazz performing their signature songs. Featured performers include Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Rosemary Clooney, Joe Williams, Tito Puente, Nancy Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Frank Foster, Illinois Jacquet, Della Reese, Dorothy Donegan, Michael Bolton, Steve Allen, and The Count Basie Orchestra. More...

 

Lee Konitz - Solos: The Jazz Sessions

The cool-toned Lee Konitz has always had a strong musical curiosity that has led him to consistently take chances and stretch himself. 

SOLOS offers viewers front row seats for an intimate and unique jazz experience of unaccompanied performances . Each program features complete musical pieces, insightful interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. Shot in stunning HDTV, 2008. Directed by Daniel K. Berman More...

Jon Larsen & Jimmy Rosenberg - Jon & Jimmy: Dreams, Drugs & Django

This is the incredible story behind the friendship of Jon Larsen (top jazz guitarist and music producer) and Jimmy Rosenberg (the Jimi Hendrix of gypsy jazz). This 2009 documentary explores their friendship, talent for jazz and love of the music of Django Reinhardt. Voyaging through the demanding world of entertainment; drugs, money and temptations threaten to destroy their partnership. 

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Wynton Marsalis & Wllie Nelson - Play The Music Of Ray Charles

In 2007, Nelson and Marsalis united for their first dual concert and album, Two Men With the Blues. Now they're together again, this time to honor one of the all time greats of musical history, Ray Charles. Joined by Norah Jones on several of the 15 tunes in this 2009 concert at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis and Nelson tell the tale of love that's found, then lost, and then found again.

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Oscar Peterson - Life Of A Legend

This comprehensive documentary film tells the life story of one of the all-time great jazz pianists, Oscar Peterson; a technical virtuoso and master of swing whose life has been shaped by his own extraordinary talent and driving ambition. Vintage and contemporary performances, archival footage and intimate interviews with Oscar and a cast of jazz greats create this historic biography of the man who made the music and the times that made the man. More...

Madeleine Peyroux - Somethin' Grand

On her first-ever DVD, this 17-tune live concert was filmed in an intimate club setting in Los Angeles, January 2009. It captures the distinctive jazz chanteuse and a stellar band performing a mixture of uniquely-styled covers alongside the very personal originals.

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Bucky Pizzarelli - Favorite Solos

 In a relaxed studio setting on an April afternoon in New York City, Bucky Pizzarelli pays fond tribute to 14 favorite tunes from his decades as a celebrated jazz guitarist. Frank Vignola joins Bucky, one of his earliest influences, on affectionate interpretations of Tangerine, Honeysuckle Rose, Moonlight Serenade, In a Mellow Tone, Stompin' at the Savoy and other timeless melodies.

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Omara Portuondo - Fiesta Cubana

On New Year's Eve 2009 Havana's legendary Tropicana nightclub celebrated its 70th birthday with a colorful revue. The evening's special guest was the world-famous Cuban vocalist Omara Portuondo. In styles ranging from the Cuban guajira, bolero, mambo, and son to elements of jazz, the grande dame of traditional Cuban singing offers a

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Tito Puente - Last Concert:
Live In New York

This collector's edition DVD is the last live performance of Tito Puente, known as "El Rey del Timbal." Filmed at the Manhattan Center in New York City on April 19th 2000, just weeks before Puente's death on May 31, it defines latin music with its unparalleled visuals and sounds. This concert was celebrating Puente's 77th birthday and originally aired on Showtime.

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Stochelo Rosenberg & Florin Nicolescu - Symphonic Django

World leading gypsy-jazz musicians, Netherlands's Stochelo Rosenberg and France's Florin Nicolescue, take Django Reinhardt's musical legecy to another level. Accompanied by the full Kristiansand Symphonic Orchestra and a jazz band alongside the soloists, this unique concert is the world première performance. More...

Gonzalo Rubalcaba  -  Solos: The Jazz Sessions

As one of the most important figures to emerge in the '90s, Rubalcaba is an versatile pianist able to blend Cuban and American jazz traditions into a fresh, modern whole. Born into a musical family in Havana, Rubalcaba began studying classical piano in 1971 at age eight, honing his technique for the next 12 years while playing around Havana by night. By the time he arrived on the international jazz stage in the late '80s he was widely considered one of the great virtuosos of the music. More...

Sarah Vaughan - The Divine One

This DVD recounts the stellar singer's career, from her beginnings at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, to her debut of the Apollo Theater and her pre-eminence in nightclubs, concert halls, and jazz festivals around the world. Packed with insightful interviews - many with Sarah herself - and live performances spanning her entire career, this is a very special portrait. Included is Billy Eckstine, Roy Haynes, Joe Williams, Marty Paich, George Gaffney, Sarah's mother, Ada, and Sarah's daughter, Paris. More...

Kirk Whalum - The Gospel According To Jazz: Chapter III

On October 13, 2007, a standing room only audience packed Reid Temple AME Church to experience the transforming power of Kirk Whalum’s Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter III. Recorded live by three generations of Whalums and some of the most resounding names in jazz, pop, gospel and R & B, the DVD comes six years after the Grammy® nominated, Stellar Award winning Chapter II.

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Mika Yoshida - Marimba Madness

This musical release from marimba percussionist Mika Yoshida captures a live performance, recorded in Tamana City, Japan in 2009.

 

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