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Jazz DVD New Releases 2008



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Eric Alexander - Prime Time

This is Eric's first recorded live performance captured on DVD, with an additional CD recording. DVD includes an interview with Eric. Recorded in Ashville, North Carolina More...

Eric Alexander - saxophone; David Hazeltine - piano; John Webber - bass; Joe Farnsworth - drums.

2 disc set. DVD: 90 minutes. CD: 53 minutes.

$21.95

Monty Alexander - The Paris Concert, New Morning 2001

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, on D-Day, this piano child prodigy also sang. His lucky star showed up before he was twenty years old, when Frank Sinatra produced him in that temple of fifties and sixties pop music, Jilly's Bar in New York. When bassist Ray Brown invited Monty to sit in More...

Monty Alexander - piano; Hassan W. Shakour - bass; Bobby Thomas, Jr. - drums - 135 minutes

$21.95

Susie Arioli Band - Live At The Montreal Festival Featuring Jordan Officer

The Montreal-based singer/percussionist and guitarist Jordan Officer perform live at the Montreal Jazz Festival in this DVD/CD set. Sidemen include Michael Jerome Browne, Shane MacKenzie, Remi LeClerc, Martin Lacasse, and Francis Mondoux. Extras on the DVD include interview with Susie and Jordan, bonus track, guitar talk with Jordan, and Dolby Surround 5.1 sound. More...

Item# ML9

$21.95
CD/DVD Jewel Case

Louis Armstrong - Greatest Performances

This DVD features 17 ultra-rare filmed appearances captured between 1933 and 1963, featuring Armstrong at his very best. He always gave 100% - his energy, passion, and commitment were undimmed by the years. On these incendiary performances, he is joined by other greats: Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason, Gene Krupa, and George Shearing. A Time-Life Collection. More...

70 minutes

$17.95

Louis Armstrong - Live in Australia 1964

In this rare archive recording from 1964, we experience the true Satchmo at his best with some of his greatest hits recorded live in Australia. More...

Sidemen include: Jewel Brown, Joe Darensbourg, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw, and Danny Barcelona.

56 minutes

$25.95

Louis Armstrong - Portrait Collection

This DVD collection includes some of Armstrong's best-known performances including his amazing Danish film appearance in 1933, TV performances on Frank Sinatra's 1952 TV show, and with Jackie Gleason on the Timex All Star Show in 1959. Also included are over 40 minutes of Armstrong speaking at length about his remarkable life and career, plus an interactive timeline and 9 photo galleries More...

Item# NR101

$17.95

Chet Baker - Live In Tokyo 1985

The legendary progenitor of "cool jazz" in a historic live performance! The cool tones of one of jazz's iconoclastic figures ring out vibrantly on this set of deeply felt performances, filmed at a Tokyo concert in 1985, 3 years before his tragic death. Crooning some of his More...

Chet Baker - trumpet, vocals; Harold Danko - piano; Hein van de Geyn - bass; John Engels - drums.

$19.95

Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

This DVD features the legendary Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen in one incredible live performance. For more than forty years Kenny Ball has flown the flag for his particular brand of traditional jazz all over the world. It is a tribute to his stamina and musical integrity that Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen are as popular today as they were back in 1960 when they had their first chart hit with "Samantha". From that More...
60 minutes

$21.95

Chris Barber Big Band - As We Like It

AS WE LIKE IT presents the Jazz & Blues legend Chris Barber in an exclusive one night only performance, filmed live in-front of an invited studio audience at Classic T Stage, Shepperton Film Studios. This is classic Chris Barber, an absolute icon in the world of Jazz, alongside his full eleven-piece band performing hit tracks such as Petite Fleur, numbers from the critically More...

$19.95

BIRD: 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION

Clint Eastwood brings a lifelong love of jazz to this gripping story of pioneering jazzman Charlie "Yardbird" Parker. Like a jazz riff, past and future overlap as the movie explores Bird's soaring skill and destructive excesses. Forest Whitaker in the title role is a candle ablaze at both ends. Diane Venora, the New York Film Critics Best Supporting Actress choice, shares that glorious light as steadfast wife Chan Parker. More...

DVD & CD

$21.95

Blue Note: A Story Of Modern Jazz

The jazz label was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, and Sonny Rollins. This film about jazz is a testimony to More...

Other performers & interviews include: Bob Belden, Joachim Ernst Berendt, Bob Cranshaw, Lou Donaldson, Lorraine Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Freddie Hubbard, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Jay Jay Johnson, Ruth Lion, Taj Mahal, Gil Melle, Brigitte Mira, Francis Paudras, Bud Powell, Andre Previn, Max Roach, Carlos Santana, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Bertrand Tavernier, Tommy Turrentine, and Cassandra Wilson.

$29.95

BRASILINTIME - BATUCADA COM DISCOS

Brasilintime is a filmic map that connects the world of Rio de Janeiro of the late teens to the South Bronx of the early 70s. The roads from Samba through Bossa Nova to Hip Hop are a complex web of musical whispers and echoes. Brasilintime is a 2-hour documentary that traverses this journey. In November of 2002, drummers and DJs traveled to Sao Paulo Brazil to expand the multi-generational conversation to include their counterparts from the world of Samba, Bossa Nova and Samba Rock, More...

116 minutes

2 DVDs

$39.95

Ari Brown - Live At The Greenmill

In reviews of Ari's first two Delmark albums, Ultimate Frontier (Delmark 486) and Venus (504), writers often used phrases like "overwhelming emotional immediacy" (Down Beat), "rare depth of feeling" (Jazziz) and "raw emotion and ferocity" (JazzTimes). Ari carries on the Chicago tenor sax and the AACM traditions. He melds them into his own voice and no matter how far out he takes the music it still remains accessible and enjoyable. More...

Item# NR74

$29.95

Buena Vista Social Club

No one can recall exactly where the Buena Vista Social Club once stood in pre-revolutionary Havana, but Wim Wenders's documentary of a dozen legendary musicians resurrects the magnificent music of the era. Guitarist Ry Cooder assembled More...

Featuring: Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo & Ry Cooder. Directed by Wim Wenders.

$14.95

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