Lunar Tics
Format: Music Concert
Produced By: Blue Pie Records
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Max Roach Live At Blues Alley
Format: Music Concert
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This 1981 live show at Washington DC's famous Blues Alley features drummer extraordinaire Max Roach and his band. Filmed lovingly by filmmaker Gary Keys, this intimate portrait of Roach is stunning in its simplicity. The music and interplay between the musicians is the main focus, almost like the camera is eavesdropping on a private jam session. The band sounds full and fierce, the film crisp and personal, every note a celebration.

McLaughlin/DeLucia/Coryell - Meeting Of The Spirits
Format: Music Concert
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In 1979 and 1980 three world renowned guitarists, recognized as the finest exponents of their individual styles – John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell and Paco De Lucia – formed a guitar super-trio and toured Europe. The spell-binding quality of the music that the collaboration created as an ensemble and the dazzling audience reaction to the performances has never been surpassed and has rightfully passed into Jazz folklore. At long last an original, authenticated master of the concert is available for a worldwide audience to experience how the legend that was a “Meeting of the Spirits” was made.

Pipes Of Peace Rufus Harley
Format: Music Concert
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This 2008 film by George Manney is an intimate profile of the world's first jazz bagpipe player, Philadelphia musician Rufus Harley. The video interweaves a rare interview with Harley in his home together with insights, memories, and commentary from family, friends, and celebrated musicians—including Kenneth Gamble, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Caldwell, Joel Dorn, Odean Pope, Byard Lancaster, Tommy Conwell, Robert "Stewkey" Antoni, Charlie Gracie, David Ivory, Dee Dee Sharp Harley's son Messiah and daughter Noah-Harmony, and Charlie Gracie Jr.—as well as cameo appearances by Pat Martino and then Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.

Randy Sabien - Live In Minneapolis
Format: Music Concert
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Randy Sabien - Live in Minneapolis movie was released May 16, 2006 by the Music Video Distributors studio. Jazz violinist Randy Sabien, performing live during the Independence Day Weekend Main Street Jazz Festival 1986 in Minneapolis, proved why he will always be known as one of the virtuosos of the jazz violin. Randy Sabien - Live in Minneapolis movie This release also contains a bonus program titled "Jazz, What It Is," where Sabien and his quartet use humorous analogies to explain the different facets of the jazz art.

Rebels Without A Pause
Format: Music Concert
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The hard-earned honor of Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction culminated at the end of several days of celebration in April. On the eve of the formal event, hip-hop gods, friends and extended family paid tribute to P.E. at a pre-party at the Los Angeles House of Blues. Centric TV captured the hype, which included performances from legends Whodini, Kool Moe Dee, The Treacherous Three & JJ Fad.

Rock The Millennium Rock Concert
Format: Music Concert
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New Years Eve, 31 December 1999, and the world was about to say goodbye to a thousand years of years starting with 1. It was a time of great excitement and expectations everywhere and the world – and especially Sydney – was ready to party. Sydney was the first major city in the world to celebrate midnight and the change to 2000. The World’s media was watching to see what would happen – and Sydney was ready to show them just how to welcome in the new Millennium. Rock The Millennium was Sydney’s biggest party that year, a huge concert held on the edge of the Harbour, just a short way from the centre of the city and the Bridge and those famous fireworks. On the stage were the best Australian bands and acts in front of a wildly enthusiastic audience – with many travellers and tourists from all over the world. Their energy, excitement and enthusiasm supercharged the acts – and those performances were captured by cameras which broadcast the concert live to Australia. Highlights were sent throughout the world: to the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. This release of the concert is the result of days of researching and restoring the original concert master tapes with enhanced image and soundtrack. A whole new digital experience which presents the performances so they are as fresh as the day were first broadcast. Enjoy the show and relive that great night.

Rufus Reid Live In Vienna
Format: Music Concert
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Live in Vienna features brilliant jazz bassist Rufus Reid alongside pianist Fritz Pauer and drummer John Hollenbeck recorded live at a venue called Porgy & Bess. The five selections come in at close to an hour and are beautifully filmed. Great shots of Pauer's hands on the piano give producer Barbara Weissenbeck's video a unique angle that is most inviting for those who appreciate these maestros working at their craft. "The music has to have a pulse...so people can come to you," Reid says in the too-short three-minute interview. The DVD includes an electronic three-page biography and one-page discography. Where a DVD like Ona Ma Sile from Polish pop group Varius Manx has hours of things to explore, this is brief and to the point. It's the music here that is exquisite, with real power on the almost nine-minute "Cherokee" and subtle inflections from each member of the trio on "Ode to Ray." The players get to stretch across the finale, "The Meddler," with lots of catchy improvisation. There are no frills here outside of the masterful musicianship, making for an excellent set of sounds. Wayne Darling is listed as musical director.

Silver Mountain: A Reunion Live
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Format: Music Concert
Produced By: Hex Records
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Formed in 1978, SILVER MOUNTAIN was initially an instrumental group based around the duo of bassist Pr Stadin and vocalist/guitarist Jonas Hansson. Among the band's earliest members were keyboard player Jens Johansson and his drummer brother Anders Johansson, both of whom would later join Yngwie Malmsteen. According to MusicMight, SILVER MOUNTAIN's debut commercial release with the Johansson brothers came in the form of the track "She Needs" on the 1982 GS Music compilation "Sknsk Rock". The brothers quit to join Yngwie Malmsteen after the "Shakin' Brains" album came out in 1984. There are bootlegs culled from jam sessions circulating from this period that feature the Johansson brothers, Yngwie Malmsteen and Per Stadin. For 1985's "Universe" album SILVER MOUNTAIN added NORDEN LIGHT singer Christer Mentzer and re-recruited Martin Hedener on drums. A SILVER MOUNTAIN reformation album, "Breakin' Chains", was issued by the Japanese Avalon Marquee label in 2001. SILVER MOUNTAIN is now back together and will be available for any and all festival appearances. The band has already been confirmed to appear at next year's edition of the Headbangers Open Air festival, which will take place in Brande-Hrnerkirchen, Germany.

Slimey Things - Live - Volume 2
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Format: Music Concert
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SLIMEY THINGS, Australia's most amazing sci-fi pop band, were first sighted in the venues of Sydney's underground in 2001. This sextet of pseudo-pop psychos have a reputation for their infectious music and memorable, “seared into your brain” live performances. Their unearthly sound is and energetic blend of catchy pop, futuristic 80s rock, sci-fi movie soundtrack music and zany cartoon sound effects. Unearthed by enigmatic front man and composer Nick Soole, SLIMEY THINGS have received much acclaim as one of the most unique and important acts to emerge from Sydney. With widespread radio airplay and their new SPACETOAST EP now available, it seems only a matter of time before the catchy rhythms of SLIMEY THINGS cannot be contained and breach Earth's puny defences.

Solos - The Jazz Sessions - Andrew Hill
Format: Music Concert
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The Jazz Sessions series spotlights unaccompanied performances by some of the legends and bright young stars of the jazz world. Designed and recorded specifically for television, this Solos DVD offers viewers front row seats for an intimate and unique jazz experience. Each program features complete musical pieces, insightful interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. Shot in stunning HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting, it showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles – from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and the experimental. While many of pianist and composer Andrew Hill's contemporaries were totally jettisoning the rhythmic and harmonic techniques of bop and hard bop, Hill worked to extend their possibilities. His was a revolution from within. – he exhibited a determined command of his materials, however abstract they might sometimes be. His composed melodies were labyrinthine, rhythmically and harmonically complex tunes that exhibit a sophistication born of mastery, not chance or contingency. As a pianist, Hill had a flowing melodicism and an elastic sense of time. Like his composing, Hill's playing had an ever-present air of spontaneity and was almost completely devoid of cliché. Performances include: East 19th Street • Bent Forward • Unsmooth • Tough Love. 50 minutes.

Solos - The Jazz Sessions - Bill Frisell
Format: Music Concert
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Shot in stunning HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant, cinematic lighting designs, SOLOS: the jazz sessions showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles – from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond. Series creator and documentary filmmaker Daniel K. Berman says "...If I have any raison d'etre as a jazz television producer it's to put musicians in an environment that is not so familiar. Or, if it is familiar, it's different from what they're doing every night. Doing SOLOS is not just another gig, not just another night on tour. It's something special." As guitarist Bill Frisell puts it, "...When you perform solo, it just goes out into space, and you have to come up with ideas right away to follow it up. I lear

Solos - The Jazz Sessions - Charlie Hunter
Format: Music Concert
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Charlie Hunter is the undisputed master of the 8-string guitar. In this special set recorded in the historic Berkeley Church in Toronto, Canada, he plays eight great tracks, unaccompanied: 11 Bars for Ghandi • 8 String Guitar Jam • My Heart Belongs to Daddy • Alabama • Oakland • Untitled Ballad • Qaulity of Life Jam• Lulu's Crawl. The Jazz Sessions series spotlights unaccompanied performances by some of the legends and bright young stars of the jazz world. Designed and recorded specifically for television, this Solos DVD offers viewers front row seats for an intimate and unique jazz experience. Each program features complete musical pieces, insightful interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. Shot in stunning HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting, it showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles – from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and the experimental.

Solos - The Jazz Sessions - Cyro Baptista
Format: Music Concert
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Cyro Baptista is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music. Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country. Coinciding with the rise of the public’s interest in world music, Cyro has recorded and toured with some of music’s most popular names. His mastery of Brazilian percussion and the many instruments he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown. In this special set of solo performances, Cyro pulls out all the stops and creates a soundscape like no other heard before or since. A unique and brilliant musician alone on stage with only the beats he hears in his heart and shares with the world. Using an array of delay pedals and instruments bought, made and found, Cyro shows why rhythm just might be the ultimate pulse of the universe.

Solos - The Jazz Sessions - Erik Friedlander
Format: Music Concert
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Erik Friedlander has always worked to stake out new ground for the cello in both his compositional choices and his dynamic improvisations. His music blends his vision of what the cello can be pushed to do, while maintaining a firm grasp on traditions. In this special set of solo performances, Erik shows why he is considered one of music's most creative and progressive instrumentalists. Songs performed include: Amber • Evergreen • Serenity • Oasis • and more. 1 hour.

Solos - The Jazz Sessions - Gonzalo Rubalcab
Format: Music Concert
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The Jazz Sessions series spotlights unaccompanied performances by some of the legends and bright young stars of the jazz world. Designed and recorded specifically for television, this Solos DVD offers viewers front row seats for an intimate and unique jazz experience. Each program features complete musical pieces, insightful interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. Shot in stunning HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting, it showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles – from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and the experimental. In this unique program, Gonzalo Rubalcaba displays his remarkable sensitivity toward the musical traditions from which he emerged and later embraced. As one of the most important figures to emerge from Afro-Cuban jazz in the '90s, Rubalcaba is an extraordinarily versatile pianist able to blend disparate strands of 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. Songs performed include: Prologo to el Manicero Supernova • Improvisation #1 • Besamé Mucho • Yolanda Anastasia. 50 minutes.

Solos - The Jazz Sessions - Greg Osby
Format: Music Concert
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The Jazz Sessions series spotlights unaccompanied performances by some of the legends and bright young stars of the jazz world. Designed and recorded specifically for television, this Solos DVD offers viewers front row seats for an intimate and unique jazz experience. Each program features complete musical pieces, insightful interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. Shot in stunning HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting, it showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles – from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and the experimental. Saxophonist, composer, producer and educator Greg Osby has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz as a leader of his own ensembles and as a guest artist with other acclaimed jazz groups for the past 20 years. Highly regarded for his insightful and innovative approach to composition and performance, Osby has earned numerous awards and critical acclaim. In this special set of solo performances, Osby explores a range of emotional and musical states, always seeking to tie his ideas together; his long alto-lines linger in the air as he weaves new ideas beneath and over-top. A true innovator, these solos showcase an artist unadorned, free to pursue his musical alchemy. Songs include: Mentor's Praise • Minstrale • Cyrille in Motion • Equalatogram • Visitation • Six of One. 50 minutes.

Solos - The Jazz Sessions - James Blood Ulmer
Format: Music Concert
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The Jazz Sessions series spotlights unaccompanied performances by some of the legends and bright young stars of the jazz world. Designed and recorded specifically for television, this Solos DVD offers viewers front row seats for an intimate and unique jazz experience. Each program features complete musical pieces, insightful interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. Shot in stunning HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting, it showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles – from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and the experimental. James “Blood” Ulmer is one of the few guitarists to have forged a style based largely on the traditions of African-American vernacular music. Ulmer is an adherent of saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman's vaguely defined Harmelodic theory and plays with a stuttering, vocalic attack; his jagged lines speak with the authority of a free jazz improviser and the accent of a soul-jazz tenor saxophonist. His solo guitar work is an expressive, hard-edged, loudly amplified hybrid. But Ulmer isn't limited in his musical scope. In these sessions, he reveals himself to be an instant inventor of repute on the flute and a memorable songwriter and blues singer. Songs performed include: Are You Glad to Be in America? • Black Sheep • In the Name • Street Bride • Satisfy (Story of My Life) • Secret • Where Did All the Girls Come From? 50 minutes.