Greg Grainger - Travel Oz Episode 24
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Format: Documentary
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Travel Oz is an all-Aussie TV travel show that screens on the Channel 7 Network in Australia, and international broadcasters from Australia Plus to First HD TV Russia to FMG USA. Produced by veteran travel documentary producer/presenter Greg Grainger, each episode of Travel Oz features 3 destinations. “We want viewers to feel like they’re travelling with us, experiencing every sight and sound as if they’re on location. We plan to give them support information to help them make bookings of their own. And we want to take them to places they might not otherwise have ever known about.” says Grainger. “Travel Oz represents an exciting new opportunity to showcase Australia as a travel destination.” says Grainger. “We feature the abundant possibilities of holiday destinations, adventure packages, scenic tours, cosmopolitan cities, historic towns, natural wonders and friendly people.” From luxury hotels to camping under the stars, dining in exquisite restaurants to eating damper around the campfire, viewing swirls of desert colours on the Ghan to riding camels on the sand, Travel Oz caters to families, singles, young, old, travel connoisseurs, novice travellers, the budget conscious and the wealthy. Utilising stunning photography, Travel Oz captures the dazzling beauty of Australia, from its beaches to the bush. Each segment reveals the uniqueness behind popular Australian tourist destinations and enlightens viewers about hidden treasures off the beaten path.

Greg Grainger - Travel Oz Episode 25
www.graingertv.com/
Format: Documentary
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Travel Oz is an all-Aussie TV travel show that screens on the Channel 7 Network in Australia, and international broadcasters from Australia Plus to First HD TV Russia to FMG USA. Produced by veteran travel documentary producer/presenter Greg Grainger, each episode of Travel Oz features 3 destinations. “We want viewers to feel like they’re travelling with us, experiencing every sight and sound as if they’re on location. We plan to give them support information to help them make bookings of their own. And we want to take them to places they might not otherwise have ever known about.” says Grainger. “Travel Oz represents an exciting new opportunity to showcase Australia as a travel destination.” says Grainger. “We feature the abundant possibilities of holiday destinations, adventure packages, scenic tours, cosmopolitan cities, historic towns, natural wonders and friendly people.” From luxury hotels to camping under the stars, dining in exquisite restaurants to eating damper around the campfire, viewing swirls of desert colours on the Ghan to riding camels on the sand, Travel Oz caters to families, singles, young, old, travel connoisseurs, novice travellers, the budget conscious and the wealthy. Utilising stunning photography, Travel Oz captures the dazzling beauty of Australia, from its beaches to the bush. Each segment reveals the uniqueness behind popular Australian tourist destinations and enlightens viewers about hidden treasures off the beaten path.

Headband
Format: Music Concert
Produced By: Head Office Records
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Headband, an adventurous progressive blues/rock band, with vocalist Chris Bailey (later of The Angels) on bass, Mauri Berg (ex Silhouettes) on guitar and backing vocals and Joff Bateman on drums and backing vocals. Headband released three national singles — Land of Supercars/How I Miss The Country (1972) Country Lady/Stay With Me (1972) and A Song For Tooley/Brand New Morning (1973). Album A Song For Tooley (Polydor 2907.008) , featuring Sydney Symphony players and an 110 piece children's choir was released in September 1973. Headband supported Elton John and John Mayall and toured Australia with The Rolling Stones. Headband went their separate ways in 1974. Headband are an Head Office Records Artist and are distributed to the world digitally by Blue Pie Records.

Help! I'm Having A Baby
Format: Documentary
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Herb Ellis Live
Format: Music Concert
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Herb Ellis sets a concert stage afire with his masterful technique, sharpened during a long stretch as a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio during the 1950s. For this 1995 performance at Western Washington University, he's accompanied by pianist Bill MacDonough (a university alum), bassist Chuck Israels (a faculty member and ex-Bill Evans sideman), and Canadian drummer John Nolan, who worked with Ellis on other recordings. From listening to this show, it's hard not to think this is a working group, aside from an unsteady ending to a piece or two. The highlight of the date is easily the extended workout of "Things Ain't What They Used to Be," where Ellis really shows off his chops. His simmering take of "Billie's Bounce" never boils over, while Ellis displays his lyricism in a gorgeous rendition of "Body and Soul," even if he can't resist inserting a few humorous quotes.

High Side 'N Purple Dummy Remix
Format: Documentary
Produced By: Reality Entertainment US
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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The new for 2006 DVD from the creators of the High Side'N and Go Dumb USA DVD Series. Featuring A Decade of swangin', Girls Gone Dumb part 2, Classic Bay Area Music Videos, Festival at the Lake, Lake Cammanche Picnic and 50's gone wild.

High Side'N 1 & 2
Format: Documentary
Produced By: Reality Entertainment US
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HIGH SIDE'N 2 -RETURN OF THE RYDERS- THE INFAMOUS OAKLAND SIDESHOW. REALITY TV FOR THE HYPIE GENERATION. WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE INFAMOUS OAKLAND SIDESOW WHERE THE NEW BREED OF RYDERS CONTROL THE STREETS AT NIGHT. THIS IS MUST SEE EXTREME REALITY TV, WITH 8 ACTION PACKED SEGEMENTS FULL OF EXCITEMENT AROUND EVERY CORNER. HIGH SIDE'N 2 ALLOWS YOU TO TAKE A RYDE THROUGH THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL HIGH PERFORMANCE ACTIVITY SINCE STREET RACING. SO SIT BACK AND GET READY TO RYDE OAKLAND STYLE

Inside The Freemasons: The Grand Lodge Uncovered
Format: Documentary
Produced By: Reality Entertainment US
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Are the Freemasons a secret society? Or a society with secrets? What are their rituals all about? What does it look like inside a lodge? In this program we take you inside the Grand Lodge of England. Listen to a rare interview with John Hamill, the communications director of the United Grand Lodge of England. Prepare for an unprecedented insight into the often-mysterious world of the Freemasons. Whether you are a Freemason or a conspiracy theorist, this program will help you understand the role of the Freemasons in our society.

Jack Absalom's King Island
Format: Documentary
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At the western end of treacherous Bass Strait, King Island is noted in the history books for the frequency of shipwrecks on its rocky shores. But in recent times it is getting a reputation for the quality of it's tender beef and gourmet cheese... not to mention the "characters" that the so called 'forgotten island' has attracted in recent times. Jack Absalom found it one of the most friendly places he'd visited and concluded that its name should be changed to 'the magic island'.

Jack Absalom's Rainbows End
Format: Documentary
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US
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Every gold rush seems to begin with stories of people up nuggets by the handful. Hundreds of years after this happened in Western Australian desert the twin towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder are still gold rush towns. Rainbow's End is a nostalgic journey with Jack Absalom in the richest square mile of real estate in the world. Jack traces the 'golden rainbow' that the early that early diggers followed on their quests for the lucky strike that would set them up for life. We meet up with some of the characters that inhabit the goldfields and hear of the great gold strikes and gold swindles.

Jack Absalom's Red Dirt And Rockets
Format: Documentary
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This time Jack and the team pack their swags and head north into desert country. Beginning in the Gawler Ranges Jack heads north towards the old Woomera Rocket Range, stopping off to meet some of the local pastoralists and learning about Aboriginal water markers and how tribal Aborigines found their way across the vast dry country, going from one water hole to another. Travelling further to the north Jack reaches the Woomera Rocket Range where British Scientists tested their rocket armoury post WWII. We learn about treating snake bite, getting fresh water out of a slat lake and emergency welding before arriving at the tiny opal mining town of Andamooka.

Jack Absaloms Australias Outback Journey - In The Steps Of Charles Sturt
Format: Documentary
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From his home at Broken Hill, Jack Absalom retraces the journey of the English explorer Charles Sturt who was convinced the centre of Australia contained a vast inland sea. Sturt’s journey was one of great hardship as his party was drought bound for over 6 months at one location, ravaged by scurvy and attacked by wild Aboriginals on whose waters the party had camped. The story tells of the gold rush following Sturts explorations, of the perils still to be encountered and some novel direction finding techniques.

Jamal Ahmad Live
Format: Music Documentary
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One of the most individualistic pianists, composers, and arrangers of his generation, Ahmad Jamal's disciplined technique and minimalist style had a huge impact on trumpeter Miles Davis, and Jamal is often cited as contributing to the development of cool jazz throughout the 1950s. Though Jamal was a highly technically proficient player, well-versed in the gymnastic idioms of swing and bebop, he chose to play in a more pared down and nuanced style. Which is to say that while he played with the skill of a virtuoso, it was often what he chose not to play that marked him as an innovator. Influenced by such pianists as Errol Garner, Art Tatum, and Nat King Cole, as well as big-band and orchestral music, Jamal developed his own boundary-pushing approach to modern jazz that incorporated an abundance of space, an adept use of tension and release, unexpected rhythmic phrasing and dynamics, and a highly melodic, compositional style.

James Dean: Race With Destiny
Format: Film
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Dean's star begins to rise, his passionate affair with Italian ingénue Pier Angeli (Carrie Mitchum of THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL) angers her disapproving mother (Academy Award nominee Diane Ladd) and studio chief Jack Warner (Mike Connors). How did a broken heart, reckless behaviour and his relationships with Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and director George Stevens (the legendary Robert Mitchum in his final screen role) lead to Dean's ultimate race with destiny? Connie Stevens, Joseph Campanella and Casey Kasem co-star in this revealing biopic that goes behind the myth to tell the true story of the superstar who lived fast, died young and left a legacy that changed movies forever.

Jazz Collection - The 1962 Newport Jazz Festival
Format: Music Concert
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The Newport Jazz festival of 1962 played host to some of the biggest names in the genre. Roland Kirk, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Joe Williams, and Pee Wee Russell were among the many performers, all captured on this incredible release. Newport, a top sailing spot, is an all-seasons resort offering a beautiful harbour that is rich in colonial history. However what draws music lovers to Ford Adams State Park is the world famous The Newport Jazz Festival. The 1962 Newport Jazz Festival features Count Basie & His Orchestra, Johnny Hodges, The Oscar Peterson Trio, The Clara Ward Gospel Singers, Pee Wee Russell, Ruby Braff, and more

Jazz Legend Live! - Roy Ayers
Format: Music Concert
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Perhaps acid jazz would have emerged even if Roy Ayers had never existed, but it certainly would have sounded different. Scores of deejays, hip-hoppers, acid jazzers, and others have incorporated samples of music created by Ayers into their own work, making his sound an integral part of these emerging musical forms. His status as the godfather of acid jazz, or jazz funk, or whichever label is preferred, represents a second life in the career of vibraphonist and composer Ayers, who first rocked American dance floors in the 1970s.

Jazz Legends - Chuck Mangione
Format: Music Concert
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For four decades, Chuck's boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm, and pure joy have characterized his love affair with music and the resulting admiration of his audience. He joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, assuming the trumpet chair that had belonged to such great players as Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard, before going solo and receiving a GRAMMY nomination for Land of Make Believe. His album Feels So Good became a worldwide mega hit and he has continued recording and performing music of a standard that has made him an influential contemporary Jazz icon.

Jazz Legends - Live At Newport Jazz Festival
Format: Music Concert
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The music is predictable but pleasing on this consistent CD, recorded at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival. Cannonball Adderley's Quintet (with trumpeter Nat Adderley) swings hard on "Work Song" and "Stay on It," Gerry Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band sounds fine on three songs (although this version of "Blueport" does not quite compare to Mulligan's classic matchup with flugelhornist Clark Terry), the Oscar Peterson Trio jams two numbers and Dizzy Gillespie's three song miniset is highlighted by "Night in Tunisia." Nothing that unusual occurs in any of the performances but the playing is up-to-par and occasionally exciting.

Jazz Legends - Mike Mainieri Live
Format: Music Concert
Produced By: Quantum Leap
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Renowned jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri of the band Steps Ahead performs a concert in this release from Music Video Distributors. Jazz Legends: Mike Mainieri - Live at the Village Vanguard includes a total of three numbers by Mainieri as well as a five-song set by Richie Cole. Matthew Tobey.

Jazz Legends Live! Part 14
Format: Music Concert
Distributed By: Planet Blue Pictures US