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2) Jazz
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Features archival performance jazz footage including Miles Davis, John Lewis, Jon Hendricks, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Clark Terry, and Billie Holiday intersperesed with on-camera commentary from notables
10) The Cotton Club
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"A rare and true icon of modern music, Herbie Hancock continues to bring audiences new and inventive visions of music. In August 2005, the Possibilities album was released, featuring the collaborative talents of a legendary lineup of artists. The film, Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, showcases this musical project in development and design, as Herbie interacts with artists, such as Christina Aguilera, John Mayer, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting and...
Publisher
Eagle Eye Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Join Diana Krall in the city of Rio De Janeiro for an evening of classic songs and standards in bossa nova stlye. Diana performs with her band and orchestra in the intimae surroundings of Vivo Rio before an audience totally swept up in the magic of the evening. This is Diana Krall at her very best celebrating the style and sensuality of bossa nova in the city of its birth."--Container
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In the 1930's, the fictional Emmet Ray ruled as the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world. But his reputation was eclipsed by his eccentric career moves, hilarious clashes with gangsters and stormy love affairs with two very different women
Author
Series
Publisher
Naxos
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Presents the earliest-known filmed full-length concert by one of the greatest songwriters and bandleaders, filmed at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw on November 2, 1958, and featuring the 16-piece Duke Ellington Orchestra performing some of the most beloved American music ever written.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
Django Reinhardt, the Roma genius, born to gypsy parents in 1910, is considered by many to be the single most important guitarist in the entire history of jazz. To honor the 100th anniversary of Django's birth, one hundred of his disciples, including his grandson David Reinhardt, have gathered together for the Django 100 Centennial Tour. Includes performances and interviews with several guitarists
17) Soul
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
This spectacular concert at the lauded Montreal Jazz Festival saw Diana perform to a 15,000-strong crowd featuring material mainly from her The Girl in the Other Room album, as well as a few older favorites.
19) Congo Square
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A musical tribute to New Orleans composed and performed by Wynton Marsalis, trumpet master from New Orleans and Yacub Addy, an African master drummer
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