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This "compilacion del video de la musica" features world-renowned Latin performers Gruapo Mana, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Los Tupamaros, and so many more! This video features energetic, Caribbean salsa music, along with tropical, "cumbia" tunes, sweetly syncopated dance music originating from Colombia. This rhythmic and enticing compilation rewards its listeners - and dancers! - again and again. Featured in all their brilliance are 10 Latin salsa and tropical...
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For more than 30 years, Mississippi native Kent "Omar" Dykes has led this never-say-die trio, making them a mainstay of the Austin, Texas, music scene. This 17-song concert captures one of America's most respected blues bands live in Göttingen in the fall of 2005. Recorded in an intimate club in front of a small gathering of his most loyal fans, Bamboozled more than documents just an enjoyable night of blues-it allows us to consider the impressive...
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Joe Lovano was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952, and began playing alto saxophone as a child. His father, tenor saxophonist Tony "Big T" Lovano, schooled young Joe in jazz dynamics and interpretation, and regularly exposed him to the live performances of international jazz artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Ammons, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. In this special set filmed for Solos The Jazz Sessions, Lovano uses a variety of horns and gongs to wind his...
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From Mambo to Hip-Hop: A Bronx Tale is a documentary that tells a story about the creative life of the South Bronx, beginning with the Puerto Rican migration and the adoption of Cuban rhythms to create the New York salsa sound; continuing with the fires that destroyed the neighborhood; chronicling the rise of hip hop from the ashes; and ending with reflections on the power of the neighborhood's music to ensure the survival of several generations of...
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Iván Acosta's Como Se Forma Una Rumba (How to Create a Rumba) sheds light on the origins and roots of some of the most popular Cuban rhythms. This dynamic audiovisual package features an exciting procession of testimonies, great Afro-Cuban jams, and colloquial jokes. Artists featured include Maestro Chico O'Farrill, José Fajardo, Juan Pablo Torres, Alfredo Valdés Jr., Cándido Camero, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Israel Kantor, Malena Burke, David...
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This program is a serious comedy about gospel, gender, and going home. Sister Glen Moore's dying wish includes a eulogy by Jesse Jackson, a spiritual delivered by "the big opera star" Benita Cross, and a final face-to-face encounter with her estranged mother, the redoubtable Mrs. Gertrude Hudson. Reverend Dexter of Brooklyn's New Canaan Church must rely on his full reserves of wisdom, patience, and heavenly guidance to negotiate the late sister's...
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This talkie is the only film costarring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. In addition, this print of the 1966 rerelease - the only version Pickford allowed after her 1933 retirement - features new music and sound effects added by Marty Kemp of the Mary Pickford Company during his painstaking restoration of the film. With seven minutes of extraneous footage removed in pieces to tighten the editing and new rerecording techniques to improve the sound...
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This film is part of a unique and groundbreaking series that brings the work of the Dalai Lama to a wider audience-illuminating for all those interested in Buddhism, inner peace, and the path to enlightenment. In this program, His Holiness the Dalai Lama instructs on how to deal with anger and emotions, starting with a general discussion of thoughts, followed by how destructive emotions negatively affect relationships, and finally the ways that one...
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Charlie Hunter has recorded 17 albums that highlight his guitar skills. Proficient on five, seven and eight string guitars, Hunter has been referred to as the undisputed master of the 8-string guitar. The material in this special set, recorded in the historic Berkeley Church in Toronto, Canada, and filmed for Solos: The Jazz Sessions, make it bear repeated viewing.
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This film from Iván Acosta documents Candido's contribution to the world of American jazz, Latin jazz, and Cuban music. Through conversations, performances and testimonies, Candido: Hands of Fire captivates the audience from start to finish. Considered to be one of the greatest Cuban percussionists to come to the United States, Candido Camero has played with legends such as Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Graciela, Tito Rodriguez, Bobby...
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This "compilacion del video de la musica" features world-renowned Latin performers Ricky Martin, Pandora, Paulino Rubio, and many more! When Ricky Martin lit up the stage at the 1999 Grammy's, mainstream America got its first full exposure to the Latin pop genre that was already popular in Latin America for years. Many Latin pop artists have crossed over into the mainstream market, including many who are featured here! 15 Latin pop favorites on one...
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Cecil Taylor is the grand master of free-jazz piano. Chris Felver's All the Notes captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, regarded as one of the true giants of postwar music. Taylor is first seen musing over Santiago Calatrava's fleecy architecture - typical of the pianist's famed eclectic interests, which extend from soloing, combo, and small orchestra work to spoken word performance. Seated at...
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An up-close portrayal of Bill Frisell filmed by Daniel Berman at the Berkeley Church in Toronto. This rare solo session features an intimate look into his electric guitar and looping wizardry and includes an exclusive interview with Frisell. On the taping of Solos: The Jazz Sessions, Frisell comments, "It's a weird thing playing solo. I live for the interaction with other musicians because when you put something out there, you get something in return,...
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Featuring Tony "Little Sun" Glover on harmonica, "Spider" John Koerner on guitar and vocals, and Dave "Snaker" Ray on guitar and vocals, here is one of the all-time great acoustic folk blues trios in a no-frills bar concert, captured live in 2002. One of the originals from the early '60s folk explosion, they released their first record in 1963. As the liner notes say, these are "simply three guys who know exactly what they are doing…playing timeless...
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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...
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Guitarist John Abercrombie combines bop and free jazz stylistic elements with electronics utilizing phase shifters, guitar synthesizers and the good old volume pedal. What has kept his playing fresh is his refusal to be chained to these digital devices. In this Solos: The Jazz Sessions set, Abercrombie demonstrates a deft hand at music and technology.
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Paying homage to the West coast and to some of the most important musicians who have spent a major part of their career there, this collection of live performances ranges from clubs to festivals to TV studio engagements. Artists include Art Pepper, Zoot Sims, Chet Baker, Phineas Newborn Trio, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Shelly Manne Quintet and Wes Montgomery.
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Paying homage to the East coast and to some of the most important musicians who have spent a major part of their career there, this collection of live performances ranges from clubs to festivals to TV studio engagements. Artists include John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and more.
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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,...
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This classic of experimental underground filmmaking by Phill Niblock features rare and exclusive footage, photos, and recordings of pianist Sun Ra and the members of his Solar Arkestra. Shot in the 1960s, when the Arkestra was based in New York, the film was produced using a unique negative process and ultra-tight close-ups on the moving hands and mouths of the musicians. The result is a virtually abstract music film, mastered from a new print in...