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 JAZZ TITLES: World
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Latin Nights (DVD) $19.98 72001 Meet Tito Puente, Memo Acevedo and other accomplished personalities of the Latin music scene in this scintillating performance documentary, Latin Nights. Celebrating the rich musical tradition of Latin America, Latin Nights pays tribute to accomplished Latin musicians who maintain their cultural identity as the live their individual stories after their Diaspora to Canada. Latin Nights takes you into the nightclubs, coffee houses and performance halls to show the powerful rhythms and the cool, seductive melodies of the music. DVD BONUS FEATURES: (78 minutes, plus Multiple Bonus Features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Airto & Flora Purim:The Latin Jazz All-Stars (DVD)  $19.99 2311 When the sizzling sounds of Brazil entered the mainstream of American jazz and rock in the 60s, Airto Moriera, the world's foremost percussionist, became the leader of this innovative musical movement. Airto is joined by his wife, Flora Purim, whose six-octave vocal range creates one of the most innovative voices in modern jazz. These two renowned artists have collaborated with such legends as Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Gil Evans, Chick Corea and Paul Simon. Recorded live from the Queen Mary Jazz Festival ,experience the rhythmic sights and sounds of Latin Jazz. Airto & Flora Purim, with sax great Joe Farrell, perform selections including Scat...Man, Shoulder, Light as a Feather and Flora's Fling. They are joined with an exciting capoeira performance by the Batucaje Dance Troupe. "This is one great program." - Jazziz Magazine "...a must for fans of Brazilian and Latin music."- Guide to Home Videos DVD BONUS FEATURES: (60 minutes, plus Multiple Bonus Features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Airto & Flora Purim: The Latin Jazz All-Stars (VHS) 1311 [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Django: A Jazz Tribute(DVD)$14.98 2347 In this energetic tribute to the late Django Reinhardt, we are treated to the best in guitar music. Blistering guitar duets are performed by Bireli Lagrene and Babik Reinhardt (Django's son). They negotiate their musical terrain with palpable energy and enthusiasm in this testament to jazz's original Guitariste Extrordinaireand the expressive range of that instrument in jazz today
DVD BONUS FEATURES (26 minutes, plus multiple bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Fela In Concert (DVD)$19.98 #2305 Nigerian superstar Fela, who sings, plays tenor sax, and fuses funk and jazz with traditional African music, was inspired by Bird, Marley and Miles. The New York Times critic Jon Pareles described his 1981 Paris concert video, featuring exotic West African dances performed by 15 of his wives as "hypnotic, cutting and defiant... one of the ten greatest videos ever." DVD BONUS FEATURES: (60 minutes, plus bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Antonio Carlos Jobim:An All-Star Tribute (DVD) $19.98 #2349 Direct from Brazil in his last recorded performance, Jobim is joined by Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ron Carter, Shirley Horn, and Jon Hendricks for intoxicating renditions of unforgettable melodies like "The Girl From Ipanema" and "Once I Loved." Lyrical, harmonically and rhythmically sophisticated, "Tom" Jobim's compositions are melodically rich, striking and, above all, extraordinarily beautiful.
DVD BONUS FEATURES (60 minutes, plus over 60 minutes of bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Don Cherry's Multikulti (VHS)1348 After helping Ornette Coleman give birth to Free Jazz, trumpeter Don Cherry became a pivotal composer/theorist and an invigorating, experimental World Music improviser. This joyful encounter, taken from the Days of Jazz Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, finds Cherry and friends weaving a shimmering, polyphonic musical tapestry that includes his originals and Monk's "Bemsha Swing." (57 min, Hi-Fi Stereo) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |