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Legends of Jazz: Showcase [Blu-ray]

starring: Various Artists

Release Date October 24, 2006
This is a must to have for your Jazz collection. Selection of performers, sound and video quality is GREAT. Highly recommend this concert. If you like jazz you can not go wrong with this disk.

CD-Charts Position 2
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Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway 1967

starring: Various Artists

Release Date October 02, 2007
A very cool Revue on the road. A great document of road shows of the past. Nothing comes close to this footage.The sound is good and the perfomances are exceptional.A must see!

CD-Charts Position 3
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Go Ride the Music and West Pole

starring: Various Artists
directed by: Robert N. Zagone

Release Date June 24, 2008
It's nice to have the Airplane in its entirety, along with QMS, with a clean, clear picture. Although it's not my favorite Airplane performance, it's a fascinating look at when they were at the height of their power, as a band and individually. Each member holds a commanding presence, self-assured and comfortable of their role and collective sound. Marty and Jorma, in particular, are full of testosterone here, like a good rock star should be. Joey adds the new dynamic, the new energy, the power "rock" drummer that is now the centerpiece and focal point for the band, that Grace, Marty and particularly Jorma encircle around, feed off and respond to. Paul and Jack are on either side in the background, but one can't deny how crucial they are to the overall sound. ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 4
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Classical Destinations

starring: Various Artists

Release Date August 14, 2007
I watched this show by accident on PBS. I tried to tape a few of the episodes but couldn't wait and just bought it instead.

CD-Charts Position 5
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The Strat Pack: Live in Concert

starring: Various Artists

Release Date May 03, 2005
When my brother sent me this DVD, I was really excited about getting the player open and putting this in and watching it. Boy, was I surprised.
I wasn't so disappointed in the performances, I am like California Man, and was hoping to see Strat people! Not Amy freakin' Whinehouse, hearing Rod Stewart music and listening to an audience sing to BOTH of Paul Roger's signature songs.
I have to wonder if the Producers and the Staff are even old enough to be putting together a show of this caliber. Right or wrong, the people there are NOT the quint essential musicians representatives of the greatness and the beauty of the Fender guitars.
I won't go on and on about how much I don't like the DVD...we're all grown people and when there's a cast like THIS, for ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 6
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Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

starring: Various Artists

Release Date October 02, 2007
The story of Stax Records is a story of dizzying success and gut-wrenching heartbreak; of great good fortune and the vicissitudes of fate. In short, the label's history is much like the best soul music: It can make you dance with joy one moment, and sob achingly in a way Frank Sinatra's "Only The Lonely" ballads could only aspire to without actually attaining.

"Respect Yourself: The Story of Stax Records" documents the astonishing musicians who came together to create some of the greatest rhythm and blues/soul/gospel music of the 1960's and 1970's. And it is a story about how a small independent record label defied the Jim Crow segregation of Memphis -- and the result in the form of timeless music speaks for itself. As label founder Estelle Axton notes in the ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 7
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Getting Started on Drums Featuring Tommy Igoe DVD - Setting Up / Start Playing

starring: Various Artists, Paul Siegel, Tommy Igoe, Rob Wallis
directed by: Robert Wallis

Release Date October 01, 2001
This video is an indispensable aid to any beginning drummer. It covers everything from setup, to how to hold the sticks, how to hit the drums, and some basic patterns to start you playing. There is a wealth of good drum instructional material out there, but for an absolute beginner, this is the very best there is. Follow it up with the even-better "Groove Essentials" and you can't go wrong. Every parent buying a drum set for their kid should but this too, and make watching it mandatory. It just might prevent a few weeks of random pounding followed by abandonment of the drums.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Rockers - 25th Anniversary Edition

starring: Various Artists

Release Date June 21, 2005
This is one of the best Rootz Raggae movies of all times... It's great to see some of the reggaae greats in there prime... Jacob Miller, Gregory Isaacs, Jack Ruby, Burning Spears and more... It also represents old school rasta foundations... Respect to all de Youth... Check dis movie and see rootz...

CD-Charts Position 9
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And This Is Free: The Life and Times of Chicago's Legendary Maxwell St.

starring: Various Artists
directed by: Various

Release Date June 10, 2008
Shanachie Entertainment presents "AND THIS IS FREE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHICAGO'S LEGENDARY MAXWELL ST." (2008) (100 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- During its heyday in the early to mid-1900s, the Maxwell Street Market area represented one of the most fascinating chapters in American urban history --- People congregated there by the thousands to shop for bargains in stores and on pushcarts --- They went, too, for the endless entertainment of street musicians, including many of Chicago's blues greats, hucksters, rousing preachers, street entertainers and much more.

Maxwell Street blues personnel including greats like Robert Nighthawk, Baby Face, Leroy Floyd Jones, J.B. Hutto, Johnny Young, Big John Wrencher, Snooky Pryor, Jimmy Rogers and many more ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Old School Soul Party Live

starring: Various Artists
directed by: *

Release Date February 28, 2006
THE CD OLD SCHOOL, IS A FANTASTIC MIX OF A LOT OF THAT MUSIC WE HAVE NOT HEARD FOR A LONG TIME. SAY FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS. THIS CD BRINGS ALL OF THAT BACK ALIVE BUT ONLY ON CD FORM AND ENHANCED SO THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT IS A LIVE CONCERT WITH MIXED ARTIST.
DO YOURSELF. IF YOU ARE A BABY BOOMER FROM THE 50's, 60's OR EVEN 70's YOU WILL LOVE THIE COMBINATION OF THE GREATEST ARTEST OF OUR TIME.
LETS ALL LISTEN AND GET DOWN WITH THE MUSIC THAT WILL NEVER DIE AS LONG AS WE ARE HERE ON THIS EARTH. JOHN-DEMUDBUG