Posts tagged with "DVD"
MILES DAVIS
DVD
MILES DAVIS
Live at Montreux: Highlights 1973-1991
[Montreux Sounds/Eagle Eye Media]
Let us now praise Claude Nobs. For founding the annual Montreux Jazz Festival, for sure—it’s one of the world’s most venerable and beloved music showcases. But also for having the foresight to document the sights and sounds from as many festival performances as possible, creating a tremendous archive from which a great many essential archival releases have...
Who Is Harry Nilsson
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)?
[Lorber Films]
DVD
Harry Nilsson was a one-of-a-kind character: an immensely talented songwriter whose biggest hits were covers; an ebullient soul fueled by a terror of abandonment; an ambitious striver who seemed determined to wreck his career; a man with the voice of an angel and a devilish sense of humor; a lover of life who often appeared to have a death wish; a onetime multimillionaire...
TA.M.I. SHOW
DVD REVIEW
TA.M.I. SHOW
[Shout! Factory]
Teenage Awards Music International (T.A.M.I.) was intended to be a nonprofit organization benefiting teens around the world, one that would draw attention through a series of concerts and awards shows. The organization quickly fizzled, but the 1964 kickoff show was one for the ages—the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, James Brown, Chuck Berry and eight other top-level acts of the day, all at the peak of their...
It Might Get Loud
DVD REVIEW
It Might Get Loud
[Sony]
It Might Get Loud is presented as a summit meeting among Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White, the guitar greats converging on an L.A. soundstage to trade anecdotes and licks. Unless you actively despise music, you’ll thrill to these three teaching one another “Stairway to Heaven,” “Until the End of the World” or “Seven Nation Army.” But one of the documentary’s great pleasures is that it also spends...