If you think the title of this DVD sounds like a struggling foreigner's attempt to describe his trip to New York City during the formative years of a cultural revolution, you would be pretty much spot on in your assessment. Filmed in New York City in 1986, 'Big Fun in the Big Town' chronicles [...]
Pick-Up Basketball, New York City
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700+ Playgrounds; 500,000+ Players; 8,000,000 Stories . . .
DOIN' IT IN THE PARK: PICK-UP BASKETBALL, NYC is an independent documentary directed by Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau. The film explores the definition, history, culture, and social impact of New York’s outdoor summer b-ball scene, the worldwide “Mecca” of the sport.
In New [...]
A Film & Video project in Torino, Italy by Paolo Campana
A trip into the grooves, Vinylmania is a 75 minute feature length documentary about an object that has never lost its soul: the vinyl record. An epic love story, the film is filled with fascinating characters and internationally recognized artists including PHILIPPE COHEN SOLAL (Gotan [...]
CHARLES MINGUS: LIVE IN BELGIUM, NORWAY, SWEDEN 1964 – reference copy – Full Footage.
Charles Mingus – Bass
Eric Dolphy – Sax
Clifford Jordan – Tenor sax
Jaki Byard – Piano
Dannie Richmond – Drums
Johnny Coles – Trumpe
Live In Belgium 1964:
So Long Eric
Peggy's Blue Skylight
Meditations On Integration
Live In Norway 1964:
So Long Eric
Orange Was The Color Of Her
Dress, Then Blue Silk
Parkeriana
Take [...]
Here's a short, but sweet, documentary on records collectors, audiophiles, pressers of long lost Rock records and an inventor who takes his records to the park. Such an array of characters condensed into a much too short film, it can only leave you wanting more.
A portrait of Vinyl collectors and producers and aficionados. From the [...]
"This is a jam session…"
This is a jam session, directed by Gjon Mili, and released by Warner Brothers in 1944. Jazz heavyweight Norman Granz was editor and the techniques used to produce the film were groundbreaking at the time. It is rare footage of the performers, for most of the musicians it was their only appearances [...]
Amazing film/documentary about Jazz saxophonist and Blue Note Records artist Jackie McLean. Pieced in between footage of him playing is footage of him teaching at Hartford as well as more interview type footage. Just listening to Jackie break down his philosophies on playing, drugs, race and everything else is captivating in itself. His 'On Mars' [...]
A Film About Jimi Hendrix (1973)
Jimi Hendrix is a 1973 rockumentary about Jimi Hendrix, directed and produced by Joe Boyd, John Head and Gary Weis. The film contains concert footage from 1967 to 1970, including the Monterey Pop Festival the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, Woodstock and a Berkeley concert. The film also includes interviews with [...]
Sun Ra – Space Is The Place Full Movie
Space Is the Place is an 82-minute film made in 1972 and released in 1974. It was produced by Jim Newman, directed by John Coney, written by Sun Ra, Joshua Smith and features Sun Raand his Arkestra. A soundtrack for the film was released on Evidence Records.
Sun [...]
By C. MICHAEL BAILEY, Published: February 26, 2008
"Blue Note was not the only jazz label recording America's indigenous music from the '30s through the 1960s, but it may be the only one that mattered. The title Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz is not an idle boast. In the 1950s and '60s, Blue Note [...]
