Tribute to Jaco Pastorius by the WDR Big Band at the 33. Leverkusener Jazztage 2012, Germany. WDR BIG BAND conducted by VINCE MENDOZA plays Jaco Pastorius compositions. VICTOR BAILEY - bass / PETER ERSKINE - drums / RHANI KRIJA - percussions / FRANK CHASTENIER - Piano / PAUL SHIGIHARA - Guitar / WOODWINDS: Johan Horlen, Karolina Strassmayer, Olivier Peters, Paul Heller, Jens Neufang / TRUMPETS: Wim Both, Rob Bruynen, Andy Haderer, John Marshall / TROMBONES: Ludwig Nuss, Marshall Gilkes, Andy Hunter, Mattis Cederberg --- 1. Come On, Come Over 2. Liberty City 3. God Morning Anya 4. Teen Town 5. Reza 6. Three Views Of A Secret 7. Domingo 8. Do You Know Who (solo Victor Bailey)
Tribute to Jaco Pastorius by the WDR Big Band at the 33. Leverkusener Jazztage 2012, Germany. WDR BIG BAND conducted by VINCE MENDOZA plays Jaco Pastorius compositions. VICTOR BAILEY - bass / PETER ERSKINE - drums / RHANI KRIJA - percussions / FRANK CHASTENIER - Piano / PAUL SHIGIHARA - Guitar / WOODWINDS: Johan Horlen, Karolina Strassmayer, Olivier Peters, Paul Heller, Jens Neufang / TRUMPETS: Wim Both, Rob Bruynen, Andy Haderer, John Marshall / TROMBONES: Ludwig Nuss, Marshall Gilkes, Andy Hunter, Mattis Cederberg --- 1. Come On, Come Over 2. Liberty City 3. God Morning Anya 4. Teen Town 5. Reza 6. Three Views Of A Secret 7. Domingo 8. Do You Know Who (solo Victor Bailey)
2012-05-13
8.2
Rise Against playing live at the Area 4 festival in Germany. Date: 21/08/09 - 23/08/09 01. Collapse 02. State of the Union 03. Re-Education 04. Paper Wings 05. Long Forgotten Sons 06. The Good left Undone 07. Chamber the Cartridge 08. Drones 09. The Dirt whispered 10. Audience of One 11. Blood to bleed 12. Savior 13. Survive 14. Prayer of the Refugee 15. Swing life away 16. Hero of War 17. Dancing for Rain 18. Blood-red, white and blue 19. Give it all 20. Ready to fall
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
The first rule is that there are no rules. For the bare-knuckle combatants competing in Musangwe fights, anything goes - you can even put a curse on him. The sport, which dates back centuries, has become a South African institution. Any male from the age of nine to ninety can compete. We follow a group of fighters as they slug it out in the ring. Who will be this year's champion?
A young man must fight for his life against a shape shifting stalker.
Jurassic Fight Club, a paleontology-based miniseries that ran for 12 episodes, depicts how prehistoric beasts hunted their prey, dissecting these battles and uncovering a predatory world far more calculated and complex than originally thought. It was hosted by George Blasing, a self-taught paleontologist.
Through seven scenes, the film follows the life and destinies of stray dogs from the margins of our society, leading us to reconsider our attitude towards them. Through the seven “wandering” characters that we follow at different ages, from birth to old age, we witness their dignified struggle for survival. At the cemetery, in an abandoned factory, in an asylum, in a landfill, in places full of sorrow, our heroes search for love and togetherness. By combining documentary material, animation and acting interpretation of the thoughts of our heroes, we get to know lives between disappointment and hope, quite similar to ours.
A mansion, a lawn, some trees: an unmoved frontal view, 9 minutes long. We hear an off-screen voice. It si the co-director, who commands what goes on in the image. He calls up participants while the other co-director climbs a ladder and holds up a cornet that emits smoke and sparks.
The trilogy picks right up where True 2 left us. Gena's awakes to find that her mysterious savior is Quadir. Before happily ever after, Gena has 72 hours to go back to Philly to check on Bria and Gah Git and let them know of her plans.
The documentary portrays a behind-the-scenes look at the poor state of Argentina's civil aviation, and puts the blame on the Argentine Air Force. The Air Force has been in control of air traffic operations since the military takeover of General Juan Carlos Onganía in 1966. The producer/director, Enrique Piñeyro, claims Argentina and Nigeria are the only countries whose air force controls and regulates the airline industry. The film is heavily based on the Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 plane crash. Enrique Piñeyro takes his camera, secretly, into the control tower of the Ministro Pistarini International Airport also-known-as Ezeiza, the international airport at Buenos Aires.
Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel (Karel Hasler) is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice (Adina Mandlová) with the condition that she marries. Petr Suk (Hugo Haas), as the nephew is now named, visits the doctor. In the waiting room his X-ray is mistakenly switched with one of another patient's. On the basis of this he presently learns that he is seriously ill and has only one day of life left to him.
Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.
The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, the man poised to be the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his life forever at the age of only 31.
Gregory Porter One Night Only – Live at the Royal Albert Hall captures the two-time GRAMMY-winning singer in a stunning live performance at the famed London venue with his band accompanied by the London Studio Orchestra conducted and arranged by Vince Mendoza. Porter sings songs from his acclaimed recent album Nat King Cole & Me, as well as favorite songs of his own including “Hey Laura,” “No Love Dying,” “Don’t Lose Your Steam,” and “When Love Was King.”
Musical performers put on a show in a pawn shop to convince a man to give them the money they need to buy back their instruments.
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
2022 marks 40 years since the release of the album “SAUDADE” (September 1982). With producer Narada Michael Walden and guest appearances by T.M. Stevens and Sheila E, this is a masterpiece of fusion that topped the album charts at the time.
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
Recorded Live on July 18th, 1986 at "Montreux Casino", during the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland)
The documentary film on the life and legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk – a one of a kind musician, personality, activist and windmill slayer who despite being blind, becoming paralyzed, and facing America’s racial injustices - did not relent.
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
In this entertaining Puppetoon animated short film, a young boy, Jasper, gets trapped inside a pawnshop at midnight. All the musical instruments come to life and play jazz. A whooping wooden Indian chief self-animates as well, and goes on the warpath.
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.