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An excellent documentary on the pioneering Chicago punk scene of the late 70s & early 80s -- a fascinating and exciting experience with footage we didn't know existed and history we wish we knew more about before it! We caught the tail end of the scene, but, we really weren't there -- the ...

An array of visual tributes to the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim -- pulled together from classic and contemporary performances of his music, interspersed with documentary photographs, footage, and some interviews as well! A good number of the performances here are from the last decade of Jobim's ...

The genius of Antonio Carlos Jobim -- captured on screen in a host of beautiful images! The DVD's the third in this great series directed by Roberto De Oliveira -- and like the others, it blends together later concert footage, images of Brazil, and other more intimate performances -- the last of ...

Isaac Hayes stars as Truck Turner, a modern-day bounty hunter on the trail of a super pimp who jumped his bail. As he moves through the gritty underworld, the tables begin to turn, and the pimp's top girl takes charge of the action. Truck ends up butting heads with Harvard Blue, played by Yaphet ...

Incredibly goofy, but also incredibly compelling, this blacksploitation/horror classic tells the tale of an African priest who visited the original Count Dracula in the 18th Century, and was turned into a vampire and imprisoned in a coffin for 200 years. Switch to the 70's, and Blacula's out on ...

More foxy action from Pam Greer! This time she's Sheba Shayne, Queen of the Private Eyes -- summoned back to her home town by her dad, after the mob tried to move in on his loan business! Her trail leads her to Shark, the millionaire mobster -- which leads to plenty of action with Pam packed in ...

A great double disc package celebrating the legendary concert from 1971 -- featuring Wilson Pickett, Ike & Tina Turner, the Staple Singers, Less McCann & Eddie Harris, the Voices Of East Harlem and others joining forces for an epic concert held in Ghana, West Africa! The package includes a ...

Fred Anderson celebrates his birthday in the company of another avant tenor talent -- reedman Kidd Jordan, who joins Anderson on the album's extended title improvisation -- which is referred to as an update of the Dexter Gordon/Wardell Gray "Chase" battle of the late 40s! As you'd expect ...

A well-done, well-publicized documentary about the leading lights of Chicago soul in the 60s and 70s -- Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions -- one of the greatest musical partnerships of the time! The two hour documentary features interviews with original group members Fred Cash and Sam Gooden, ...

We'll call this one of the greatest rock documentaries ever -- the story of the Ramones! If End Of The Century doesn't approach the craftsmanship of Don't Look Back, The Filth & The Fury or The Last Waltz in the artsy filmmaking department, it's nearly as wonderful of a historical document. ...

Ann Peebles live in Europe in the mid 90s -- not the most vintage performance you'll ever find, but the lady can still sing! Titles include "Friends", "Full Time Lover", "I'm Yours", "When I'm Over You", "I Can't Stand The Rain", "St Louis ...

The officially endorsed story of Roxy Music -- charting the dizzying, genre defying, evolving and all around incredible career of the trailblazing combo! Tells the story through interviews with the band members, both new and rare, as well as contemporaries and artists they've inspired. The DVD ...

Roy Ayers live in the early 80s -- really stretching out here on some hip numbers from the 70s, plus a few surprising jazz moments too! The set features a 13 minute reading of "Mystic Voyage", a 10 minute take on "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", and versions of "Night In ...

Tight work from Earth Wind & Fire -- a smoking set recorded in Oakland in 1981 -- at a point when the group was still burning hard with lots of their best energy from the 70s! The package is overflowing with hits, performed with a soulful, sophisticated style by the group -- and as always with ...

Quincy Jones celebrates his birthday the right way -- by throwing a big ol' party at the Montreux Jazz Festival, surrounded by a huge lineup of jazz and soul luminaries -- including Herbie Hancock, Freda Payne, Lee Ritenour, James Moody, Billy Cobham, Patrice Rushen, Toots Thielemans, Rasaan ...

Another great Pam Grier film, and like Coffy, a revenge flick in which she's out for vengence against a bunch of mobsters. Foxy goes undercover in a ring of call girls, and the film's got a scene in which she makes someone an involuntary eunuch of the harem! Willie Hutch did the excellent score, ...

An assortment of live performances from 60s and 70s soul legends -- mostly recorded for the early 80s TV series America's Music! The 11 track package offers an assortment of different artists singing their hits -- all doing a pretty decent job, even though they're past their star years at the time. ...

A well-done DVD version of a live TV performance from 1981 -- done when Luiz Gonzaga Jr was at the height of his powers, maturing wonderfully into a rich and personal style! His father joins him on a few tracks here, and Roberto Ribeiro's also a guest -- on titles that include "Galope", ...

A key post-Tropicalia moment in Brazilian music -- a live set that brings together four of the strongest forces in 70s MPB -- Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethania -- all strong survivors from the early years, working here in a richly creative style! Although recorded in the ...

A great 3DVD package -- one that features the excellent individual albums in this series, packaged together at a slightly better price! The DVDs here -- No More Blues, Waters Of March, and She's A Carioca -- offer up an array of visual tributes to the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim -- pulled ...

A beautiful document of a magical musical moment -- one of the few live performances ever of the work of David Axelrod -- a concert that's presented here in a special CD & DVD package! Axelrod's 60s albums are the stuff of legend -- orchestral efforts with a funky undercurrent, and longtime ...

An avant jazz cinema classic -- Phill Niblock's 1966 film The Magic Sun -- an extremely abstract work with music by the Sun Ra Arkestra! Niblock based the film around a performance by the Arkestra -- using intense close-ups on the musicians' hands, mouths, and instruments -- and often working with ...

Incognito live is always a wonderful thing -- as Jean-Paul "Bluey" Maunick and his group already work in a warm, welcoming sound -- and seem to take things to an even higher level when caught live! This 1995 performance does a good job of showing the group off at their best -- recorded ...

Sivuca definitely earns the "poet of sound" in the title here -- working in a live setting to show that he's one of the greatest accordionists ever -- truly the Brazilian counterpart to Astor Piazzolla, but also an artist with a lot more range! Sivuca's working here in a number of ...

Wonderful live work from Joyce -- a singer we love in any sort of setting, but one who really seems to open up nicely in front of an audience! The approach here is very much in classic Joyce mode -- very intimate and personal, with instrumentation that just includes Joyce on guitar, Tutty Moreno ...

Far more than just a DVD with vintage performances by the Sun Ra Arkestra (although that in itself would be great enough!) -- a film essay on the nature of jazz, directed in Chicago in 1959 by Edward O Bland, the only African-American member of the New American Cinema movement, and a pioneering ...

Lou Rawls gets some great help here -- Duke Ellington on piano on two numbers, and Freda Payne on one track as well! The performance captures Lou in the pre-Philly International years -- in beautifully vivid 70s TV color, pulled from a variety special. Titles include "Oh Happy Day" ...

Early work from Dianne Reeves -- and proof that she was one hell of a classy lady, even at the start! The DVD features two early shows from the Ad Lib series -- one of which features guest work from Snooky Young and Count Basie, the other of which features Billy Childs & A Fine Madness. The ...

Later work from trumpeter Don Cherry -- a performance from his Multikulti group, an ensemble used as a showcase for the globe's worth of musical influences Cherry picked up over the years! Cherry himself plays pocket trumpet, keyboards, melodica, percussion, and flute -- and other musicians ...

One of the most ambitious recordings we've ever heard from saxophonist Billy Harper -- a beautifully spiritual set performed live in Poland with a large choir of voices backing him up! The sound really takes us back to some of Harper's recordings of this nature from the start of the 70s -- and the ...

A great 70s TV special -- headed up by the 5th Dimension, and featuring some sweet guest appearances from Dionne Warwick, The Carpenters, and Merle Haggard -- a surprising sort of lineup, but that's what makes the show so compelling! Haggard is an especially odd choice -- performing the tracks ...

Great small group work from Art Farmer -- playing trumpet and flugelhorn here in a hip lineup that includes Cedar Walton on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums! The Walton/Carter/Higgins combination makes for pure magic in the rhythms -- and really seems to unlock some extra ...

A late live performance by Dizzy Gillespie -- but still played with plenty of fire, wit, and imagination! The group's an intersting one -- with Diz on trumpet and vocals, plus Sayyad Abdul Al-Kahbyyr on sax and flute, Walter Davis Jr on piano, John Lee on electric bass, and Nassyr Abdul Al-Kahbyyr ...

A bit more than just jive -- and a DVD that features some of the little live footage we've ever seen of the Toshkio Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band! The material's from the 80s, but it's played with the same fire as the group's classic recordings of the 70s -- a great mix of complicated ...

Beautiful blowing from Benny Golson -- filmed here during his Whisper Not Tour, with a great lineup that includes Art Farmer on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Geoffrey Keezer on piano, Dwayne Burno on bass, and Joe Farnsworth on drums -- plus a bit of guest vocals from Jon Hendricks too! ...

Two great performances by Mark Murphy -- both filmed for the Ad Lib TV show in 1980, and featuring trumpet work from brothers Pete and Conte Candoli! Murphy sings on the titles "You've Proven Your Point", "Parker's Mood", "Again", and "Farmer's Market" -- ...

A nicely up-close peformance by Djavan -- recorded for the Ensaio show, in its familiar intimate setting! The group's a bit larger than usual for an Ensaio performance, but the overall feel's still more personal than a larger concert setting -- and a video like this is a good reminder that in the ...

A mid 90s live set from Roy Ayers -- but one that's still got most of the soulful vibes we love in his work from the 70s! Most of the tracks here are from the old days, played with a sweet warm glow -- and titles include "Love Will Bring Us Back Together", "Can't You See Me", ...

Loud live energy from The Baker Brothers -- a smoking concert performance that rips a groove every bit as much as their work in the studio! Vanessa Freeman's working with the group here -- singing vocals on over half the tracks -- and there's also some added tenor, trumpet, and baritone sax to ...

The meeting of some of the world's greatest DJs, funky drummers, and Brazilian percussionists in Sao Paulo -- documented in the long in the works feature Brasilintime -- B+ and Mochilla's follow up to the already legendary Keepintime film and featuring Babu, Cut Chemist, Madlib, J Rocc, DJ Nuts, ...

Nice one -- one of the classic moments of early hip hop on film! Filmed in the early 80s, entirely on location in the South Bronx, the film's an amazing look into the early days of hip hop culture -- and perhaps the greatest film of all time on the subject. The film includes performances by ...

Rare live footage of the Parliament Funkadelic empire at the height of their powers -- recorded right in the massive Mothership year of 1976! The show was filmed on Halloween, in Houston -- and features a very large P-Funk lineup -- one that plays with hard-jamming intensity that's almost more ...

One of the trippiest kids films ever made -- a 70s animated feature narrated by Ringo Starr, and featuring music by Harry Nilsson! The film tells the story of Oblio, a round-headed boy living in the land of "point" -- where everything is pointy, and everybody has a point on their head! ...

Pam Grier's fantastic film about a young nurse who takes revenge after her 11 year old sister is destroyed by drugs. Pam grabs a gun, goes undercover, and manages to kick a lot of booty. She also manages to get her shirt ripped open at least about a half a dozen times in the movie, but that's ok, ...

Earth Wind & Fire caught live in Japan -- a set recorded in 1990, as part of the tour for their Heritage album -- but a performance that has them still hitting plenty of classic notes overall! The group's still plenty big at this point, and vocals are by Maurice White and Philip Bailey -- who ...

A great visual document of the talents of Rhonda Thomas -- a singer we really love on record, but who has even greater charms on DVD! The set features a performance recorded by Rhonda in Atlanta before a surprisingly large outdoor crowd -- and although the setting might intimidate other singers, ...

The Mama Cass Telelvision Program -- a special that ran on the ABC network in 1969 -- one of the groovy, kind of goofy, but totally wonderful programs from the days when TV executives were down with the sunshine era! Cass was an incredible personality, to say the least, and sings here solo ...

Classic live funky madness from Dj Shadow and Cut Chemist from the Brainfreeze tour -- with a little warmup help from DJs Numark, Z-Trip, Marvski and Dante! We hardly need to tell you, but this is DJ artistry in it's purest form -- live work from the finest, with Numark and Z-trip on the hot ...

Raphael Saadiq is a hell of a charismatic performer -- as you'll see in this recent live set that features songs from his excellent The Way I See It Album! The setting is somewhat intimate -- as the show was recorded in Boston's Harvard Club -- and Saadiq really maintains the old school feel of ...

Beautiful live work from Martinho Da Vila -- a set that features a mix of very intimate numbers with a few larger group tracks! A few tunes feature Martinho singing completely acapella -- a format we've never heard before, but which comes off great, given the strength of his famous vocals -- and ...