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• Jazz Sessions - Steven Bernstein | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £20.71   |  Saving you £-4.72 (-29.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  SOLOS: the jazz sessions is a 39 part television music profile/performance series. Each episode features complete musical pieces interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of today's most notable jazz artists. Shot in HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting designs SOLOS: the jazz sessions showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles - from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond. Steven Bernstein is a trumpeter/slide trumpeter bandleader arranger and composer who lives outside of musical convention.I'm one of the few trumpet players who understands different styles of music inside and outside of jazz. In my date book you'll see Lou Reed Sex Mob Sam Rivers Levon Helm and Trey Anastasio Growing up in Berkeley was the most amazing thing. Listen to the musicians who went to my high school: Josh Redman Peter Apfelbaum Lenny Pickett Craig Handy Benny Green. The guy who ran the jazz program Phil Hardymon was incredible; he starting teaching kids to improvise in fourth grade. My English teacher had fallen in love with Lester Young in the '40s and she would play Lester Young or Coltrane for us at the start of class every day. In this intimate set of SOLO performances Bernstein dedicates spontaneously improvised pieces to a variety of culture makers including Lenny Bruce Sly Stone Marianne Faithful and Leonard Cohen.

• Various Artists - I Like to Move It | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Various Artists - I Like To Move It

• Pink Floyd - World's Greatest Albums - Wish You Were Here | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Fleetwood Mac - Unbroken Chain | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Brahms - Concert for Piano and Orchestra | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

• Best of Musikladen Live: Procol Harum | DVD | (27/07/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fields of the Nephilim - Revelations/Forever Remain | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £12.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / The Italian Girl In Algiers | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Il Barbiere di Siviglia: The point of a good production of Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia is to have a Rosina and a Figaro who will knock your socks off in their respective arias, while holding back enough in all those crescendo ensembles in which the farce plot reaches its several culminations that the other stars get a chance to shine too. Cecilia Bartoli and Gino Quilico give full-blooded enough performances when on stage by themselves that self-effacement seems far from imminent, yet both are capable of less, and give it when it is needed. Of the others, David Kuebler is an attractively raffish Almaviva, while Robert Lloyd turns Basilio into a memorable cameo. Gabriele Ferro is one of the most intelligent of Rossini conductors--he understands the relationship between the pulse of the music and its dramatic function, and he is also outstanding in the delicacy of phrasing, even in climaxes, that ensures that every voice, every instrument, gets the moment of glory Rossini intended. Michael Hampe's solid reliable unfussy production keeps everything moving without drawing attention to itself. L'Italiana in Algeri: Rossini's first real hit as a writer of comic opera, L'Italiana in Algeri is one of those almost unsinkable works difficult to get entirely right. Michael Hampe's production for the 1987 Schwetzinger festival captures both its charm and its sense of menace--the court of the Bey is both a setting for farce and a place in which the Italian characters are at the mercy of a despot who will not necessarily find things funny. Gunther von Kannen's Mustafa is a convincing Bey of Algiers, with all the arrogance of power and the vulnerability to mockery that goes with it. His adversary, the tough witty proto-feminist Isabella, is given real presence in Doris Soffel's performance--it is entirely credible, listening to her throaty mezzo, that everyone else should be more-than-a-little in love with her. The slightly effete tenor of Robert Gambill as her lover Lindoro makes him a perfect partner in intrigue for her. Conducting Rossini is not just a matter of winding the crescendos up and letting them go; Ralf Weikert is particularly fine in the complicated finale of Act 1 with its imitations of bells and drums and its complicated vocal lines. --Roz Kaveney

• Bon Jovi - Broadcasting Live | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Various Artists - Lovitt Transmissions Vol. 1 | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £12.25   |  Saving you £7.74 (38.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Various Artists - Lovitt Transmissions Vol. 1

• Hossam Ramzy - Bedouin Tribal Dance Feat Gypsies of the Nile | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Performance Part:01. Raqset Al Hajjalah (trad.,arr. Hossam Ramzy).02. Enta W'Bas (trad.,arr. Hossam Ramzy).03. Efrooh Bwandina (Shebl Abdalla).04. Habbetik B'Jnoon (Trad.,arr Hossam Ramzy).05. Oyounik Ya Sattar (trad., arr. Hossam Ramzy).Instructional Part:14 Basic Steps In Real Time. OrSlowed down with step by step explanations by Serena Ramzy.

• Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  This DVD contains live recordings from one of the greatest in Jazz it features rare footage of Satchmo performing ""When the Saints go Marching in"" ""When it's sleepy Time down South"" and other Jazz favourites.You can also see Satchmo performing in some of the best productions of the early days of film.Also included special CD containing the music from the DVD.

• Stones Throw 101 | DVD | (16/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The complete collection of Stones Throw's music videos produced by Davon Ramos producer of DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist's 'Product Placement' DVD and overseen by Stones Throw's founder Peanut Butter Wolf. This is the first time on DVD for videos and features by indie heroes such as MF Doom Madlib Jay Dee and Lootpack running from the classic to the unknown and the unreleased. Contains the smash Madvillain video 'All Caps' which was voted number 1 on MTV.com with significant play on MTV2 plus BET favourites by Jaylib Wildchild and Dudley Perkins. Madvillain's previously unreleased 'Rhinestone Cowboy' video also premieres here. Tracklisting: Madvillain 'Rhinestone Cowboy' / Madvillain 'All Caps' / Jaylib 'McNasty Filth' / Madlib 'Slim's Return' / Quasimoto 'Come On Feet' / Quasimoto 'Good Morning Sunshine' / Rasco with Planet Asia 'Take It Back...' / Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf 'Red Light Green Light' / Lootpack 'Whenimondamic' / Wildchild 'Wonder Years' / Breakestra 'Getcho Soul Togetha' / Dudley Perkins 'Money' / Gary Wilson 'Linda Wants...' / Koushik 'One In A Day' / Kazi 'A.V.E.R.A.G.E.

• Bob Marley And The Wailers - Live At The Rainbow (2 Disc Amaray) | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Poison - Live | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

• Paul Weller - Heavy Soul | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Acid Drinkers - the Hand That Rocks the Coffin | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £14.59   |  Saving you £2.40 (14.10%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Acid Drinkers - The Hand That Rocks The Coffin

• Various Artists - Reggae Sting 1 | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

• Thin Lizzy - Gold From The Vaults | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Various Artists - Metalmania 2005 | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £11.69   |  Saving you £5.30 (31.20%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Various Artists - Metalmania 2005