Saturday, June 16, 2012

“A Song For Ourselves” (Third World Newsreel)

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“A Song For Ourselves” is a short (35 minutes) documentary film examining the life and legacy of the sadly-overlooked Asian-American singer-...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Four Blues DVD’s - Moses Oakland, Billy D. and the Hoodoos, Roy Buchanan, Joe Bonamassa

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I have four blues DVD’s waiting for review, and rather than drag out the process and post four separate reviews, I’ll discuss them all in on...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

“Under The Boardwalk: A Ukulele Love Story” (Nina Koocher Films)

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Way back in March, 2011, I posted a review of a DVD entitled ”Mighty Uke”, a paean to the ukulele and its marvelous comeback in the 21st Cen...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Jazz Icons: Series 5 (Mosaic)

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Mosaic Records is best-known for their jazz completist sets, such as “The Complete (name of label) Recordings of (name of artist)”. And they...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Sounds and Silence: Travels With Manfred Eicher” (ECM)

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For over forty years, Manfred Eicher has been one of the most heralded, most creative, and most fastidious of all record producers - fastidi...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

“Fulanito: Greatest Video Hits” (Cutting Records)

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For those of you who may not follow developments in popular Latin music, Fulanito is a group of Dominican-Americans from New York who emerge...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

“Troubadour Blues” (Tom Weber Films)

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It would be hard to make any statement to the effect that the singer-songwriter, offering original song material to the accompaniment of an ...