Posts Tagged ‘video’

Thanks to Lars Gotrich at ABS for passing this on…

Sun Ra stars in Space Is The Place. Video streaming here.

I subscribe to a few tech blog feeds and a lot of my friends I’m linked to via Google Reader have similar interests. There’s an endless supply new devices, apps, and games announced almost daily. Such an exciting time for tech lovers. And specifically for musician tech lovers.

Here is new take on the Tetris model called Chime. This one uses not only a point reward system, but also a musical reward…

It’s exciting to see how people are shaping how consumers access and interact with music today. Gives me a lot of inspiration.

Thanks to all who have preordered their copy of this DVD. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have been these past couple weeks. Such a spectacle to watch and hear. Watch the trailer for Stained Radiance.

Today is the official release day. So at days end our celebratory sale on all Nels Cline Cyptogramophone albums will be taken down. Act now and get all of those great records for $7 (MP3s @ 320kbps) or $9 (lossless FLACs).

Be sure to make it out to the record release show a week from today.

Tuesday, 02-02 | Long Beach, CA | DiPiazza
Nels Cline + Norton Wisdom

I also came across a clip of another live performance from this duo the other day…

Awesome.

Guitarist Nels Cline and ar Norton Wisdom, both masters of their medium, joined together last year for an afternoon of sonic and visual improvisation caught on film by Aeght Nign. Armed with his guitar and effects, Cline constructs lush soundscapes brought about by Wisdom’s brush-stroke spontaneity. Wisdom in turn follows Cline’s auditory twists creating and recreating the same canvas.

Two mesmerizing performances are included on the DVD along with special features like the Norton Headcam, and a behind-the-scenes look into the sessions.

Preorder the DVD at our store.

Stained Radiance – Nels Cline & Norton Wisdom from Greenleaf Music.

Also, all Nels Cline albums are on sale for 30% off during the Stained Radiance preorder. Links below.

Two master innovators—jazz trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison—draw on the unique resources of Stanford University to create Spark of Being, a monumental work combining the screening of film with live musical performances by Douglas’ electric band Keystone.

WORLD PREMIERE: April 24th, 2010 at Stanford University.

More details coming soon.

After a short tour out East and back, I’m back in the office working away. It was a great trip, but good to be home and away from rest stops and fast food.

A few things that were sent to me over the weekend that I wasn’t able to find time to post…

First, long-time Greenleaf friend Helen Money has a cool new video on the ‘Tube directed by Nelson Chan. The music is a cover of the classic Minutemen tune “Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing.” Helen’s new album is due out November 3rd and comes highly recommended.

“I am a very big Fan of Michael Jackson, and am quite angry on the fact that We only started to pay attention to him only after his passing. so here is my tribute to him in a Halloween spirit. “let the fouls choke on their own gold!” R.I.P. MJ –Nelson Chan

Monster Cable releases Miles Davis Tribute headphones. Quite a perplexing product. But like most things with Miles’ name on it, I’d want one — if I didn’t already have a sweet set of ‘phones.

Miles Davis Tribute Jazz Headphones are designed and precision tuned with Miles and the unique acoustic tones of jazz in mind.

What would have been cooler than just getting the cans is if the headphones were somehow preloaded with all those complete boxsets. Some Miles iPod or whatever. Still, would love to at least test out Pharoah’s Dance or The Ghetto Walk to see how they sound.

A few links to pass on while we continue to roll out A Single Sky…

First, a great article by Neil Tesser in this month’s Jazziz spotlighting Nicole Mitchell with a short intro on Karyn’s Fresh Corner, one of my favorite places.

Jim Macnie’s Top 25 Records of the Decade? that includes DD’s Strange Liberation and 24 other heavy-hitting records.

Liner Notes Writer Extraordinaire Darcy James Argue was featured on NPR recently. I missed it, but it’s streaming here with extended words here.

And yet another awesome Han Bennink video via Peter Margasak’s blog…

Donny McCaslin with Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez playing at Moviemento in Linz, Austria October 4th.

To view the whole concert playlist, click over to the GreenleafMusicHQ Youtube page. Thanks to wotan667 for posting.

We are proud to announce the release of Dave’s first big band album — a collaboration with Jim McNeely and one of Europe’s longest-running groups, the Frankfurt Radio Bigband.   A Single Sky is set for release in late October. It features 3 selections from Dave’s big band suite, Delighted States, which debuted at JazzBaltica 2008 (view that performance here), and 4 pieces from the Douglas catalog arranged by the multi-Grammy-winning Jim McNeely. Thanks to painter Terry Winters for the beautiful cover art.

More info coming soon.

We were lucky enough to have Geoff Countryman on tour with Brass Ecstasy in Europe this summer. Upon return, we were sent a boatload of clips from each of the bands performances as well as some candid shots of classic on-the-road happenings captured by Mr. Countryman. So we assembled a little montage for your viewing pleasure. As you watch, you will be hearing a track from the On Stage download series we put up last month called “Spirit Moves.”

Also, at the GreenleafMusicHQ YouTube page, we’ve made a new playlist compiling all the Brass Ecstasy videos — the live Tiny Desk Concert, this montage, as well as the in-studio videos from the DVD part of Spirit Moves.

Enjoy.