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BLAIR’S DVD WATCH: Five Music DVDs for Last Minute Holiday Shoppers!
Paul Simon: Live From Philadelphia (Eagle Vision) Billed as “Greatest Hits Live,” this is actually slightly less than hour of a 1980 concert shot...
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BLAIR’S DVD WATCH: More Great Jazz Icons DVDs
From Jazz Icons, Box 3: Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Nina Simone (Reelin’ in the Years Productions/Naxos) Is there no bottom to the well of...
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Rule Britannia! New DVDs from The Who and Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols: There’ll Always Be An England (Rhino)The new Sex Pistols concert DVD, There’ll Always Be An England, was shot over a few nights...
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Interview: T Bone Burnett
Mix Interview With Producer Artist T Bone Burnett About Recent Work with B.B. King, John Mellencamp, Elvis Costello and more
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Reunited Roxy Music Heading Back to the Studio
From left: Bryan Ferry, Andy MacKay and Phil Manzanera The great British band Roxy Music, long slated to make their first new studio album...
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Blair’s DVD Watch: Two Great Jazz Docs Have European Slant
We think of jazz as America’s greatest indigenous art form, which it is, but it’s fair to say that Europeans have had a big...
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On the Cover: Skywalker Sound
On a warm, late-June day, Skywalker Ranch, in the rustic wilds of West Marin County, Calif., is buzzing with activity. Seventh Moon, the latest...
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POP AND POWER FROM L.A. FOURSOME
Like a lot of people, I first heard the L.A. band Phantom Planet when their irresistible pop anthem was selected to be the theme...
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MUSICAL WORLDS COLLIDE AND COME TOGETHER
In many ways, Miles From India a two-CD set of Indian musicians and a host of Miles Davis alumni interpreting a number of the...
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Steve Miller Band: Live From Chicago (Coming Home Media)
When Capitol put out its 30th anniversary edition of Steve Miller’s Fly Like an Eagle two years ago, it included a full-length concert DVD...
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Muse: H.A.A.R.P. (Warner Bros.)
I do try to keep up with what’s happening in music, but it isn’t as easy as it used to be (when record companies...
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Paul de Benedictis: Quintets (Mnemonic)
You never know who you might be passing at the AES show. That rep in a booth talking about cables all day might be...
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BLAIR’S DVD WATCH: Zawinul, Metheny: More Than Jazz
Keyboardist and bandleader extraordinaire Joe Zawinul was one of my all-time favorite musicians, and his death in September 2007 from cancer came as a...
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Nashville Now
When I came to Mix as an editor/writer 25 years ago this fall, I remember a feature crossing my desk a few months into...