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Music DVD Review: Phil Collins – Live at Montreux 2004
The two-DVD set Live at Montreux 2004 actually contains two very different Phil Collins concerts. As the release’s title suggests, the main attraction is his Montreux Jazz Festival performance from...
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Music Review: Michael Jackson – Bad 25 – Deluxe Anniversary Edition [3-CD/1-DVD]
Marking the quarter century mark since the release of Michael Jackson’s work of pop genius, Bad 25 is a positively electrifying celebration of this often underrated album. Released five years after...
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Music Blu-ray Review: Miles Davis with Quincy Jones and the Gil Evans...
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Music DVD Review: `The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story’
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The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings combines two complete albums recorded by Frank Sinatra and Count Basie. The first ten tracks make up the 1962 Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First, featuring...
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Music DVD Review: Phil Collins – Live at Montreux 2004
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Music Review: Michael Jackson – Bad 25 – Deluxe Anniversary Edition [3-CD/1-DVD]
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One of the most pivotal collaborations in the history of jazz featured trumpeter Miles Davis and arranger Gil Evans. Beginning in 1949, when Evans arranged two songs for the pivotal Birth of the Cool...
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