Quadraphonic sound, or 4.0 surround sound, utilizes four audio channels connected to four speakers positioned at the corners of a listening space. The multi-tracked audio is mixed dimensional, immersing the listener in an expansive soundscape. Quadio is a Blu-ray with 192/24 resolution Quadraphonic and Hi-Res Stereo mixes transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters.

ELLINGTON, DUKE / NEW ORLEANS SUITE (QUADIO) Blu-ray audio edition. Quadraphonic sound, or 4. 0 surround sound, utilizes four audio channels connected to four speakers positioned at the corners of a listening space. The multi-tracked audio is mixed dimensional, immersing the listener in an expansive soundscape. Duke Ellington was commissioned to create the NEW ORLEANS SUITE for the 1970 New Orleans Jazz Festival, marking his final recording with saxophonist Johnny Hodges. The record is regarded as one of Ellington's greatest works, incorporating Creole influences. He won the 1970 GRAMMY� Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band and received a nomination for Best Instrumental Composition.

Laufey / NIGHT AT THE SYMPHONY

Directed by Nicolas Humbert. Starring Tom Walker, Robert Frank, Ted Milton.

The artist and New York City resident Art Spiegelman drew the comic board book in the Shadow of No Towers immediately after the September 11th attacks.

V4: BEST OF JAZZ IN BURGHAUSEN

Toto and session drummer Phillips and Kimmel keyboardist Babko are featured performing lots of great jazz music. This disc has Multiple 5.1 surround mixes plus HD stereo.

This recording is in the DVD Audio format and will only play on hardware specifically compatible with the DVD Audio format. Standard CD players will not play this CD.

This is a DVD-Audio disc. The DVD-Audio content can only be read by a DVD-Audio player. The Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS audio tracks provided on this disc will play on a standard DVD player.
In the early 1970s, the Manhattan Transfer made their mark on the American music scene by mixing an encyclopedic knowledge of pop styles from nearly all eras with jazz. With AMONG FRIENDS, one of the quartet, vocalist Cheryl Bentyne, steps into the solo spotlight for a looser, slightly less formal recital (accompanied by a jazz quartet, including the fine guitarist Grant Geissman) with this high-quality DVD-Audio release.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
24 Bit/96 Khz PCM Stereo - English
24 Bit/48 Khz Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

This recording is in the DVD Audio format and will only play on hardware specifically compatible with the DVD Audio format. Standard CD players will not play this CD.

2L and Hoff Ensemble present Quiet Winter Night, an acoustic jazz project. Members of the Hoff Ensemble include Mathias Eick (trumpet), Borge Petersen-Overleir (guitar), Annbjorg Lien (nyckelharpa and hardanger fiddle), Jan Gunnar Hoff (piano), Arild Andersen (double bass), Rune Arnesen (percussion). Vocals by Helene Boksle, Asne Valland Nordli, Annbjorg Lien, Sondre Brat land, Unni Wilhelmsen, Tomine Harket, Bjurn Johan Muri, Cecilia Vennersten and Bjorn Eidsvag.

With the magnificent sets of the Quartier Latin in Giancarlo del Monaco's La Boheme as a backdrop, the Teatro Real presents an invigorating Latin Jazz cross-pollination, featuring some of the world's greatest Jazz fusionists: Paquito d'Rivera and Chano Dominguez. Recorded live in high Definition video and true surround sound, this concert fires up the screen with virtuosic and electrifying performances of truly multi-dimensional Jazz, colored with Salsa, Flamenco, Tango, Bolero, African, and other Latin music elements.

Grammy nominated flutist Walker leads this classical/jazz crossover ensemble in tunes written by Mozart, Gershwin and Pezzone. This disc contains the complete video of the session shot in HD and presented in 3D! It is compatible with 2D equipment. The music was recorded in HD-Audio at 96 kHz/24-bit PCM. Users can select from 3 different audio mixes. This is a DVD-Audio/Video disc. One side is the DVD-Audio format and the other side is the DVD-Video disc.

The Miles Davis Story is a two-hour film directed by acclaimed filmmaker Mike Dibb. The film features classic performances from all eras of Miles' career, and insightful interviews with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Clark Terry, Joe Zawinul and many others. Eleven years after his death in 1991, legendary trumpeter Miles Davis remains the best known and most influential jazz musician of the last 50 years. This program showcases many of Davis' most influential and timeless recordings.

Larry Carlton and special guest Robben Ford sharing the same stage, unplugged. This DVD is a guitar lovers dream. This unique pairing of great guitar legends delivers and unforgettable evening of dueling guitar solos and an uncompromising evening of the Blues the way it was meant to be.

This historical recording session captured on DVD is the successful outcome of the mutual admiration of two great jazz artists: Claude Bolling and Stephane Grappelli. Here, the combination of the talents of Bolling's swinging 17-piece big band and the virtuosity of Grappelli's violin make a stunning visual document. Color, 53 minutes, in French and English.

Fr�meaux & Associ�s and La Seine TV present a live concert by Rodolphe Raffalli. Recorded in October 2014, the artist is accompanied by brothers S�bastien and Raoul Gastine. Here Raffalli demonstrates the immense range of his repertoire, covering Latin America, great popular songs and both Swing and Gypsy Jazz, as his guitar delicately picks out melodies with the precision of a goldsmith. The result is a perfect celebration of this internationally recognized and brilliant artist.

Sophisticated production of concert in the magnificent setting of the Palace of Versailles. The suite, first performed in 1975, has been one of the most successful Classical/Jazz crossover recordings....ten years in the Billboard top 50!

Jan Gunnar Hoff - Stories - Stories is Jan Gunnar Hoff's third solo piano album on the 2L label and is a sequel to his critically acclaimed album LIVING from 2013. On the new release Hoff stretches his creative abilities, presenting contrasting compositions and improvisations, in a distinctly personal mixture. Some of the pieces are meditative and expressive, while others have a strong rhythmic vibe. Stories also displays Hoff as an arranger, presenting versions of classics like "God Only Knows" and the traditional Swedish folk song "V�rmlandsvisan". SACD and Blu-ray Audio

Classical Music

You never know what American original soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom is going to do next. After the success of her GRAMMY® Nominated 2014 all-ballads release Sixteen Sunsets Bloom shifts into another gear showcasing the kinetic energy of her acclaimed trio playing with the musicians that she knows best on Early Americans. It’s her first trio album, sixteenth as leader and sixth recording on the Outline label. Her sound is like no other on the straight horn and she lets it fly on every track. She’s joined by long-time bandmates Mark Helias on bass & drummer Bobby Previte and with over fifty years of shared musical history together the album is sure to be a winner. Bloom’s collaboration with Helias dates back to the mid 70’s in New Haven CT and her unique chemistry with Previte has been ongoing since 2000. She brought the group together in summer 2015 to Avatar Studio B in NYC to capture their breathtaking sound in both stereo and surround-sound with renowned audio engineer Jim Anderson. The album features twelve Bloom originals ranging from the rhythmic drive of “Song Patrol” and “Singing The Triangle” to the spare melancholy of “Mind Gray River.” She closes the album with a signature solo rendition of the American songbook classic, Bernstein & Sondheim’s ”Somewhere.” World-renowned portrait photographer Brigitte Lacombe contributes a stunning cover image of Bloom. “Playing in threes” has always held a special fascination for jazz artists - it offers the possibility that something can be slightly off balance and that’s just what fires the imagination of players like Bloom, Helias, & Previte. With Early Americans Jane Ira Bloom stands in the vanguard of her generation carving out new territory in the heart of the jazz tradition. Don’t miss this trio of “fearless jazz explorers who share a commitment to beauty & adventure.” Soaring, poetic, quick silver, spontaneous and instantly identifiable are words used to describe the soprano sound of saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. She’s been steadfastly developing her singular voice on the straight horn for 35 years creating a body of music that marks her as an American original. She’s an nine-time winner of the Jazz Journalists Association Award for soprano sax, the Downbeat International Critics Poll, and the Charlie Parker Award for Jazz Innovation and has collaborated with such outstanding jazz artists as Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Kenny Wheeler, Julian Priester, Mark Dresser, Jerry Granelli, Matt Wilson, Billy Hart and Fred Hersch. Her 2014 all-ballads release Sixteen Sunsets was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for surround-sound. In addition she’s garnered numerous awards for her creativity including a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition and the Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Award for lifetime service to jazz. JIB was the first musician commissioned by the NASA Art Program and was honored to have an asteroid named in her honor by the International Astronomical Union (asteroid 6083janeirabloom). A strong visual thinker, Bloom's affinity for other art forms has both enriched her music and led to collaborations with other innovative artists such as actors Vanessa Redgrave & Joanne Woodward, painter Dan Namingha, cartoonist Jules Feiffer, director John Sayles and legendary dancer/ choreographer Carmen DeLavallade. Her long-standing interest in space exploration and neuroscience has lead to cutting edge recording projects inspired by outer and inner space. Performance venues include Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Dizzy’s Club Jazz @ Lincoln Center, St. John the Divine Cathedral and the Einstein Planetarium in Washington DC. She has composed several works commissioned through the Chamber Music America/ Doris Duke New Jazz Works Program including Chasing Paint, a series of compositions inspired by painter Jackson Pollock, Mental Weather, a suite of neuroscience inspired pieces, and recently Wild Lines, a jazz reimagining of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. JIB has recorded and produced 16 album projects since 1977 for CBS, Arabesque, ENJA, Pure Audio and Artistshare Records, and founded her own record label (Outline Records). A professor at the New School for Jazz in New York City, she holds degrees from Yale University and the Yale School of Music.

This 2/4/6 disc is a hybrid DVD which will play on current DVD video players as well as DVD Audio players. The 2/4/6 disc features more soundstage depth and textures within the music plus greater large and small scale dynamic contrasts.

AN AUDIO-ONLY DVD. a satinym swinging album that pays homage to the legends of American Jazz. This record shows off Faddis' talents in a whole new way. Featuring Grammy Award-winner Paquito D'Rivera with a fourteen piece Jazz orchestra" the trumpeter demonstrates he can get inside a song and touch those offer elusive tender sports, superb execution by such remarkable musicians as Bill Easley, George Young, John Clark, Roger Rosenberg and Paquito D'Rivera. All the tunes are warm and smartly developed.

Chicago tenor saxophone legend and proprietor of the longest standing and most adventurous avant garde jazz club in Chicago, Fred Anderson celebrated his 80th birthday this past March and Delmark was there to capture it.

Nicole Mitchell brings an exciting new approach to flute improvisation. She is the founder of the critically-acclaimed Black Earth Ensemble, and was called Downbeat Magazine's #1 Rising Star Flutist in 2006 and 2007.