Various Artists

2008 is the 10th anniversary of the extremely excellent 'jazz and beyond' label Cryptogramophone. To celebrate they've thrown themselves (and all of us too!) a great party with this release. For an amazing price - the same price or less than a typical...

Features performances by Muddy Waters, Johnnie Lewis, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, J.B. Hutto, from the very early 1970's.

The recent theatrical release documenting the 1970 Canadian train tour, now on DVD with a bonus disc with 50' of never seen live performance footage. Appearances by Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Ian & Sylvia, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Buddy...


“First ever Blu-ray release of this cult music film / rockumentary that established Glastonbury as the UK's main festival.
Shot by acclaimed director, Nic Roeg, Glastonbury Fayre is an enthralling music film of the first Glastonbury festival to have the pyramid stage. Free to all and with a line-up that included Melanie, Terry Reid, Family, Fairport Convention, Traffic, Linda Lewis, Arthur Brown, the true spirit of Glastonbury is there for all to see in this unique film record. Thousands of...

“First ever DVD release of this cult music film / rockumentary that established Glastonbury as the UK's main festival.
Shot by acclaimed director, Nic Roeg, Glastonbury Fayre is an enthralling music film of the first Glastonbury festival to have the pyramid stage. Free to all and with a line-up that included Melanie, Terry Reid, Family, Fairport Convention, Traffic, Linda Lewis, Arthur Brown, the true spirit of Glastonbury is there for all to see in this unique film record. Thousands of flower-power...

“Over the years a number of companies have released DVD compilations of Soundies or Snader Telescriptions - three-minute music videos made for video jukeboxes or television in the 1940s. Many contain the common ones seen by most collectors.
This first volume in a new series is different. The Swingtime Collection - volume 1 packs 40 (!) shorts on to one two-hour DVD with great video and sound quality and containing many obscure - but talented - performers. Ellington and Calloway are here (but not the

Is there no end to the great riches of African pop music from the 70s still to be discovered? Certainly there's no end on this title! Recommended!

This compilation is the result of nearly three years' work by Djamel Hammadi aka Afrobrazilero...

Surprisingly high quality visually, considering the age and rarity! "This outstanding DVD series pays homage to the East coast and to some of the most important musicians who have spent a major part of their career there. What is taken into account whe...

Surprisingly high quality visually, considering the age and rarity! "This outstanding DVD series pays homage to the East coast and to some of the most important musicians who have spent a major part of their career there. What is taken into account whe...

Surprisingly high quality visually, considering the age and rarity! "This outstanding DVD series pays homage to the East coast and to some of the most important musicians who have spent a major part of their career there. What is taken into account whe...

In one of the oldest, most chi-chi neighborhoods in Stockholm is a small record store called Mellotronen, which is one of the great record stores of the world. For their 20th anniversary, They sponsored a cruise that lasted 23 hours and had 1500...

Now available in NTSC (US/Canadian/Japanese) format at a unbeatable price, while they last!

In one of the oldest, most chi-chi neighborhoods in Stockholm is a small record store called Mellotronen, which is one of the great record stores of the...

This is really kind of amazing; there was a big festival in November 2010 in Rome with a huge number of legendary Italian progressive rock bands, some with very high profile guests, as well as some excellent current bands. This is 9 hours of the festival captured both sonically and visually and it's a totally insane lineup. Featured are:

* Premiata Forneria Marconi with guest Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
* Banco del Mutuo Soccorso with guest John Wetton (King Crimson, UK)...

Since I have a personal interest in early jazz, this was a great, great watch and listen personally.
This is in English, with subtitles in Italian, English, French, Portuguese, Japanese.

"A journey inside the Sicilian chromosome of jazz, forgotten by the official history; the incredible story of a Sicilian who became the world's first man in jazz. Sicily Jass: The World's First Man In Jazz is a film directed by Michele Cinque, about the life, the music, and times of Nick La Rocca, a son of...

This is a total sonic-attack-overload; a full *four hours* of footage from June 2010's UK space-rock festival! The obvious focus is on the Hawklords, featuring ex Hawks Nik Turner and Ron Tree and they get the most time on the disc, but there are...


One day before the first anniversary of Jack Bruce's death, on 24th. October 2015, his daughter Natasha (also known as Aruba Red) organized a tribute concert in honor of her father at London's Roundhouse. The concert was quickly sold out, many guests came to honor the unique person and artist Jack Bruce on stage: the "longtime Cream companion" Ginger Baker, Jon Anderson (Jethro Tull), Joss Stone, Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music), Mark King (Level 42), Uli Jon Roth and many more. Musical director of the...

Perfect black and white footage of some of the real greats of blues. This includes Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Memphis Slim, Lonnie Johnson, John Lee Hooker and much, much more! "Recorded in a small TV studio Germany during the famed Festival tours of...

Perfect black and white footage of some of the real greats of blues. This includes Howling Wolf (3 songs!), T-Bone Walker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon, Lightnin' Hopkins, Magic Sam and much, much more! "Recorded in a small TV studio Germany duri...

Perfect black and white footage of some of the real greats of blues. This includes 2 tracks by Muddy Waters (1968), Buddy Guy, Big Joe Turner, 2 by Skip James, Son House, Hound Dog Taylor (1967!), Earl Hooker and more. "Recorded in a small TV studio Ge...

I was just reading about this series of concerts in Joe Boyd's excellent book "White Bicycles", which was one of his earlier things he was involved with in the music profession, and here it is now! Perfect black and white footage of some of the real...

This double DVD set contains a full 3 hours 15 minutes of live music; the highlights of a truly memorable edition of the Veruno Prog Fest of 2017.
The bands include Mad Fellaz (13'), Comedy Of Errors (20'), Theo Travis (5'), Tangekanic (The Tangent + Karmakanic) (33'), Deafening Opera (4'), Karfagen & Sunchild (19'), Discipline (26'), Glass Hammer (11'), Ingranagi Della Valle (8') Sophya Baccini's Aradia with Christian Descamps (16'), Frost* (29'), Procol Harum (12').

This double DVD set contains a full 3+ hours of live music; the highlights of a truly memorable edition of the Veruno Prog Fest of 2021.
The bands include Metamorfosi (3’), Goblin Rebirth (25’), Røsenkreütz (7’), Orme (35’), The Trip (10’), The Winstons (14’), Rovescio Della Medaglia (13’), Osanna (28’) and more.

This is something that I don't know how many of are out there or how long we can keep this available; this is a private release made to reward people who were members of a collective that put on a big progressive rock festival in Italy in September...

This is a private release made to reward people who were members of a collective that put on a big progressive rock festival in Italy in early September, 2011. This has over two hours of professionally shot and edited footage from the event and available nowhere else and included are: Il Tempo Delle Clessidre (27 minutes), Arti E Mestieri (with special guests Mel Collins and David Cross) (13 minutes), Goblin (22 minutes), Maxophone (25 minutes), Alex Carpani Band (10 minutes), Agents of Mercy...

This is a private release made to reward people who were members of a collective that put on a big progressive rock festival in Italy in early September, 2011. This has over THREE hours of professionally shot and edited footage from the event and...

This double DVD set contains a full 3 hours of live music; the highlights of a truly memorable edition of the Veruno Prog Fest of 2014!

The bands include Anglagard (32'), FEM (5'), Spock's Beard (30'), Focus (24'), Franck Carducci (26')...

Nearly four hours of footage, all of which is unavailable elsewhere! You get:
Area (18'), Beardfish (19'), Magma (6'), Pineapple Thief (20'), Fabio Zuffanti + ZBand (8'), Runaway Totem (15'), Yuka & Chronoship (20'), Arabs In Aspic (16'), Sylvan (23'), Maschine (17')!

Nearly three and a half hours of footage, all of which is unavailable elsewhere! You get:
Asia Minor (20’), Atomic Rooster (20’), Fierce and the Dead (15’), Kristoffer Gildenlow (12’), Godsticks (11’), Gong (29’), Hawkwind (18’), Magenta (17’), Retrospective (10’), Seven Steps To The Green Door (12’), Solstice (22’), Tangerine Dream (22’)

This has over three hours of professionally shot and edited footage from the event and available nowhere else and included are: Amon Duul II (19 minutes), Banco Mutuo Soccorso (20 minutes), Threshold (11 minutes), Magic Pie (21 minutes), Ange (19 minutes), Ranestrane (16 minutes), Kyros (17 minutes) Vanilla Fudge (27 minutes) and more!

While they last, this now out of print item is available at regular, non 'collectable' pricing.
Previously released legitimately on VHS tape, this is the 1st time that this documentation of this festival (Kralingen Music Festival, June 26-28, 1970) has been released on DVD.
The picture/sound quality is decent for the time period, but it's over 45 years ago, and anyone expecting HD quality will certainly be disappointed.
Having said that, you get video and/or audio footage of true musical...

Surprisingly high quality visually, considering the age and rarity! "This outstanding DVD series pays homage to the East coast and to some of the most important musicians who have spent a major part of their career there. What is taken into account whe...