A Head of Time Ahead of Time
This video portrait pays tribute to jazz composer, big-band leader, and Professor Emeritus Henry J. (Hank) Levy. It swings with excerpts from recently videotaped big bands performing Hank's incredible music, often under his direction. It's generously colored with "road stories", emotional recollections and other insightful, sometimes humorous, commentary from Hank himself, as well as other jazz legends, including amongst them: Maynard Ferguson, Peter Erskine, Sal Salvador, Glen Stuart, Clem DeRosa, Bill Warfield, Paul Chiaravalle, Milcho Leviev, Fred Selden, Greg Smith and Audree Coke Kenton.
They paint Hank as an extremely talented, energetic, fun-loving, and humble genius with an innovative and inspirational spirit, a head of time, a musical soul, a heart for teaching, and a love of jazz and golf. Seems Hank was born to swing!
Hank became world famous for his revolutionary use of exotic time signatures through the recordings of the Don Ellis and Stan Kenton Orchestras.
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A Head of Time Ahead of Time Companion CD
In response to numerous requests, Audio Visual Artists' Productions has just released on Sonority Records a companion CD to the A Head of Time, Ahead of Time video documentary. This fully digital recording features music composed and arranged by Hank Levy and performed by the Jazz Ambassadors of the U.S. Army Field Band for their 1997 CD, The Legacy of Hank Levy.
Hank personally rehearsed the band in preparation for the recording, and had this to say regarding the quality of their performance, "it's the greatest band I've ever been in front of, I love 'em. I don't want it any better than that!"
Selections include: Whiplash, Latintensity, Time for a Change, Chiapas, A Peek Into a New Time Zone, Passacaglia and Fugue, Chain Reaction, Concerning Quartels and Quintels, A Simple Logic, Southern Exposure.
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Holly Shimizu's Video Guide to Growing and Using Herbs
Holly Shimizu, Executive Director of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington DC, is one of the most knowledgeable experts on herb gardening today. She lectures extensively, has written on a variety of horticultural subjects, frequently hosts the Victory Garden, America's premier gardening television program, and is frequently featured on Broadcast House Live and on a monthly radio show.
In this video, Holly provides a tour of the several beautiful gardens which she and her husband, Osamu, a garden designer, have creatively developed in the limited space surrounding their home. Their aesthetic and pragmatic achievements there have been recognized and featured in a number of leading gardening magazines.
Holly Shimizu's Video Guide to Growing and Using Herbs is a step-by-step informative, inspirational, and artistic production which is practical for beginners as well as experienced herb gardeners.
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Made in the Shade with David Benner
Made in the Shade features David E. Benner, renowned plant expert and professor of ornamental horticulture for 20 years at Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. At his home in Bucks County, PA., Mr. Benner has created a low-maintenance shade garden so spectacular that its spring tours are booked a year in advance. Now, in this 45-minute visual guide, David Benner reveals his solutions to shade garden problems with easy-to-follow instructions for creating your own picturesque, low-maintenance, shady area garden. Mr. Benner will teach you how to grow a living carpet that remains green all year and can be walked upon, but requires no seeding, no fertilizing, no mowing, no weeding, no thatching, no raking and no pesticides.
As a bonus, this how-to-video takes you on an inspiring journey through Mr. Benner's private "paradise" and ends with a glorious musical montage of spring flowers blooming in his spectacular woodland garden. Made in the Shade is an informative and artistic production that gardening enthusiasts will be proud to add to their libraries.
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Photographing Food as Art
For more than two years, AVA's video camera documented actual cooking, styling, shooting and editing sessions during the creation of Jean-Louis: Cooking With The Seasons, "a book that launches food photography into a new era."
Learn how three outstanding artists combine their very different talents as they freely share techniques and philosophies in this entertaining educational video which you will want to watch over and over again. This 55-minute video is a must-have for connoisseurs and students of design, as well as the culinary and photographic arts.
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