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The Founding Father of Bebop is immortalized in one of his final concert performances. This night of jazz, filmed live in an intimate club setting in Chicago, showcases the legendary trumpeter playing, creating, dancing, singing, scatting and joking with a joy and exuberance that light up the stage. Impeccably shot and recorded in 24 tracks, the selections include: A Night in Tunisia Embraceable You 'Round Midnight Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac Nature Boy and more classics. Special DVD Features: Dolby Digital stereo audio digitally mastered audio & video multi-directional interactive menus instant access to songs and solos. 53 minutes. Also available on video: 00320076 A Night in Tunisia $19.95

This may be the definitive production of one of the greatest fairy tales ever told! With brilliant imagination and technical wizardry, this 1954 feature set to Englebert Humperdinck's classic 1893 opera uses stop-action animation and hand-sculpted dolls and sets to create a fantasy legend of unearthly beauty. This recording was nominated for a Grammy Award. Special DVD Features: Dolby Digital stereo audio digitally mastered audio & video multi-directional interactive menus instant chapter access to songs over 30 scene selections composer biography story synopsis Making Of featurette. 72 minutes.

Mozart's brilliant comic masterpiece will delight the whole family, with brand new English narration to guide children through the opera, which is sung in the original German. This is the story of Prince Tamino and Princess Pamina, young lovers who use the powers of a magic flute to battle the forces of evil that threaten to keep them apart. Lavish sets and costumes compliment Mozart's glorious score and unforgettable cast of comic characters. Special DVD Features: Dolby Digital stereo audio digitally mastered audio & video multi-directional interactive menus over 35 scene selections instant chapter access to arias English narration Mozart biography synopsis of the opera. 42 minutes. Also available on video: 00320163 $19.95

See the Ladies who created an art form and sang their way into legend! This DVD contains once-in-a-lifetime, complete live performances by the great American blues and jazz divas. Features sixteen musical selections, including Bessie Smith in her only film performance, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday backed by the most extraordinary band ever formed, Dinah Washington at the Apollo Theatre, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee and many others, all performing their classics. Special DVD Features: digitally mastered audio & video interactive menus instant access to songs and instrumental solos English narration Dolby Digital audio. Black and white, 60 minutes. Also available on video: 00320075 $29.95

This colorfully filmed drama of the life and loves of the great composer, Guiseppe Verdi, is played against a background of the great operas of the 19th century. A tender love story of Verdi's successful and turbulent life, we hear more than 20 excerpts from Rigoletto, La Traviata, Otello, Aida, Il Trovatore, Nabucco and many other operas. A theatrical and critical success when the feature film was released in the US in 1974, Verdi: The King of Melody will touch your heart. Bonus features include: over 45 scene selections; instant access to arias; Verdi biography; Verdi list of works & premieres; Verdi trivia; Enrico Caruso sings four Verdi arias; Dolby Digital Stereo audio; digitally mastered audio & video. 118 minutes.