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This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute portrait features documentary recordings and music spanning the artist's career. Host Renee Rosnes may be the most accomplished Canadian pianist since Oscar Peterson, widely acclaimed as a performer, composer and bandleader.

This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute portrait features documentary recordings and music spanning the artist's career. Host Renee Rosnes may be the most accomplished Canadian pianist since Oscar Peterson, widely acclaimed as a performer, composer and bandleader.

This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute portrait features documentary recordings and music spanning the artist's career. Host Renee Rosnes may be the most accomplished Canadian pianist since Oscar Peterson, widely acclaimed as a performer, composer and bandleader.

You may recognise the sound when a bored dinner guest begins playing with a wineglass. Once popularly known as the Angelic Organ, the Glass Harp, the Glass Armonica, or the Singing Glasses, an arrangement of tuned wineglasses can be played by rubbing a finger against the edges. Invented in 1742 by an eccentric Irish character named Richard Pockrich, this odd instrument once conquered the concert halls of Europe.

On the anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, a smoking-hot blues guitarist in a small Canadian city announces a tribute concert in a local tavern. The place is packed with fans and memories, as spectators squeeze into the tiny pub to hear songs of their youth and talk about how their lives, and the world, have all changed.

This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.

This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.

Discover the stunning rise, fall, and legacy of N.W.A, one of America's most revered and iconic enduring music groups, who put their stamp on pop culture, black culture, and who changed hip-hop music forever in this comprehensive and authoritative work of music journalism. Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella caused a seismic shift in hip-hop when they decided to form N.W.A in 1986. Suddenly rap became gangsta and relevant on the West Coast.

Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance. Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. Zen Guitar provides the key to unlocking this song-a series of life lessons presented through the metaphor of music. Philip Sudo offers his own experiences with music to enable us to rediscover the harmony in each of our lives and open ourselves to Zen awareness uniquely suited to the Western Mind.

With dazzling, lyrical verse in the folk revival style, Colin Meloy pays tribute to Pete Seeger, a visionary who changed the world with song. Pete Seeger once sang that if he had a golden thread, he would use it to weave people from all over the world to one another. That golden thread, for Pete, was music. Born into a family of traveling musicians, Pete picked up his first instrument at age seven.