Jammin

Jammin was an original reality television series created by Sí TV that documents the attempts of six Latino bands to win a $10,000 cash prize and a Gibson sponsorship. Out of hundreds of bands that submitted entries, only the top fifteen bands, selected by online polling, advanced to the next round. A panel of expert judges then chose six semi-finalists based on their musical potential. The semi-finalists were flown to Los Angeles, where they received guidance from a series of mentors and given the chance to play live for the judges. Three finalists had the opportunity make their own music video and, finally, competed in a battle of the bands on-stage.

The My Scene girls head to Jamaica after winning a band contest.

In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor sax legend Lester Young.

When George Carlin is asked which HBO concert is his favorite, his answer is always, "Jammin’ In New York." The show, taped at the Paramount Theater in Madison Square Garden and winner of the 1992 CableACE Award, is a perfect blend of biting social commentary and more gently-observed observational pieces.

A documentary on Gilda Cordero-Fernando's fashion theater show that was staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1995. “Is it a play? Yes, but more than. Is it a drama? Of course, but more than. A fashion show, I was told. Not quite,” Cordero-Fernando wrote in “My love affair with the ‘saya.’” Jamming on an Old Saya, staged in 1995 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, was all those things and more. Designers, couturiers, and artists reinterpreted the traditional dress for an anything-but-traditional event that included “dancers and an almost-nude man painted gold climbing a rope.”

It was a night when the legends played, when English Blues met Chicago & Memphis Blues, and something magical happened. One hot night in June 1982 at New Jersey's Capitol Theater, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, featuring Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) on lead guitar, John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) on bass, and Colin Allen (of Rod Stewart's band) on drums, paid homage to and were joined by five blues immortals: Albert King, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and the 83-year-old Sippie Wallace. Each of the blues greats was backed by the Bluesbreakers, resulting in some amazing musical moments. Awesome is the only word to describe the guitar jams among Albert King, Buddy Guy, and Mick Taylor. New audiences can enjoy every moment of greatness from that special night, when the Bluesbreakers were joined by the blues makers. The night the legends came out to play.

A behind the scenes look at the Broadway production of Jelly's Last Jam, including a tribute to jazz musician and composer Jelly Roll Morton. Gregory Hines and George C. Wolfe, who wrote the book for Jelly's Last Jam, are interviewed. Includes scenes from the show.

LIGHT LICKS are a series of films, which are made frame by frame often by flooding the camera with enough light to spill beyond the gate into the frame left unexposed. LIGHT LICKS are ecstatic flicker films inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice.

Attempt to make the first free climbing of the Mount Asgard.

The documentary follows a vibrant community of people in Brooklyn, NY who love steel pan and are fighting to keep it alive in Brooklyn. Through their preparation for an annual steel band competition, known as Panorama, we see how their love and passion helps them to overcome several challenges and obstacles facing the pan community in Brooklyn. Through the lens of Steel Xplosion’s journey to Panorama, viewers get a raw look into what life is like in the pan yard and why pan players are willing to sacrifice so much for the opportunity to play pan in Brooklyn and to compete on a national stage. As a newly formed band in 2013, we see how the players in Steel Xplosion preserved through a challenging summer to come out on top.

Pearl Jam play live at Heineken Jammin' Festival, Parco San Giuliano, Mestre, Italy on July 6th 2010. >> SETLIST: Given to Fly, Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd cover), Corduroy, World Wide Suicide, The Fixer, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Breath, MFC, Even Flow, Present Tense, Do the Evolution, Unthought Known, Porch >> ENCORE: Red Mosquito (with Ben Harper), Just Breathe, State of Love and Trust, Arms Aloft (Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros cover), Jeremy >> ENCORE 2: Got Some, Once, Black, Public Image (Public Image Ltd cover), Alive, Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young cover) (with Ben Harper) (Many of the other bands who had played earlier also came out to jam on this song)

Short film by Tachibana Kaoru

The glow of friendship shines brighter than the spotlight when Strawberry and her pals meet superstar Cherry Jam! Get ready for a rockin' good time as the girls face stage fright, work to impress a talent scout and consider moving to Berry Big City. Along the way, they learn that fame and fortune can be fun, but there's nothing more important than friendship.

The glamorous and colorful Jazz scene of Shanghai has been long forgotten.

Helen Huntley and Stan Kenton and His Orchestra perform "Jammin' in the Panoram."

This Flea DVD is an introspective and live performance improvisation with drummer Chad Smith. Flea raps about the bass as his vehicle of communication of the things that are floating around the room or whatever he’s about that day or that moment with friend and host River Phoenix. Flea discusses the theories, philosophies, styles, sounds and techniques he uses when performing and jamming in the style that he is all about … slapping, plucking, thumping, and popping are brought to new heights, bringing the genres of rock, funk, punk, jazz and Latin together through Flea’s bass like never before. Flea reviews the technique he uses to achieve his unique style and sound, using open strings, double string plucking, left and right hand exercises, variations on slapping, his use of droning. Get the real inside view of Flea, raw and un-edited putting out his raw talent for all of the universe.