Author, chef and restaurateur Thomasina Miers sets off on a hunt for full-on flavour in local festivals, bustling bars and family celebrations across Mexico. There she eats her way through the busy markets of Mexico City and Oaxaca in search of the perfect taco, tamales or tostada before whipping up her own easy-to-do version at home, cooking alongside everyone from internationally acclaimed chefs to Mexican great-grandmothers.

Through an exploration of his life and work, and close encounters with the man himself, this documentary offers and exceptional opportunity to examine the contrasting worlds of jazz and classical music. Great archival material is interwoven with original and richly detailed filmed interview with Keith, musicians with whom he's collaborated over the years, family members, tour managers, and other close musical and recording associates: Manfred Eicher, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Cloud, Scott Jarrett, George Avakian, Charles Lloyd, Gary Burton, Miles Davis, Toshinari Koinuma, Chick Corea, Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, Rose Anne Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, John Christensen.

The Gibson name has stood for superior quality in musical instruments for decades now. With Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar, taught by guitar pro Steve Krenz, that tradition of excellence continues. Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar course is known as the most complete course available for learning guitar. It is the winner of the 2011 Acoustic Guitar Magazine ‘Players' Choice’ GOLD Award, two Telly Awards, and an AEGIS Award for Excellence in Education. What's Inside: 20 professionally filmed DVDs in HD with over 40 hours of instruction, 5 Jam-Along CDs, 100+ page lesson book, Unlimited access to our online student support site. Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar is designed for all skill levels. We provide the roadmap and you provide the practice!

A series of instructional DVDs designed to inspire and educate. Each DVD gives practical advice and demonstrations with tips for successful planning and growing. Ideal for the beginner, keen amateur or horticultural student.

Learning Blues haphazardly can be very frustrating—a lick here, a lick there—so having a complete system that takes you by the hand from the basic progressions and tools to advanced blues soloing can save you months of dead-end trial and error. With this course, you'll learn the notes, chords, and form that make up the blues. You'll also build a strong repertoire of ready-to-use riffs (shown in both music and TAB) that can immediately be incorporated into your playing. You'll hear exactly what to play with each session's "Hearing the Blues" ear training exercises. Explore and demonstrate your new skills with a real band in a variety of musical settings using the Jam-Along CD and DVD.

Eight-time Grammy-winner George Benson covers chord substitutions, turnarounds, the Wes Montgomery style, and more. He demonstrates his signature scat-style singing on the groundbreaking This Masquerade and soloing over the famous On Broadway vamp. Also included are several virtuoso solo jazz and blues guitar performances by Benson himself—further proof, if it were needed, of his total mastery of jazz guitar.

Jaco Pastorius , one of the greatest bass players of all time, forged a landmark bass style that still permeates music today. His melodic sense, delicate touch, and groundbreaking bass grooves have influenced generations of musicians, while his music has consistently topped readers' and critics' polls worldwide. On Modern Electric Bass, Jaco presents his unique approach to countless musical topics, covering right- and left-hand technique, harmonies, scales, arpeggios, study concepts, fretless bass, and more. Jaco performs several standout solos as well as a duet with session great Jeremy Jemmott. Special features include a closer look at Jaco's life, a peak at Jaco's equipment setup, a 20 minute performance featuring John Scofield and Kenwood Dennard, plus a preview of John Patitucci and much more!

Famous Romans • Part 1-2 • by J. Rufus Fears
Professor of Classics, University of Oklahoma
24 lectures • 31 minutes per lecture
2001 | English | History | AVI, PDF 99 pages | 4.26 GB

Like the authors who serve as sources for this course - Livy, Polybius, Suetonius, Tacitus, and above all, Plutarch - Professor J. Rufus Fears believes that individuals, not organizations or social movements, are the primary forces that make history. In this companion course to Famous Greeks, Professor Fears retells the lives of the remarkable individuals - the statesmen, thinkers, warriors, and writers - who shaped the history of the Roman Empire and, by extension, our own history and culture.