Nasser

Inside Baghdad's police force and the life of Major Aziz Nasser. Unprecedented access into Baghdad's police force reveals the extraordinary life of Major Aziz Nasser, trouble-shooter for Baghdad's Chief of Police. Decades of bloodshed have left the region's infrastructure in ruins, and the Baghdad police force struggles to hold the city together. In the midst of it all is Major Aziz Nasser, an idealist who's trying to restore their battered reputation amidst the violent turmoil of social collapse.

Funky jazz pianist Yoshioka Hideaki's long-awaited first East Coast recording. Hideaki plays with Jamir Nasser and Jimmy Cobb who he was eager to co-star most. Includes "Don't Take Your Love From Me", "Blowin' The Blues Away", "Some One To Light Up My Life", "Harlem Blues" and "Moment To Moment", plus two Yoshioka originals. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio.

Actresses who moonlight as singers often have difficulty being taken seriously and quite often, the skepticism is well-founded. But Cybill Shepherd, though far from breathtaking, is in fact, a decent and likable jazz-pop singer. From the balladry of "More than You Know" and "My Ship" to vibrant and surprisingly swingin' interpretations of "'S Wonderful" and Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin," Vanilla presents Shepherd as a very warm and enjoyable interpreter of standards whose phrasing at times suggests a more jazz-oriented Peggy Lee. Reissued on CD in 1990, the album also features solos by pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr., a masterful bebopper and Bud Powell disciple, also well worth hearing.

Based on the novel by Ihsan Abdel Qoddous, A Man in Our House stars Omar Sharif as a member of the underground resistance to the British occupation of Egypt in the 1940's who seeks refuge from the Political Police in the home of a civil servant and his family.

Fistful of Drummers contains 36 classic drum tracks in multi-track format supplied with tempo-mapped ProTools LE, Logic 6 and Cubase SE session files. Fistful of Drummers With a stylistic bias to the past, Fistful of Drummers contains covers of classic beats cut between 1960 and 1979 including Rare Groove, Funk, Old Soul, Bombastic 70s Rock and early Hip-Hop.