ON THIS DATE IN 1976: THE BAND recorded their "farewell concert appearance" at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. 'The Last Waltz' was filmed by director Martin Scorsese and made into a documentary of the same title, and featured special guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Wood, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison (Official), Bobby Charles, Dr. John, Paul Butterfield, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Joni Mitchell, and The Staple Singers. | Levon H

Available Now... The Criterion Collection presents THE LAST WALTZ on Blu-ray and 4K UHD. More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, Martin Scorsese's THE LAST WALTZ (1978) is an at once ecstatic and elegiac summation of a vital era in American rock music. Order this edition of Martin Scorsese's groundbreaking music documentary, which includes: New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Martin Scorsese, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack supervi

EDWIN'S TRAILER OF THE DAY: The Last Waltz is a fantastic rockumentary film-slash-concert film directed by the great Martin Scorsese, who filmed & documented The Band’s last great concert with a few special guest performers. Surprisingly enough, I find a lot of great movies at Amoeba Music in LA and this just happens to be one of them. I found this in Scorsese’s “Directors” section; it was a blind buy, I had never of The Band until I saw this film. Let me tell you, man... They rock. After I fini