Presenting the Lincoln High School Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Louis Oliverio.
This is one for the time capsule, for sure.
I had been looking for this video for a while now, hoping to convert it to DVD before it was too late. The video is now 17 years old, and I didn’t figure it would hold out much longer…
The quality is a little rough in spots (hey, it’s an old tape!) but it’s certainly viewable. Again, there is about a thirty second intro that normally shows up on TV as a DVD menu, but viewing it over the Internet, well it’s just pretty. And static. The buttons don’t really do anything here.
The original editing for this video was done on a Commodore Amiga 2000 home computer. All the graphics and effects fit in a mere 20MB (that’s megabytes) of space and that’s not mentioning the fact that the Amiga OS was also installed on the hard drive. It’s amazing what tight code and a streamlined computer can do…
Anyway, enjoy this look back at a bunch of high school kids having a good time making music together, before mash-ups and YouTube were even thought about.
