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Jim Henson's "Drums West" Animation
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Michael Ricci
Watch How Jim Henson Animated Jazz With Tiny, Dancing Strips of Paper Before he achieved fame with the Muppets, Jim Henson, a skilled animator as well as a puppeteer, was making all sorts of innovative work out of his home studio, in Bethesda, Md. Around 1961, he made the papercut animation above, which visualized jazz drummer Chico Hamilton's “Drums West." Released last year by the Jim Henson Company, the video was only recently rediscovered. At the end you can catch ...
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Twenty Years Later, Remembering Jim Henson
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All About Jazz
Its been twenty years since the world lost Jim Henson, and I still cant think about it without tearing up a bit.
His death at age 53 was sudden and catastrophic, like being hit by lightning on a cloudless day. Along with countless others around the world who had never met him, I felt like a close friend was gone. Five of my fellow GeekDads and I have put together this article as a tribute to his memory. On the ...
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Electric Harpist Deborah Henson-Conant NYC Concert Friday, March 21st
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AMT Public Relations
Known as the “wild woman of the harp," Grammy-nominated composer/performer Deborah Henson-Conant brings her fusion of music, theater, stories and humor to Manhattan's Symphony Space. The self-produced One Way... and Another showcases two separate concerts: One Way @ 7:30pm featuring her favorite works from the past 15 years; and ...and Another @ 9:30pm premiering new pieces. Both concerts are soaked with cross-genre music ranging in style from flamenco and blues to heart-wrenching ballads, all complimented by Henson-Conant's singing and story-telling. ...
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