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Jack Sheldon's 'Jazz Odyssey' Exclusive Engagement

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2008

TRYING TO GET GOOD the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Exclusive Engagement Opens May 30th

Compelling and Highly Entertaining of the Consummate Musician, Irrepressible Comedian, and Ultimate Jazz Survivor, Jack Sheldon. Leonard Maltin-Entertainment Tonight

Trying to Get Good exposes Hollywood's best kept secret - when the stars come out to play, it's Jack Sheldon who plays for them. Trying to Get Good takes a look deep inside the eternally tormented soul of an artist who's not ...

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Underwood All Time Most Popular 'Idol'

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

IDOL Fever Archuleta, Cook running neck-and-neck in poll; Castro most overrated

Country singer Carrie Underwood is the all-time most popular “American Idol" winner, and dreadlocked Jason Castro was voted the most overrated contestant this season, according to a poll released on Monday by AOL Television. With the most watched television show reaching its climax this week, finalists David Archuleta, 17, and David Cook, 25, are running neck and neck in terms of best performances of the seventh season, ...

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Just Who is This New American Idol David

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2008

The Next “American Idol" announced this Tuesday night on Fox is the December born David, well that much we know.

David Archuleta and David Cook--the Clean Teen versus the Bed Head by TIGI-coiffed rocker--should make for a final round marked by big notes and bitten lips. (Ann Powers, on the remaining 'Idol' contestants.)

Beneath the shaggy hair and mild-mannered demeanor of “American Idol" contestant David Cook is a seasoned musician who's rocked his way through the gritty club ...

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Syesha Mercado's Idol Long Goodbye

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2008

'Idol' elimination: Say So Long to Syesha

Syesha Mercado's long, bulletproof thrill ride finally came to an end Wednesday night on American Idol. Faced with the daunting task of outpolling the dynamic David duo (Archuleta and Cook), she didn't stand out sufficiently and justified Tuesday's unusual third-place prediction from ultra-optimistic judge Paula Abdul.

She auditioned for American Idol Season 7 in Miami, Florida singing “Think" by Aretha Franklin where she made it to Hollywood with all three judges saying 'yes'. ...

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David vs. David for 'Idol' Finale

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2008

AMERICAN IDOL Fans Vote Syesha Mercado Off Fox TV Show And then there were two Davids.

Syesha Mercado was voted off “American Idol" Wednesday night, paving the way for the expected showdown between David Archuleta and David Cook. Mercado was the last woman standing on the top-rated Fox contest. The big-voiced belter surpassed a more accomplished Carly Smithson, fan favorite Brooke White and statuesque country crooner Kristy Lee Cook. Who will snag the title next Wednesday? ...

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Jazz Animation

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Early Pixar

I caught a presentation by Pixar director Gary Rydstrom at the Chicago Film Festival. Rydstrom was giving the first public screening of his new short Lifted, and he opened the show with 4 early Pixar shorts: Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Knick Knack and Tin Toy (all of which were sound designed by Rydstrom). These films were all new to me, and I was surprised to discover that the first two films, Luxo Jr. and Red's Dream, feature jazz ...

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Yoko Ono Fighting for Lennon Video Copyright

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

They are rare, intimate images of John Lennon just before the breakup of the Beatles: He's hunched over a piano writing songs, smoking pot, joking about putting LSD in President Nixon's tea. Almost four decades after the footage was shot at Lennon's estate in England, his widow is in court, fighting to keep the images private. World Wide Video LLC, a Lawrence, Mass.-based company, claims it owns the 10 hours of raw footage, but Yoko Ono claims she is the ...

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Winehouse's James Bond Theme Shelved

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

Work on a possible James Bond film theme has been abandoned because singer Amy Winehouse is not ready to make music, producer Mark Ronson has said. Winehouse's producer Ronson added that their work on other new music had not been finished either. “Unless by some miracle of science it gets recorded and someone sings a vocal," the song would not materialise. Winehouse's spokesman said the decision was taken because the artist had “other ideas" about how the song should be ...

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