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"Jazz with Frankye" Presents Rolando Morales - New Show Available Online

Source: RioVida Networks
February 17, 2008

San Francisco, CA - February 17, 2008 “Jazz with Frankye" a show that has been running for over 10 years can now be viewed online on Eddycam-TV as well as on Comcast Channels 28 and 29. Watch Eddycam-TV, “Jazz with Frankye" presents Rolando Morales. Frankye Kelly, the world-renown Diva, interviews and performs with Rolando Morales on this months “Jazz with Frankye" show. Frankye Kelly who recently performed her very popular SEPIA show at Yoshi's San Francisco took time between her ...

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Jazz Film Series in Los Angeles, Early 2008 - "Imagine the Sound" by Ron Mann

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2008

Filmforum presents Imagine the Sound by Ron Mann on Sunday February 10, 2008. Filmforum commences an intermittent series of documentaries focusing on avant-garde and free jazz, with the Los Angeles appearance of the new revival of Ron Mann's vital film Imagine the Sound (1981/2007). A marvelous film as thoroughly designed as The Last Waltz, for jazz fans and documentary fans, it digs deep into the side of improvised music not yet touched by Ken Burns and Wynton Marsalis. Featuring Cecil ...

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Gemini Soul Performs "Live" on Sacramento & Company TV Show; Jan. 23rd @ 9 AM on Abc (Jazz Fusion)

Source: All About Jazz
January 18, 2008

Gemini Soul Performs “Live" on Sacramento & Company TV Show; January 23rd @ 9 AM on ABC (Jazz Fusion) Wednesday - January 23rd @ 9am to 10am Sacramento & Company Hosts Guy Farris & Kristen Simoes Airs on NEWS 10 ABC (KXTV) 400 Broadway Sacramento, CA 95818 Just Announced - Gemini Soul will perform “Live" on the morning TV show Sacramento & ...

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Weather Channel Storms Jazz Charts

Source: All About Jazz
November 29, 2007

Source: Real Time Forecast Calls for Confusion With a Sixty-Five Percent Chance of “Why?" To be honest, we rarely venture away from the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. The singles charts are littered with decade-old Nine Inch Nails releases, while the ringtones chart still strikes us as kinda silly. Today, however, we discovered that the strangest chart is clearly Contemporary Jazz, as The Weather Channel Presents Smooth Jazz is now riding number two there. To answer your first question, the ...

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Award-Winning Jazz Documentary Opens in NYC December 7, 2007

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
November 28, 2007

"Magnificent and moving. Elegantly judged...the entire work is sculpted with great, personal care." - Robert Koehler, VARIETY Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee called him a great talent. He toured with Charlie Parke and Lionel Hampton. He was the first vocalist to record with Charles Mingus on the Debut label ("Paris in Blues"). He was the first singer ever to record what would become the jazz anthem, “'Round Midnight." Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael considered Jackie's version of “Skylark" to be ...

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Landmark Rock Doc Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back Debuts on iTunes

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2007

"One of the most influential rock films ever made." -- Time Out New York ON NOVEMBER 20, THE MOST SEMINAL ROCK DOC OF ALL TIME WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON iTUNES Bob Dylan: DONT LOOK BACK See the Musical Icon in a Classic Rolling Stone Calls “One of the Ten Greatest Rock Films of All Time" Available for Download on the iTunes Store for $9.99 Before the Dylan Bio Pic I'm Not There Opens in ...

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Legends: Ella Fitzgerald Featured on BBC4, Friday 16th November 2007

Source: All About Jazz
November 13, 2007

TX 9pm, Friday 16th November 2007 on BBC4 Celebrating the life and work of iconic jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, one of the most popular artists of the 20th Century. The programme looks at Fitzgerald's 50-year career from her winning turn at the Harlem Apollo's Amatuer Night, aged 17, in 1934 through her rise as the definitive exponent of scat singing, her celebrated Songbook albums and triumphant stage career which continued almost up until Fitzgerald's death from diabetes in 1996. Mixing ...

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The Weather Channel's "Smooth Jazz" Strikes Chord with Viewers

Source: All About Jazz
November 13, 2007

Every day, millions of U.S. television viewers tune into the Weather Channel to get their latest forecast. But, as VOA's Doug Levine tells us, weather may not be the only reason people are watching. Neither snow nor rain nor heat have dampened the spirits of a growing number of Weather Channel viewers who are tuning into its local weather segments for the background music as well as the forecasts. It may sound like a smooth jazz radio station, but the ...

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