TV / Film News

YouTube Show: America's Hot Musician Offered as a Free Syndicated Public Service Television Program

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2006

Effort intended to promote instrumental music within The MTV- Hip Hop generation

America's Hot Musician, the new “American Idol"-like reality talent competition which features instrumental musicians, is being syndicated free to television stations in an effort to promote instrumental music within the MTV- Hip Hop Generation. The program, which is produced by the American Youth Symphony (AYS), a non-profit organization, is also being offered as a “Public Serrvice Announcement Program" to be classified as such at the discretion of television ...

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John Zorn Mentioned on The Colbert Report

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2006

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North Meets South for Smooth Jazz Performance on Cable TV

Source: All About Jazz
September 6, 2006

North meets South for a musical collaboration Saturday, September 9th, at the Gullah Creations Gallery, located in the Citadel Mall in Charleston, South Carolina. Low Country Geechee charmer Abe White and Chicago-born vocalist/playwright Diane Cameron will be featured together in Atlanta, Georgia director Bob Gaye's Comcast cable television soap opera A-Town East. The segments will be filmed on Saturday and Sunday, September 9th and 10th, at Gullah Creations. However, the segment will be shown for a full month on Monday ...

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Legends of Jazz Marantz Sweepstakes

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2006

Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis and Marantz, the best in home electronics have partnered up to bring you an amazing sweepstakes!

The GRAND PRIZE is:

ZR6001 and this home theater receiver is based on the award-winning Marantz SR5600, but features DAvED technology. It has 90 Watts x 7 amplification, HD component video switching with upconversion, and creates life-like surround sound!

The Marantz DV6600 universal DVD player outperforms a lot of pretenders to the performance throne and out-conveniences them, too. ...

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Oscar Nominated Debney Scores "Idlewild" with Arturo Sandoval

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2006

Academy Award Nominated Composer John Debney Goes Musical With “Idlewild" Universal Pictures Release due August 25 (Hollywood, CA) Academy Award nominated composer John Debney features world famous trumpeter Arturo Sandoval on his score for “Idlewild," a ragtime-inspired musical starring Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton of R&B duo Outkast. The two artists, known in the musical world as Andre 3000 and Big Boi, play speakeasy performers in the Prohibition-era south that contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club ...

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Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis and Marantz Sweepstakes

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2006

Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis and Marantz, the best in home electronics have partnered up to bring you an amazing sweepstakes! The GRAND PRIZE is: ZR6001 and this home theater receiver is based on the award-winning Marantz SR5600, but features DAvED technology. It has 90 Watts x 7 amplification, HD component video switching with upconversion, and creates life-like surround sound! The Marantz DV6600 universal DVD player outperforms a lot of pretenders to the performance throne and out-conveniences them, too. ...

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Pinoy Jazz: The Story of Jazz in the Philippines Documentary Airs Worldwide July 15th

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2006

New Documentary Premieres World-Wide on ABS-CBN's The Filipino Channel and Pinoy Central TV Channel 15 July 15

Richie C. Quirino, a Filipino jazz historian, composer and performer, and Collis H. Davis, Jr., an African-American independent documentary filmmaker, have just completed a three-year-long production called “Pinoy Jazz: the Story of Jazz in the Philippines." Wayne Enage, a former jazz radio host and jazz club owner, serves as the documentary's narrator, and Prof. Ron Nethercutt as its correspondent. Gus Lagman, Richie Quirino ...

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Legends of Jazz Marantz Sweepstakes

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2006

Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis and Marantz, the best in home electronics have partnered up to bring you an amazing sweepstakes!

The GRAND PRIZE is:

ZR6001 and this home theater receiver is based on the award-winning Marantz SR5600, but features DAvED technology. It has 90 Watts x 7 amplification, HD component video switching with upconversion, and creates life-like surround sound!

The Marantz DV6600 universal DVD player outperforms a lot of pretenders to the performance throne and out-conveniences them, too. ...

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