TV / Film News

Jazz Pianist Bill Evans to Appear on Queer Eye For the Straight Guy

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2004

Author and renowned jazz critic Ken Cheveux will follow up his latest masterpiece and New York Times bestseller Kinds of 'do: The Story of Miles Davis's hair with Nobody Digs Bill Evans' Beard. With Nobody Digs..., Cheveux intends to examine the pianist's complete lack of fashion sense during his transformation from scrawny geek to bearded Neanderthal.

As part of the book's promotional effort, publisher's Schneider & Haar posthumously booked the latter-version Evans on Bravo's immensely popular Queer Eye For the ...

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BET Jazz Programming Highlights For April 'Jazz Appreciation Month'

Source: All About Jazz
March 26, 2004

Presenting the NEA Jazz Masters Awards Concert, J&R Music World Artist of the Month Bobby Watson, Memories of Duke, The 2004 St. Lucia Jazz Festival Preview Show, and more

BET Jazz: The 24-Hour Jazz Channel celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month in April with the best in jazz programming today. The must-see highlights include the NEA Jazz Masters Awards Concert, J&R Music World Artist of the Month featuring Bobby Watson, Memories of Duke, and the 2004 St. Lucia ...

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BET Jazz In Partnership With Martland Entertainment Presents Freddie Jackson: Celebrating 20 Years In Music

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2004

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Chick Corea To Perform with Foo Fighters on Grammy Telecast

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2004

From the desk of Concord Records...

If there is one really good reason to watch the Grammy telecast on February 8, it is to check out the highly unusual pairing of the legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea (on acoustic piano) with the modern rock act, The Foo Fighters.

Chick received not one but THREE Grammy nominations this year for the Super Audio 2-CD, Rendezous In New York. These three nods are the 46th, 47th and 48th of his career!

Rendezvous ...

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Clare Teal proves a smash hit on Parkinson TV show

Source: All About Jazz
November 17, 2003

UK Jazz singer Clare Teal took the nation by storm on Saturday night with a blistering performance of “Teach Me Tonight" on the nation's favourite TV chat show “Parkinson". All three of Clare's albums have shot into the Amazon Top 25 Jazz charts with her latest release “The Road Less Travelled" straight in at number 2, just behind Nora Jones. Parky was one of the first to congratulate Clare on her performance and was quickly followed by other guests Will ...

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Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye on CBC Opening Night

Source: All About Jazz
November 14, 2003

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Ted Kurland Associates Booking Agency Website Launched

Source: All About Jazz
November 13, 2003

(Boston, MA) International Booking Agency, Ted Kurland Associates announced the launch of their new TKA website. The new www.tedkurland.com features many new innovations to help facilitate the booking process as well as dynamic content which will prompt and market the individual TKA artists worldwide.

Ted Kurland, company president, noted; “After a year of careful design and web construction, the new site is now online and designed to facilitate on-line business and increased interaction with the buyers, we consider it to ...

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BET Jazz: The 24-Hour Jazz Channel - Fall 2003 Programming Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

BET Jazz: The 24-Hour Jazz Channel Presents New Fall 2003 Programming Schedule

Premiering New Episodes of Journey With Jazz At Lincoln Center, Issues And Answers, Grammy Goes To Schools, Classic Concerts, Blues Biographies/Chicago Blues and Not Just Jazz

BET Jazz: The 24-Hour Jazz Channel recently announced a new fall season of original programming that kicked off on September 25 with the debut of season two of Journey With Jazz At Lincoln Center. Beginning in October, the exciting programming continues with ...

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