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Bucks County’s Jazz Ambassador’s Eric Mintel lands new Jazz TV Talk show!
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All About Jazz
Bucks County’s Pennsylvania’s own, pianist and composer Eric Mintel has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime and a personal mission he has led for the past 25 years as bandleader of the Eric Mintel Quartet. In January Mintel will host his own TV show called Talking Jazz with Eric Mintel. The show will be taped out of TV30 in Princeton, NJ and will feature jazz musicians but will also focus on people behind the scenes, organizations, non profit groups ...
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For Up-And-Coming Musicians, NPR’s Tiny Desk Can Be As Much Of A Boost As Late-Night TV
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HypeBot
While being able to showcase their talents on late night TV has typically been the best launching pad for artists, but it seems a new venue for such jumpstarts to success has been found in the intimate setting of an NPR studio, or so the numbers would suggest. Guest post by Emily Blake of Next Big Sound Late-night television has always been an artist manager’s dream to showcase emerging artists, from the Beatles’ debut on U.S. television on The Ed ...
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Jazz Feel in New York Film
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jazz was so potent in the 1950s that young experimental filmmakers in New York tried to express the improvisational feel with motion and abstraction. I've been doing a bit of research lately on the subject. Here are four of the best by the New York school of filmmakers with a fifth as a bonus. Here's D.A. Pennebaker's Daybreak Express, inspired by Duke Ellington's recording. The 15-minute film, from 1953, captured New York's Third Ave. elevated train two years before it ...
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Roger Moore and Sinatra
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Roger Moore, who played a dashing secret agent in TV's The Saint and in seven James Bond films, died on May 23, 2017. He was 89. Though Roger wasn't a jazz musician and had nothing to do with music (the point of this blog), I had an opportunity to interview him for one of my Wall Street Journal “Playlist" columns. When I called Roger in late 2014 to do the interview, he was living (naturally) in Monaco. Just saying Monaco ...
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Coltrane’s “Alabama” On TV
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Following the release of the John Coltrane Quartet’s album Live At Birdland, theband appeared on Ralph J. Gleason’s Jazz Casual program on public television. Here, Coltrane, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones revisit “Alabama,” the high point of the Birdland album and a major musical statement about the brutality of racists who bombed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1953 and killed four little girls. As the piece begins, we have a brief glimpse of ...
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Brownie Speaks Screening At The Monterey Jazz Festival on September 17
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Don Glanden
Brownie Speaks: A Video Documentary about jazz legend Clifford Brown will be screened at the Monterey Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 5:30 PM. The event, which will include a Q&A with producer/director Don Glanden, will take place at the Jazz Theater. The film has received rave reviews and numerous accolades in the jazz community since its release in August 2014. Sonny Rollins has called it “a great film about a great man!” Jazz Journal’s Bob Weir praised ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival 2016 Brings The Late Thomas Chapin Full Circle
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Debbie Elicksen
The significance of performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival can not be understated. The longest-running jazz festival in the world features the best of jazz through performance and education. It hosts unparalleled world talent and legends and stands as a legacy to this musical genre, and impacts future generations of jazz musicians and afficionados alike. It would have been a momentous milestone for the career of saxophonist-flutist and composer Thomas Chapin and an unforgettable, exhilarating ride for the audience if ...
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