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Premiere Of "Killer Heels"
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Mark Dendy
Executive producers, W. Mark Dendy and Jimena Bautista, invite you to the World Premiere of Killer Heels, a film deemed sexy, jazzy, and provocative, February 24, 2016, at Beatnik Studios in Sacramento, California, as part of Fashion On Film, the Capital region's premiere showcase for fashion media. The event occurs during SACRAMENTO FASHION WEEK and is put on by the California Film Foundation- part Fashion Show, part party and ALL Fantastic! Selected films are paired with live design showcases at ...
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Robert Campbell in Film
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Several weeks ago I posted on Jessica Ferber's haunting new book on the photos of Robert Campbell, who died homeless in Vermont in 2002. Jessica rescued boxes of his images and negatives from the shelter and just published a book of Campbell's work (go here), which features jazz musicians, folk artists and Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. I wrote the book's forward. Late last week, Jessica wrote to tell me about discovering Campbell in the film, Goodbye, Columbus, a ...
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Doc: Blue Note Records
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Blue Note Records was the first jazz label to fully grasp the potential of the LP era. When the 78 began to give way to the 10-inch album in 1948, co-founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff immediately understood the value of modern jazz, the efficiency of magnetic tape and the marketing potential of album covers. Immigrants from Berlin, they were comfortable with change and knew that embracing new ways of doing things presented opportunities, provided you rigidly followed a proven ...
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Johnny Costa
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The recent Rifftides review of pianist Sullivan Fortner’s new album mentions Johnny Costa as an influence. The influence came early. Like millions of other American children, Fortner grew up watching Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. He was captivated by the music Costa played with his trio on the television show. Costa was Rogers’ musical director from the birth of the program in 1968 to Costa’s death in 1996 at the age of 74. Mr. Rogers made this very short documentary about his ...
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Robert Trujillo Releases "JACO" The Exclusive DVD/Blu-Ray Available On Record Store Day Black Friday
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Cristina Parker
BLACK FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27TH, 2015 WILL SEE THE RELEASE OF THE EXCLUSIVE DVD/BLU-RAY JACO BY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROBERT TRUJILLO THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW FILM CHRONICLES THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF LEGENDARY BASSIST/COMPOSER JACO PASTORIUS Robert Trujillo, in association with Passion Pictures, has announced the official multi-platform release of the acclaimed new documentary, JACO. The film chronicles the brief but extraordinary life of the great American musician/composer Jaco Pastorius. JACO's official DVD/Blu-ray ...
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Sinatra on TV in '65
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
As years go, 1965 marked a significant cultural turning point. With teen audiences screaming at concerts for the Beatles and the Supremes, pop-rock and soul began to lock up a sizable slice of the record market. At the exact same time, the future was becoming a national obsession, helped along largely by the space race and moon shot. Jet travel, the Houston Astrodome, the New York World's Fair, muscle cars, California, futuristic children's cartoons and ads for products like Tang, ...
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Miles on Monday: Don Cheadle defends Miles Ahead, film gets release date, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week in Miles Davis news, there's plenty of additional scoop related to last week's premiere screening of Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle's new film about Davis, but first, a few items not about the movie: Last week also marked the 43rd anniversary of the release of Davis' album On The Corner, and S. Victor Aaron of the website Something Else! took the opportunity for a retrospective look at the still-controversial recording. Speaking of retrospective looks, the website Jazz Profiles last ...
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