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New Recording Of Hank Levy's "Whiplash" Releases October 6 With Original Performers
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Michael Ricci
Nephew Stewart Levy leads the estate with two new versions of the classic jazz hit Los Angeles, CA: The jazz classic hit, Whiplash by Hank Levy, will see two new versions released on October 6th, 2014, headed by the Hank Levy Estate CEO, Stewart Levy. The new tracks were recorded Sunday, July 27th at Sheffield Recordings Ltd. in Phoenix, Maryland and Roeder Studio in Monkton, Maryland. The recordings were engineered and produced by Richard Roeder and features many of the ...
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Flea: Jazz saved life, but rock ’n’ roll got him laid
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Michael Ricci
Jeff Preiss film also stars Glenn Close, Elle Fanning, John Hawkes With Glenn Close, Elle Fanning, Flea and John Hawkes on the marquee, Low Down boasts one of the biggest casts of the year. But this feature directing debut from documentary cinematographer Jeff Preiss is the definition of a small, intimate and highly personal picture. A biopic about late, great and little-known jazz pianist Joe Albany, Low Down is a collection of scenes inspired by the recollections of Albany’s daughter, ...
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Low Down - Opens Friday 11/14 Ritz At The Bourse Theatre in Philadelphia
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Donna Baum
Low Down stars John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headley, Caleb Landry Jones and Flea. Opens: Friday November 14 Ritz at the Bourse Theatre 400 Ranstead St Philadelphia, PA 19106 Low Down, based on Amy-Jo Albany’s powerful memoir of growing up in the care of her gifted, tormented and frequently absent musician father, the bebop jazz pianist Joe Albany, focuses on the years 1964 to 1974, when Amy (Elle Fanning) had ...
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How Ken Burns Murdered Jazz
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Michael Ricci
Ken Burn’s interminable documentary Jazz starts with a wrong premise and degenerates from there. Burns heralds jazz as the great American contribution to world music and sets it up as a kind of roadmap to racial relations across the 20th century. But surely that distinction belongs to the blues, the music born on the plantations of the Mississippi delta. Indeed, though Burns underplays this, jazz sprang from the blues. But so did R&B, rock-and-roll, funk and hip hop. But Burns ...
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"Blue Gold" Documentary Featuring Icons Of Music And Fashion Screens At The Hollywood Film Festival
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Cynthia "c." Basinet
Hollywood, CA - Blue Gold is documentary film highlighting icons of music and fashion screens at the Hollywood Film Festival this Friday, October 18th. “BLUE GOLD" is a feature documentary years in the making about the global, cultural impact of American blue jeans. From fashion history and subculture aspiration to the lost tradition of American manufacturing, Blue Gold explores Americana in our globalized world, where cultural exchange and social responsibility demand greater transparency and inspire innovation. Narrated by Ed Burns ...
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Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Sundance Hit "Whiplash"
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Michael Ricci
New York, NY - Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all North American, Australian, New Zealand and German rights to Damien Chazelle’s feature Whiplash. The film, which played as the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s opening night film, received rave reviews. Written by Chazelle, Whiplash stars Miles Teller (THE SPECTACULAR NOW) and J.K. Simmons (Sam Raimi’s SPIDER-MAN trilogy). A scene from the original feature script WHIPLASH was shot as a proof of concept for the feature, and screened ...
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First Look: Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in biopic 'Miles Ahead'
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Michael Ricci
Actor Don Cheadle’s obsession with Miles Davis began as a child with the jazz trumpeter’s album Porgy and Bess, a beloved staple of his family’s music collection. Now, Cheadle will make his feature film directorial debut with a crowdfunded biopic on Davis that will focus on the musician’s transition into music after a five-year hiatus—otherwise known as his “silent period”—and tumultuous relationship with first wife Frances Taylor Davis. In an EW exclusive of the actor in character, Cheadle gave fans ...
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"Jazz Unlimited" to Re-Air Documentary on St. Louis Jazz History Starting Sunday, July 6
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Starting this coming Sunday, July 6, Dennis Owsley's “Jazz Unlimited" program will begin re-broadcasting Owsley's ten-part audio documentary on “The Jazz History of St. Louis." “This ten-week documentary is the second longest music documentary in the history of radio and certainly the longest music documentary in St. Louis radio (I did the second longest in St. Louis in 1987)," wrote Owsley in a recent email to StLJN. Of course, since he literally wrote the book on St. Louis jazz history ...
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