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Documentary: The Rock Album
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The long-playing album was conceived in 1948 as a convenient product for adults who wanted to listen to music in their living rooms without getting up every three minutes to turn over smaller 78s. Targeting the at-home adult market was a relatively new concept for the record industry in '48—and one that came out of necessity. Prior to '48, the record industry had focused primarily on selling 78s to jukebox operators and getting radio stations to play them. The aim ...
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The Bill Holman Film
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The Bill Holman documentary that I helped with late last year is moving closer to reality. Its producer, Kathryn King, has launched a fund-raising drive to help her and her crew complete the filmon schedule. That is how many projects are accomplished these days when they don’t have the backing of big Hollywood investors. Few of them have that kind of support, especially when the ventures have to do with the arts. In November, I spent a few days in ...
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Tamela D'Amico Leads On "Rob The Mob" Soundtrack
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Tamela D'Amico
Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for Raymond De Felitta’s upcoming crime drama Rob the Mob. The album features the film’s original music, composed by Stephen Endelman (De-Lovely, Flirting with Disaster, Home of the Brave). The composer who previously scored the feature Two Family House for De Felitta, has also composed the end credits song with the director entitled Love and the Gun, which was recorded in English and Italian and is performed by LML recording artist and actress ...
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Heinie Beau: Moviesville Jazz
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
He probably had the squarest name of all the Hollywood arrangers in the 1950s, but saxophonist and clarinetist Heinie Beau could write and play. He was in many of the best bands of the 1940s and became one of Hollywood's top ghost arrangers. But Beau recorded only one notable jazz album in the 1950s—Moviesville Jazz: Heinie Beau and His Hollywood Jazz Stars (Coral), in June 1958. The ablum is notable for its unusual charts and monster studio musicians. On half ...
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Dutch Music Legends Focus’ Hit Song Hocus Pocus Featured In New Robocop Film
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London, UK - Focus fans rejoice! The group's 1972 worldwide hit “Hocus Pocus” is now being featured in the major motion picture 'RoboCop' starring Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton. The song, which features the distinctive and virtuosic yodeling by keyboardist Thijs Van Leer, was originally released on the band's critically acclaimed second album 'Moving Waves'. Says Thijs, “A good friend of mine was so lucky to be present at the pre-premiere of the new ROBOCOP and he ...
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Kimberly Thompson to Drum with House Band for NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Former St. Louisan Kimberly Thompson has been chosen to fill the drum chair in the house band for NBC's Late Night With Seth Meyers. Known as The 8G Band (after the studio where the show will be taped), the group will perform on the program Monday through Friday starting on Monday, February 24, when Meyers, former head writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live, takes over NBC's late-night slot from Jimmy Fallon. Thompson is perhaps best known as the ...
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