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Big Notes Films Releases DVD: "We’ll Be White Black" with Jerry Bergonzi, Billy Peterson, Joe Pulice & Bill Carrothers
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Nicole Thompson
Big Notes Films Releases DVD: “We'll Be White Black" with Jerry Bergonzi, Billy Peterson, Joe Pulice & Bill Carrothers Big Notes Films, a film production company owned and operated by Bradford Thompson, is pleased to announce the release of the DVD We'll Be White Black, filmed live at The Dakota Restaurant & Jazz Club in Minneapolis. It was a collaborative project with Billy Peterson (former bassist, The Steve Miller Band) as Music Producer, and Bradford Thompson as Director/Producer. Tenor saxophonist, ...
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HBO's "Treme" Kept Music a Centerpiece in Season 2
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Groove Notes
Season 2 of the HBO television series Treme just came to a close, and was renewed for a third season. While one might say that an ongoing theme in Season 1 was immediate recovery and adjustment for the city of New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Katrina, and Season 2 examined issues with violence and corruption a year later, music remained a vibrant focal point throughout. Far from simply offering an enjoyable soundtrack, Season 2 of Treme shows the overwhelming importance ...
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Playboy "Jazz On Film" Night Set for June 8th
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Nina Gordon Public Relations
Acclaimed jazz archivist Mark Cantor will return to host the Playboy Jazz Festival's annual “Jazz on Film" night, Wednesday June 8th at 7:30 p.m. The event will be held again this year in cooperation with Ebony Repertory Theatre at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center (NHPAC) on Washington Boulevard. Admission is free, although tickets are required. Tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis, beginning at noon on June 8th at the center's box office. There is a ...
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Weekend Extra: Young Ella on Film
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
In what may have been her motion picture debut, here is Ella Fizgerald at 25 in the 1942 Abbott and Costello comedy Ride 'Em Cowboy. With her in the sequence are the Merry Macs singing and the Lindy Hoppers lindy-hopping. This was at about the time she had stopped fronting the Chick Webb band and moved into a solo career. Fitzgerald's first professional ambition was to be a dancer. That's not her job here, but check out her moves as ...
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The Lennon Bus Premieres Digital Wish Tree Project on IFC
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JamBase
INSPIRED BY YOKO ONO'S WISH TREE AT THE BETSY HOTEL The Lennon Bus, in association with Avid, The Betsy Hotel, and the SAE Institute, has premiered the Digital Wish Tree Project on IFC.com. Filmed over three days in Miami and produced in Avid Media Composer, the piece is inspired by Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at the Betsy Hotel from April 28-May 1, 2011. The Wish Tree, which has been installed in museums and cultural centers around the world, invites the ...
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Filmic Features during Jazz Week from Jazz Boston at Boston Public Library and Regent Theatre in Arlington
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Chris Rich
Jazz Week always includes a few events given to film finds and this year is not about to be an exception. “In My Mind" is an acclaimed documentary about rising jazz pianist Jason Moran's 50th anniversary tribute to Thelonious Monk's historic 1959 Town Hall Concert in New York City. The 97-minute film had its Boston premiere at the 2010 Roxbury International Film Festival and is introduced by the festival's director, Lisa Simmons in a special 6pm screening at the Rabb ...
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Tribeca Drive-In Tomorrow: "When the Drum is Beating"
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Chris M. Slawecki
WHEN THE DRUM IS BEATING will be featured at the Tribeca Drive-In tomorrow night where a sneak preview of the film will be shown and Haiti's beloved national band the Orchestre Septentrional give a free live concert at the World Financial Center Plaza in Battery Park City. The 20-member band Septentrional has been making music for 62 years and is Haiti's most celebrated big band. Join us for special clips from this poignant and high-energy documentary about the music that ...
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Tamela D'Amico and Frog Island Comedy bring new web serial "Pacino & Pacino Talent Agency" to Atom.com
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Tamela D'Amico
Jazz artist Tamela D'Amico is scheduled to appear this month at Ivan Kane's Cafe Was on April 17th in Los Angeles with her septet, but that isn't all the multi-hyphenate has up her sleeve this Spring. D'Amico's company, La Strega Entertainment, has produced in collaboration with the Los Angeles sketch group, Frog Island Comedy, to create the comedic webseries “Pacino & Pacino Talent Agency" which will premiere on Atom.com, a subsidiary of Comedy Central, this April 25th. D'Amico directed the ...
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