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Tribeca Drive-In Tomorrow: "When the Drum is Beating"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 21, 2011

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

Source: Tamela D'Amico
April 15, 2011

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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Tribeca World Premiere: "When the Drum is Beating"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 7, 2011

Two Tone Productions is proud to announce the world premiere of When the Drum is Beating, the feature documentary by director Whitney Dow (Two Towns of Jasper) about Haiti's rich musical culture and the legendary and beloved band the Orchestre Septentrional, on April 25 at the Tribeca Film Festival as part of the Spotlight section. Through its sweeping historical narrative and infectious music, When the Drum is Beating captures the nuances and complexities that make Haiti one of the most ...

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The Grateful Dead Movie with Never-Before-Seen Jerry Garcia Interviews Returns to Theaters

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 27, 2011

The critically acclaimed cinematic concert rockumentary, The Grateful Dead Movie Event will take audiences back to the '70s for a one-night in-theater event on Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. local time. Under the direction of the band's lead guitarist Jerry Garcia and co-directed by Leon Gast, these legendary 1974 concerts capture the Grateful Dead at the pinnacle of their psychedelic worldwide fame while documenting the Dead Head experience. During this NCM Fathom event, theater audiences will be the first ...

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The Miles Davis Movie: Filming the Playboy Interview

Source: Miles Davis Online
March 16, 2011

It's a stretch. I grant you that. But we're still so far out on any significant movement for the Miles Davis Movie, a little conjecture is what keeps me going. Alex Haley's 'candid conversation with the jazz world's premier iconoclast' in the September 1962 issue was the first Playboy Interview (Volume 9, Number 9) and the conversation is both candid and enlightening—which you'd expect from Miles Davis anyway. There are also some great quotes: “I don't pay no attention to ...

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The Grateful Dead Movie Nationwide Screening

Source: JamBase
March 16, 2011

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 AT 7:30 PM LOCAL TIME TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY, MARCH 18 Don't miss your chance to see a flashback concert experience with the Grateful Dead on the big screen. Fathom and Rhino Entertainment present The Grateful Dead Movie in movie theaters nationwide for a one night event on Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30pm (local time). This special event will include an exclusive never-before-seen interview with Jerry Garcia conducted while he was directing this legendary production over ...

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"The Playboy Club" TV Show Pilot Casting Musicians as Extras

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
March 11, 2011

Yup...there's my Dad, keyholder # C20744 dancing with a peroxided blonde Disco Bunny to the jazz sounds of the Joe Iaco Trio, circa 1961...(photo: Richard Watters, Sr. dancing to the Joe Iaco Trio at The Chicago Playboy Club in the Sixties). Hold on to your hat Chicago music makers. Casting musicians to work as paid extras has begun for the NBC TV pilot “The Playboy Club" being filmed here in ChiTown. Joan Philo Casting (Public Enemies, A Nightmare On Elm ...

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Tom Scott "The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat"

Source: Sound Insights by Doug Payne
March 5, 2011

The 1974 sequel to Ralph Bakshi's bizarre 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat is this equally wacky film, confusingly dubbed The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. Directed by Robert Taylor—a storyboard artist who has since gone onto things like The Flintstone Kids, Ducktales (1988) and The Rugrats Movie (1998)—this sequel is a trip, both as a story and as a film. And like many trips, it depends whether you consider it a good one or bad. Substance abuse can ...

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