TV / Film News

Must Hear TV: Prime-Time Themes That Still ... Rock!

Source: Something Else!
February 21, 2011

By Something Else Reviews There are TV themes you remember. “All In The Family," with its way-back talk of President Hoover and LaSalle cars. Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams cooing together, “What would we do, baby, without us?" Bars where everybody knows your name. Fat Albert and the Junkyard Band's familiar “hey, hey, hey!" Then, there are the prime-time themes that just rock. Time to plug in and turn your television up to 11 ... “WKRP IN CINCINNATI END CREDITS," ...

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Esperanza Spalding to perform at the GRAMMY Awards

Source: Dean Lofton
February 9, 2011

Best New Artist GRAMMY nominee Esperanza Spalding will perform on the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. The show will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 13, 2011. The GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live on the CBS Television Network from 8-11:30 p.m. ET/PT. Esperanza Spalding also to Co-Host GRAMMY Pre-Telecast Ceremony The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards Pre-Telecast Ceremony will take place on Sunday, February, 13 from 1ת p.m. ...

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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Scores a Huge Super Bowl Ad...

Source: Digital Music News
February 5, 2011

Bank Robber Music and Deutsch LA are toasting a huge one. Rather, a ginormous one. Because the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is not only getting featured in the upcoming “21st Century Beetle" campaign by Volkswagen—they're getting splashed during Super Bowl XLV. The group just tipped the inclusion to Digital Music News this morning.

The spots will feature a 30-second remake of the blues classic “Black Betty," and the match-up just made sense. “Deutsch was working with Volkswagen and contacted me, ...

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Blast from the Past: Mark Cantor's Jazz Films

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
February 2, 2011

I had the pleasure ofattending Mark Cantor's “Jazz on Film" presentation on January 22nd here at theJewish Community Center of San Francisco and it was a blast from the past.Cantor is a jazz film archivist who has collected over 4,000 reels (yes, actualfilm) of vintage jazz performances. He shares programs of these rare films atpresentations all over the world, including The National Academy of RecordingArts and Sciences, The International Association of Jazz Record Collectors,Monterey Jazz Festival, Academie du Dance (Paris, ...

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Must Hear TV: Prime-Time Themes That Still Resonate

Source: Something Else!
January 31, 2011

By Something Else Reviews In many ways, television is a technological wonder these days, what with remote controls, digital signals and DVRs. But, for those who fell in love with the old-school opening theme, it's not all gravy. Today, you're more likely to simply see the word LOST charging toward the screen, followed by a suitably ominous thud. Cool, sure. But try humming along. Contrast that with some of these crazy-addictive broadcast favorites from yesteryear ... BOB JAMES, “ANGELA (THEME ...

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Miles Plays Miles

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
January 25, 2011

Dingo is a little Australian-French film released in 1991 that would probably be lost in obscurity except for one fact—it stars Miles Davis. In the first image of the film, we see John “Dingo" Anderson (played by Colin Friels) playing his trumpet in the Australian outback, which sets up the tension between his life in the middle of nowhere and his dreams of playing jazz. We then see a flashback to John's childhood in 1969, when a plane carrying legendary ...

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Roman Miroshnichenko & Sambateria featured in Berlinale nominated animated short film

Source: All About Jazz
January 22, 2011

The Animation film “Tides To and Fro"(on the picture film's caps) by famous Russian animator Ivan Maximov, features the soundtrack by the band Sambateria with virtuoso guitarist and 2010 Independent Music Awards winner Roman Miroshnichenko. The film will be a featured participant in the Generation Kplus Programme at the 61st Berlinale Film Festival Competition! This film was inspired by, and developed upon the soundtrack—"Canto De Pilon," a composition recorded by Sambateria, the band of Russian percussionist Arthur Gazarov. Sambateria is ...

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Brubeck Documentary to be ReBroadcast in Southern California

Source: Patrick Giblin
January 19, 2011

"Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way," a new documentary that aired on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on Brubeck's 90th birthday last month, will be rebroadcast Feb. 8 on KCET, the largest independent public television station in the United States. KCET is based in Southern California. The movie also will be screened at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles on Jan. 31. That showing will be followed by a concert by the award winning Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet, a group ...

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