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The New Brubeck Documentary
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Dave Brubeck is getting a lot of attention. With his 90th birthday three days away, he is the subject of performance reviews, articles and editorials in dozens of newspapers from The New York Times to Britain's Guardian. His music is being played over theair to a degree unprecedented since the early 1960s, when “Take Five" was a popular hit. Viewers of cable television in the United States and the BBC in Great Britain can celebrate Brubeck's 90th birthday by watching ...
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Preview in Florence, Italy of the short film by Alessandro Daquino for Zerocinquefilm with the music by John Toso and Mirko Fait
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BlueGal 110
Zerocinquefilm presents a new short film by the young director Alessandro Daquino. The film, called “Sono sempre stata Chiara" (I have always been clear/Clare) deals with its theme in a modern and fascinating way. More and more often, we hear about sexual ambiguity and sex change, but here the director talks about it in a particularly refined, subtle, original and even touching manner, digging into childhood memories, in the rapport between father and son that any one of us carries ...
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The Miles Davis Documentary Will Be Here - Soon
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Miles Davis Online
For a time Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele were the screenwriters on the Untitled Miles Davis Biopic. Now it's Steve Baigelman given the tall order of writing the script about the jazz legend. I know nothing, but obviously the project has a new writer because the previous writing duo ("Ali," “Nixon") weren't on the same page with the folks shepherding the biopic. Anyway, Wilkinson is apparently still tying up loose ends on the TV project The Miles Davis Documentary, ...
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Movie: It Might Get Loud (Sony Pictures, 2009)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
This interesting documentary is about three prominent rock 'n' roll electric guitarists, The Edge of U2, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Jack White of the White Stripes. The movie follows them all individually, and them brings them together in a discussion and jam session. It's interesting to see how the musicians approach the instrument in different ways: White take a combative roll, looking for challenges that he can give himself to overcome on the instrument, while Page takes a ...
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Legendary Seminal Film THE CRY OF JAZZ Screening Sunday November 21st at Anthology
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Anthology Publicity
Showing tonight through Sunday, twice daily at 7:15 and 9pm in New York City at: ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES 32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003 (212) 505-5181 From our ongoing ANTHOLOGY PRESERVATIONS film series Ed Bland's THE CRY OF JAZZ Newly-preserved print of landmark jazz essay-film! Part essay, part manifesto Music is provided by the singular Sun Ra and his Arkestra One of the most radical ...
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Jan Hammer's Music Remains Relevant Twenty-Five Years After Miami Vice
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GoMedia PR
Nike's LeBron James Video Featuring Hammer's Crockett's Theme Approaches 4 million views on YouTube This week marks the 25th anniversary of Jan Hammer's now iconic “Miami Vice" theme's ascent to the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In those 25 years, there has not been another instrumental track that has experienced an equal measure of chart success. While Miami Vice the television show came to epitomize the 1980s, spawning fashion trends and a culture that have long fallen ...
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On the Road with DJ Shadow Post #3 - Which Marketing Channels Are Working and Why
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HypeBot
Michael Fiebach is the Project, Marketing and Merchandise Manager for DJ Shadow. As Michael and DJ Shadow have crossed North America on tour, Hypebot readers have been getting an exclusive look inside how they market and stay connected to fans. (Read Post #1 and Post #2) Ah. Another day off. I am in Durham, North Carolina, in between a show in Atlanta (last night), and Baltimore ( tomorrow night). Things continue to go smoothly. I am definitely at the point ...
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd To Guest With The Roots On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
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Roadrunner Records
On Wednesday, November 10th, Kenny Wayne Shepherd will be joining The Roots for a special Hendrix-themed sit-in on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Kenny will be playing the same white Fender Stratocaster guitar that Jimi Hendrix played on the morning of August 18, 1969 at the Woodstock Festival. It's the same instrument on which Hendrix played “The Star Spangled Banner," the recording of which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. Kenny's performance with The Roots ...
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