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'Louis the Movie'
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Groove Notes
From the Associated Press. Although unfortunate that the screenings with live music by Wynton Marsalis was only held in five cities, it is encouraging that the director intends to eventually get the film out to a larger audience, even if it means adding a recorded soundtrack. Dan Pritzker has spent more than 15 years and millions of dollars trying to bring the story of a jazz singer of whom little is known to the big screen. Then he decided to ...
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For Fans, by Fans: A Crowd-Sourced Radiohead Film
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HypeBot
I've finally gotten the chance to read Clay Shirky's previous book Here Comes Everybody; this fan initiative struck me as right up that alley. Last summer, 62 fans attended a Radiohead show in Prague and filmed the concert using various handheld devices. They pooled their footage together and edited it together into this two-hour film of the show. The catch is that Radiohead went as far as giving the fans their high-quality audio recordings of the concert to soundtrack it. ...
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Bruce Springsteen Documentary: "The Promise, The Darkness on The Edge of Town Story"
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Rob Lowson
With the premiere of the documentary film The Promise, fans will get their first taste of what will appear on the forthcoming box set reissue of The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story. The remastered album, will include new outtakes, a full concert performance DVD from Houston and a rehearsal DVD of Darkness and much more. Fans hungry for additional Darkness-era material should check out The Light in Darkness, a book packed with never-before-published photographs and first-hand ...
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Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews' National TV Appearances Set; Added to Final Dave Matthews Bands Tour Dates
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conqueroo
Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews' media profile continues to explode with several national television performances in recent and coming weeks. Included are a featured appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on September 23, a special guest spot with Ricky Minor and The Tonight Show band on September 30, and nation-wide airing of PBS' Austin City Limits on October 23. The 24-year-old funk/rock star who burst onto the national scene with his Backatown debut (released April 20 on Verve Forecast), recently made his ...
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Rush: 2112 and Moving Pictures in Classic Albums Series
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JamBase
VH1 CLASSIC BROADCAST AIRING SEPTEMBER 8 AT 9:30 PM AND SEPTEMBER 9 AT 8:30 AM AND 12:30 PM The latest edition of the award-winning Classic Albums series tackles not one, but TWO epic albums from progressive rock powerhouse Rush. Rush: 2112 & Moving Pictures Classic Albums will be simultaneously released on DVD and Blu-ray via Eagle Rock Entertainment's Eagle Vision subsidiary on September 28. Continuing the tradition of this celebrated series, 2112 & Moving Pictures Classic Albums carries us through ...
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Debut Theatrical Screenings of Leonard Cohen's "Songs from the Road"
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Chris M. Slawecki
Emerging Pictures and Legacy Recordings have joined forces to present the US theatrical premiere of Leonard Cohen's Songs From The Road, a concert film comprised of a dozen exceptional performances, each taken from a different city along Cohen's highly-acclaimed 2008/2009 concert tour. Following the celebration of his 40th year as a Columbia artist in 2007 and coinciding with his induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in March 2008, Cohen thrilled his fans by announcing his first tour ...
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Satchmo's Story, Music Substituting for Words
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AAJ Staff
During the epilogue of “Louis," an energetic but muddled new silent film that played at the Apollo Theater on Monday night, a wide-eyed Louis Armstrong arrives at the Colored Waif's Home for Boys, confronted for the first time with a functional New Orleans institution, and the prospect of discipline. He's being lectured, sternly but kindly, by the home's band director, Prof. Peter Davis. The film is nearing a close, in other words, but Armstrong's story as we know it is ...
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Five Guys Hoping to Not Screw up Movie About the Life of Miles Davis Pose for a Nice Photo Together
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Miles Davis Online
That other Miles Davis website has posted something of interest. It's nothing to stop-the-presses, but it's something. They've posted a group photo of Erin Davis, Steve Baigelman (screenwriter for Miles Davis Biopic), Don Cheadle, Darryl Porter, Vince Wilburn Jr. and the very expensive Genius of Miles Davis Limited-Edition Trumpet Case Box Set, which is not even available until September 14th (!!). So I am thinking either the writer or Cheadle stopped by (this cannot be Don Cheadle's home, I have ...
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