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Satchmo's Story, Music Substituting for Words

Source: AAJ Staff
September 1, 2010

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

Source: Miles Davis Online
August 29, 2010

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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'Louis,' a Film by Dan Pritzker with Live Music

Source: AAJ Staff
August 29, 2010

At the end of the summer movie season, the fledgling director Dan Pritzker believes he's got a film that will satisfy an audience unmoved by superhero sequels and 3-D extravaganzas: a black-and-white silent movie (with hints of color) based loosely on the childhood of Louis Armstrong. And for the price of your ticket, you also get music composed and arranged by Wynton Marsalis, and performed live by him and a group of 11 other musicians. It may not topple “Toy ...

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Seattle's Cro-Magnon Pictures Presents a Jazzman's Jazzman

Source: Groove Notes
August 29, 2010

This is a great posting I found on the Sun Break website posted by Seattle actor, musician, singer, and filmmaker Ben Harris. CRO-MAGNON PICTURES has written in to let everyone know about the premiere of their feature film, A Jazzman's Jazzman: The Gerry Carruthers Story. Look for it at The Fremont Abbey (4272 Fremont Ave N) on Friday, September 10, 2010. Screenings are at 7 and 9:30 p.m., with live music in between. Click the link below to watch the ...

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"GENIUS WITHIN: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould" Opens September 10

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
August 25, 2010

New York, NY — Lorber Films is proud to announce the US theatrical premiere of GENIUS WITHIN: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, directed by distinguished filmmakers Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont (Shake Hands with the Devil), the definitive documentary about one of the greatest and most enigmatic musicians of the twentieth century. The film will open on September 10 at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas. An eccentric and idiosyncratic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate twenty-eight ...

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Jazzed Media to produce Woody Herman documentary

Source: Graham Carter
August 25, 2010

Jazzed Media, a jazz record label and film production company, has started production of a documentary film on big band jazz legend Woody Herman titled Blue Flame. This is the fourth jazz documentary from filmmaker Graham Carter, owner of Jazzed Media. Woody Herman was one of the most famous big band leaders from the 1940's swing era who managed to make the transition through various big band jazz music eras including bebop in the late 1940's, rock oriented jazz in ...

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Event Alert: Private Screening of "GhettoPhysics: Will The Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up!"

Source: Just Roots PR
August 24, 2010

Los Angeles—Tuesday, August 24 will mark the evening that Captured Light Films, along with producer William Arntz and author E. Raymond Brown, debut a private screening of their groundbreaking collaboration “GhettoPhysics: Will The Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up!" A documentary feature which mixes political commentary with social awareness and spirituality dynamics, “GhettoPhysics" jumps off the screen with input from Cornel West, Ice T, Too Short, Filmore Slim, John Perkins, Cynthia McKinney and Norman Lear. Engagingly interposing the “Pimp/Ho" ...

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The New Mastersounds: Coals to Newcastle Screenings

Source: JamBase
August 20, 2010

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT UK FUNKANAUTS Coals to Newcastle: The New Mastersounds: From Leeds To New Orleans will have several screenings this fall, beginning on the West Coast and heading for two premieres along the East Coast before traveling to Leeds for the film's European premiere: Sep 15-19, Temecula Valley Int'l Film and Music Festival, CA Oct 14-17, Royal Flush Film Festival, New York City NY Nov 4-7, Naples International Film Festival, Naples FL Nov 4-21, Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds UK ...

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