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Rickey Minor Replacing Eubanks on 'Tonight Show'
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All About Jazz
“American Idol" music director Rickey Minor is headed for “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Minor replaces longtime music director Kevin Eubanks, who on Monday's show made his May 28 exit date official. In an announcement Tuesday, NBC said Minor is expected to debut at “Tonight" on June 7. The current season of “American Idol" ends in late May, after which Minor will continue to consult with “Idol" creator Simon Fuller on various projects, NBC said. Minor has also served ...
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Eubanks Makes It Official: He's Leaving 'Tonight'
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All About Jazz
"Tonight Show" bandleader Kevin Eubanks has made it official: He's leaving as Jay Leno's sideman in May after 18 years with the late-night host. He told Leno during Monday's taping of “Tonight" in Burbank, Calif., that he was ready for a career change of pace, but he didn't announce specific plans. Eubanks called the NBC late-night show his “home" and said it had been “a wonderful experience" working there. Eubanks, 52, whose duties included comic sidekick to Leno as well ...
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Treme Recap: Just One Episode and Already More Jazz Than That Whole Ken Burns Documentary!
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Michael Ricci
You hear Treme, David Simon's new television series, before you see it. Over black, with title cards that read “New Orleans, Three Months Later," a trumpet sounds the staccato clarion call that traditionally convenes the brass bands and second-liners and announces the beginning of the street parade--Puh-PAH puh-PAH. With those four notes, Simon makes two things clear: 1) this is going to be a show about music, and 2) he's done his research.
Instead of portraying a city, as they ...
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WGA Supports Composers, Lyricists
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All About Jazz
Last week's Writers Guild of America endorsement of film and TV composers' attempts to union ize through the Teamsters was a big boost for the musicians. It not only adds the backing of some heavyweight Hollywood names, but it also comes with a good deal of historical precedent. Nearly 20 years ago, the WGA supported the fledgling Society of Composers & Lyricists in its at tempts to re-establish a union for those who pen scores and songs for movies and ...
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America Needs It Some "Treme"
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Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
"America needs it some Kermit," the New Orleans DJ and sometime musician played by Steve Zahn says, about halfway through the first episode of HBO's “Treme," which debuts tonight on the heels of much critical praise.
Davis McAlary (Zahn), inspired by real-life scenester Davis Rogan, is talking to trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, his bandmates and friends after a show at Vaughan's, a tiny, shotgun-style bar in the Bywater, where Ruffins has a ...
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Wall Street Touts Plans to Bet on Box Office
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All About Jazz
Think you're better than Hollywood at gauging whether an upcoming flick will be a box office bomb or a sleeper hit? You'd get a chance to put your money behind that under two proposals that movie studios are denouncing as legalized gambling. The proposals the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission are expected to rule on this month would let movie fans, industry executives and speculators bet on expected box office receipts. Investors profit if their predictions come true and lose ...
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Richard Zanuck a Living Film History Time Capsule
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Michael Ricci
Growing up with the last name Zanuck in Old Hollywood was just like real life -- only different. As a youngster, Richard D. Zanuck had to sell copies of the Saturday Evening Post to learn the value of hard work. “Of course," Zanuck said with a wink, “my dad did have a chauffeur take me to pick up the papers." And even though Zanuck says he never played “catch on the beach" with his dad, he knew his pop cared ...
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