TV / Film News

Ava Lemert - Musical Guest on ABC in Sacramento "Sacramento & CO." Morning Show

Source: Michael Ricci
February 5, 2010

March 12, 2010 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM TV Channel 10 KXTV ABC News Sacramento

Ava Lemert will be the Musical Guest on SACRAMENTO AND COMPANY with Guy and Mel. The television broadcast will also be streamed live online. The video segment will also be available here. Ava will be talking about her first CD release From My Soul available now online (iTunes.com, amazon.com, CDBaby.com, cduniverse.com and in store at It's In the Mail, 1000 Sunrise ...

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Cedric Watson Featured on Music Voyager's "Road to a Grammy"

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
February 4, 2010

Music Voyager (www.musicvoyager.com), a new music and travel series that begins broadcasting in early February 2010 in North America on PBS and internationally on Nat Geo Music & Adventure channel and other international networks, is profiling and filming Cedric Watson along with his band, Bijou Crole, as part of its Road to a Grammy special. The band's new album, L'Esprit Creole (Valcour Records), was nominated for a GRAMMY in the “Best Zydeco or Cajun Album" category.

The series' host, acclaimed ...

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Free Movie Night! "The Art of the Jazz Soloist" at Tribeca PAC

Source: Michael Ricci
February 2, 2010

Scenes Through the Cinema Lens is an original retrospective focusing on the performing arts in film. Each screening examines a different theme and allows audiences to enjoy selections from well-to lesser-known films. With its strong focus on jazz orchestras and vocalists, this years series will highlight several of the great performers who appeared at the Lost Jazz Shrines and rarely seen footage of luminaries such as Count Basie, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Make Tuesday the New Friday ...

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Jazz It Up! Episode 10, Season 2: Christian McBride Big Band, Eric Person Trio, Jon Hendricks, Robin D.G. Kelley, Vintage Oscar Peterson

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

One of the hardest working men in jazz, bassist Christian McBride, leads a big band at the Iridium in New York City for the last episode of season 2 of Jazz it Up! In the first of two feature songs, tenor saxophonist Todd Williams caresses a blues as McBride co-signs on bass and voice; during the second, McBride's uptempo composition “The Shade of the Cedar Tree," the big band lifts the groove high, as McBride relates details about his upcoming ...

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New Jazz Film: They Died Before 40

Source: Michael Ricci
January 30, 2010

Many people may have heard of Charlie Parker, who died at 34. But others, such as Herschel Evans, who died before reaching 30, are very little known and their stories untold. For example, Jo Jones, drummer and an integral part of the Count Basie band for many years, has called Evans the greatest musician he ever played with. He said that Evans made everyone he played with better.

Who was this giant, what made him an important creative artist and ...

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"Hope for Haiti Now" Telethon Jay-Z, U2, Young Raise $58 Million

Source: JamBase
January 26, 2010

“Hope for Haiti Now" Telethon Featuring: Jay-Z, U2, Beyonce, Springsteen Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder And More Raise More than $58 million

Last Friday (January 22), the “Hope for Haiti Now" telethon aired on national and cable television, raising over $58 million, a record for a disaster-relief telethon.

Hosted by George Clooney, the night featured a plethora of super stars, including Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Sting, Shakira, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige and ...

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Homelessness: Detroit Jazz Musician Brian O'Neal Tries It

Source: Michael Ricci
January 15, 2010

By AMY LANGE for myFOXDetroit.com DETROIT, MI - With so many people without a place to call home in Haiti, we're reminded how many are homeless here at home. Many people can't imagine being in that position while others wish they weren't. However, hardly anyone would voluntarily become homeless. Yet, that's exactly what a local musician has been doing for the past couple of days and nights. Alone, cold and walking Detroit's streets at night, Brian O'Neal searches for a ...

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TV Review: "Sam Cooke: Crossing over" American Masters (PBS)

Source: Pop Dose
January 14, 2010

Maybe its because Ive read Peter Guralnicks comprehensive 2005 Sam Cooke biography Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke that the newest entry in the generally wonderful PBS series American Masters, Sam Cooke Crossing Over, which debuts on PBS tonight, seems a little bit skimpy to me. An hour simply is not enough to tell the story of one of Americas greatest musical lives.

The basic facts of Sam Cookes life are by now pretty well known. His father was ...

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