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Correspondence: That Mercer Show
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Alan Broadbent--pianist, composer, arranger, conductor for Diana Krall and Natalie Cole, among others--wrote in response to the Fresh Air program promoted in the previous exhibit.
Thanks for posting Dave and Rebecca's Fresh Air show which I have just finished listening to and would have missed but for you. Last week the TCM channel had a marathon of Mercer movies beginning in the late 30's and I had to sit through hours of nonsense just to see him perform. Worth its ...Continue Reading
New Episode of I Love Jazz Premieres Tonight on Hec-TV
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The second season of I Love Jazz, the HEC-TV program hosted by longtime St. Louis jazz DJ Don Wolff, begins tonight with a program featuring singer/guitarist John Pizzarelli and the St. Louis band Dizzy Atmosphere.Pizzarelli's segment was taped last April before his concert at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, while Dizzy Atmosphere was captured in concert in September at the Sheldon Concert Hall.I Love Jazz airs Thursday and Sunday nights at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday mornings ...
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Weekend Extra: The Clifford Brown Film
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The television comic Soupy Sales loved jazz, knew its history and many of its leading players. Early in his career, when he had a local show in Detroit, he frequently presented jazz stars as guests. After Sales died on October 22 at the age of 83, many obituaries mentioned that the only known video of Clifford Brown performing is from a kinescope recording of the Sales show. For decades, it was assumed lost, but Sales found the film in his ...
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Tom Braxton, Featured on KDAF TV DFW Close up Show and Home Grown Concert
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Sound Visions Media
San Diego, CA -- Saxophonist and composer Tom Braxton will be featured on KDAF-TV (The 33 CW), DFW Close Up Show, in Dallas, TX this Sunday, November 1st at 7:00 A.M. His latest CD, Endless Highway, has been getting recognition and airplay throughout the country with special attention to the single hit “That Wayman Smile." The song pays homage to his friend and mentor, professional basketball player and bass guitarist, Wayman Tisdale who recently lost his battle with cancer. “That ...
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The Band of Heathens Appear on PBS's Austin City Limits on Nov. 7
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conqueroo
Austin band's new album One Foot in the Ether at #1 on Americana radio and winning critical kudos
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Band of Heathens, whose new album One Foot in the Ether the web 'zine AmericanaRoots.com ponders as “the best record of 2009," will appear on PBS' Austin City Limits on November 7 on a bill headlined by Elvis Costello. On the program, the band performs five songs: “Jackson Station," “L.A. County Blues," “Shine a Light," “Golden Calf" and ...
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Inspirational Jazz Documentary "Chops" Drums up Excitement for High School Arts and Music Programs
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Michael Ricci
Virgil Films & Entertainment announces the innovative release of the acclaimed documentary, CHOPS, directed by Bruce Broder, which follows T.J., Owen and other high school jazz students from around the country as they prepare for and perform in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. In partnership with B-Side Entertainment and Jazz at Lincoln Center, the film is being offered nationwide as a resource to bring awareness to the importance of arts education, as ...
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Mickey Hart Talks Space Sounds on History Channel 10/27
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JamBase
Mickey Hart Discusses Sounds From Space “The Universe: Pulsars & Quasars" Scheduled to air on THE HISTORY CHANNEL Tuesday, October 27 at 09:00 P.M.
Mickey Hart During The Dead's Spring Tour, Mickey Hart debuted the “UNIVERSE OF SOUND." Each night of the Tour Hart connected audiences with the universe's most celestial vibrations from the Big Bang to the rings of Saturn to the Black Hole. Hart said, “The idea was to take our audience on a ...
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Icons Among Us Accepted to AFI Fest 2009!
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Michael Ricci
Paradigm Studio is proud to announce that Icons Among Us has been accepted to AFI Fest 2009! The feature film documentary, directed by Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson, and Peter J. Vogt, will screen on Opening Night, Friday October 30, as the late film at approximately 10 pm. On behalf of all the members of the filmmaking team, Paradigm Studio would like to thank everyone for their support during the past seven-plus years of building this tribute to and exploration of ...
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