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Who is the Six Million View Man?
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All About Jazz
“Don’t Give Up On Detroit” a portrait of Motown musical mentor Marcus Belgrave, is the latest offering from “Jazz Video Guy" Bret Primack, who has recently passed the six million views mark on his YouTube channel. Last month Bret was in Detroit to interview Belgrave for the video podcast series, “Ray Charles, Genius." Bret explains that with all the negative publicity about Detroit, he was somewhat reluctant to visit, but that “although jobs have been lost and the city looks ...
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Bud Shank "Against the Tide" film on Jazzed Media Receives EMPixx Gold Award
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All About Jazz
The EMPixx Awards, a competition honoring excellence in the production of moving pixels, had honored Jazzed Media with a 2009 EmPixxAwards- Gold for the documentary film Bud Shank Against the Tide.
The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz CDs and documentary jazz films. This is the fourth national award for the Bud Shank Against the Tide" documentary film. Previously the film was awarded ...
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Playboy's Jazz on Film
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All About Jazz
Jazz clips
With the Playboy Jazz Festival on tap for this weekend, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents its annual “Playboy's Jazz on Film" program this evening. Film archivist Mark Cantor presents clips of performances from Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, among others.
Playboy Jazz on Film Thursday, June 11 | 7:30 pm
For close to three decades Playboy Jazz on Film has offered an evening of film clips that highlight the greatest names in jazz. ...
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New Video Podcast Series, Ray Charles, Genius, Illuminates His Musical Life
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All About Jazz
Ray Charles, Genius, a sixteen episode video podcast series produced by Bret Primack for Concord Records, is now showing on YouTube and is available for download on iTunes. The debut episode is entitled: There is Only One Ray Charles. A comprehensive examination of the musical life of Ray Charles, each episode is devoted to a specific recording or critical aspect of his music, focusing on his influences, recording techniques, live appearances, small group and big band, and the Raeletts. The ...
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Bela Fleck Documentary "Throw Down Your Heart" Playing Tonight and Sunday at Webster University
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Via Joe Williams' movie blog at the Post-Dispatch: The documentary film Throw Down Your Heart, which features banjo player Bela Fleck traveling across Africa learning about the history of his instrument and performing with African musicians, will play at 8:00 p.m. tonight and Sunday night at Webster University's Winifred Moore Auditorium.The film previously was shown in St. Louis last fall as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival, and Fleck's “Africa Project" tour came to the Sheldon ...
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Watch Melody on the Late Show with David Letterman | Melody Gardot | News
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All About Jazz
Melody Gardot on the Late Show with David Letterman | Melody Gardot | News
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