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Jazzmix Fesitival Documents Emerging New York Artists

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

French-based Mezzo TV and Barking Dogs Productions present The JazzMix Festival, to be held Nov. 1825 in New York.

Shot in and around well-known New York City jazz haunts, the film will concentrate on eight musicians: Val-Inc, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jason Lindner, Chris Dave, Jaleel Shaw, Theo Bleckman, Vijay Iyer and Nasheet Waits. The project will capture eight live jazz concerts in eight different clubs, showcasing the inventiveness of the New York music scene for eight different 26-minute films for Mezzo ...

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Melody Gardot and Samantha Who? | Melody Gardot | News

Source: All About Jazz
October 25, 2008

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David Sanborn Participating in Auction to Benefit VH1 Save the Music Foundation

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 24, 2008

Ever wish you could meet David Sanborn? Well, the St. Louis native (pictured), known for his distinctive sax sound that has made him one of the most successful musicians in jazz as well a first-call sideman for world-famous musicians ranging from David Bowie to Stevie Wonder, is offering to “meet and greet" a fan as part of a special eBay auction benefiting the VH1 Save The Music Foundation.The winning bidder gets two tickets to one of Sanborn's upcoming ...

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Close Enough for Jazz: Wynton Marsalis on the Colbert Report

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
October 23, 2008

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Film Editor Crafts 'Alchemy'

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Footage to craft your Jazz

As an exercise in demonstrating how the art of film editing can be used to create meaning and emotion, Pietro Scalia has fashioned a short movie from footage shot for nine other films.

The result, Alchemy, will be screened for invited guests at the Westwood Hammer Museum in L.A. on Monday.

Scalia, who won Oscars for his film editing on JFK and Black Hawk Down, undertook the project at the invitation of Prada, using footage ...

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Leonard Bernstein the Original Culture Warrior

Source: All About Jazz
October 19, 2008

Since when was 'cosmopolitan' a dirty word? Leonard Bernstein proved that the low and high arts could make beautiful music together. I Feel Pretty: Bernstein's sex appeal didn't exactly hurt his pop-culture popularity.

It is one of those stories that never get old. Once upon a time, a matinee crowd bustled into Carnegie Hall to hear a program led by the visiting German-born conductor Bruno Walter. After taking their seats, the concertgoers learned that the maestro had fallen ill and ...

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Melody on NBC's Lipstick Jungle | Melody Gardot | News

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2008

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M for Mississippi Premieres in Clarksdale

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 14, 2008

From the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion, you are hereby humbly invited to check out my piece in the current Riverfront Times on the new documentary film M for Mississippi, which premiered this past weekend in Clarksdale, MS. The film was produced by St. Louisan Jeff Konkel, the man behind the country blues label Broke and Hungry Records, and former St. Louisan Roger Stolle, who now lives in Clarksdale and runs Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art. It ...

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