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Close Enough for Jazz: Wynton Marsalis on the Colbert Report
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Night Lights Classic Jazz
Film Editor Crafts 'Alchemy'
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All About Jazz
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
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All About Jazz
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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M for Mississippi Premieres in Clarksdale
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
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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"Let's Get Lost" The Lasting Allure of Chet Baker
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All About Jazz
Let's Get Lost captures the seductive power of the conflicted jazzman. Bruce Weber's 1989 film is a vivid portrait of trumpeter-vocalist Chet Baker.
Early on in Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber's 1989 documentary about Chet Baker, the jazz trumpeter is asked if he'd like a glass of wine? Yeah, he replies in that wispy exhale of a voice that always made his singing sound so imperiled - and irresistible. The way Baker pronounces the word you hear diffidence, ...
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"Crazy," Film Inspired by the Life of Guitarist Hank Garland
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All About Jazz
Crazy, an independent feature film inspired by the tragic life and groundbreaking music of legendary 1950s-era guitarist Hank Garland, will have a limited theatrical release beginning October 17 at Regal Theatres and Carmike Theatres in Nashville and Malco Theatres in Memphis, TN. The film, which stars Waylon Payne (Walk The Line) as Garland and Ali Larter (Heroes) as his wife Evelyn, has been winning major festival awards throughout 2008. In addition to being a rising film star his performance as ...
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New Oscar Rules Announced for Songs and Music Scores
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Michael Ricci
The Oscars have announced new regulations governing songs and music scores that will enable more voters to participate in the selection of nominees and permit campaigners to reach them directly with music CDs.
Last year Oscars campaigners were barred from sending CDs to voters. The academy wanted members of the music branch to judge scores in the context of viewing the full films and to evaluate songs during separate “bake-off" viewing sessions conducted over one day in Los Angeles and ...
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