TV / Film News

Jack White Talks Bond Theme Collaboration with Alicia Keys

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2008

Jack White has finally given some insight into his James Bond theme collaboration with Alicia Keys. Discussing Another Way to Die, the theme for the upcoming Quantum of Solace,

After a couple of years of wanting to collaborate with Alicia Keys, it took James Bond himself to finally make it happen. Alicia put some electric energy into her breath that cemented itself into the magnetic tape. Very inspiring to watch. We wanted to push soul into those tapes, and join ...

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Clint Eastwood Make's His Day Keeping Jazz Alive!

Source: All About Jazz
August 17, 2008

Last week, I happened to view for the 20th time the film “Bird." In case you have yet to see this film, it is a brief biography about one of the most prolific jazz musicians in history, Charles “Yardbird" Parker, aka “Bird." Parker's life was one of ups and downs, so I imagine it was difficult to capture it all on film. However, credit should be given to the one and only “Dirty Harry" or as he's sometimes known as ...

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Jazz and Film Animation: A Brief, Sketchy History

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 17, 2008

Film animation married to jazz improvisation goes back to the 1930s and the advent of sound films. This collaboration of the cartoon figure Betty Boop and the real Louis Armstrong is one of the most famous early examples. Social sensitivity was not a consideration.I

n 1949, the art advanced--or at least changed--dramatically when two Canadians, painter Norman McLaren and pianist Oscar Peterson, got together. They made Begone Dull Care, in which McLaren painted and otherwise altered the surface of ...

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Anita O'Day "Jazz on a Summer's Day"

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2008

Review: Jazz on a Summer's Day

PLOT One of the pre-eminent women of jazz, captured through her music and her reflections on a turbulent, rigorously honest life.

CAST Anita O'Day, Johnny Mandel, Annie Ross LENGTH 1:31 PLAYING AT Cinema Village, Manhattan

BOTTOM LINE Swinging, satisfying portrait of a woman who was among the best at what she did. And whom, after this film, you'd really like to have met. The iconic image of Anita O'Day is ...

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Jackson Browne Sues McCain over 'Running on Empty' Ad

Source: All About Jazz
August 14, 2008

LOS ANGELES -- Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Sen. John McCain and the Republican National Committee for using Browne's 1977 song “Running on Empty" in a television ad. “Running on Empty," which is one of Browne's signature tunes, was used in a political advertisement criticizing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama for his suggestion that Americans could save money on gasoline by properly inflating their cars' tires, said Lawrence Iser, Browne's attorney. The lawsuit, filed ...

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Moneyland Film Competition

Source: All About Jazz
August 14, 2008

IFC AND MCCOURY MUSIC INSPIRE FANS WITH MONEYLAND FILM COMPETITION McCoury Announces Music-To-Film Contest on LUNCHBOX on IFC.com

Blending traditional and contemporary roots music, passion for democracy and social justice, and an appreciation for the power of grassroots creativity, IFC and McCoury Music have launched a competition aimed at inspiring music fans to create their own short film interpretations of the songs from McCoury Music's new album, Moneyland. Fans of the new album are invited to enter into ...

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STLJN Saturday at the Movies: Dave Brubeck, then and Now

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

Continuing with our occasional summer series previewing this fall's jazz concert attractions in St. Louis, this week the spotlight falls on legendary jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, who will return to our city on Saturday, October 4 for a performance at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The first video clip is from 1961, and shows the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet - Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond on alto sax, drummer Joe Morello ...

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Paul Newman Says He Wants to Die at Home

Source: Michael Ricci
August 9, 2008

Paul Newman tells loved ones he wants to die at home Get out your Kleenex, people.

You're gonna need it.

According to new reports, actor Paul Newman has weeks to live and has told his family that he wants to die at home.

Newman has finished chemotherapy treatment for cancer and was photographed leaving a New York hospital in a wheelchair. He looks predictably frail and fragile.

“Paul didn't want to die in the hospital," a source has said.

Newman ...

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