Jazz News

AAJ Improves Jazz Industry Directory Listings Section

Source: All About Jazz
February 19, 2009

All About Jazz has made several improvements to its jazz industry directory listings section.

Users can now: View “All," view “Local," or submit a listing by type direct from the Guides landing page.

Search/filter and display results by directory type

View recent updates and additions by directory type and date

If your company information is not listed, add it. If you want to update your listing and do not have access to it, request access from your listing ...

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AAJ "Guides" Update: New Company Information Type - Music Presenters

Source: All About Jazz
February 19, 2009

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Jazz & Japanalia -- Mega Sale to Support Litchfield Jazz Camp Scholarships

Source: All About Jazz
February 19, 2009

The Litchfield Jazz Festival and Japanalia announce Jazz & Japanalia, a event benefiting Litchfield Jazz Camp scholarships on Saturday, March 7th from 11 AM 7 PM at Kent Green in Kent, CT. The One-Day-Only Mega Sale offers 50-80% off designer clothes for all seasons, light refreshments provided by the Fife n Drum Restaurant and music provided by the Litchfield Jazz Festival. To add to the excitement, the Litchfield Jazz Festival, which will be held for the first time in Kent, ...

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Anita O'Day - The Life of a Jazz Singer - Film Opening

Source: CSP-Media
February 19, 2009

A film about the jazz singer Anita O'Day may be opening near you. Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer won the “2008 SATELLITE Award winner for Best Documentary – International Press Academy".

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Visit our website to find an opening near you!

About Anita O'Day

Born Anita Belle Colton in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1919, O’Day got her start as a teen. She eventually changed her name to O’Day and ...

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Simon and Garfunkel Considering Tour

Source: All About Jazz
February 19, 2009

Last week Simon and Garfunkel reunited for three songs at New York’s Beacon Theatre. Now the pair of singer-songwriters are talking about hitting the road.

“Our plan to work together is coming together,” Art Garfunkel told the BBC. “But it doesn’t go through England this time.” Paul Simon’s manager Jeff Kramer confirmed this in a statement to Rolling Stone: “Yes there have been conversations taking place, but nothing has been confirmed.”

The duo launched a highly successful reunion in 2003, ...

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Oreste Lionello Italian Movie Dubber Known as Voice of Woody Allen Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
February 19, 2009

ROME -- Oreste Lionello, an entertainer and film dubber who was Italy's “voice" of Woody Allen, Jerry Lewis and other comic stars, died in a Rome hospital today.

Lionello, 81, was a star in Italy's important entertainment industry of movie dubbing. Relatively few Italian cinemas show films in the original language, so moviegoers often only know the voices of Hollywood stars through dubbers like Lionello.

Italian actor and director Pier Francesco Pingitore, who did cabaret acts with Lionello, said the ...

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Tomei and Winslet: Nudity = Oscar Glory?

Source: Michael Ricci
February 19, 2009

There's more than art for actresses like Marisa Tomei and Kate Winslet to consider when they take on nude scenes. Take 26!

That's the shot that director Darren Aronofsky used of Marisa Tomei in one of The Wrestler's pivotal dance sequences, one in which the 44-year-old Academy Award nominee gyrates and prances, flaunts and slinks -- largely in the nude -- across a real New Jersey club called Cheeques.

That combination of Aronofsky's persistence paired with the time ...

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John McGlinn Restorer of Musicals is Dead

Source: Michael Ricci
February 19, 2009

John McGlinn, a conductor and musical historian who delved deep into neglected archives to recreate musicals like Show Boat, Anything Goes and No, No, Nanette in their original form, died on Saturday at home in Manhattan. He was 55.

His brother, Evan, said that no official cause of death had been determined but that he had probably had a heart attack.

Throughout his career, Mr. McGlinn breathed the intoxicating air of the early Broadway musical, with special attention lavished on ...

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