Jazz News

Jazz Age Films 1920's-Wall-E

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Jazz, Jazz-Scored, and Jazz Age Films: 1920s-Present Listed below are full-length feature films that meet one or more of these criteria:

The story is about jazz or jazz musicians; The film features performances by famous (or fictional) jazz musicians; An impressive jazz soundtrack accompanies a story that may not have anything to do with jazz; The film captures some characteristic aspect of the Jazz Age (the 1920s to early 30s). NOTE: Some of the earlier films use unflattering racial stereotypes. ...

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YouTube New Compression Stymies Uploaders

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

New YouTube Audio Compression Stymies Uploaders

Some YouTube users are mounting a growing revolt against the site's new audio scheme, which has degraded the sound quality of clips on the site by running them through an audio processor that wreaks havoc with songs' dynamic range (the variation between loud and soft), diminishing their sound quality. This is not “compression" as in bit rate or file format, but in the audio engineer sense of the word: the smushing together of various ...

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Bud Browne Father of Surf Films Passes

Source: Michael Ricci
July 31, 2008

Surf's Up Bud Browne, a onetime Venice Beach lifeguard who became known as “the father of surf films." Browne began showing his 16-millimeter surf movies commercially up and down the California coast in the early 1950s. Browne died at the age of 96 in his sleep Friday at his home in San Luis Obispo, said his close friend Anna Trent Moore, daughter of surfing legend Buzzy Trent.

“Bud created the genre of surf films," Steve Pezman, publisher of ...

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Huey Lewis Records Pineapple Express Theme

Source: Michael Ricci
July 31, 2008

Huey Lewis records theme for 'Pineapple Express,' complete with toking sound courtesy of Seth Rogen

Ask '80s pop-rock superstar Huey Lewis how he wound up recording the title song for the highly anticipated stoner action-comedy Pineapple Express, due in theaters Aug. 6, and he'll basically shrug.

They e-mailed, 'Would I write a song for a Seth Rogen movie?' I said, 'Why not?' I don't consider career moves. I just answer the phone. I'm flattered at my ripe old age to ...

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Anat Cohen Impressive at Hollywood and Highland

Source: Michael Ricci
July 31, 2008

Anat Cohen gifted Israeli-born horn player makes further inroads through the boys' club wall with her performance at Hollywood and Highland.

Israel-born Anat Cohen's Southland debut at Hollywood and Highland on Tuesday night was an impressive display of the qualities that last year garnered her awards from Down Beat and the Jazz Journalists Assn. -- and it also offered hope that a female horn player, fluent on clarinet and alto, tenor and soprano saxophones, will finally eradicate the outmoded notion ...

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Mike Lorenz Quartet @ Puck Live

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Mike Lorenz will be performing at Puck in Doylestown on July 31, 2008. Lorenz is a jazz guitarist from Lehigh Valley, PA. Playing professionally since the age of 19, Mike has performed with such musicians as Rufus Reid, George Young, Bud Shank, Jim Pugh, Ravi Coltrane, Neil Wetzel, Paul Rostock and Pete Colangelo. Mike has performed at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia, PA and at Bethlehem's Musikfest. He is the newest member of the Tony Gairo/Gary Rissmiller Jazz Orchestra, a ...

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Still Black, Still Proud: African Tribute to James Brown at Kimmel Center

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Kimmel Center Presents brings a welcoming respite from the dog days of summer with weekly Global Grooves world music dance parties in Perelman Theater. Global Grooves series showcases a hot lineup of international bands in the Perelman Theater, which is transformed into a nightclub with an open dance floor and cash bar. Pancontinental funk/soul ensemble Still Black, Still Proud delivers an explosive African Tribute to James Brown on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 7:30pm in Perelman Theater. The extraordinary line-up ...

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40 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

This is just an appetizer. The complete line-up of the Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona on his 40 Anniversary Edition will be revealed in September: From 23 October to 29 November 2008 L'AUDITORI Thursday, 23 October BEBO & CHUCHO VALDES Friday, 24 October AL GREEN Sunday, 9 November BRAD MEHLDAU & JOSHUA REDMAN DUET Saturday, 15 November CONCERT FAMILIAR LA VELLA DIXIELAND PALAU DE LA MUSICA CATALANA Friday, ...

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