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Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2008

Stanley Kubrick Transformed Music in Pictures

Yes, he is a shining light of cinema, but he fits Listening Post like a virtual glove. He would have celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday, if he had lived to witness the musical evolution of the form he fast-forwarded. His films irrevocably changed the relationship between film and music, from the juxtaposition of spaceship ballets and “The Blue Danube" to the destabilizing pairing of rape and “Singin' in the Rain." Sometimes it hurt ...

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Randy Newman Debuts Songs from New Album for Vip Crowd in L.A.

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2008

At L.A.'s 280-capacity Largo Newman Crooned New Songs

Randy Newman performed the entirety of his excellent Harps and Angels (due in stores August 5th) for a VIP-packed crowd that included Mandy Moore, Jason Schwartzman and ex- That Dog frontwoman Anna Waronker, whose dad Lenny co-produced Harps with Mitchell Froom. “It never hurts to start with a religious tune," Newman said by way of introduction after opening the show with the album's title track, in which an unbeliever takes a memorable ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York August 2008 Issue Now Available

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2008

Last month found New York hosting the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. The House that Ruth Built was given the honor in its final season; next season the Yankees will play in a new home. The old stadium was opened in 1923 and has been witness to some amazing baseball history. And let's not forget that this is also the final year for Shea Stadium, the Mets' home since 1964. All this nostalgia makes you realize ...

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Jack Sheldon's " Trying to Get Good" at the Rhode Island International Film Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

Trying To Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Plays the Rhode Island International Film Festival

The documentary on the jazz life of the great trumpet player will be showcased August 7th in Providence RI Film Fest.

Compelling and Highly Entertaining of the Consummate Musician, Irrepressible Comedian, and Ultimate Jazz Survivor, Jack Sheldon. Leonard Maltin-Entertainment Tonight

Despite -- or, perhaps, because of -- his cult status, Sheldon makes a compelling centerpiece for the lively, nostalgic documentary....The film ...

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This Fil-AM Has Jazz in His Genes

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

The year is 2002. The place is Charlie O's, a comfortable, somewhat-upscale jazz club in North Hollywood, Southern California, whose claim to fame is “great music" in the jazz universe. It is Thursday night and a jam session is about to take center stage. Tonight, just like any Thursday night at Charlie O's, several musicians have listed their names and wait for a call to perform and intuitively integrate their sense of rhythm, harmony, and melody without any dress rehearsal. ...

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Bay Area Prodigies at Stanford Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

The Bay Area prodigies are coming back, and the Stanford Jazz Festival's got 'em. It's an old story, really. Aspiring jazz artists, so the script goes, won't hit the big time unless they move to New York to make it in the jazz capital of the world. In recent decades the Bay Area has said bye-bye to worthies like guitarist Charlie Hunter, trombonist Steve Turre, pianist Vijay Iyer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum, to name a few. Now meet four of ...

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James Hunter Confirms NYC Performance with Chris Isaak

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

Soul stirring Brit James Hunter returns to New York City on August 20 for a second summer show, this time with Chris Isaak. The show marks the end of a incredible summer for Hunter. His sophomore album, 'The Hard Way, ' debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues chart and has remained there for six weeks and counting. Recently James made appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (June 9) and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (July 14). The ...

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Manfred Eicher and ECM Win Downbeat Critics Poll

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

Manfred Eicher is voted Producer of the Year and ECM Records is Label of the Year 2008 in the DownBeat Critics Poll: this double-win is announced in the August issue of the US jazz magazine, which includes full results of their 56th Annual International Critics Poll. The awards arrive as Munich-based ECM, founded 1969, approaches its 40th anniversary year. While Eicher won DownBeat's Top Producer award in 1976, and ECM was Label of the Year in 1980, the 2008 poll ...

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