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Blast from the Past: Mark Cantor's Jazz Films
I had the pleasure ofattending Mark Cantor's “Jazz on Film" presentation on January 22nd here at theJewish Community Center of San Francisco and it was a blast from the past.Cantor is a jazz film archivist who has collected over 4,000 reels (yes, actualfilm) of vintage jazz performances. He shares programs of these rare films atpresentations all ...
Miles Plays Miles
Dingo is a little Australian-French film released in 1991 that would probably be lost in obscurity except for one fact—it stars Miles Davis. In the first image of the film, we see John “Dingo" Anderson (played by Colin Friels) playing his trumpet in the Australian outback, which sets up the tension between his life in the ...
All the President's Jazz 2010
For the second year in a row, I have been sending CD compilations of jazz music (12 total) to Reggie Love, President Obama's personal aide, to put on the president's iPod. (How much of it has made it onto the iPod playlist I don't know.) As I stated a year ago when I posted the 2009 ...
Jazz News: Huge Music Donation to the Library of Congress
Universal Music Group has made a huge donation of treasured recordings from its vault to the Library of Congress. The material, dating from 1926 to 1948, includes music from Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, and Billie Holiday. Here's the story from the New York Times: Library of Congress Gets a Mile of Music By Larry ...
A Cool Ocean Breeze of Jazz
For anyone who hasn't seen Bert Stern's jazz documentary, Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960), go rent it immediately. This immensely enjoyable film, shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, is visual and aural candy. It is equal parts great jazz and people watching and both prove fascinating. The jazz audience of fifty years ago is ...
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