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NCIS Los Angeles Reairs Holiday Episode Tonite Featuring Cynthia Basinet's "Santa Baby"

December 6, 2013

With her gorgeous voice a part of our modern Christmas heritage, actress/singer Cynthia Basinet brings romance to the very popular CBS show with her sultry Santa Baby. Cynthia's iconic rendition of Santa Baby, oft miscredited to Marilyn Monroe will be featured again in the December 6th episode of NCIS: Los Angeles (episode 410, entitled “Free Ride"), ...

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New Short Film "Trane and Miles" Celebrates Jazz Music Legends

November 26, 2013

Take a journey to 1959 and walk the miles with two of the most iconic jazz musicians of all time, men whose work became the soundtrack of an era. Writer-director Scott Essman of Visionary Cinema captures the brilliant, untold story of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, starring Ricco Ross as Coltrane and Travis Hinson as Davis. ...

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Stanley Clarke Pens Music Score For This Weekend’s Hit Movie, The Best Man Holiday

November 20, 2013

Film Composer and legendary jazzman, Stanley Clarke, has scored more that 65 film and television scores in his career. The newest addition to his film scoring credits is the hit Universal film The Best Man Holiday. Immediately jumping to #2 in film revenues for its opening weekend, the film was directed by Malcolm E. Lee and ...

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Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost

November 13, 2013

The year was 1988. Most people were still buying LPs though CDs were starting to eat up more and more space in record stores. Jazz sections were fairly thin on older records from the '50s. Most record companies were struggling to make money by issuing new releases, and CD catalogues were thin. Though the analog-to-digital conversion ...

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Just a Bit Outside: A Response to Rolling Stone's Baseball Movie Survey

November 5, 2013

Now that the 2013 baseball season is over, what is left for baseball fans is the Hot Stove League: four months of arguments about who will win/should have won the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards, the December free agent signings, and some light betting on whether Alex Rodriguez will be mugged for his ...

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A Behind The Scenes Look At Billy Taylor's JazzMobile!

October 21, 2013

We are pleased to announce that Patricia DeArcy, Director of the documentary “The Harlem Cultural Council,” a behind the scenes look at the formation of Billy Taylor's JazzMobile as well as other Harlem Cultural Council endeavors like the DanceMobile, is in post production and taking a giant leap forward producing a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.com. After ...

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Icons Among Us: Jazz In The Present Tense, Filmbuff And The Angel City Jazz Festival Announce The Hulu Release Of The Four-Part Series Broadcast

October 10, 2013

The trans-media platformʼs digital release will coincide with four theatrical screenings at The Angel City Jazz Festival on Oct. 6, 12 & 13. Also, featured at the festivalʼs technology panel will be a preview of the Icons Among Us: Online Digital Archive Los Angeles, CA: ICONS AMONG US: JAZZ IN THE PRESENT TENSE, the critically acclaimed ...

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Documentary: Bill Monroe

September 6, 2013

When you think of bluegrass music, you probably imagine guys with long beards in coveralls playing twanging guitars and banjos, a fiddle and upright bass. You may also assume that much of the music sounds alike. This documenary on Bill Monroe (1911-1996)—known as the “Father of Bluegrass"—will give you a finer sense of the music's beauty ...

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US Gov't Says Music Depreciates 3x Faster Than Movies

July 27, 2013

By Jay Frank (@Repojay), Owner and CEO of DigSin. How fast does music depreciate? Try three times as fast as movies. This isn't quantified by me just making a random statement. This is actually what the US government is saying. Now, before we get to the “huff-and-puff" part that the internet likes to flame over, let's ...

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Preservation Alliance-Produced Coltrane Documentary Screenings at International House on August 7

July 12, 2013

The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia invites you to two free screenings of Coltrane's Philadelphia Coltrane’s Philadelphia explores John Coltrane's remarkable Philadelphia years and features captivating interviews including those with renowned saxophonist and Coltrane peer Odean Pope and The Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, and historic footage of Philadelphia illustrating the urban context in which Coltrane moved ...