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Davell Crawford: New Orleans Jazz Musician Featured on NBC's the Today Show
Almost five years ago, New Orleans jazz & R&B sensation Davell Crawford, like many others, was tragically struck hard by the torment of Hurricane Katrina. The proclaimed “Prince of New Orleans" had his home, studio, piano and all other possessions destroyed and turned to rubble - and although the rebuilding process still has a long road ...
Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built Toy Story 3
Screenwriter William Goldman once famously declared that the most important fact of life in Hollywood is that nobody knows anything. It was his way of describing a reality that continues to haunt the movie business: Studio executives have no idea which pictures will make money. Unless, of course, those pictures are made by Pixar Animation Studios. ...
Dexter Gordon Stars in "Round Midnight"
NO actor could do what the great jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon does in Round Midnight, Bertrand Tavernier's glowing tribute to the golden age of be-bop. Mr. Gordon, who stars in the film as an expatriate American named Dale Turner, becomes the very embodiment of the music itself. It's in his heavy-lidded eyes, in his hoarse, smoky ...
A Second Look: John Ford's 'Stagecoach'
The director's iconic western, now on a restored Criterion DVD, made John Wayne a star. “Stagecoach" is agnostic on the matter of social progress, which brings with it a wealth of hypocrisy and corruption. At a Directors Guild meeting in 1950, a tense session on the subject of anti-Communist loyalty oaths, John Ford began his dissenting ...
Jazz War, Anyone? Jason Marsalis vs. 'Jazz Nerds International'
Have you, as a listener, been suffering under the influence of Jazz Nerds International? Jazz critic and blogger for the Ottawa Citizen Peter Hum wrote a terrific post Thursday on the latest installment in what's become known as “the jazz wars," a long-running culture clash pitting the music's traditionalists -- personified by nearly any member of ...
Timothy Brock Keeps the Score in Frame for 'The Cameraman'
The composer will conduct the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in playing his new music for the Buster Keaton silent film. Silence has been golden for conductor and composer Timothy Brock. For nearly 25 years, he has made a name for himself as one of the few composers and conductors who specialize in silent film. He has ...
What Does Google TV Do for Sony?
Quick, which company is bigger: Google or Sony? If you answered Google, you'd be wrong -- at least when it comes to sales. Google pulled in $23.7 billion in revenue last year compared with Sony's $77.6 billion. But if one judges it by the amount of press generated by Thursday's announcement that Sony would be the ...
Google to Announce Smart TV
Google to debut Internet TV software in joint initiative. The Web search giant, through an effort with Sony, Intel and Logitech, is expected to showcase technology enabling users to flip seamlessly among shows, YouTube videos and home videos on their sets. Google Inc. will make an ambitious bid to extend its reach into the living room ...
YouTube Overtakes Networks' Primetime Viewership
Americas Funniest Home Videos may have pioneered the YouTube concept, but as the site reaches the five-year mark, its audience size is no laughing matter. YouTube's viewership now exceeds that of all three networks combined during their primetime evening time slot, with over two billion views per day, Google announced on Sunday. Granted, YouTubes numbers come ...
Old Music, Via New Technology
The Sag Harbor-based filmmaker Joe Lauro knows there is no shortage of time-tested music to be heard, and seen, on TV. As the president of Historic Films Archive, a stock-footage film library specializing in music from 1922 to 2000, Mr. Lauro has even packaged and rebroadcast some of it; his film “The Howlin' Wolf Story" appeared ...
