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Weekend Extra: The Clifford Brown Film

November 1, 2009

The television comic Soupy Sales loved jazz, knew its history and many of its leading players. Early in his career, when he had a local show in Detroit, he frequently presented jazz stars as guests. After Sales died on October 22 at the age of 83, many obituaries mentioned that the only known video of Clifford ...

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Tom Braxton, Featured on KDAF TV DFW Close up Show and Home Grown Concert

November 1, 2009

San Diego, CA -- Saxophonist and composer Tom Braxton will be featured on KDAF-TV (The 33 CW), DFW Close Up Show, in Dallas, TX this Sunday, November 1st at 7:00 A.M. His latest CD, Endless Highway, has been getting recognition and airplay throughout the country with special attention to the single hit “That Wayman Smile." The ...

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The Band of Heathens Appear on PBS's Austin City Limits on Nov. 7

November 1, 2009

Austin band's new album One Foot in the Ether at #1 on Americana radio and winning critical kudos AUSTIN, Texas -- The Band of Heathens, whose new album One Foot in the Ether the web 'zine AmericanaRoots.com ponders as “the best record of 2009," will appear on PBS' Austin City Limits on November 7 on a ...

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Inspirational Jazz Documentary "Chops" Drums up Excitement for High School Arts and Music Programs

October 23, 2009

Virgil Films & Entertainment announces the innovative release of the acclaimed documentary, CHOPS, directed by Bruce Broder, which follows T.J., Owen and other high school jazz students from around the country as they prepare for and perform in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. In partnership with B-Side Entertainment ...

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Mickey Hart Talks Space Sounds on History Channel 10/27

October 22, 2009

Mickey Hart Discusses Sounds From Space “The Universe: Pulsars & Quasars" Scheduled to air on THE HISTORY CHANNEL Tuesday, October 27 at 09:00 P.M. Mickey Hart During The Dead's Spring Tour, Mickey Hart debuted the “UNIVERSE OF SOUND." Each night of the Tour Hart connected audiences with the universe's most celestial vibrations ...

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Icons Among Us Accepted to AFI Fest 2009!

October 21, 2009

Paradigm Studio is proud to announce that Icons Among Us has been accepted to AFI Fest 2009! The feature film documentary, directed by Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson, and Peter J. Vogt, will screen on Opening Night, Friday October 30, as the late film at approximately 10 pm. On behalf of all the members of the filmmaking ...

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Johnny Mercer Honored in TCM Special Executive-Produced by Clint Eastwood

October 12, 2009

Turner Classic Movies to Celebrate Legendary Singer-Songwriter Johnny Mercer as Clint Eastwood Presents JOHNNY MERCER: THE DREAM'S ON ME In-Depth, Music-Filled Portrait of Mercer to Premiere in November, Commemorating 100th Anniversary of His Birth “Hooray for Hollywood"; “Jeepers Creepers"; “That Old Black Magic"; “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"; “Skylark"; “Blues in the Night"; ...

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'Up in the Air': One of the Year's Best Use of an Original Song in a Film

October 9, 2009

The trailer for George Clooney's upcoming “Up in the Air" starts flashily enough, with the opening swagger of Iggy Pop's “The Passenger." But the film is more quiet and subtle, and builds with more grace than the scraggly, trailer-ready guitar notes let on. Stick with the clip, and one can hear a glimpse of the film's ...

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Free Movie Nights with "Lady Day," "The Duke," and Charlie "Bird" Parker!

September 30, 2009

Make Tuesday the new Friday and join the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center for the first “Scenes Through the Cinema Lens" on October 20 at 7:30! An original retrospective focusing on the performing arts in film, this years series will highlight several of the great performers from the Lost Jazz Shrines and rarely seen footage of ...

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Composer Marvin Hamlisch Writes Score for Steven Soderbergh's 'Informant!'

September 27, 2009

In Steven Soderbergh's new offbeat film The Informant!, a rather incongruously sappy and dramatic piece of music plays during the opening credits while images of tape recorders, notebooks and assorted surveillance equipment appear on screen. The jaunty tune seems to promise romance, mystery and intrigue and brings to mind the vintage film scores of composer Marvin ...