Results for "TV / Film"

Playboy's Jazz on Film

June 11, 2009

Jazz clips With the Playboy Jazz Festival on tap for this weekend, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents its annual “Playboy's Jazz on Film" program this evening. Film archivist Mark Cantor presents clips of performances from Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, among others. Playboy Jazz on Film Thursday, June 11 | 7:30 ...

New Video Podcast Series, Ray Charles, Genius, Illuminates His Musical Life

June 11, 2009

Ray Charles, Genius, a sixteen episode video podcast series produced by Bret Primack for Concord Records, is now showing on YouTube and is available for download on iTunes. The debut episode is entitled: There is Only One Ray Charles. A comprehensive examination of the musical life of Ray Charles, each episode is devoted to a specific ...

Bela Fleck Documentary "Throw Down Your Heart" Playing Tonight and Sunday at Webster University

June 7, 2009

Via Joe Williams' movie blog at the Post-Dispatch: The documentary film Throw Down Your Heart, which features banjo player Bela Fleck traveling across Africa learning about the history of his instrument and performing with African musicians, will play at 8:00 p.m. tonight and Sunday night at Webster University's Winifred Moore Auditorium.The film previously was ...

Watch Melody on the Late Show with David Letterman | Melody Gardot | News

June 5, 2009

Jazz & Basketball a Conversation with Wynton Marsalis

June 2, 2009

Melody Gardot on the Late Show with David Letterman | Melody Gardot | News

May 31, 2009

Susan Boyle Snags 2nd on "Britain's Got Talent"

May 31, 2009

She dreamed a dream and it almost came true. Susan Boyle's reality show journey ended Saturday with a second-place finish to a dance troupe called “Diversity" on the final of the television show “Britain's Got Talent." After the announcement, Boyle curtsied to the audience and gave them her signature hip shake. During her finals performance, Boyle ...

'Arlington: Call to Honor'

May 25, 2009

The Smithsonian Channel takes a respectful look at Arlington Cemetery, 'perhaps the most hallowed ground in America.' At the beginning of Arlington: Call to Honor, the mother of an Army private killed in Iraq is seen making a pilgrimage to her son's graveside. Teresa Arciola's son Michael is gone, but his memory survives in a place ...

'The Boys' Sings with Sherman Brothers' Story

May 25, 2009

Robert Sherman and brother Richard Sherman worked with many movie legends, including Walt Disney. “So many people knew their songs, but not many people knew the boys," says Julie Andrews of the Oscar-winning composing team of Robert and Richard Sherman. The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (* * * out of four) is a touching and ...

Susan Boyle Secures a Spot on 'Britain's Got Talent' Finals

May 25, 2009

Susan Boyle, the Scottish woman who took the Internet by storm with her performance of “I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables returned to Britain's Got Talent Sunday night with another Broadway show tune, this time “Memory" from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. At the end of the show, Boyle was named a finalist, winning ...