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Wynton Marsalis to Perform on Letterman
Wynton Marsalis has been confirmed to appear on the ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ on Wed May 13th. The Pulitzer Prize & 9-time Grammy Award winner will perform the new song ‘School Boy’ from his new Blue Note album He & She - his 5th Blue Note release that features 22 tracks of his signature jazz, ...
The Music Instinct: Science and Song
THE TRUE POWER OF MUSIC UNFOLDS IN THE MUSIC INSTINCT: SCIENCE AND SONG hosted by Bobby McFerrin and Dr. Daniel Levitin While listening to music, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, asks the questions “where do goose bumps come from?" and “what's going on in my brain that allows the goosebumps to happen?" Levitin leads a group of researchers ...
Another Documentary, Another Riff on the History and Mystery of Jazz
Icons Among Us, a four-part series beginning Monday on the Documentary Channel, serves as a retort to Ken Burns’s 2001 television documentary Jazz. It doesn't make this explicit, but it doesn't need to. There's no other elephant in the room. Mr. Burns's series, you may remember, outlined styles and eras and individual accomplishments. His film--with a ...
Jamie Foxx's Skid Role Soloist
Jamie Foxx struggled while playing Nathaniel Ayers, who suffers from schizophrenia. The role reminded Foxx of a mentally traumatic experience he had at age 18. In nightclubs and strip joints across the country, the song of the moment is Jamie Foxx's “Blame It (On the Alcohol)," a leering tale of bad boys, well, behaving badly. The ...
'Icons Among Us' Shows Jazz in a Different Light
Of all the genres in music, jazz might lead them in terms of the sheer number of eulogies that are racked up in its honor on a yearly basis. Which is, of course, as absurd as the similar calls bemoaning rock's death that come around every few years. However, if recent tribute activity is any indication, ...
Warner Bros. Celebrates Hollywood's Jazz Age
The cycle of gangster movies launched by Warner Bros. in the early 1930s often included scenes in speakeasies with anonymous musicians in the background. Anatole Litvak's Blues in the Night (1941) and Jack Webb's Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), which were released this month by Warners on DVD, reversed the perspective. These are Warner gangster pictures told ...
Pete Kelly's Blues
First-time viewers of Pete Kelly's Blues are often impressed by its dynamic, directional stereophonic audio. The Warner Sound Department concocted a particular method of recording their orchestra that gave their music tracks more brass and more bite, whether on a big picture or a Bugs Bunny cartoon. The movie is a visual treat as well. It ...
The Glenn Miller Story
The 1954 film starring James Stewart, The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of his era. June Allyson is on hand as Miller's wife, Helen, who learns the value of patience when Glenn spends his wedding night jamming with Gene Krupa and Louis Armstrong. ...
SAG and Studios Reach Tentative Deal
Negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract for the union's 120,000 members. Sources close to the talks say the union's negotiating task force will be briefed today on the proposed agreement, which is expected to be voted on by SAG's 71-member national board ...
The Gene Krupa Story
The Gene Krupa Story (1959) Review Published: December 26, 1959 THE word for “The Gene Krupa Story" is okay no less and certainly no more. Columbia's film biography of the king of hot jazz drummers arrived yesterday at the Forum with Sal Mineo in the title role, some dandy musical sequences and a plot ...
