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Film Director Slams Microsoft as Non-Talent Friendly
Microsoft/XBox was by far the most dreadful, non-talent friendly company Ive ever worked for, claims director James Gunn following his experiences with the companys Horror Gone Comedy video series. Gunn, who is most notable for writing the two live-action Scooby Doo films, signed on to create a video for Microsoft, for, essentially, no money, based on ...
Recording the 'Wolverine' Score
A look at Gregson-Williams in the studio It's a Tuesday afternoon in late March on the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century-Fox. Harry Gregson-Williams, looking a bit haggard after having been up most of the night finishing the music of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine," stands before a 40- voice choir as they prepare to sing -- in ...
The Adaptation of Times Columnist Steve Lopez's Book Hits All the Wrong Notes.
Remember when Lloyd Bentsen told Dan Quayle, “I knew Jack Kennedy. . . . Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy"? Well, I felt a little that way when it came to reviewing The Soloist. I could back up and write all this in the reviewer's traditional third person, but that feels disingenuous. After all, I do know ...
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 ...
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