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Soloist Downtown Street Musician Inspires Times Columnist
When I met a street musician in downtown Los Angeles nearly four years ago, a guy playing a violin that was missing two strings, I wasn't sure I'd ever write about him. But as I got to know more about this gent, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, one column led to another, and then to a book called ...
Library of Congress Jazz Film Series
FILM SERIES Jazz in the Spring at the Nations Library Jazz Film Series curated by Larry Appelbaum, Music Division, Library of Congress. Wednesday evenings at 7:00 pm in the Mary Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building. All programs are free (no tickets required), but seating is limited to 60 seats. Reservations may be ...
Bound for Hell, or Glory, at the Cinematheque
Not since I saw Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner go at each other in an excellent production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a couple of years ago have I experienced a night of live theater quite as riveting as the three-way cage match between David Carradine, Haskell Wexler, and the audience the other night following ...
Woody Guthrie's Music Inspires Americas Dust Bowl Era Desperation
Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY, recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s. He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her family and, like thousands ...
BIRD Captures Charlie Parker
I've seen two documentaries about Charlie Parker recently, but I haven't seen a lot of Parker. In an age when archives are filled with newsreel footage and videotape on even the most obscure of public figures, Parker seems always to have been somewhere else when the cameras were on. There is a shot of him accepting ...
The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon
The unheralded trumpeter makes a compelling centerpiece for the documentary. Music elite and bebop fans widely consider him the greatest living jazz trumpeter. Though commonly recognized by many from his longtime stint as Merv Griffin's comedic sidekick on The Merv Griffin Show, trumpeter and vocalist Jack Sheldon qualifies, hands-down, as a force of jazz and one ...
'Let's Get Lost' West Coast Cool Jazz of Chet Baker
In the center of the frame, very close to the camera, hangs a studio microphone that could be mistaken for a vintage Soviet communications satellite. Chet Baker, 58, is recording Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's “Imagination." His voice isn't quite as soft and papery as it used to be, but the image -- like every ...
Behind the 'Looney Tunes': A Look at Chuck Jones' Life
Most people can recall sitting in front of a television watching Bugs Bunny slyly outwit his would-be captors. Or perhaps, as a child, you were a fan of the trials and tribulations of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote as they chased each other endlessly. (And maybe you still are.) Whoever your favorite Looney Tunes is, ...
For Warner Bros. Time is Changing
Clock ticking on Warner Bros. succession drama Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes must decide how to replace Barry Meyer and Alan Horn, who have jointly presided over the studio and are to step down in 2011. With the heads of Warner Bros. signing only two-year contract extensions, Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes will focus ...
Round Midnight Dexter Gordon Plays a Classic
In Dexter Gordon's voice in Round Midnight, there is a quality that at first sounds like a great weariness. As I listened more carefully, however, I realized that there were other notes present. Here is a man (I speak of the character, not the actor) who has gone too far and seen too much, and who ...
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