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What's Opera, Doc?
We here at All About Jazz, in our effort to include those of the finer music crowd, and to show that we Improvisers got good taste too. We like to share for your holiday pleasure our series following on High Note, the Chuck Jones cartoon with today's selection, What's Opera, Doc. Sit back and enjoy a ...
There's No Jazz Fueling This 'Cadillac'
Jazz is at the roots of the Chess Records story, a legacy that's silent in “Cadillac Records." Leonard Chess broke into the local music scene in 1949 by opening the Macomba Lounge at 47th and South Karlov. The late-night club attracted jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington, who were headlining earlier in the evening at ...
Trouble in 'Oz': The Munchkins' Dirty Secret
Snubbed at a Hollywood event, women hold own reunion to share memories of film shoot. If you thought you knew everything there was to know about the iconic film classic The Wizard of Oz, then here's a twister for you. Everyone knows about the Munchkins, portrayed by 124 pituitary midgets in the 1939 motion picture starring ...
"High Note" Rare Chuck Jones Cartoon
A rare Warner Bros cartoon, High Note (1960) doesn't include any star characters- the “stars" are a bunch of musical notes who are trying to form the music to the “Blue Danube", but one musical note is causing problems. The sheet music for Johann Strauss' “The Blue Danube" is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting ...
Ex-MTV Exec Named as Myspace Music Chief
Former MTV executive Courtney Holt has been named president of MySpace Music. Holt previously served as executive vice president of digital music for MTV Networks Music and the Logo Group, where he worked to increase consumer interest in the companies' online content. MySpace Music, which combines audio streaming with download functionality powered by Amazon, made its ...
Facebook Adds Full-Length TV Shows
Do you long for Facebook when you tear yourself away to watch a little television? Not to worry, the social networking site announced Monday that it is integrating full-length TV episodes into the site. “Full-length television is coming to Facebook, via a new generation of applications. Entire shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, and The Simpsons ...
Gary Calamar Music Man Sets the Mood
Every intense music fan presumes he or she has what it takes to be a TV or film music supervisor, and they have a box of clattering mix tapes from high school to prove it. Yes, it was clever how you started with “Please Come Home Baby" by Tom Waits and finished with Mel ...
Terence Blanchard Completes Score for "Cadillac Records"
Grammy-winning composer/trumpet player Terence Blanchard completes score for Cadillac Records Film starring Beyonc Knowles and Adrien Brody to be released Dec. 5 by Tristar Pictures World-renowned film composer and trumpet player Terence Blanchard has completed the score for Cadillac Records, the feature film about the story of Chess Records, the label in the 1950s that was ...
Ben Burtt Sounds off on Wall-E
The voice of Wall-e and M-O and Sound & Character Voice In ancticipation of Tuesday's release of Wall-E on DVD, Disney Home VIdeo has provided us with an interview with Ben Burtt, the legendary sound effects maestro. QUESTION: You had just finished a stint on Star Wars when you were offered Wall-E and I imagine the ...
Academy Disqualifies 'Dark' Score
Music cue sheet lists five names as composers The score for “The Dark Knight" has been disqualified by the executive committee of the Academy music branch. Formal letters to that effect are expected to go out this week to composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, who collaborated on the music. Their previous collaboration, ...
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