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Ella Fitzgerald Special Tonight KCET
Jazz Icons: Ella Fitzgerald Live in '57 and '63 Two classic Ella Fitzgerald performances. The first, in Belgium (1957), features “Lullaby of Birdland" and “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"; the second set, in Sweden (1963), includes “Mack the Knife" and “Just One of those Things." TONIGHT'S one hour Ella Fitzgerald ...
Jazz Age Films 1920's-Wall-E
Jazz, Jazz-Scored, and Jazz Age Films: 1920s-Present Listed below are full-length feature films that meet one or more of these criteria: The story is about jazz or jazz musicians; The film features performances by famous (or fictional) jazz musicians; An impressive jazz soundtrack accompanies a story that may not have anything to do with jazz; The ...
Huey Lewis Records Pineapple Express Theme
Huey Lewis records theme for 'Pineapple Express,' complete with toking sound courtesy of Seth Rogen Ask '80s pop-rock superstar Huey Lewis how he wound up recording the title song for the highly anticipated stoner action-comedy Pineapple Express, due in theaters Aug. 6, and he'll basically shrug. They e-mailed, 'Would I write a song for a Seth ...
New James Bond Theme Alicia Keys and Jack White
007 Alicia Keys, Jack White to Duet on New “James Bond" Theme A couple months ago, Alicia Keys talked about her desire to collaborate with the White Stripes. She'll have to settle for the next best thing, as Keys and Jack White are teaming up for the theme song of the next James Bond film Quantum ...
The Dark Knight's Musical Mutations
The Dark Knight has survived many Sonic Iterations Though its current spectacle hews closely to the conventional blockbuster score of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Which works just fine, thanks, considering the film recently broke the record for fastest ever to rack up $300 million. But before those two composers, everyone from Nelson ...
Secrecy Cloaked 'Dark Knight'
Warner Bros. took painstaking care to thwart pirates ahead of the film's premier, and the effort paid off. The mission was to keep The Dark Knight from seeing the light of day. In an era of instantaneous digital copying and widely available high-speed Internet access, the premature and unauthorized release of a movie to the public ...
India's New Partnership: Bollywood and Hip-Hop
NEW DELHI -- Is Bollywood ready for Snoop Dogg? The rapper once dubbed “America's Most Loveable Pimp" by Rolling Stone makes his debut in India this summer, with a guest appearance on the title track of a highly anticipated Bollywood movie, Singh Is Kinng. The movie is set to open in August, but the title song ...
Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick Transformed Music in Pictures Yes, he is a shining light of cinema, but he fits Listening Post like a virtual glove. He would have celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday, if he had lived to witness the musical evolution of the form he fast-forwarded. His films irrevocably changed the relationship between film and music, ...
Jack Sheldon's " Trying to Get Good" at the Rhode Island International Film Festival
Trying To Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Plays the Rhode Island International Film Festival The documentary on the jazz life of the great trumpet player will be showcased August 7th in Providence RI Film Fest. Compelling and Highly Entertaining of the Consummate Musician, Irrepressible Comedian, and Ultimate Jazz Survivor, Jack Sheldon. ...
Two Amateurs, Reinventing the Wheel
Patti Smith in Steven Sebring's movie about her, subtitled “Dream of Life." He began filming her 12 years ago WHEN Steven Sebring began filming Patti Smith, 12 years ago, he was, by his own admission, pretty much an amateur. He made his living as a fashion photographer, as he still does. He didn't own a movie ...
