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Hellzapoppin'
Looking for the earliest Slim Gaillard clip I could find, I came across a sequence from Olsen and Johnson's manic 1941 hit movie Hellzapoppin'. Gaillard plays piano and guitar, with his constant companion of the period, the great Slam Stewart, on bass. Among the several dozen uncredited musicians and dancers is the Duke Ellington cornetist Rex ...
Gits Punk Band Singers Murder
At Last, Closure for the Gits In 1993, the punk band's singer was murdered. A documentary looks at the crime's effects on the band and the Seattle music scene, and the decade until her killer was found. In the summer of 1993, everything seemed to be going the Gits' way. Bypassed in the initial wave of ...
How Wall-E Met Hello Dolly
Two songs from the movie musical help Pixar's robot express his romantic feelings. I'm still blown away by the fact that two songs of mine that are close to 50 years old have been used as the underpinning, -Jerry Herman In high school, “Wall-E" director Andrew Stanton played the shy Yonkers store clerk Barnaby ...
All You Need is Love Takes On New Meaning
All You Need Is Love, a 17-hour celebration of American music and its offspring, hits L.A. Jazzz greats Chalie Bird and Miles Davis are featured in documentary segments playing Hollywoods Egyptian Theater this weekend. And all you thought was about Beatles. British documentary maker Tony Palmer called his 17-hour TV series exploring the origins of American ...
Jazz up Summertime with Turner Classic's Big-Band Movie Marathon
When it rose in popularity between the Jazz Age and the advent of rock 'n' roll, big band music was aided by dovetailing nicely with the movies being made at the time. Turner Classic Movies takes advantage of this for a monthlong, 42-film Wednesday night festival of “Big Bands in the Movies." It begins with the ...
Vocalizing Wall-E to R2-D2.....Too!
Ben Burtt: The man behind R2-D2 and Wall-E's beeps AUDIO PUPPETEER: We wanted to have this illusion that the voices for Wall-E and Eve and the other characters are part of their function, (sound designer Ben Burtt says of Pixar's Wall-E.) Burtt speaks the characters' language. In fact, he's created a galaxy of unusual ...
MTV Urges Fans to Remix Music Videos
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seeking new ways to entertain audiences, music television network MTV has recently begun allowing fans of new and upcoming shows to discuss and post their own versions of music videos on the Web. This month the network launched “FNMTV", which airs new videos every Friday night and invites viewers to go online ...
Six Concerts from 2007 Rochester International Jazz Festival to Air This Summer on PBS Stations Nationwide
See and hear more exciting scenes and sounds from the Rochester International Jazz Festival on PBS stations around the nation. WXXI Public Broadcasting (wxxi.org) in Rochester, NY will present season two of the Festival capturing the essence of the 2007 nine-day music festival with spectacular performances by some of today's hottest musicians and legendary names in ...
Artist as the Perennial Subject of Films
Why can't the muse and real life get along? “He wants to be normal, he just doesn't know what that means." The life of the artist has long been romanticized and debunked, portrayed in turn as full of glamour, inner torment, the high life and low fortunes. This year's Los Angeles Film Festival features a number ...
Herzog at the End of the Earth
EXTREME MEASURES: Werner Herzog Explores the Antarctic The filmmaker travels to the South Pole to make what he says might be the deepest film of his career, 'Encounters at the End of the World.' His film crew consisting only of him and a cameraman. “The only thing that becomes quite obvious in Antarctica," he ...
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