Documentary: Paul Horn
Don't know much about Paul Horn? The 83-year-old flutist and saxophonist was a pioneer of mystical or New Age jazz in the late 1960s and beyond. But in the early '60s, Horn was straddling traditional jazz and jazz-classical and beginning to nibble at the avant-garde. Reader Peter Campbell in Cairo, Egypt, sent along YouTube links to ...
Call For Support: Help Fund Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity, A Documentary
WAYNE SHORTER: ZERO GRAVITY A DOCUMENTARY ON ONE OF THE GREATEST LIVING JAZZ LEGENDS IS TO BE RELEASED IN 2014 The inception of ZERO GRAVITY began in 2006 and principal photography is now in progress. A Pledge Music Campaign for a limited time will launch on April 20 2013. By pledging funds towards the completion of ...
Documentary: Buddy Rich
We tend to remember drummer Buddy Rich today merely as a caustic '70s guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson or a guy who hated rockers but did a pretty good job trying to dress like one. The truth is Rich had a long and storied background as the drummer in top bands of his ...
A Jazz Tune Recorded In Heaven
They Died Before 40, a new jazz film, features eight jazz artists, most of them relatively unknown. They all died before reaching the age of 40. Actually, four of the eight died before reaching the age of 30! Seven died before 1944 and one died in 1956. The greatest jazz band in history has been playing ...
Jazz Vocalist PJ Parker's Original Song Included In New Movie
Asbury Park, NJ: Jazz vocalist PJ Parker's original song, “Dreams Are Meant For Two,” with music written by her late father, jazz pianist Thomas E. Parker, will make its motion picture debut in Joe Basile’s “West End,” screening at the Garden State Film Festival on Saturday, April 6, 2013. The screening takes place at the Paramount ...
Thomas Chapin: New Jazz Film Goes to Kickstarter.com for Global Fundraising Campaign - Final Days!
FINAL DAYS OF KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN New jazz film is using kickstarter.com to raise money to shoot a music biography/ documentary in the NYC area, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Europe EMMY-winning filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo is running a 45-day global fundraising campaign at kickstarter.com to raise $50,000 to begin shooting her feature-length documentary film, NIGHT BIRD ...
Edward Bland: 'Cry of Jazz'
Edward Bland died of cancer at his home in Smithfield, Va. on March 14 at 86. Bland was a musician, composer and arranger, according to the New York Times's obit, but he also made one film—Cry of Jazz. When the 34-minute film about jazz from the black perspective was released in 1959, it triggered debate among ...
Live Streaming Launches: BitTorrent Live and ShowGo.TV
Live streaming is seeing steady growth in 2013 after a year of trending news in 2012. Yesterday's announcement at SXSW that BitTorrent Live is now in open Beta is a huge development in the space that's been under development since at least as far back as 2009. In addition, ShowGo.tv launched rather quietly last month at ...
Vevo.TV Launches: The Return of Music Television
Guest post by Micheal Cerda (@imcerdafied) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Cerda provides an in-depth commentary on today's launch of VEVO.TV, a brand-new music video product. In the 1980s and early 1990s, music videos on television captured the imagination of a generation. New levels of music fanaticism, discovery and imagination were born. We ...
Divine Hand Ensemble Announces Premier of "21st Century Classical Music" Documentary
Since 2010, local chamber ensemble The Divine Hand Ensemble have been demonstrating that classical music can still captivate audiences in these modern technological times. Formed and led by accomplished theremin pioneer Mano Divina, the Divine Hand Ensemble have the distinction of being the only group in the world who perform serious classical work in which the ...
Joe Lovano Appeared On NBC
Joe Lovano appeared on NBC/New York Nightly News Tuesday, February 12, 2013 in the New York City area on “New York Nonstop" cable station. It reaches 5 million homes. The interview and performance promoted the Joe Lovano Us Five show in The Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Feb 22-23—and his new Blue Note ...
Jazz & Blues Television Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
Jazz & Blues TV, the exciting, ground-breaking new “smart” platform for live music to launch in May with high-calibre artists led by Paulette McWilliams (Jazz) and more in the Blues, Soul, RnB, Gospel, and Latin genres lined up to appear. You can support our fundraising effort at Indiegogo. Torquay, United Kingdom: Some of the greatest live ...
The Tragic Life of Lenny Breau
Jazz guitarist Lenny Breau was born in Maine in 1941 to parents who were country music performers. According to Wikipedia, he began playing guitar at age 8 and soon became a member of his parents' band after they moved to Canada. In 1959, his father slapped him in the face for playing jazz improvisation on stage, ...
Fundraising Campaign Launched To Support New Documentary On The NY Art Quartet
Alan Roth, filmmaker and director of the new documentary about the New York Art Quartet, has just launched a final fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to complete this feature-length documentary. The film is entitled: The Breath Courses Through Us. Roth explained: “I believe this is one of the more important documentaries on jazz musicians, especially the under-represented ...
