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Documentary: Billie

Documentary: Billie

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

In the late 1960s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl planned to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Beginning in 1970, she spent eight years tracking down and recording interviews with key artists and personalities who knew the singer, who died in 1959. These interviews included conversations with Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms, and Count Basie as well as Holiday's cousin, school friends, lovers, lawyers, pimps and even the FBI agents who arrested her. Kuehl's Holiday archives included interviews on ...

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Innovative TV Director-guitarist Kerilie McDowall Celebrated At Win Awards

Innovative TV Director-guitarist Kerilie McDowall Celebrated At Win Awards

Source: All About Jazz

Humbled and honored, TV film Director of In the Zone: Rick Kilburn, jazz guitarist Kerilie McDowall was surprised and thrilled to win the Women of Influence WIN Creative Innovator Award, an award sponsored by Canada’s Inland Truck & Equipment. McDowall attended the evening with 100 fellow nominees in 11 categories in her city of Nanaimo, British Columbia in February 2024. The Women of Influence WIN objectives were extremely special to McDowall. Proceeds went to the Footprints Infertility & Pregnancy Loss ...

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World Premiere PBS Film Screening-Live Concert-Panel Discussion At Smoke Jazz Club, February 7-11, 2024

World Premiere PBS Film Screening-Live Concert-Panel Discussion At Smoke Jazz Club,  February 7-11, 2024

Source: AMT Public Relations

Dr. Eddie Henderson: Uncommon Genius will air on PBS nationwide in February during Black History Month. Trailer: Dr. Eddie Henderson: Uncommon Genius The documentary film about the extraordinary life of Edward “Eddie” Henderson will receive its film world premiere at: SMOKE Jazz Club 2751 Broadway, New York City. Make reservations. Wednesday, February 7, 2024 @ 7:00 p.m. One world premiere screening followed by a live set of music performed by Eddie Henderson and pianist George Cables then followed by brief ...

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Jazz 625: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

Jazz 625: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

On March 7, 1965, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers appeared on the BBC-TVs Jazz 625, hosted by Humphrey Lyttelton. The video of the performance was recently colorized, which gives the musicians enormous dimension and visual personality. The music was always great. The color just makes the presentation a little greater. The Jazz Messengers on this date consisted of Art Blakey (d), Lee Morgan (tp), John Gilmore (ts), John Hicks (p) and Victor Sproles (b). Here's Art Blakey & the ...

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Documentary: The Rise and Fall of the Concorde

Documentary: The Rise and Fall of the Concorde

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

During the 1960s, as the U.S. spent billions to beat the Soviet Union to the moon and fight a war in Vietnam, another expensive race was taking place in Europe. Air France and British Airways had joined forces to develop a supersonic passenger plane ahead of the Soviets and the Americans. When the Concorde took off for the first time in March 1969—just four months before the American moon landing—it opened a new era in aviation and offered enormous promise. ...

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King Crimson’s 'In The Court Of The Crimson King – King Crimson At 50' Documentary By Toby Amies Coming To Select Us Theaters Opening November 3rd!

King Crimson’s 'In The Court Of The Crimson King – King Crimson At 50' Documentary By Toby Amies Coming To Select Us Theaters Opening November 3rd!

Source: Glass Onyon PR - William James

Just as King Crimson has been, for more than half a century, an atypical rock band, this film is a refreshingly atypical music documentary. A film about the sacrifices we need to make to bring things of beauty and meaning into the world. But with jokes. Toby Amies’s film In The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson at 50 provides a unique insight into the working process of a complex touring band, interspersed with contributions from previous band ...

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Doc: Oscar Peterson - Keeping the Groove Alive

Doc: Oscar Peterson - Keeping the Groove Alive

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers


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Documentary: Gabor Szabo, 'Rising' (1977)

Documentary: Gabor Szabo, 'Rising' (1977)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Gabor Szabo was one of jazz fusion's earliest progenitors and a fascinating player. The Hungarian guitarist, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1956, had a singular way of folding together Romani, Indian and rock music in the jazz idiom and seeking out sounds in world music. Szabo also embraced pop with a new level of sophistication. Gabor Szabo died in 1982 at age 45. In 1977, Larry Bock filmed a documentary film on Szabo for his master's project at USC. ...


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