By Jazz News on January 31, 2012
Acoustic bassist John Patitucci is the featured performed at a special concert by the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, taking place at the Regattabar Jazz Club in Cambridge on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online or at the door.
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
Having designed L.A.’s signature space for classical music, Frank Gehry is on board to do the same for jazz —- although his pro bono work on a new Culver City home for the Jazz Bakery would be on a much smaller scale than his downtown Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Gehry’s involvement became public Monday when the Culver City City Council authorized the city manager’s office to execute a “commitment letter” transferring a narrow slice of city-owned land next to the Kirk Douglas Theatre —- just one-seventh of an acre —- to the nonprofit Jazz Bakery for a new home…
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
As a front-runner to win top honors in the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony, “The Artist” is a rarity. Not only is it in black and white, almost entirely silent and a French director’s take on old Hollywood, it is the only movie among the nine best picture nominees filmed entirely in Los Angeles.
The 1960s civil rights drama “The Help,” another potential favorite for best picture, was shot in Mississippi; “The Descendants,” starring George Clooney, was filmed in Hawaii; and Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo,” a whimsical tale about the early days of cinema, was produced mainly on a soundstage in the United Kingdom. “Moneyball,” starring Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane, was filmed in Oakland and various L.A. locations, including Dodger Stadium…
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
At this point in the Oscar race, several theories are floating around to puncture the bubble of “The Artist,” the heavy favorite, and today Mark Harris at Grantland and Scott Tobias at the AV Club take a stab at them.
Mr. Harris writes that general outrage against “The Artist” is the result of “a system that has spent months insistently attempting to anoint a front-runner and is now infuriated that we have one, because it makes the race too predictable…
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
Trailer Voice-Over Work Scarce for Women. Melissa Disney, top, did the voice-over for the trailer for “Gone in 60 Seconds,” starring Angelina Jolie and Nicolas Cage. Women “have so much more to pull from than your typical male action voice,” Ms. Disney said.
The question has been pondered by mystics through the ages, but in the sanctuary of cinema the voice of a sonorous, authoritative, fear-inspiring yet sometimes relatable presence is, invariably, that of a man. Consider the trailer and the omniscient, disembodied voice that introduces moviegoers to a fictional world…
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
A glance at the nominees for best picture at this year’s Oscars will confirm that the movies, a forward-looking medium tumbling headlong into a digital future, find themselves in a moment of retrospection.
It is not just that a majority of the nominees take place in lovingly imagined and carefully costumed versions of the past—that in itself is hardly new—but also that several look back with affection at earlier phases in the history of cinema…
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
Chicago music legend Mavis Staples will headline the Chicago Blues Fest this summer.
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events said Tuesday that other headliners will include Texas Johnny Brown and Floyd Taylor. The three-day festival runs from June 8 to 10 in Grant Park along Lake Michigan. Staples will close the festival on June 10. She won last year’s “Best Americana Album” Grammy award for her album “You Are Not Alone,” produced by fellow Chicagoan Jeff Tweedy of Wilco…
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
The television set won’t be the only place to watch video of the New York Giants and the New England Patriots this Sunday. For the first time, U.S. football fans will be able to watch the Super Bowl live on a computer or on a phone.
You may be wondering whether anyone without super-strength eyesight would be able to follow the football on a tiny phone screen. And what about the ads? After all, many people tune in more for the commercials than for the game…
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
I’ve always thought of advanced degrees in filmmaking as finishing school for misfits. Brilliant misfits, some of them. But misfits just the same.
Into the film school world stumbles Steve Boman, a former reporter seeking a midlife U-turn. Astoundingly, even to him, the father of three has been accepted into the graduate program at USC’s esteemed School of Cinematic Arts, where he will compete against hipsters half his age in the series of ever-larger student films over the course of a three-year program…
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By All About Jazz News on January 31, 2012
Neil Young wants to preserve the sound quality of current rock recordings—and he believes he had an ally in the late Steve Jobs.
“My goal is to try and rescue the art form that I’ve been practicing for the past 50 years,” Young said during a panel discussion at this week’s D: Dive Into Media conference in Southern California. “We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it…
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