Binside TV (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Spike Lee's war epic Miracle at St. Anna premiered at Warner Moderno Cinema on October 2 in Rome Italy. The director attended the premiere with his wife and kids. The...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Jazz aficionados, musicians and educators will gather at The University of the Arts (UArts) October 30-November 1 for "Brownie Speaks," a symposium and concert series celebrating and documenting the life, music and legacy of Clifford Brown, the influential jazz trumpeter who died in 1956 when he was just 25...
Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
It's time to take your next Exodus To Jazz, which is bringing in drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and his USO Project this Friday, October 3, 2008, at the Clarion Riverside Hotel. You may have been impressed by his drumming as...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Film composer and trumpet player Terence Blanchard has completed the score for Miracle at St. Anna, director Spike Lee's upcoming feature film based on author James McBride’s critically-acclaimed World War II novel of the same name. Featuring over 140 minutes of music and 42 separate cues, the score for Miracle at St. Anna was recorded at Sony Studios in Los Angeles with a 90-piece orchestra as well...
Ernie The Attorney (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Everyday I pick my daughter Charlotte up from NOCCA, a special school for kids who are interested in the arts. When I say 'interested' I really mean 'completely dedicated and obsessed' with arts. You may have heard of some of...
Binside TV (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Binside TV was on the red carpet for last night's premiere of Miracle at St. Anna. Spike Lee's friend and mentor director Martin Scorsese attended the screening. The movie opens...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
A-listers from Kerry Washington and John Leguizamo to director Martin Scorsese and rapper Swizz Beatz highlight the special screening for the Spike Lee's WWII drama.
The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
There are more than 500 artists playing this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival. Jazz artists tend to be much more approachable than other type of musicians (especially rock stars). What that means is that the festival-goer is bound to rub elbows with, and probably even chat up, some of the MJF. For instance, I ran into Miguel [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Lionel Loueke and Richard Bona September 26-27, 7:30pm and 9:30pm The Allen Room Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway at 60th Street Guitarist/vocalist Lionel Loueke from Benin and bassist/vocalist Richard Bona from Cameroon create an unforgettable evening of the folkloric music of their homelands and contemporary jazz vocabulary...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Tanglewood Jazz Festival Tanglewood Lennox, Massachusetts August 31, 2008 Hurricane Gustav was one day away from striking the Gulf Coast, with warnings that it might be worse than the devastating hurricane that struck New Orleans in 2005 as Terence Blanchard took his quintet to the stage at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend 2008 at the storied performance facility in Lenox, Massachusetts....
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Films to look out for: "Me and Orson Wells", "Rachel Getting Married"; "The Wrestler", "The Hurt Locker", "Slumdog Millionaire", and "Soul Power". Pierfrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi, Spike Lee, Laz Alonso, Michael Ealy, Omar Benson Miller, Derek Luke, Terence Blanchard, and James McBride made up Q & A panel for Press screening on 9/7/08. read more
undomondo (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Been quite some time since I last did a recap of what’s happening on our videotumblr. You can use the videos button on the menu to check it daily. We’ve got videos from Aaron Parks & Terence Blanchard, The Last Poets, a great quality Max Roach session, Philip Glass on Sesame Street, interview & docu [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Grammy-winning trumpet player/film composer Terence Blanchard will be joining Herbie Hancock’s three-month tour of Europe commencing at the Opera House in Vienna, Austria, on September 30th. The tour, which runs through the beginning of December, includes stops in Germany, Luxembourg, France...
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
This year's Toronto International Film Festival has turned into an veritable jam session, with many of the films and documentaries being screened owing most of their zest to music. There's The Secret Life of Bees, based on the Sue Monk...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Though Spike Lee grew up watching Second World War movies, he calls his contribution to the genre, the upcoming Miracle at St. Anna, "a rebuttal" to the same Hollywood mythology in many war films.
