James Hamilton is an iconic chronicler of New York City culture, a photographer who, throughout his career, has captured the likes of Charles Mingus, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Meryl Streep, Alfred Hitchcock, Liza Minnelli, and Wes Anderson. Now, he gets the documentary treatment in the film “Uncropped,” directed by D.W. Young and executive-produced by Wes Anderson himself. IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer below.
“Uncropped” also turns its focus on the heyday of alternative print journalism in New York. Hamilton was best known for his photographs of the art and music scene in NYC throughout the ’70s and ’80s while working as a staffer at Crawdaddy, The New York Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and the New York Observer. The film also tracks his career and life beginning in his early days at Pratt in Brooklyn, then an apprenticeship where he learned how to shoot,...
“Uncropped” also turns its focus on the heyday of alternative print journalism in New York. Hamilton was best known for his photographs of the art and music scene in NYC throughout the ’70s and ’80s while working as a staffer at Crawdaddy, The New York Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and the New York Observer. The film also tracks his career and life beginning in his early days at Pratt in Brooklyn, then an apprenticeship where he learned how to shoot,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Directed by D.W.Young, ’Uncropped’ rediscovers the work of a New York photographer billed as one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America
Vienna-based Autlook Filmsales has acquired world rights, excluding the US and Canada, for the feature-length documentary Uncropped, exec produced by Wes Anderson, in advance of the film receiving its world premiere as the Centerpiece presentation of the Doc NYC festival on November 11.
Directed by D.W. Young, whose credits includeThe Booksellers, the film rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of the US. Working as a...
Vienna-based Autlook Filmsales has acquired world rights, excluding the US and Canada, for the feature-length documentary Uncropped, exec produced by Wes Anderson, in advance of the film receiving its world premiere as the Centerpiece presentation of the Doc NYC festival on November 11.
Directed by D.W. Young, whose credits includeThe Booksellers, the film rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of the US. Working as a...
- 11/9/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
As diverse in style and content as they are, Álex de la Iglesia’s films do share a few notable characteristics: an adrenaline-rush narrative propulsion, a penchant for startling left-hand swerves in their storylines, and an almost gleeful willingness to offend more delicate sensibilities when it comes to depictions of sex, violence, and religion. This holds true from the start of his career. De la Iglesia’s feature debut, the scrappy sci-fi satire Acción Mutante, revels in the chaos of his anarchic sensibilities, even if its critique of religion is mostly limited to a hysterical takedown of the sanctity of marriage.
In a future society dominated by the cult of health and beauty, the disenfranchised have been forced underground, turning to acts of terrorism against the ableist establishment. The most notorious of these bands of brothers is the so-called Mutant Action group, whom we meet in the middle of the...
In a future society dominated by the cult of health and beauty, the disenfranchised have been forced underground, turning to acts of terrorism against the ableist establishment. The most notorious of these bands of brothers is the so-called Mutant Action group, whom we meet in the middle of the...
- 5/8/2023
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
New York, NY — March 2, 2023 — The 92nd Street Y, New York (92Ny), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Dörken Trio plays Schubert, Beethoven, and more, on March 28, 2023 at 7:30pm Et at the Kaufmann Concert Hall. The concert will also be available for viewing online for 72 hours from time of broadcast. Tickets for both the in-person and livestream options start at $25 and are available at 92ny.org/event/tetzlaff-tetzlaff-dorken-trio.
A brilliant trio of musicians – violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Kiveli Dörken – in a rare NYC engagement featuring one of Beethoven’s Opus 1 Trios, a Dvořák masterwork, and Schubert’s B-flat Major Trio.
Program:
Beethoven, Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Dvořák, Piano Trio No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 26
Schubert, Piano Trio in B-flat Major, D. 898
About the Artist
Comprised of violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt, the Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt...
A brilliant trio of musicians – violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Kiveli Dörken – in a rare NYC engagement featuring one of Beethoven’s Opus 1 Trios, a Dvořák masterwork, and Schubert’s B-flat Major Trio.
Program:
Beethoven, Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Dvořák, Piano Trio No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 26
Schubert, Piano Trio in B-flat Major, D. 898
About the Artist
Comprised of violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt, the Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt...
- 3/2/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Jeff Beck, one of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century, died Wednesday at the age of 78. The cause was bacterial meningitis. Beck had been in good health recently, touring with Johnny Depp following the recording of their (mostly) covers album, “18.”
While Beck himself never achieved the household name status of his peers like Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page, those in the know would cite him as just as foundational. He also spanned genres, from British Invasion pop to hard rock to jazz fusion to whatever kind of jammy six-string concrète was laid down on the 1989 “Guitar Shop” album or 1999’s “Who Else?!”
In 1965, at the age of 21, Beck joined The Yardbirds, a blues-y pop-rock outfit, replacing the exiting Eric Clapton. There could be no bigger shoes to fill at the time, as British fans of the period idolized Clapton to the point of public nuisance—the phrase “Clapton...
While Beck himself never achieved the household name status of his peers like Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page, those in the know would cite him as just as foundational. He also spanned genres, from British Invasion pop to hard rock to jazz fusion to whatever kind of jammy six-string concrète was laid down on the 1989 “Guitar Shop” album or 1999’s “Who Else?!”
In 1965, at the age of 21, Beck joined The Yardbirds, a blues-y pop-rock outfit, replacing the exiting Eric Clapton. There could be no bigger shoes to fill at the time, as British fans of the period idolized Clapton to the point of public nuisance—the phrase “Clapton...
- 1/12/2023
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
Grammy-winning singer Roberta Flack, whose work in classics like “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly with His Song” has been described as “rapturous, spellbinding mood music,” announced today through a representative that she has Als and no longer can sing.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive disease that famous figures such as Stephen Hawking, Lou Gehrig and Charles Mingus have battled. Als “has made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak,” her publicists said in a statement obtained by multiple outlets today. “But it will take a lot more than Als to silence this icon.”
The statement continued: “Miss Flack plans to stay active in her musical and creative pursuits.” In fact, she has a children’s book do out next year.
Flack, 85, was the first artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year in two consecutive years. She won...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive disease that famous figures such as Stephen Hawking, Lou Gehrig and Charles Mingus have battled. Als “has made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak,” her publicists said in a statement obtained by multiple outlets today. “But it will take a lot more than Als to silence this icon.”
The statement continued: “Miss Flack plans to stay active in her musical and creative pursuits.” In fact, she has a children’s book do out next year.
Flack, 85, was the first artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year in two consecutive years. She won...
- 11/14/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features bassist Doug Wimbish.
As the in-house bassist for Sugar Hill Records, Doug Wimbish played on songs that make up the foundation of hip-hop as we know it today,...
As the in-house bassist for Sugar Hill Records, Doug Wimbish played on songs that make up the foundation of hip-hop as we know it today,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, and Angelique Kidjo’s Remain in Light are among the artists set to perform the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, which takes place at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island July 29 through July 31.
The lineup also includes the Fearless Flyers, Terence Blanchard, Pj Morton, the Ron Carter Quartet, BadBadNotGood, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lettuce, and Cory Wong, among many others.
Christian McBride, who serves as the Newport Jazz Artistic Director, will also play his annual Jawn Jam featuring Makaya McCraven, Chris Potter, Vijay Iyer, and Brandee Younger & Mike Stern.
The lineup also includes the Fearless Flyers, Terence Blanchard, Pj Morton, the Ron Carter Quartet, BadBadNotGood, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lettuce, and Cory Wong, among many others.
Christian McBride, who serves as the Newport Jazz Artistic Director, will also play his annual Jawn Jam featuring Makaya McCraven, Chris Potter, Vijay Iyer, and Brandee Younger & Mike Stern.
- 3/24/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
“Can we go deep into the obscure, or do we need to stay mainstream?”
When Matt Groening asks that question, the invitation is tantalizing to consider. In this case, Groening is talking about jazz, and specifically about his new partnership with Quincy Jones’ music-video hub, Qwest TV. His mission for Qwest was a curated video playlist revealing the jazz influences crucial to Groening — personally, professionally and to “The Simpsons,” most famously in sax-playing characters such as Bleeding Gums Murphy and Homer’s precocious daughter, Lisa Simpson.
Jones’ streaming channel offers a wealth of rarely seen concerts, documentaries, interviews and music-related archival films. Groening’s playlist ranges from “mainstream” names such as Ray Charles, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus to the “avant-garde” likes of saxophonists Moondog and Archie Shepp and pianist Carla Bley.
“When I was invited to do this, the first thing I did was make half of my list...
When Matt Groening asks that question, the invitation is tantalizing to consider. In this case, Groening is talking about jazz, and specifically about his new partnership with Quincy Jones’ music-video hub, Qwest TV. His mission for Qwest was a curated video playlist revealing the jazz influences crucial to Groening — personally, professionally and to “The Simpsons,” most famously in sax-playing characters such as Bleeding Gums Murphy and Homer’s precocious daughter, Lisa Simpson.
Jones’ streaming channel offers a wealth of rarely seen concerts, documentaries, interviews and music-related archival films. Groening’s playlist ranges from “mainstream” names such as Ray Charles, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus to the “avant-garde” likes of saxophonists Moondog and Archie Shepp and pianist Carla Bley.
“When I was invited to do this, the first thing I did was make half of my list...
- 10/26/2021
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
Social commentator Fran Lebowitz, known for being an endless source of witty and pointed observations about American life, has accrued a lot of fans over the decades. None bigger than filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
“I admire her clarity and unequivocal stances,” Scorsese says of his friend in a statement provided to Deadline. “We need people to tell us: this is crazy, this is absurd, this is ironic, this is funny, this is tragic. Her voice cuts through the din of contemporary discourse. I want to know what she thinks about pretty much everything.”
Scorsese doesn’t just take a casual interest in Lebowitz’s opinions. He has devoted his energies to directing two documentaries about her, the 2010 film Public Speaking and the 2021 Netflix docuseries Pretend It’s a City, Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The seven-part series oscillates between Lebowitz and Scorsese in conversation, to public talks Lebowitz made before the Covid pandemic hit,...
“I admire her clarity and unequivocal stances,” Scorsese says of his friend in a statement provided to Deadline. “We need people to tell us: this is crazy, this is absurd, this is ironic, this is funny, this is tragic. Her voice cuts through the din of contemporary discourse. I want to know what she thinks about pretty much everything.”
Scorsese doesn’t just take a casual interest in Lebowitz’s opinions. He has devoted his energies to directing two documentaries about her, the 2010 film Public Speaking and the 2021 Netflix docuseries Pretend It’s a City, Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The seven-part series oscillates between Lebowitz and Scorsese in conversation, to public talks Lebowitz made before the Covid pandemic hit,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
At the start of “The Inheritance” — an experimental film about the formation of a Black collective, set in the early ’90s — Julian (Eric Lockley) rummages through a wooden crate of books he found in the West Philadelphia row house his grandmother left him. In it is a trove of poetic and political thought circa the late ’60s and beyond: There’s Malcolm X and Alice Walker, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, as well as Charles Mingus and a stack of Ebony magazines.
In the next scene, Julian’s friend, maybe girlfriend, Gwen (Nozipho Mclean) helps him tug and shove the crate across the floor of the near empty abode. He asks her to move in. She reminds him that the last time they saw each other was at least a month ago. They’d gone to see Andrei Tarkovsky’s “The Sacrifice”;” he cried and grew quiet. No wonder they...
In the next scene, Julian’s friend, maybe girlfriend, Gwen (Nozipho Mclean) helps him tug and shove the crate across the floor of the near empty abode. He asks her to move in. She reminds him that the last time they saw each other was at least a month ago. They’d gone to see Andrei Tarkovsky’s “The Sacrifice”;” he cried and grew quiet. No wonder they...
- 3/11/2021
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
It takes a genius to know one. So, it only makes sense that the creators behind Nat Geo’s Genius series would tap Suzan-Lori Parks to showrun, executive-produce and write Season 3, Genius: Aretha.
One of the most heralded playwrights of our time, Parks was the first African American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in Drama, which she earned for her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog. Parks is also a Tony Award winner and a MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient. But it’s the time she spent as a student of author, activist and playwright James Baldwin at Hampshire College that she holds most dear.
One of the most heralded playwrights of our time, Parks was the first African American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in Drama, which she earned for her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog. Parks is also a Tony Award winner and a MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient. But it’s the time she spent as a student of author, activist and playwright James Baldwin at Hampshire College that she holds most dear.
- 2/19/2021
- by Mekeisha Madden Toby
- TVLine.com
The writer and raconteur embodied the hip, downtown Manhattan of the 70s. Now she is winning new fans in her friend Martin Scorsese’s documentary series Pretend It’s a City
Almost from the moment she set foot in New York more than 50 years ago, Fran Lebowitz has been part of the city’s social firmament. Like it, she has moved inexorably upmarket since she first made her name as a humorist in the 70s with a column in Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Back then, she hung out with the likes of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the New York Dolls as well as jazz legends such as Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington. These days, she rubs shoulders with fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, while the late Nobel laureate Toni Morrison was a close friend and confidante.
One person who has remained a constant in her life,...
Almost from the moment she set foot in New York more than 50 years ago, Fran Lebowitz has been part of the city’s social firmament. Like it, she has moved inexorably upmarket since she first made her name as a humorist in the 70s with a column in Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Back then, she hung out with the likes of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the New York Dolls as well as jazz legends such as Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington. These days, she rubs shoulders with fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, while the late Nobel laureate Toni Morrison was a close friend and confidante.
One person who has remained a constant in her life,...
- 2/7/2021
- by Sean O’Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
One of Fran Lebowitz’s finest stories in Netflix’s Pretend It’s a City — like Cole Porter songs, Agatha Christie mysteries and Barry Bonds home runs, it’s a long list — involves a breakfast she shared with jazz legends Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington. Interestingly, this is only the second-best Charles Mingus story featured in the show, but the point of the tale is that Lebowitz was struck at that breakfast by how deferential Mingus, a man of impeccable confidence and stature, was in Ellington’s presence.
Lebowitz recounts this breakfast across two conversations, one a stage Q&...
Lebowitz recounts this breakfast across two conversations, one a stage Q&...
One of Fran Lebowitz’s finest stories in Netflix’s Pretend It’s a City — like Cole Porter songs, Agatha Christie mysteries and Barry Bonds home runs, it’s a long list — involves a breakfast she shared with jazz legends Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington. Interestingly, this is only the second-best Charles Mingus story featured in the show, but the point of the tale is that Lebowitz was struck at that breakfast by how deferential Mingus, a man of impeccable confidence and stature, was in Ellington’s presence.
Lebowitz recounts this breakfast across two conversations, one a stage Q&...
Lebowitz recounts this breakfast across two conversations, one a stage Q&...
Billie
Unreleased interviews with the jazz icon, newly restored color pictures and videos, pus conversations with other musical greats like Tony Bennett, Charles Mingus, Sylvia Syms, and Count Basie – the new documentary examines the life and cultural legacy of Billie Holiday as it’s never been before. The film was made possible by over 200 hours of footage that Linda Lipnack Kuehl captures during the Sixties for a biography of Holiday that was never completed. (November 13th)
Dune
Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction epic novel is getting another big-screen adaptation. This time,...
Unreleased interviews with the jazz icon, newly restored color pictures and videos, pus conversations with other musical greats like Tony Bennett, Charles Mingus, Sylvia Syms, and Count Basie – the new documentary examines the life and cultural legacy of Billie Holiday as it’s never been before. The film was made possible by over 200 hours of footage that Linda Lipnack Kuehl captures during the Sixties for a biography of Holiday that was never completed. (November 13th)
Dune
Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction epic novel is getting another big-screen adaptation. This time,...
- 9/12/2020
- by Natalli Amato
- Rollingstone.com
A new documentary, Billie, will delve into the life of jazz great Billie Holiday with the help of hours of never-before-heard interviews.
The project is centered around 200 hours of previously unreleased interviews that Linda Lipnack Kuehl conducted during the Sixties for a biography of Holiday that was never finished. The tapes feature conversations about Holiday with fellow legends like Tony Bennett, Charles Mingus, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie, as well as others in Holiday’s life — from high school friends, lawyers and pimps to the federal agents who targeted and...
The project is centered around 200 hours of previously unreleased interviews that Linda Lipnack Kuehl conducted during the Sixties for a biography of Holiday that was never finished. The tapes feature conversations about Holiday with fellow legends like Tony Bennett, Charles Mingus, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie, as well as others in Holiday’s life — from high school friends, lawyers and pimps to the federal agents who targeted and...
- 9/8/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Kesha had just finished previewing her new album, Rainbow, for industry types at a Los Angeles recording studio three years ago when she encountered a stout, bearded guy with a “friendly, happy” vibe in the hallway. “You must be an artist,” he said, referring to her bright-red Nudie suit festooned with images of sea creatures.
She didn’t know who he was — and, it turned out, he didn’t recognize her either — but she soon learned he was a producer named Hal Willner, and he immediately recognized her name when she introduced herself.
She didn’t know who he was — and, it turned out, he didn’t recognize her either — but she soon learned he was a producer named Hal Willner, and he immediately recognized her name when she introduced herself.
- 9/2/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Barack Obama selected Bob Dylan, Billie Eilish, Frank Ocean, Beyoncé, John Legend, Common, the Chicks, J. Cole, Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Haim and Outkast for his 2020 Summer Playlist.
The former president’s eclectic collection also includes John Coltrane, D’Angelo, Childish Gambino, Megan Thee Stallion, Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, Otis Redding, War, Nas, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Nina Simone, Sheryl Crow, Billie Holiday, Bonnie Raitt, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Anderson .Paak, Khalid, H.E.R., Tank and the Bangas, Moses Sumney, Teyana Taylor, Jennifer Hudson, Maggie Rogers, Billy Porter, Mac Miller,...
The former president’s eclectic collection also includes John Coltrane, D’Angelo, Childish Gambino, Megan Thee Stallion, Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, Otis Redding, War, Nas, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Nina Simone, Sheryl Crow, Billie Holiday, Bonnie Raitt, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Anderson .Paak, Khalid, H.E.R., Tank and the Bangas, Moses Sumney, Teyana Taylor, Jennifer Hudson, Maggie Rogers, Billy Porter, Mac Miller,...
- 8/18/2020
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Sometimes, knowing every word and beat of the most iconic albums just isn’t enough. For audiophiles, there’s no shortage of required reading when it comes to the legends who created the anthems, three-chord progressions, and scratches that define today’s music landscape.
Indeed, some of the best coffee table books about music showcase the industry’s most seminal figures through the lens of the photographers, musicologists, and other insiders. The result: intimate behind-the-scenes portraits and rare stories that shed light on the larger-than-life personalities who shaped our culture...
Indeed, some of the best coffee table books about music showcase the industry’s most seminal figures through the lens of the photographers, musicologists, and other insiders. The result: intimate behind-the-scenes portraits and rare stories that shed light on the larger-than-life personalities who shaped our culture...
- 7/20/2020
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Cave shared a tender interpretation of T. Rex’s “Cosmic Dancer,” the first offering from the upcoming tribute compilation, Angelheaded Hipster, which was produced by the late Hal Willner. The record will arrive September 4th via BMG.
For his cover, Cave transformed “Cosmic Dancer” into a poignant piano ballad buoyed by a rich orchestral arrangement. The track arrived with a video of Cave and others recording the song in the studio, paired with a montage of archival footage of T. Rex.
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T.
For his cover, Cave transformed “Cosmic Dancer” into a poignant piano ballad buoyed by a rich orchestral arrangement. The track arrived with a video of Cave and others recording the song in the studio, paired with a montage of archival footage of T. Rex.
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T.
- 4/29/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
“AngelHeaded Hipster,” a long-percolating tribute album to Marc Bolan and T. Rex — featuring U2, Elton John, Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Lucinda Williams and Father John Misty, and which is a companion to a forthcoming documentary film on the legendary rocker — is due on Sept. 4. The first track from the album, Cave’s take on Bolan’s 1971 song “Cosmic Dancer,” can be heard here.
The 26-track album, helmed by veteran producer Hal Willner — who passed away April 7 due to complications from coronavirus — features a tag team between U2 and Elton John on T. Rex’s biggest hit, “Bang a Gong (Get It On),” as well as contributions from Cave, Jett, Williams, Misty, Todd Rundgen, Perry Farrell, Soft Cell singer Marc Almond, Kesha and many others. The full track list appears below.
Both the album and documentary are from BMG, in collaboration with Who/Robert Plant manager Bill Curbishley’s Trinifold company.
The 26-track album, helmed by veteran producer Hal Willner — who passed away April 7 due to complications from coronavirus — features a tag team between U2 and Elton John on T. Rex’s biggest hit, “Bang a Gong (Get It On),” as well as contributions from Cave, Jett, Williams, Misty, Todd Rundgen, Perry Farrell, Soft Cell singer Marc Almond, Kesha and many others. The full track list appears below.
Both the album and documentary are from BMG, in collaboration with Who/Robert Plant manager Bill Curbishley’s Trinifold company.
- 4/29/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
In the closing moments of the first-ever “Saturday Night Live From Home,” the show paid tribute to its longtime sketch-music maestro Hal Willner, who died on April 7 with symptoms consistent with coronavirus. Willner was renowned as a multi-talented producer of albums by Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams as well as elaborate multi-artist tribute compilations to Charles Mingus, Kurt Weil and others — but unquestionably his most widely-heard work was the music he helmed for the skits on “SNL” for nearly 40 years, beginning in 1981.
The segment features multiple castmembers from across the years — ranging from Adam Sandler and Tina Fey to Kate McKinnon and Fred Armisen — paying tribute to Willner.
McKinnon, tearing up, calls him “One of the coolest and most passionate and good-natured people”; Armisen says “He used to come up to my dressing room and share music with me.”
Willner’s musical versatility made him an ideal contributor to the show,...
The segment features multiple castmembers from across the years — ranging from Adam Sandler and Tina Fey to Kate McKinnon and Fred Armisen — paying tribute to Willner.
McKinnon, tearing up, calls him “One of the coolest and most passionate and good-natured people”; Armisen says “He used to come up to my dressing room and share music with me.”
Willner’s musical versatility made him an ideal contributor to the show,...
- 4/12/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Elvis Costello has penned a heartfelt tribute to his “dear friend,” the late producer Hal Willner, whom he worked with on a number of projects that spanned from recorded work to film and live events.
Willner died on Monday at the age of 64. The cause of death has not yet been publicly confirmed, but he was reportedly suffering from symptoms consistent with the coronavirus.
In Costello’s homage, which he posted on Facebook, he recalled a recent meetup where they listened to the T. Rex tribute album Willner helmed as...
Willner died on Monday at the age of 64. The cause of death has not yet been publicly confirmed, but he was reportedly suffering from symptoms consistent with the coronavirus.
In Costello’s homage, which he posted on Facebook, he recalled a recent meetup where they listened to the T. Rex tribute album Willner helmed as...
- 4/9/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Hal Willner, a longtime sketch music producer for Saturday Night Live and a music producer and compiler of tribute albums and concerts, died Monday of complications related to Covid-19, according to multiple reports. He was 64.
Willner, who joined SNL in 1981, also produced albums for such artists as Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Marianne Faithfull and Lucinda Williams. He was a score producer for films including Finding Forrester (2000) and Gangs of New York (2002) and served as a music consultant or supervisor on Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Bewitched (2005) and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), among many other credits.
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“As unique a person I ever had the fortune to cross paths with,” tweeted Seth Meyers,...
Willner, who joined SNL in 1981, also produced albums for such artists as Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Marianne Faithfull and Lucinda Williams. He was a score producer for films including Finding Forrester (2000) and Gangs of New York (2002) and served as a music consultant or supervisor on Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Bewitched (2005) and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), among many other credits.
More from DeadlineNotable Hollywood & Entertainment Industry Deaths In 2020: Photo GalleryAllen Garfield Dies: Veteran Film Actor Had Covid-19 Complications, Was 80'snl's Michael Che Says He Lost His Grandmother To Coronavirus: "I'm Obviously Hurt And Angry"
“As unique a person I ever had the fortune to cross paths with,” tweeted Seth Meyers,...
- 4/7/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Hal Willner — the respected producer who worked with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull, was a long-time Saturday Night Live staffer and compiled a series of eccentric all-star tribute albums — died Monday at the age of 64. A rep for Willner confirmed the producer’s death to Rolling Stone. While a cause of death has yet to be announced, a source close to Willner tells Rolling Stone he was suffering from symptoms consistent with the coronavirus.
“Absolutely devastated to get this news about my weird and lovely pal, Hal,” tweeted Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
“Absolutely devastated to get this news about my weird and lovely pal, Hal,” tweeted Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
- 4/7/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
When we talk about rock, we talk about bands: Zeppelin, the Who, the Stones. But when we talk about jazz, we tend to talk about individuals: Miles, Monk, Coltrane. On some level, that makes sense: If the song is the primary mode of rock expression, the solo is generally the way you make your mark in jazz. Whether you’re considering Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Hubbard, or the colossal, now-retired Sonny Rollins, it was when they stepped out front and said their piece that they truly embodied their legendary status.
- 3/7/2020
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Billie, James Erskine’s documentary about the life of iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday that world premiered over Labor Day weekend at the Telluride Film Festival. A 2020 release date is in the works from the distributor, which in 2019 released Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, which was one of the year’s top-grossing documentaries.
Billie features newly unearthed interviews from those who knew Holiday best — Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie among them — and features performances restored into color for the first time. It helps paint the picture of a singer with breathtaking talent and global popularity, and whose song “Strange Fruit” exposed the realities of black life in America and earned her powerful enemies over her short, turbulent life. She died almost penniless in 1959 at age 44.
The documentary weaves her story through one of her most enamored fans,...
Billie features newly unearthed interviews from those who knew Holiday best — Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie among them — and features performances restored into color for the first time. It helps paint the picture of a singer with breathtaking talent and global popularity, and whose song “Strange Fruit” exposed the realities of black life in America and earned her powerful enemies over her short, turbulent life. She died almost penniless in 1959 at age 44.
The documentary weaves her story through one of her most enamored fans,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The ultimate goal of Birding With Charles was always to bring people together to marvel at the wonderful world of birds. In the spring, a very stoned Valee stood in awe of the majestic creatures as he learned how to use binoculars. As the summer ended, Doja Cat remixed her viral hit “Moo!” into “Bitch, I’m a Bird.” Then on a brisk November morning, Jeff Goldblum decided to come to Central Park to partake in the serene world of birdwatching. Throughout the day, Jeff saw cardinals, blue jays, and...
- 12/20/2019
- by Charles Holmes
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Nov 29, 2019
Hey, you missed a spot. Martin Scorsese's The Irishman paints over some interrelated mob hits.
This article contains small The Irishman spoilers.
You have to have some knowledge of mob history to appreciate segments of The Irishman. Director Martin Scorsese is telling a very long history, based on an exhaustive book, I Heard You Paint Houses by author Charles Brandt. The biography details Frank Sheeran, played by Robert De Niro in the film, confessing to killing about 30 people. So Scorsese can be pardoned for skimming past key points, especially where Sheeran isn’t even part of a contract.
For example, Scorsese shows us a shooting in Columbus Circle. The film notes how significant the event is, but doesn’t present a full background, making it look like Joseph Colombo was killed by the African American shooter. He wasn’t. This is a necessary cut; the movie...
Hey, you missed a spot. Martin Scorsese's The Irishman paints over some interrelated mob hits.
This article contains small The Irishman spoilers.
You have to have some knowledge of mob history to appreciate segments of The Irishman. Director Martin Scorsese is telling a very long history, based on an exhaustive book, I Heard You Paint Houses by author Charles Brandt. The biography details Frank Sheeran, played by Robert De Niro in the film, confessing to killing about 30 people. So Scorsese can be pardoned for skimming past key points, especially where Sheeran isn’t even part of a contract.
For example, Scorsese shows us a shooting in Columbus Circle. The film notes how significant the event is, but doesn’t present a full background, making it look like Joseph Colombo was killed by the African American shooter. He wasn’t. This is a necessary cut; the movie...
- 11/14/2019
- Den of Geek
The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde mingles jazz grooves and psychedelic experimentation on her new cover of the Kinks’ 1967 song “No Return.”
The track opens with a wash of static, building to a Bossa nova drum pattern and atmospheric piano. “If I could see/ Just how lonely my life would be/ If you passed me by and said farewell/ And there is no return,” Hynde gently croons. “Stars would shine no more/ I would walk up and down this lonely room/ I would have friends, but be alone/ For there is no return.
The track opens with a wash of static, building to a Bossa nova drum pattern and atmospheric piano. “If I could see/ Just how lonely my life would be/ If you passed me by and said farewell/ And there is no return,” Hynde gently croons. “Stars would shine no more/ I would walk up and down this lonely room/ I would have friends, but be alone/ For there is no return.
- 8/28/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Lil Nas X, Lizzo, the Black Keys and the Rolling Stones are among the artists whose songs landed on Barack Obama’s latest annual summer playlist.
“With summer winding down, here’s a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to — some new, some old, some fast, some slow,” Obama wrote of the 44-song playlist. “Hope you enjoy.”
Like Obama’s previous playlists, the songs range from emerging artists (Maggie Rogers’ “Burning,” Daniel Caesar and H.E.R.’s “Best Part,” Elle Mai’s “Boo’d Up, Rosalia & J. Balvin...
“With summer winding down, here’s a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to — some new, some old, some fast, some slow,” Obama wrote of the 44-song playlist. “Hope you enjoy.”
Like Obama’s previous playlists, the songs range from emerging artists (Maggie Rogers’ “Burning,” Daniel Caesar and H.E.R.’s “Best Part,” Elle Mai’s “Boo’d Up, Rosalia & J. Balvin...
- 8/24/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Chrissie Hynde slides into a smooth French croon with her version of “Que Reste-t-il De nos Amours?”, the 1942 Chanson song by Charles Trenet. Throughout the breezy track, Hynde sweetly sings over jazzy piano, billowing strings, brushed drums and upright bass.
“Que Reste-t-il De nos Amours?” appears on the Pretenders singer’s upcoming covers LP, Valve Bone Woe, which also features jazz-inspired takes on songs from the Beach Boys (“Caroline No”), Frank Sinatra, John Coltrane, Nick Drake, Charles Mingus (“Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters”) and Ray Davies, among others.
“Que Reste-t-il De nos Amours?” appears on the Pretenders singer’s upcoming covers LP, Valve Bone Woe, which also features jazz-inspired takes on songs from the Beach Boys (“Caroline No”), Frank Sinatra, John Coltrane, Nick Drake, Charles Mingus (“Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters”) and Ray Davies, among others.
- 7/3/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde unveiled a striking interpretation of Charles Mingus’ “Meditation on a Pair Of Wire Cutters,” set to appear on her upcoming album, Valve Bone Woe, out September 6th via via BMG.
The song finds Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble condensing Mingus’ 23-minute original into a hypnotic three-minute tune moored by an assortment of drums and other percussion, as well as the guiding thunk of Mingus’ own instrument, the upright bass. Atop the rumble, Hynde’s choral vocals waft amidst a mix of woodwinds, horns and reverb-soaked guitar.
The song finds Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble condensing Mingus’ 23-minute original into a hypnotic three-minute tune moored by an assortment of drums and other percussion, as well as the guiding thunk of Mingus’ own instrument, the upright bass. Atop the rumble, Hynde’s choral vocals waft amidst a mix of woodwinds, horns and reverb-soaked guitar.
- 6/3/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Unless you’re a hardcore jazz aficionado, you might not know the name Horace Tapscott. But to several generations of L.A. musicians — including breakout saxophone star Kamasi Washington — the late pianist and composer is a near-legendary figure.
“I grew up in Leimert Park and his footprint is all over that area,” Washington said in 2015 of Tapscott’s importance to his South L.A. neighborhood. “We all learned his music and his philosophies from the elders who played with him that are still with us. Horace is one of the...
“I grew up in Leimert Park and his footprint is all over that area,” Washington said in 2015 of Tapscott’s importance to his South L.A. neighborhood. “We all learned his music and his philosophies from the elders who played with him that are still with us. Horace is one of the...
- 5/31/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Indie music outfit Concord, via its film and TV department, is partnering on James Erskine’s upcoming documentary, Billie. The film chronicles legendary singer Billie Holiday’s life story. Concord is the successor to the Billie Holiday estate which is providing access to her music and recordings. The doc, originally mooted at the Efm in 2018, will be produced by New Black Films’ Victoria Gregory and Barry Clark-Ewers and Rep Documentary’s Laure Vaysse. Concord’s Scott Pascucci and Sophia Dilley are exec producers with Altitude’s Will Clarke, Andy Mayson and Mike Runagall.
The doc is currently in post-production. Also joining is Brazilian colorization artist Marina Amaral who is working on the filmed and still images. While most of the archive images that exist of Holiday are in black and white, Amaral will use new techniques she has pioneered to update them.
Holiday was one of the greatest voices in music,...
The doc is currently in post-production. Also joining is Brazilian colorization artist Marina Amaral who is working on the filmed and still images. While most of the archive images that exist of Holiday are in black and white, Amaral will use new techniques she has pioneered to update them.
Holiday was one of the greatest voices in music,...
- 2/21/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
A documentary about legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, filled with never-before-heard interviews with her contemporaries, is in the works.
Billie, a film to be directed by James Erskine, has received backing from Concord, the successor to the Billie Holiday estate. The New Black Films and Rep Documentary production is also being made in association with Belga Films, the BBC and Multiprises.
The biopic will follow Holiday's life through the eyes of Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who as a fan and literary journalist in 1970 began a biography of Holiday.
Kuehl eventually tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with Charles Mingus, Sarah ...
Billie, a film to be directed by James Erskine, has received backing from Concord, the successor to the Billie Holiday estate. The New Black Films and Rep Documentary production is also being made in association with Belga Films, the BBC and Multiprises.
The biopic will follow Holiday's life through the eyes of Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who as a fan and literary journalist in 1970 began a biography of Holiday.
Kuehl eventually tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with Charles Mingus, Sarah ...
- 2/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A documentary about legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, filled with never-before-heard interviews with her contemporaries, is in the works.
Billie, a film to be directed by James Erskine, has received backing from Concord, the successor to the Billie Holiday estate. The New Black Films and Rep Documentary production is also being made in association with Belga Films, the BBC and Multiprises.
The biopic will follow Holiday's life through the eyes of Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who as a fan and literary journalist in 1970 began a biography of Holiday.
Kuehl eventually tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with Charles Mingus, Sarah ...
Billie, a film to be directed by James Erskine, has received backing from Concord, the successor to the Billie Holiday estate. The New Black Films and Rep Documentary production is also being made in association with Belga Films, the BBC and Multiprises.
The biopic will follow Holiday's life through the eyes of Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who as a fan and literary journalist in 1970 began a biography of Holiday.
Kuehl eventually tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with Charles Mingus, Sarah ...
- 2/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
To say that Eric Dolphy died in his prime would be a massive understatement. While on tour in Berlin in June 1964, the multi-instrumental virtuoso — whose solos on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute zoomed and zig-zagged like rogue comets — suffered sudden diabetes-related complications and passed away at age 36. In the prior year alone, he had performed with old friends John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, appeared on pianist Andrew Hill’s now-classic Point of Departure LP and recorded Out to Lunch!, his own magnum opus as a bandleader.
Dolphy’s final...
Dolphy’s final...
- 1/25/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
We’re sitting in the middle of the street, a truck is heading toward us, and we can’t move. Not on principle — we’re not staging a sit-in. It’s because we’re mic’ed up and shooting a TV show at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. King Street is closed, but festival-approved vehicles still have the right of way. Luckily, the driver sees us and as soon as it passes, without skipping a beat, our host launches into “Hello, and welcome to BBC Culture at the Toronto International Film Festival. I’m Tom Brook.”
With decades of experience under his belt, Brook is unflappable. No wonder his show, “Talking Movies,” is now celebrating its 20th anniversary. If you’re a movie lover and have never heard of “Talking Movies” there’s a gaping hole in your cinephilia: this half-hour show airs monthly in the Us and around the world...
With decades of experience under his belt, Brook is unflappable. No wonder his show, “Talking Movies,” is now celebrating its 20th anniversary. If you’re a movie lover and have never heard of “Talking Movies” there’s a gaping hole in your cinephilia: this half-hour show airs monthly in the Us and around the world...
- 1/16/2019
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Jeff Goldblum has a daily routine that includes working out in his home gym and spending an inordinate amount of time at the piano. “I play every day,” he tells Rolling Stone. “It’s part of my life. I know what gratification comes from a routine and making something a habit and I play first thing in the morning.”
Goldblum’s love of jazz goes back decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s, acting on the advice of fellow jazz aficionado Woody Allen, Goldblum and actor Peter Weller began playing standards...
Goldblum’s love of jazz goes back decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s, acting on the advice of fellow jazz aficionado Woody Allen, Goldblum and actor Peter Weller began playing standards...
- 12/18/2018
- by Jason Newman
- Rollingstone.com
Jazz musician, television actor and developmental research psychologist Roger V. Burton died Nov. 30 at his home in Santa Monica. He was 90 years old.
Burton began as a professional jazz trombonist at the age of 11, playing in big bands and on studio film soundtracks. Earning himself the nickname “Schoolboy” for doing homework between set breaks, he started college at University of Southern California at the age of 16 and graduated with a BA and Bm in music, as well as an Ma in Sciences.
His musical history includes playing with Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Andre Previn, Johnny Ray, Frankie Laine, the Lennie Niehaus Octet, The Ink Spots, the Chuck Cabot Band, and the Dick Pierce Band. He was a regular on Ernst Gold studio recordings for films as well as The Hoagy Carmichael Show on NBC.
After taking lessons from friend and jazz legend Charles Mingus, Burton switched to the bass...
Burton began as a professional jazz trombonist at the age of 11, playing in big bands and on studio film soundtracks. Earning himself the nickname “Schoolboy” for doing homework between set breaks, he started college at University of Southern California at the age of 16 and graduated with a BA and Bm in music, as well as an Ma in Sciences.
His musical history includes playing with Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Andre Previn, Johnny Ray, Frankie Laine, the Lennie Niehaus Octet, The Ink Spots, the Chuck Cabot Band, and the Dick Pierce Band. He was a regular on Ernst Gold studio recordings for films as well as The Hoagy Carmichael Show on NBC.
After taking lessons from friend and jazz legend Charles Mingus, Burton switched to the bass...
- 12/5/2018
- by Margeaux Sippell
- Variety Film + TV
“Some people get intimidated by jazz,” Joni Mitchell told Rolling Stone‘s Cameron Crowe in the summer of 1979. “It’s like higher mathematics to them.”
Still, the singer-songwriter wasn’t letting that awareness deter her from continuing to explore the style. Fresh off a series of increasingly challenging albums, the latest of which was a collaboration with legendary bassist Charles Mingus, she was getting ready to go out on the road with a band made up entirely of A-list jazz musicians: saxophonist Michael Brecker, guitarist Pat Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays,...
Still, the singer-songwriter wasn’t letting that awareness deter her from continuing to explore the style. Fresh off a series of increasingly challenging albums, the latest of which was a collaboration with legendary bassist Charles Mingus, she was getting ready to go out on the road with a band made up entirely of A-list jazz musicians: saxophonist Michael Brecker, guitarist Pat Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays,...
- 11/7/2018
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
If you’re going by the bare facts alone, Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden is strictly for Charles Mingus completists. Unlike, say, John Coltrane’s recently unearthed Lost Album, Jazz in Detroit doesn’t date from a pivotal period in the leader’s career, feature an iconic lineup or introduce a wealth of unfamiliar repertoire.
But what looks marginal on paper turns out to be sheer joy coming out of the speakers, thanks in large part to Mingus’ lesser-known yet enormously gifted sidemen: tenor saxophonist John Stubblefield, trumpeter Joe Gardner,...
But what looks marginal on paper turns out to be sheer joy coming out of the speakers, thanks in large part to Mingus’ lesser-known yet enormously gifted sidemen: tenor saxophonist John Stubblefield, trumpeter Joe Gardner,...
- 11/2/2018
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Around the end of Twin Peaks’ first run, filmmaker David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti came up with an off-the-wall musical experiment. They rounded up a group of notable jazz musicians to play with Badalamenti, and Lynch gave them vivid, bizarre scenes and asked them to replicate them musically. The result was a project Lynch dubbed Thought Gang — a jumble of free jazz, experimental atmospherics and outlandish spoken word. Although a couple of the tracks appeared on the soundtrack to the 1992 Twin Peaks prequel, Fire Walk With Me, they shelved the project for decades.
- 10/31/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix unveiled a brand image spot during Sunday’s Bet Awards telecast that highlights black artists who work for the streaming giant.
The spot dubbed “A Great Day in Hollywood” was inspired by the famed 1958 photograph “A Great Day in Harlem” featuring 57 jazz legends — including Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Count Basie — on the stairs of New York brownstone snapped by photographer Art Kane.
The Netflix spot from director Lacey Duke features 47 black writers, showrunners, actors, and producers. The plan for the spot and the image campaign stemmed from Netflix’s Strong Black Lead initiative designed to foster an “ongoing, intentional focus to talk authentically with the black audience.” A photo similar to “Great Day in Harlem” was taken earlier this month by photographer Kwaku Alston to commemorate the gathering.
The debut comes just two days after Netflix was rocked by the abrupt departure of corporate communications chief Jonathan Friedland...
The spot dubbed “A Great Day in Hollywood” was inspired by the famed 1958 photograph “A Great Day in Harlem” featuring 57 jazz legends — including Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Count Basie — on the stairs of New York brownstone snapped by photographer Art Kane.
The Netflix spot from director Lacey Duke features 47 black writers, showrunners, actors, and producers. The plan for the spot and the image campaign stemmed from Netflix’s Strong Black Lead initiative designed to foster an “ongoing, intentional focus to talk authentically with the black audience.” A photo similar to “Great Day in Harlem” was taken earlier this month by photographer Kwaku Alston to commemorate the gathering.
The debut comes just two days after Netflix was rocked by the abrupt departure of corporate communications chief Jonathan Friedland...
- 6/25/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Feature doc will blend archive, drama, animation and still images.
UK sales, distribution and production house Altitude has boarded documentary Billie ahead of this month’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
Source: Altitude
Altitude Film Sales will introduce the project, a feature about Us jazz singer Billie Holiday, to buyers at the market. The company is co-representing North American rights with Endeavor Content.
Altitude Film Distribution, which previously released the Oscar-winning Amy and the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro, has taken UK and Ireland rights as part of the deal.
Arguably one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, Billie Holiday was a figure of controversy throughout her short life (she died at 44). A black woman who preferred white audiences, her story is one of exploitation, violent drug abuse, vindictive love affairs, and politics.
In 1971, journalist Linda Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie. Over eight years, she...
UK sales, distribution and production house Altitude has boarded documentary Billie ahead of this month’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
Source: Altitude
Altitude Film Sales will introduce the project, a feature about Us jazz singer Billie Holiday, to buyers at the market. The company is co-representing North American rights with Endeavor Content.
Altitude Film Distribution, which previously released the Oscar-winning Amy and the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro, has taken UK and Ireland rights as part of the deal.
Arguably one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, Billie Holiday was a figure of controversy throughout her short life (she died at 44). A black woman who preferred white audiences, her story is one of exploitation, violent drug abuse, vindictive love affairs, and politics.
In 1971, journalist Linda Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie. Over eight years, she...
- 2/6/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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- 3/31/2017
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Despite Hand of God‘s Old Testament-esque title… and the presence of a pastor as one of its main characters… and the fact that its protagonist thinks a higher power is communicating with him via signs and wonders… the new Amazon drama is no holy roller, cast member Garret Dillahunt says.
“It’s oddly not a show about religion as much as it is about man’s interpretation of it, or twisting it to his own ends,” says the Raising Hope alum, who plays Kd, a former white supremacist whose introduction to Christianity hasn’t completely bled him of his violent tendencies.
“It’s oddly not a show about religion as much as it is about man’s interpretation of it, or twisting it to his own ends,” says the Raising Hope alum, who plays Kd, a former white supremacist whose introduction to Christianity hasn’t completely bled him of his violent tendencies.
- 9/3/2015
- TVLine.com
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron was born on August 16, 1925 in New York City. His father worked for the Long Island Rail Road. Mal started taking classical piano lessons at age seven and, inspired by his love of jazz, also learned alto saxophone. He earned a B.A. in Music from Queens College, with the G.I. Bill (he'd been drafted in 1943 and served for two years, fortunately not seeing combat) paying for his tuition. He worked in jazz, blues, and R&B contexts and made his first recording in 1952 as a member of Ike Quebec's band. In '54-56 he was part of Charles Mingus's Jazz Workshop and recorded with Mingus. Waldron went out on his own as a leader at the end of 1956 with the album Mal/1 on Prestige and quickly became one of the prolific label's house pianists. The following year he added to his workload the position of Billie Holiday's accompanist,...
- 8/16/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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