The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (DFP) has announced that its latest group of 20 non-fiction film projects will receive grants from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund. The fund provides non-recoverable support for non-fiction works by filmmakers around the world who “continue to elevate and advance cultural dialogue and pioneerRead More →
ComingSoon releases an exclusive clip from the documentary Pure grainwritten and directed by Kim Bartley, which chronicles three years in the life of young Native American horse racer Sharmaine Weed. RELATED: Exclusive: Spencer King’s Mystery Thriller Clip Time Now “Pure grain is both an exciting tale of extreme bareback horseRead More →
Discover+ released on October 21, 2021 the new documentary film about the FIFA World Cup scandal titled The Men Who Sold The World Cup (2×60). It is a film in two parts. It is directed by Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme (Get Me Roger Stone, The Swamp) is the definitiveRead More →
Who’s the fan of acclaimed San Diego trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos, jazz giants John Coltrane and Lee Morgan? So big that he estimates he owns at least 50 vinyl albums by each of them. So great that he can name the most obscure recordings that featured Morgan and Coltrane as sidemenRead More →
Shogakukan announced Thursday that Shinichi Ishizukait is blue giant manga inspires an anime movie to be released in 2022. Ishizuka drew the artwork below to celebrate the announcement. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the 10 volumes of Ishizuka blue giant manga series in five omnibus volumes. The company released the firstRead More →
David Fincher is teaming up with Netflix for ‘See’, a new docu-series of visual essays celebrating cinema. Netflix, or at least the Twitter account dedicated to its movies, had moviegoers buzzing on Tuesday after tweeting, “Something special is coming tomorrow from David Fincher…” Alas, that “something special” isn’t a thirdRead More →
Author, producer and founder of Phenomenal, Meena Harris will direct a new documentary film “In Her Element”. The 30-minute film, from Reese Witherspoon’s media company Hello Sunshine and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, features three pioneering women using technology to advance their fields while inspiring the next generation of women to joinRead More →
Mike Renzi, who accompanied Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, Lady Gaga and others, died last week. NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with broadcaster Murray Horwitz, who had known Renzi for more than 40 years. (SOUNDBITE OF HARRY ALLEN AND MIKE RENZI “THE LAST BEST YEAR”) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The greatRead More →
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Brittany Murphy’s new documentary investigates the late actress’ final weeks. Video / WKYC Channel 3 12 years have passed since Brittany Murphy’s death and the questions remain unanswered. A new HBO documentary has been confirmed which examines the circumstances surrounding his death in 2009. The two-part doco, titled What Happened,Read More →
PARAMOUNT+ RELEASES THE OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR MADONNA’S DOCUMENTARY FILM “MADAME X”, PREMIERE FRIDAY OCT. 8TH Madonna’s “Madame X” is directed by Ricardo Gomes and SKNX October 5, 2021 – Paramount+, the streaming service of ViacomCBS, today released the official trailer for theirRead More →
Jazz great Charlie Parker would have turned 100 in 2020, but COVID-19 has delayed the celebrations. Now, UNC Charlotte is honoring him with a series of “Charlie Parker 101” events. Left to right, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis in 1948. William Gottleib If you’re not yet a fan of jazzRead More →
In 1970 Morgan recorded three shows at the Lighthouse Jazz Club in Hermosa Beach, California. A new box set captures Morgan and his band giving their own spin on Coltrane’s trance rehearsals. TERRY GROSS, HOST: It’s FRESH AIR. In July 1970, jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan recorded for three nights atRead More →
Click to enlarge File: Luke Awtry Marty Fogel Walking down a path near the edge of the lake, Marty Fogel spotted a young man leaving with a fishing rod in hand. ARead More →
Celine Dion will be the subject of a new documentary film. Sony Music Entertainment’s Premium Content division, in partnership with SME Canada and Vermilion Films, has announced the feature film project which will focus on the highs and lows of Celine’s phenomenal 40-year career which has seen her win fiveRead More →
Sign up for the Morning Update and Madison Life newsletters “A genius is the one who most resembles him,” the great jazzman Thelonious Monk once said. And though Arun Luthra is too modest to call himself a genius or put himself in Monk’s league, the quote resonates with him. Luthra’sRead More →
A new Britney Spears documentary that includes bombshell allegations is set to premiere Friday night on FX and Hulu. Controlling Britney Spears is the follow-up to the team behind Framing Britney SpearsEmmy nominated The New York Times presents documentary that explored the singer’s conservatorship battle. The latest offering would featureRead More →
album review Lee Morgan – The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (from 1970) (Blue note. 8 CDs or 12 LPS. Album review by Olie Brice) by Lee Morgan Living at the Lighthouse was already a classic album, in its original double LP format, and then the longest 3-CD box setRead More →
The International Documentary Association announced Tuesday, September 21 the 11 recipients of its 2021 In-Kind Documentary Screening Series Grant. First piloted last year, the grant has expanded in 2021 to support filmmakers from any historically excluded community, including but not limited to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, D/Deaf, and disabled filmmakers. IDA wishesRead More →
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After serenading the world with his own brand of jazz for the past 18 months, Jim Clayton is looking forward to his first live concert in a long time. But it’s what the award-winning veteran jazz artist has been doing throughout COVID-19 that has won him applause from a gratefulRead More →
We believe education is the foundation of the Bitcoin journey, and the environmental argument made here is a powerful one. This film addresses the misconceptions about Bitcoin’s energy consumption. CALABASAS, CA (PRWEB) September 14, 2021 This Machine Greens, presented by Swan Bitcoin, is a documentary that explores Bitcoin’s complexRead More →
“I Promise,” a documentary film that tells the story of LeBron James’ efforts to close the educational achievement gap in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, is coming to the YouTube Originals channel later this month. The film, directed by Marc Levin, will premiere Thursday, September 28 at 12 p.m. ET,Read More →
CALABASAS, Calif., September 14, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — This Machine Greens, presented by Swan Bitcoin, is a documentary that explores Bitcoin’s complex and nuanced relationship with energy. The film is directed by award-winning British filmmaker Jamie King and produced by Enrique Posner. The film will premiere on Swan’s YouTube channel atRead More →
There is no doubt that I am a fan of the Small Town Monsters documentaries. When I found out they produced another doc, Skinwalker: Howl of the Rougarou, I was thrilled. None have disappointed me yet. They continue to release so many interesting documentaries, and I was lucky enough toRead More →
“I think it’s, frankly, one of the best films I’ve ever made,” filmmaker Greg Barker told the ATC Summer Press Tour while talking about his new documentary film for Show time, Inmate 001. The film returns to the case of John Walker Lindh, alias the “American Taliban”, with the hindsightRead More →
It’s an enigma as old as live popular music itself. A veteran act wants to branch out, move forward and defy expectations, but fans want to hear from old favorites. It was the kind of challenge trumpeter Lee Morgan faced when he and his band played a two-week engagement atRead More →
Long before his death in the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, FDNY First Deputy Commissioner William M. Feehan was a legendary figure in the ranks. When he died at age 71 in the South Tower collapse, Feehan was the longest-serving and highest-ranking firefighter to die inRead More →
The rich program of the 14th Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, which will be held from September 9 to 16 in Belgrade, Serbia, includes more than 100 documentaries and VR/AR content. After breaking the ice last fall as one of the first festivals to return to public screenings after COVID-19,Read More →
movie scene, As its popularity soars, the secret sauce of socialism is explored in this never pedantic, feel-good film manifesto that will make you want to step out of the theater and own the means of production. The Perfect Movie for Labor Day weekend opens in Los Angeles. Stand-up-and-cheer fromRead More →
After debuting in 1983, the famous TV show reading rainbow went on to achieve a 26-year run, became the most-watched PBS program in the classroom, and won more than 250 awards, including 26 Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award, among other accolades. Now the program will be celebrated in aRead More →
The High Point Museum will present a new exhibit, “A Love Supreme: The Jazz of John Coltrane through the Eyes of Chuck Stewart,” from September 3 through December 3. 5 at 1859 E. Lexington Ave. at High Point. The exhibition, which is organized by the Grammy Museum, features 20 photographsRead More →
“Live at the Lighthouse” was to be the start of a new chapter for Lee Morgan in 1970. As someone who hasn’t slowed down much since he first picked up the trumpet in his early teens and is become a star of the jazz scene of the 1960s. , theRead More →
Venue owners and promoters have been scrambling to get the live entertainment stream going again at the end of the summer. Whether it’s the delta variant, government restrictions or national reluctance to be among the people, everyone is moving with caution. I spoke with American jazz musician, singer and trumpeterRead More →
There were plenty of trumpeters in the 1960s, but the Big Four were Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan. Davis was most outwardly obsessed with innovation and constant forward movement: his 1965-68 quintet blew hard bop to smithereens, and while people were still absorbing that group’s ideas,Read More →
A teenager who dismembered and buried the body of a vulnerable jazz musician before stabbing a second man to death days later has been named for the first time. William Algar, 53, was found decapitated in his flat in Nowell Road, Barnes, on January 3, 2020, before his limbs wereRead More →
Pascal Bokar Thiam.Afro Blue Grazz Band by Pascal Bokar / Courtesy Image Pascal Bokar Thiam thinks that there are many things listeners don’t know about the music they hear. “A lot of people don’t realize how complex, deep, and socially and culturally interesting American music is,” he said in aRead More →
Lee Morgan, the incandescent trumpeter, led one of the greatest groups of the early 1970s – a short-lived but multi-faceted quintet, expansive in attitude and approach. With multi-reedist Bennie Maupin, pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Jymie Merritt and drummer Mickey Roker, this ensemble spent a productive weekend in Hermosa Beach, CaliforniaRead More →
Molly Ringwald’s father, jazz musician Bob Ringwald, died on August 3. He was 80 years old. Molly, 53, announced the news on Instagram on Saturday by sharing a handful of photos of her late father over the years. “It is with heavy hearts that my family says goodbye to myRead More →
instagram In a touching note accompanying throwback photos of the father-daughter duo, the former ‘The Breakfast Club’ star considers herself “very lucky” to have Bob Ringwald in her life. AceShowbiz – Molly Ringwald still mourns the loss of his father Bob Ringwald. Almost a week after the death of hisRead More →
Robert “Bob” Ringwald, jazz musician and father of actress Molly Ringwald, died August 2 at the age of 80. Ringwald shared the news via Instagram on Saturday along with a selection of photos. No cause of death has been revealed. “It is with heavy hearts that my family says goodbyeRead More →
The inauguration Black Documentary Film Festival was scheduled for April 10 and 11, 2020 at the Central Library. A grand opening ceremony and a fashion show were planned to celebrate the feature film “Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution”, and 20 films celebrating black life and culture were on the program.Read More →
Become Led Zeppelin, a documentary that delves into the rise of the vintage rock band, has come to an end. It is the only documentary of its kind in which the group itself has taken part. The documentary, which was first announced in 2019, includes new interviews with Jimmy Page,Read More →
The latest album from saxophonist and composer Dan Blake, DaFe, opens with a bizarre piano solo titled “Prologue—A New Normal.” The track is meant to warn of the world ahead of us if we don’t act on climate change. Blake’s warning is just the tip of his activism: Since 2015,Read More →
Vinyl is back! Every month on “Vinyl Watch”, we list some of the most notable new vinyl releases – including new albums, reissues, special edition box sets and more. At JAZZIZ, we share the vinyl community’s appreciation of the experience of collecting and playing vinyl records. As more and moreRead More →
By JOHN STATON, Wilmington StarNews WILMINGTON, NC (AP) — When it comes to jazz, legendary label Blue Note has long represented the pinnacle of musical form, releasing albums by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and many other jazz icons. Earlier this year, Wilmington-based composer and percussionist Joe Chambers –Read More →
Tenor saxophonist Jermaine Lockhart doesn’t just talk to animals. He also plays music for them at the Phoenix-area farm where he resides with his family. When he practices outdoors at home, his audience is made up of sheep, goats, chickens and ducks. “They are definitely curious,” he says Phoenix NewRead More →
by Best Classic Bands Staff Photo of the Bee Gees via HBO 2020s The Bee Gees: How to mend a broken heart, a feature-length documentary about the legendary group, was nominated for six Emmy Awards. The film, from HBO Documentary Films, chronicles the rise of the iconic trio, consisting ofRead More →
Click to enlarge Picture: provided Promotional image for the boys in red hats An infamous incident involving a major Cincinnati high school will consider its transition from social media notoriety to the money screen when new investigative documentary The boys in red hats Premieres July 16. The film covers theRead More →
Billy Tipton was someone in No ordinary man respectfully refers to a “regional jazz musician”. In the mid-1930s, he led a band that performed on radio stations and at Elks Lodges, Air Force bases, and nightclubs, first in his hometown of Oklahoma City, then in various parts of the country.Read More →
In an excerpt from this recorded session, included in the film, a voice identified as that of a Santa Rosa Police Department detective is heard assuring Gelhaus that he was being interviewed as a “victim”. Members of Lopez’s family were interviewed the same day at Santa Rosa Police Department headquarters,Read More →
Tulsa, Oklahoma.– Circle Cinema will host NBA legend and Tulsa native John Starks with JD3TV president and award-winning producer Leigh Simons for screenings of new documentary “Keep Shooting: The John Starks Story” as part of the 2021 Circle Cinema Film Festival presented by JD3TV. The film will screen Thursday, JulyRead More →
Trafalgar Liberation brings Dear Rodeo: The Cody Johnson Story at the cinema this summer COJO Music/Warner Music Nashville and Trafalgar Releasing are proud to announce the release of a theatrical event for Dear Rodeo: The Cody Johnson Story, with limited screenings starting August 10. The film, from rising country musicRead More →
“If I could tune in right away, I would,” said Dawn Porter in one of the many enthusiastic testimonials sprinkled throughout Full Frame’s “The Creative Power of BIPOC Editors,” an online launch/celebration. from the BIPOC documentary publishers database. Expertly edited (surprise surprise), the quick event (about an hour) took placeRead More →
Johannes Wallmann got the recording for his new jazz album “Elegy For An Undiscovered Species” just under the wire. The director of jazz studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gathered 14 musicians, including a string section, at the Hamel Music Center for a week in late February 2020 to recordRead More →
People often ask me for my opinion on what a good LP is to start getting into jazz. I mean, a lot of people have absorbed “Kind Of Blue” even if they don’t know it, and “A Love Supreme” might be a bit too much for a neophyte, so IRead More →
The award-winning documentary “Linda and the Mockingbirds” – featuring legendary Bay Area legend Linda Ronstadt and Los Cenzontles – is set to finally make its theatrical debut this month. The film will premiere on the big screen on July 18 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. But it’s aRead More →
The ‘Assassins’ movie poster is set to hit theaters from August (Watcha-The Coup-Kth) The 104-minute documentary film about the 2017 murder case of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, has been approved as an art film after reevaluation by the South Korean Film Authority. Korean. The film’s localRead More →
Salah Ragab: military commander by day, jazz musician by night Members of the Cairo Jazz Band with Salah Ragab. Source: Interstellar medium Imagine someone walking into a music store, grabbing “Ramadan In Space Time” and getting into the shazam. For someone who doesn’t know who Salah Ragab is, hisRead More →
picture by Iceland Documentary Film Festival Documentary lovers, listen up! If you’re wondering what to do from June 23 to June 27 and you’re heavily invested in documentaries, you should check out the Iceland Documentary Film Festival. The festival is in its third edition this year and takes place inRead More →
The Sundance Institute announced the latest round of beneficiaries of its Documentary Fund. Eighteen projects at different stages of development received a total of $590,000, funded by various institutional and individual donors. The grants do not come with any restrictions on use. Past films supported by the fund include HaleRead More →
Blue Note Records has finally released details of the upcoming box set of Lee Morgan, cover the star Jazzwise 260 and is the subject of an in-depth article by Stuart Nicholson in the same issue. The late trumpet legend’s complete engagement (three nights, 12 sets) at the Lighthouse in HermosaRead More →
Jazz Week is your roundup of new and remarkable stories from the world of jazz. It’s a one-stop destination for music news you need to know. Let’s take it from the top. Remarkable The winners of the 2021 Blues Music Awards are announced: The Blues Foundation announced the winners ofRead More →
Lee Morgan – one of WBGO’s Top 100 Artists, selected by our listeners – was a trumpeter who fronted his share of combustible bands. When his Live at the lighthouse was first reissued in the United States in 1996, many listeners had their first encounter with his 1970 working group,Read More →
Blue Note Records has announced an extensive reissue of the historic double live album Living at the Lighthouse by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan. Expected release July 30 Lee Morgan: The Complete Live at the Lighthousepresents for the very first time the 12 sets of music the legendary trumpeter quintet featuringRead More →
“That’s when all the music really started here in Buffalo,” said Geraldine DiRe. “When all the musicians and artists saw what they could do, they moved forward… It was black and white, and they were all treated the same. It was wonderful what ‘he started.” While at UB, DiRe alsoRead More →
A duo from Northern Ireland have received £40,000 through Netflix’s first UK Documentary Talent Fund. Filmmakers Sean Mullan and Michael Barwise, from Derry, were among the ten teams chosen for the award launched on Friday morning. Their short documentary, HYFINwill focus on Jordan-Lee Brady-James aka HYFIN, a young man fromRead More →
Dreher High School group principal Chris Lee, Dreher student Bryson Stakely and Richland One main group teacher Mary Lou Schweickert Musical instruments belonging to the late international jazz musician Roger Pemberton, who played with legends such as The Jackson 5, Judy Garland and Ray Charles, will continue to make musicRead More →
A talk about the hardships faced by undocumented Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic and the stories of immigrants at a Georgia ICE detention center during the COVID-19 pandemic are just two of six documentaries making their world premiere at the annual 24h Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Operating outRead More →
Anthony Crawford was one of the wealthiest men in Abbeville, South Carolina, with over 400 acres of land; his farm was prosperous and self-sufficient. Crawford employed the black community. Anthony Crawford was murdered on October 21, 1916 by a mob of over 200 white men, then they lynched him. HOBORead More →
King Sukii , Associate Editor @KingSukii Susanna Osborne, more affectionately known as Sukii, is Associate Entertainment Editor for iOne Digital. The Spanish Harlem native started blogging in 2010 when she started covering hip-hop’s rising stars for GlobalGrind. Music (and entertainment in general) are areas Sukii continues to focus on asRead More →
March 16, 2021 Tennessee Watson, from left, Anya Tyson and Sam Dwinnell drive through western Wyoming in a scene from the documentary film ‘Deer 139’. The documentary film produced by the University of Wyoming will premiere online on Saturday, March 20. (Morgan Heim Photo) After a year and a halfRead More →
March 11, 2021, 4:12 PM The official poster of “Before We Was We”. Picture: Press Ska legends Madness are releasing a three-part documentary series to air in May. Madness’ Last Attempt Before we were usnamed after their 2019 biography of the same name, is a three-part documentary exploring the band’sRead More →
A short documentary about a Qualicum Beach-based jazz musician has been nominated for an award by an American film festival. This month, local Shaw TV volunteer, Kerilie McDowall, learned that the short film she created with the help of the Shaw Spotlight team, In the Zone: Rick Kilburn, is aRead More →
Soul co-director Pete Docter considered casting the lead role as an actor or scientist, but opted for a jazz musician due to the career’s “selflessness”. Pixar Soul was almost a very different movie. Early in development, co-director Pete Docter considered centering the film around an actor or scientist. However, onceRead More →
It was the kind of year that felt like a punch. Jamie Foxx not only coped with the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but his beloved sister DeOndra, who had Down syndrome, passed away. There’s a quote from her new movie “Soul” that she loved. “The line is, ‘The worldRead More →
Lee Morgan’s life, though short, was filled with tunes that influenced generations of jazz artists to come. A hugely talented jazz trumpeter, Morgan shot to fame as a teenager, recording on John Coltrane’s legendary Blue Train and drummer Art Blakey’s band before embarking on a solo career. But along theRead More →
billy(Documentary film, directed by James Erskine. New Black Films. 96 Minutes. Film review by Tessa Souter) It is a testament to the depth and emotional intensity of billie holidayhis artistic talent which, more than 60 years after his death, still fascinates. She has been the subject of more than 25Read More →
No ordinary man (Canada) 80 mins. Stream online at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival from September 24 to October 7 on VIFF Connect We talk a lot about the importance of screen representation, but No ordinary man aims to vividly capture the emotional impact of acknowledging aspects of one’sRead More →
On Friday July 10, 2020, Christian Lee Morgan’s journey on Earth ended and he went to join our Lord. Christian was born on September 26, 1997 in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Troy High School. Christian loved his family and friends. Although calm, her heart was big. He wouldRead More →
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California. | Roll call Al Drago / CQ via AP On September 14, 2001, three days after New York’s Twin Towers were flattened by two hijacked airliners, with the ruins of the building still smoldering, 3,000 dead, more than 6,000 injured, Congress met to consider President GeorgeRead More →
The jazz collection has an archaeological aspect; it’s one of my favorite aspects of the hobby. More than most other genres, jazz evolved in its early decades, and it did so on record. Each musician was distinctive, changing from session to session, and interacting with other musicians in ways specificRead More →
In the 1950s, when jazz clubs dotted Los Angeles, Mr. Niehaus was a fixture on the scene, alongside other legendary musicians including Chet Baker, Hampton Hawes, Shorty Rogers and Bill Holman. But it was on the road with Stan Kenton’s band that Mr. Niehaus rose to national prominence as theRead More →
Stanley Nelson’s deep dive into the world of a beloved music giant, Miles Davis: Birth of Cool, will make its nationally broadcast debut on the PBS series “American Masters” tomorrow night, February 25, at 9 p.m. Miles Davis during the “Round Midnight” recording session in June 1956. Don Hunstein/Sony MusicRead More →
Despite his somewhat limited output and even shorter life, Lee Morgan is considered one of the greatest trumpeters in jazz history. It’s his story. On a freezing night in New York in 1967, one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time didn’t own a trumpet. He was in theRead More →
Miles Davis was a genius. Miles Davis was also a bona fide jerk. Again, he was a genius. This genius is on full display in the documentary “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” a well-done account of the man’s accomplishments and his jerks. If director Stanley Nelson is leaning moreRead More →
Lee Morgan hadn’t even turned 20 when he ventured into Rudy Van Gelder’s recording studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on September 29, 1957, to record The Cook. Born in Philadelphia, Morgan (1938-1972) was a trumpeter prodigy who idolized Clifford Brown (the innovative hard bop horn blower who had died inRead More →
Philadelphia horn blower Lee Morgan had been with Blue note folders for nearly nine years when he recorded corn breadhis 12th album for the label, in a single session held on Saturday September 18, 1965. to listen corn bread now. Originally from Philadelphia, Morgan was a precociously talented trumpet prodigyRead More →
As one of Miles Davis’ bandmates describes in “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” a Davis performance is like a chemistry experiment. Every night, the band took the stage to perform a controlled explosion, with Davis as the lead chemist: a little danger and a lot of precision. It’s justRead More →
Ridgefield provided the answer. One day, Watson took his car downtown to Bob’s Auto Shop and “created this friendship” with shop owner Bob Ford, he said. Ford is not the kind of guy who calls himself “cat”. “He’s a good old boy,” laughed Watson. What they have in common, WatsonRead More →
Adam Nely is a New York-based composer, vlogger and jazz bassist, and he has a problem with the movie Whiplash. Well, to be more specific, he has a lot of trouble with Whiplash. Damian Chazelle’s 2014 love letter to abusive student-teacher relationships invited audiences into the insular world of NewRead More →
On a freezing night in 1967, trumpeter Lee Morgan didn’t even own a trumpet. He had left his horn and winter coat at the pawnshop, all for the purpose of scoring heroin. He was often seen sleeping on the sidewalk outside of Birdland in New York, sometimes without shoes onRead More →
King joined the UTSA faculty in 1995 and majored in jazz studies and music theory. (June 20, 2018) — Clarence Morgan King, Jr. lecturer in the music department of UTSA, died June 13 at the age of 63. A brilliant and passionate musician, King majored in jazz studies and musicRead More →
Wynton Marsalis has covered all the bases. Race. His role in removing Confederate statues in New Orleans last year. His deep antipathy for rap and hip-hop. And the damage he believes gender inflicts on African Americans. “I think it’s a lot more of a racial issue than tearing down theRead More →
The Nasher Museum presents “Precarity,” a new three-channel video installation created by London-based artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah. “Precarity” works with themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the remarkable life and times of Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the first known person toRead More →
The film I called him Morgan chronicles the rise and tragic fall of trumpeter Lee Morgan, who grew up in Philadelphia. WRTI’s Susan Lewis spoke with sax master Odean Pope about her memories of Morgan, who in his short life made a lasting contribution. SL_ADLF_171113_OdeanPopeonLeeMorgan_slTM.mp3 Sax master Odean Pope talksRead More →
A first film as a director for Morgan Marceloriginal hamilton cast member, Sharing Our Stories: The Eliza Project is a 10-minute short documentary about the creation, purpose and promising legacy of The Eliza Project, co-founded by Philippa Sou (original ‘Eliza hamilton,’ hamilton) & Morgan Marcel. With Renée Elise Goldsberry, JonathanRead More →
Hear Morgan’s trumpet player Eddie Henderson November 3-4 at Lewers Lounge, then watch the Hawaii International Film Festival documentary “I Called Him Morgan” on November 5. Video and photos: Courtesy of the Honolulu International Film Festival ADirectors and directors make regular appearances at film festivals, but it’s rare to hearRead More →
Kasper Collins’ film recently played as part of IDA’s documentary screening series. Jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot and killed in a jazz club in 1972 aged just 33 – by his wife, Helen Morgan. Kasper Collin brings the trumpet prodigy to life in the documentary ‘I Called Him Morgan’,Read More →
The main challenge in producing a documentary about jazz artists is choosing the best way to frame the story. How should a director talk about an artist’s life and music? Does the artist’s pure biography or mythology take precedence in the story? When it comes to music, a technical approachRead More →
Just as Lee Morgan seemed poised to break the cycle of drug addiction that had plagued him for years, the 33-year-old jazz trumpeter died in 1972, the victim not of an overdose, as so many similar stories have finished, but with a bullet. The documentary “I Called Him Morgan”, whichRead More →
Artistic, obsessive and intoxicating, “I Called Him Morgan” is a documentary with a creative soul, and that makes all the difference. It’s not just that it’s a haunting and deeply moving jazz tragedy, dealing with the life and untimely death in 1972 of legendary trumpeter Lee Morgan, who was shotRead More →