Today being international jazz day, there will be much celebrating of the greatness of its history. I’ve done that in the past; it is a great history. But it is not all back in historical times; jazz lives, and evolves, and continues to be great. Yet how many lists of the greatest jazz albums include anything from the current century?
That they do not is no indictment of them; only sixteen percent of the years when recorded jazz has existed (not counting the present year yet) are in the twenty-first century, after all, and some prefer to bestow the label of greatness after more perspective has been achieved than sixteen (or fewer, for newer releases) years.
Nonetheless, if people are to respect jazz as a living art form, a look back at the best of its more recent releases seems worthwhile. Here’s one man’s “baker’s dozen...
That they do not is no indictment of them; only sixteen percent of the years when recorded jazz has existed (not counting the present year yet) are in the twenty-first century, after all, and some prefer to bestow the label of greatness after more perspective has been achieved than sixteen (or fewer, for newer releases) years.
Nonetheless, if people are to respect jazz as a living art form, a look back at the best of its more recent releases seems worthwhile. Here’s one man’s “baker’s dozen...
- 4/30/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
The Ottawa Sun is reporting that a set of bagpipes was stolen from a truck parked outside a convenience store in my hometown of Osgoode - a rural community half an hour south of Ottawa.
The instrument belongs to Mr. Bill Stewart, a provincial justice of the peace. He plays in the Ottawa Police Service Pipe band. The bagpipes are stamped with the Police insignia.
Way to go Osgoode. Way to live up to your reputation of being a hick town full of morons and screw-ups. You [...]...
The instrument belongs to Mr. Bill Stewart, a provincial justice of the peace. He plays in the Ottawa Police Service Pipe band. The bagpipes are stamped with the Police insignia.
Way to go Osgoode. Way to live up to your reputation of being a hick town full of morons and screw-ups. You [...]...
- 4/13/2009
- by kevinjohns@gmail.com
- CultureMagazine.ca
Director Roger Spottiswoode.
Neglected Gems of the 1980’s: Roger Spottiswoode Remembers Under Fire
by Jon Zelazny
Editor's Note: The following article appeared on EightMillionStories.com in 2008.
The name may not ring a bell, but Roger Spottiswoode has been directing feature films for nearly thirty years, including popular hits like Turner and Hooch (1989), Air America (1990), and the James Bond adventure Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), as well as outstanding made-for-cable dramas like And the Band Played On (1993), Hiroshima (1995), and Noriega (2000).
2008 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his remarkable third feature Under Fire, which starred Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman as journalists covering the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua.
It’s generally a given that every Hollywood movie endures a long, tortuous road to find financing, but not Under Fire. It had a long, hard road as well… but only after the film had been completed. Roger Spottiswoode and I spoke by phone:
You began your career as an editor,...
Neglected Gems of the 1980’s: Roger Spottiswoode Remembers Under Fire
by Jon Zelazny
Editor's Note: The following article appeared on EightMillionStories.com in 2008.
The name may not ring a bell, but Roger Spottiswoode has been directing feature films for nearly thirty years, including popular hits like Turner and Hooch (1989), Air America (1990), and the James Bond adventure Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), as well as outstanding made-for-cable dramas like And the Band Played On (1993), Hiroshima (1995), and Noriega (2000).
2008 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his remarkable third feature Under Fire, which starred Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman as journalists covering the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua.
It’s generally a given that every Hollywood movie endures a long, tortuous road to find financing, but not Under Fire. It had a long, hard road as well… but only after the film had been completed. Roger Spottiswoode and I spoke by phone:
You began your career as an editor,...
- 4/12/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
A stunt coordinator on the set of cult TV Superman drama series Smallville was taken to the hospital yesterday when a stunt went awry. Details of the man's injuries were not available when WENN went to press, but they were enough to halt filming and keep the unnamed stuntman in hospital for observation. A studio representative insists no cast members were hurt during the incident in British Columbia, Canada. It's not the first time the Smallville set has been the site of a stunt-gone-wrong - stuntman Bill Stewart was left badly cut after a glass window failed to shatter properly as he fell through it during one scene in 2003.
- 7/27/2005
- WENN
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