Title: My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style Artist: Dream Warriors Hip hop jazz and toasting from Toronto. Who knew? I kid, I kid. They’re actually very polite. My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style I love the fusion of jazz and hip hop. Both are dynamic styles, whose artists make up new rules as they go along. Hip hop looked to jazz for funky hooks, break beats and themes to create tonal...
The next night (see the following exhibit) in their own concert, the Imani Winds drew upon music from their CD The Classical Underground. They began with the late Astor Piazzolla's Libertango, a brief example of the heterodoxy with which...
Click to Watch SD | Click to Watch HD | iPod/iPhone The opening sequence and credits to Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” plays long, mean…and breathless? Cream-pie cool Clint Eastwood susses death and a devil atop skyscrapers to a tough Lalo Schifrin score. The soaring set piece sets your teeth on edge, the soft howl of wind [...]
Pic by Josef Hoflehner Greg from Acid Girls passed this onto to all of us Grindin peeps yesterday, it’s not really the style we’ve grown accustomed to from Acid Girls but it’s the perfect workday mix right now. Acid Girls will be going on tour soon together with Jokers Of The Scene, they’re also heading over [...]
YouTube via OrbVroomer "This file is cursed or something. Every time I upload it the audio & video go out of sync. All live playing. No tracks or sequences are used here. I will upload a new version with dialog. Stay tuned to OrbVroomer." High Roller, Crystal Method : OrbVroomer drumKat live "Only two little synth notes not triggered live here. The L.I.S.A trigger plays those. Everything...
This is part of Chicagoist's continuing coverage of the 45th Chicago International Film Festival . In 1939 Carmen Miranda arrived in New York, making her American debut. By 1945 she was the highest-paid woman in the entire country. Dubbed the Brazilian Bombshell, her presence in the US was only the first shot fired in a revolution that continues to influence music all over the world. Beyond Ipanema...
The world-famous British Museum, home of the contested Elgin Marbles sought by Greece, is leaping into another controversy with a special exhibit re-examining the life of Montezuma, the doomed last ruler of the Aztecs.
It’s already hard enough to sit stationary long enough to gather material, but on Saturdays it get twice as hard (||). Add in college football & you have cement anchoring one to the couch while watching contest after contest. Yet, I know you want entertainment…and then I remembered these pics that have been sitting on [...]
Marvin Hamlisch’s soundtrack for The Informant! - the latest production from director Steven Soderbergh - uses a recurring set of playful themes to prance along the edge of the absurd while still maintaining a level of expected Soderbergh-hipness. A prolific composer in the ’70s and ’80s, Hamlisch has only scored three films in the 21st [...]
As I cranked up the Camry this morning and fastened my seat belt, Lalo Schifrin’s music for the “Bullitt” car chase flashed into my mind. I lead a rich fantasy life. At any rate, as corny/hip as Schrifrin’s music is for this scene, it perfectly captures the tension and machoness on display. You gotta love those barking [...]
Greetings! here soaring atop thermals to announce another super-killer-awesome soundtrack giveaway. A couple months ago for SKYRIDERS (1976) composed by the legendary Lalo Schifrin. I now have in my possession five copies of this wickedly cool score to give away to five insanely lucky Ain’t It Cool readers. Want to soar on the music of the quintessential hang-gliding action flick of the 70s?...
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The inaugural season of the New York Chamber Music Festival (www.newyorkchambermusicfestival.org) will take place September 13-20, 2009 at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th St ).
Genre: Classical / Rock / Country Quality: VBR Tracklist 1. Nick Perito - the Green Leaves of Summer 2. Ennio Morricone - the Verdict dopo La Condanna 3. Charles Bernstein - White Lightning 4. Billy Preston - Slaughter 5. Ennio Morricone - the Surrender la Resa 6. The Film Studio Orchestra - One Silver Dollar un Dollaro Bucato 7. Zarah Leander - Davon Geht Die Welt Nicht Unter 8. Samantha Shelton and...
This 7-year series chronicled the adventures of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF), a team of government spies and specialists who were offered “impossible missions” (should they decide to accept them) by the unseen “Secretary”. Although the cast varied over the years, the main characters included The Team Leader (Dan Briggs the first season, then Jim Phelps the other six), The Techno-Wizard (Barney
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