Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
More Smooth Jazz Action To Come!
Posted: January 31, 2012 in Smooth Jazz, Concerts, MoviesTags: Smooth Jazz, Jessy J, Marion Meadows, Paul Taylor, Sax And The City
Marvin, Dave Koz and the Movies
Posted: December 22, 2011 in Concerts, Movies, Smooth JazzTags: Dave Koz, Marvin Hamlisch, Movies, PSO, Smooth Jazz
Celebrate the music that made movies great! Grammy-nominated saxophonist Dave Koz joins Marvin Hamlisch and your PSO in a concert featuring memorable songs from the silver screen. Hear Marvin’s own Academy Award-winning song, “The Way We Were,” as well as other classics “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz and “Somewhere” from West [...]
Down The Rhodes – The Fender Rhodes Story
Posted: August 27, 2011 in MoviesTags: Ben Bove, Down The Rhodes, George Benson, George Duke, Gerald McCauley, Greg Phillinganes, Jeff Lorber, Joe Sample, Marcus Miller, Patrice Rushen, Rodney Franklin, The Fender Rhodes Story
Producers Gerald McCauley and Ben Bove recently completed a documentary film about the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano. They are very proud of this work! The DVD will be available online (mid Sept.) at www.FenderRhodesStory.com. This is the documented story of the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano: The Inventor, The Musicians, CBS / Fender employees. The movie tells the [...]
Playboy Jazz Festival Presents Jazz On Film With Archivist Mark Cantor
Posted: May 20, 2010 in Jazz, MoviesTags: Dexter Gordon, Jazz On Film, Louis Armstrong, Mark Cantor, Miles Davis, The Playboy Jazz Festival, Thelonious Monk
The Playboy Jazz Festival’s annual ‘Jazz on Film’ night, presented by noted jazz archivist Mark Cantor, on Thursday evening, June 10th at 7:30 p.m., will celebrate the legacy of jazz with a move to a new location in Mid-City Los Angeles this year. A longtime fixture at LACMA’s Bing Theatre, the event will be held [...]
Saxophonist Mindi Abair to Appear in Upcoming Adam Sandler Movie
Posted: April 13, 2010 in Movies, Smooth JazzTags: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Just Go With It, Mindi Abair
Next year, saxophonist Mindi Abair will be sharing the big screen with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in a movie called Just Go With It. Abair will be playing herself as a wedding band member. Abair says the singer in the band even performs a rap with her name in it, saying “Playing sax with [...]
