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
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The thriller Raise The Titanic was a $40m flop in 1980, its model Titanic alone costing millions. Ryan charts the replica's sad history...
By autumn 1977, author Clive Cussler was the toast of the publishing world. Following a decade of writing and two moderately successful novels, his third book, Raise The Titanic! was a runaway bestseller. Its popularity was a contrast to Cussler's earlier books, which had earned him a relatively meagre $5,000. But those earlier adventures - The Mediterranean Caper and Iceberg - helped establish the daring hero Dirk Pitt, a practical, earthy hero designed as a counterpoint to the suave, refined James Bond.
For Raise The Titanic!, Cussler dreamed up a scenario in which Pitt headed up a multi-billion-dollar operation to find and recover the doomed luxury liner, which sank in 1912. Their goal: to recover a mysterious, incredibly rare substance called byzantium from the ship's belly - a...
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The thriller Raise The Titanic was a $40m flop in 1980, its model Titanic alone costing millions. Ryan charts the replica's sad history...
By autumn 1977, author Clive Cussler was the toast of the publishing world. Following a decade of writing and two moderately successful novels, his third book, Raise The Titanic! was a runaway bestseller. Its popularity was a contrast to Cussler's earlier books, which had earned him a relatively meagre $5,000. But those earlier adventures - The Mediterranean Caper and Iceberg - helped establish the daring hero Dirk Pitt, a practical, earthy hero designed as a counterpoint to the suave, refined James Bond.
For Raise The Titanic!, Cussler dreamed up a scenario in which Pitt headed up a multi-billion-dollar operation to find and recover the doomed luxury liner, which sank in 1912. Their goal: to recover a mysterious, incredibly rare substance called byzantium from the ship's belly - a...
- 10/21/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Rex Robinson, known to TV audiences for his appearances in Doctor Who during the 1970s, has died aged 89.
The Derby-born star featured in three serials between 1972 and 1976.
Watch a clip of Rex Robinson in 1976 Doctor Who serial, 'The Hand of Fear' below:
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Steven Moffat is "changing the rhythm" of Doctor Who for series 9
Robinson played Dr. Tyler in 'The Three Doctors' and Gebek in 'The Monster of Peladon' - both oppposite Jon Pertwee.
He later starred alongside Tom Baker in 'The Hand of Fear' - and all three of his Doctor Who appearances were under the director Lennie Mayne.
Robinson's last credit was BBC Two's 1989 mini-series Shadow of the Noose and he also appeared in episodes of The Onedin Line, Only Fools and Horses and Yes Minister.
Roles in films including A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace...
The Derby-born star featured in three serials between 1972 and 1976.
Watch a clip of Rex Robinson in 1976 Doctor Who serial, 'The Hand of Fear' below:
15 greatest ever Doctor Who monsters ranked
Steven Moffat is "changing the rhythm" of Doctor Who for series 9
Robinson played Dr. Tyler in 'The Three Doctors' and Gebek in 'The Monster of Peladon' - both oppposite Jon Pertwee.
He later starred alongside Tom Baker in 'The Hand of Fear' - and all three of his Doctor Who appearances were under the director Lennie Mayne.
Robinson's last credit was BBC Two's 1989 mini-series Shadow of the Noose and he also appeared in episodes of The Onedin Line, Only Fools and Horses and Yes Minister.
Roles in films including A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace...
- 4/24/2015
- Digital Spy
Julien Temple's remarkable, heartwarming, superbly edited documentary combines music, archive footage, clips from old feature films and new interviews to create a vivid portrait of a changing London. Its collage technique, humanism and sympathy for ordinary people has much in common with the vision of Britain created by Danny Boyle's team for the opening of the Olympics, both evoking the spirit of the great Humphrey Jennings. It ranges in time from the last days of Victorian England to the present and takes in the Sidney Street siege, the Battle of Cable Street, the impact of two world wars, the Depression, postwar austerity, coronations, the arrival of new immigrants and the 2011 riots.
It's essentially a hopeful film about a vibrant city forever renewing itself. The imaginatively chosen music takes in the cockney knees-up of The Lambeth Walk, the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK and the genteel romanticism...
It's essentially a hopeful film about a vibrant city forever renewing itself. The imaginatively chosen music takes in the cockney knees-up of The Lambeth Walk, the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK and the genteel romanticism...
- 8/4/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Beloved by British troops for her outdoor concerts during World War II, Dame Vera Lynn now has a whole new flock of fans after penning a letter on behalf of PETA UK to Beverley Aspinall, managing director of Fortnum & Mason, asking her to stop the sale of the vile food product foie gras in the store.
In the letter, Dame Vera – who has long expressed her affinity for birds in lyrics such as those in the songs “(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover” and “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” – explains that foie gras production is so cruel that it’s banned in the UK.
“Britain has many things it can be proud of, and I consider our respect for the welfare of animals to be of them,” she wrote. "I was therefore most upset to learn that Fortnum & Mason stocks foie gras – a product so...
In the letter, Dame Vera – who has long expressed her affinity for birds in lyrics such as those in the songs “(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover” and “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” – explains that foie gras production is so cruel that it’s banned in the UK.
“Britain has many things it can be proud of, and I consider our respect for the welfare of animals to be of them,” she wrote. "I was therefore most upset to learn that Fortnum & Mason stocks foie gras – a product so...
- 11/30/2011
- Look to the Stars
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