Eric Clapton has a long-standing music and personal relationship with B.B. King. In 2010, B.B. came to play at Clapton’s charity concert, the Crossroads Music Festival. This cut is B.B.and Clapton doing the “Thrill is Gone“. The Fine Print. Embed courtesy of YouTube. Originally posted to YouTube by Jovan Stojanovic. All rights reserved by respective …
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The Weekend Concert Series: B.B. King Live at Montreaux Jazz Festival, 1993.
B.B. King passed away this week at age 89. The very best way to honor B.B. King is to appreciate–again or for the first time–his special genius in making music. This weekend, the Concert Series focuses on the musical performances of B.B. King. Up first, a series of videos of B.B. at the Montreaux Jazz Fesitval, …
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The Thrill Is Gone: B.B. King Dies at 89
Editor’s Note: We’ve interrupted the planned multi-day run of Gay Talese’s seminal profile of Frank Sinatra to pay tribute to another music giant who passed today. The Sinatra profile will be re-posted at a later date…or..you can just scroll down from this post to find it. Transitions: Riley B. King, known all over the world …
The Weekend Concert Series: Bruno Mars Summer Soul Festival
The Hunt for New Music. Bruno Mars is a living testimony to what happens when you just don’t quit. He was born into a family of musicians and his natural talent for music was obvious at a very early age. But–he struggled. A deal with Motown didn’t work out . A management deal with Will. i. …
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The Art of The Movie Trailer: Spectre
iPaying Attention. The James Bond movie series totals 25 films, 23 of them produced by Eon Productions, who now holds all of the rights to the Ian Fleming novels (and spinoffs) that first popularized James Bond in print. The James Bond movies are the single most successful movie franchise ever created and are justifiably well known for their spectacular …
The Weekend Concert Series: Phil Collins-The Last Farewell Tour
The Hunt For New Music: Phil Collins is not a new musician but he has produced such a body of work, that some of his songs may be new to you, despite his worldwide fame and success. Collins has enjoyed a very successful career, first as the drummer/singer for Genesis, where he replaced the talented Peter …
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The Weekend Concert Series: St. Paul and The Broken Bones
The Hunt For New Music. St. Paul and The Broken Bones are breaking out. The seven piece band from Birmingham, Alabama plays R&B and soul with an intensity and urgency seldom seen on stage. Fronted by singer Paul Janeway, who commands the stage with messianic presence and energy, the band of Janeway (vocals), guitarist Browan Lollar, bassist …
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The Art of The Movie Trailer
Paying Attention. This is the big one: the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. At the time of this posting, it had been viewed 30,000,000 plus times. Not only is the trailer itself very, very good (you’d expect as much from a J.J. Abrams film project) but the Force is still in the audience for …
The Art of The Movie Trailer
Paying Attention. Movie trailers are among our highest media arts. We don’t tend to look at them quite that way–some would say they’re just commercials for a film and that is certainly their purpose, but in the right hands, with the right attitude, a movie trailer becomes an art form with an approximately two and one …
The Weekend Concert Series: Ed Sheeran Live in Dublin on the Irish Leg of the Multiply Tour
Ed Sheeran is not just a massive talent, he is a very kind, very human artist, of the type we simply do not see enough of these days. This concert was filmed lived in Dublin and was part of Ed’s Multiply tour (you knew the X on the album meant “multiply”, not “x”, of course) …