Word: musician
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...just me, or does this sound like an R. Kelly song? A 24-year-old Brooklyn musician named Michael Gregory has combined a number of evening news broadcast clips and turned them into a vaguely acceptable faux R&B series called Auto-Tune the News. The first video featured Newt Gingrich, the NCAA Championships and Joe Biden. But this one? This one has a gorilla...
...really sure why there's a gorilla, but I'm also not really sure that it matters. What does matter is the fact that Katie Couric (a.k.a. "Shorty") performs a touching solo about the fragility of our planet's ecosystem. Watch out, Bono, there's another socially conscious musician out there, and she wants to save the polar...
...story (already aired on 60 Minutes) of a homeless, schizophrenic cellist befriended by a Los Angeles Times columnist, it's the sort of serioso uplifter that usually gets released in December and garners major awards. Its stars have been in aisle seats on Oscar Night: Jamie Foxx as the musician, Robert Downey, Jr., as the newspaperman. But The Soloist was pulled from a late-year release, to be dumped in the no-man's-land of late April. And though the film nabbed respectful reviews, audiences were quick to realize it was neither Iron Man nor Ray. Directed...
...jazz drummer Roy Haynes. Everett says that a Jazz Master in Residence “usually means a senior member in the jazz community, somebody that has their own identifiable sound, and Roy, when he plays, has his own sound. He is also quite an underrated jazz master and musician that really deserves the honor.” Everett and a committee made up of several people from the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson chose Roy Haynes from the top of their list. “Roy Haynes...
...reclaim what’s been lost? This does not take away from the genuine nature of the film’s performances. After an Oscar-winning portrayal of musical genius Ray Charles in 2004, Foxx does not disappoint with his take on the remarkably idiosyncratic, capricious, and conflicted musician Ayers. Robert Downey Jr. has a much less dramatic character to work with, but he manages to spin Lopez into a quirky, not completely selfless version of the quixotic hero. The problem lies not in the dynamic between the two men but rather in the seemingly arbitrary twists and turns...