by Bob Martin | Dec 20, 2018 | Actors, Art, Concerts, Film, Movies
Bohemian Rhapsody, It’s the Music. It’s the Energy and the Memories
See Queen! Listen to the music and the fun. It is not the “Phantom Thread” nor should it be. It is pure entertainment! And It makes no difference when it happened, date time or order, it’s the entertainment. Sing along if you know the words or just dance in your seats. Just go see it, it’s fun.
Note: With all public figure we never get the whole story because no really knows what that is.
Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury
by Bob Martin | Nov 13, 2016 | Art, Concerts, Events, Live Performance
50 years ago Duke Ellington and his band were invited to perform his concert along with the Trinity Cathedral Choir at the Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, Arizona. Last night I got to see an extraordinary and delightful performance in celebration of that event, performed by the Phoenix Chorale and the Mesa Community College Performing Arts Center Jazz Ensemble.
There is one more concert in the Phoenix Area today if you can get tickets, GO! a Lovely way to spend a Sunday. Tickets
by Bob Martin | Dec 27, 2012 | Actors, Art, Concerts, Directors, dvd, Exhibits, Film, Movies, music, Writing and Speaking
Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx
Quentin Tarantino, the over hyper creative genius, and his new film Django Unchained flirts with mastery. The film is maybe 15 min too long but its close enough(more about the 15 min later). If you’ve seen a ton of movies in your life, you will find a reference to just about every one of them in Django Unchained, that’s what Tarantino does, except in this one “The Guys with the White Hats” loses out. Directors like Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, George Stevens, Tim Burton and many more have contributed unknowingly to this creative effort and again this is no knock on Tarantino’s creative talents, it is his creative talent in using themes we are all familiar with and in some cases turning them upside down that makes us laugh and maybe even think.
The film makes no pretense that the story of Django is based on anything remotely true and yet still is able to paint an ugly picture about this country’s past. The movie is often hilarious, heart breaking (for some of us) and outrageous. Tarantino has created an African America Super Hero who rides a horse that mimics Trigger and thus slaps down the fable of “Guys with White Hats” being the good guys. There is room here for a sequel(s), the son of Django Part 2.
The movie is gory, so if you find vampires, Bruce Willis, Jason Bourne or Bambi disturbing you should avoid Django and not see it. The dialogue at times is that of two 9 year old inner city kids acting out scenes from a movie, with a child’s emphasis on vulgarity. As promised, the wasted 15 min: Cutting the number of times the N-word is used in half to about 70 would make the film shorter giving Tarantino his masterpiece. Spoiler alert, no other movie that I’ve ever seen has approached the subject of Black Slavers (Blacks who enslaved other Blacks) and while its not gone into in great depth it has not been swept under the rug either and I am not sure how open Black America is to this fact. In addition Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) is an important and complex character in the film, similar to, but a more repulsive, Colonel Nicholson (Bridge on the River Kwai) who are both blinded to their own culpability.
Django Unchained is enormously entertaining and not a source for cultural or political debate and yet people will feel a need to see it as some referendum about current, past or future events. What can be debated is that Tarantino got to do a film that no African American director would be allowed to do, and that should be debated (and not with me). Django is a movie, just like Les Miserables, Jack Reacher, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook are all just movies. Django just happens to be really good.
- Django Unchained: A love Story (visionarywateringhole.wordpress.com)
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- Django Unchained is a heroic love story
- http://sonofbaldwin.tumblr.com/post/37790755920/to-be-unchained
by Bob Martin | Dec 14, 2012 | Art, Concerts, Events, Live Performance
Milton is inviting you to
‘The Party’
Come and let there be an experience of a wonderful event . .
Portrait of Jazz
full of fun, dancing, laughter and genuine enjoyment!
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The Prescott Jazz Society has continued this
Birthday-Christmas event through
the years offering the best in entertainment.
* This year you may review videos of ‘Prescott Jazz Legends’,
enjoy dining choices from a great American Buffet,
listen to a top-shelf Jazz Quartet featuring vocalist & pianist Steve Sandner
w/Ray Carter and drummer Jesse Yarbrough w/myself, Milt Cannon.
* Cocktails, dinner and concert will be from 3:00 – 7:00 pm.
* For the first time ever there will be dancing from 6:00 – 8:00 pm with
the disco band FUNK FREQUENCY (a very very exciting dance band).
* Also for the first time there will be the auctioning of a ‘Portrait of Jazz’.
(handsome adornment for the wall of any home or office)
Milt Cannon and Bob Martin’s Birthday.
The artwork has been donated to the Society by the gifted Phoenix, AZ
artist Bob S. Martin who will attend and also celebrate
the same birthdate as myself. Milton is inviting you to
‘The Party’
Come and let there be an experience of a wonderful event . .
full of fun, dancing, laughter and genuine enjoyment!
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The Prescott Jazz Society has continued this
Birthday-Christmas event through
the years offering the best in entertainment.
* This year you may review videos of ‘Prescott Jazz Legends’,
enjoy dining choices from a great American Buffet,
listen to a top-shelf Jazz Quartet featuring vocalist & pianist Steve Sandner
w/Ray Carter and drummer Jesse Yarbrough w/myself, Milt Cannon.
* Cocktails, dinner and concert will be from 3:00 – 7:00 pm.
* For the first time ever there will be dancing from 6:00 – 8:00 pm with
the disco band FUNK FREQUENCY (a very very exciting dance band).
* Also for the first time there will be the auctioning of a ‘Portrait of Jazz’.
(handsome adornment for the wall of any home or office)
The artwork has been donated to the Society by the gifted Phoenix, AZ
artist Bob S. Martin who will attend and also celebrate
the same birthdate as myself.
* Pricing: the Prescott Jazz Society remains true to our history of
offering you the maximum for the barest minimum.
$45.00 pp (reservation only- membership discount applies)
ADVANCE V. I. P. is only $38.00 pp (until Dec., 1)
(comes w/preferred seating with table service)
General Admission: $25.00 pp (no dinner; no table service)
* Please call now! (928) 237-7908 for early reservation
HASSAYAMPA INN~MARINA, 122 E.GURLEY ST., PRESCOTT, AZ
* Pricing: the Prescott Jazz Society remains true to our history of
offering you the maximum for the barest minimum.
$45.00 pp (reservation only- membership discount applies)
ADVANCE V. I. P. is only $38.00 pp (until Dec., 1)
(comes w/preferred seating with table service)
General Admission: $25.00 pp (no dinner; no table service)
* Please call now! (928) 237-7908 for early reservation
HASSAYAMPA INN~MARINA, 122 E.GURLEY ST., PRESCOTT, AZ
by Bob Martin | Dec 19, 2011 | Art, Concerts, Live Performance, music
Dan Hicks will be celebrating his 70th birthday Friday, April 6, 8:00pm
at Davies Symphony Hall
(SF Jazz 2012)
with a reunion of the Hot Licks band and promising special guest joining in. I love when the artist preforms for his/her on celebration.
On April 19th, Anoushka Shankar will be at the Herbst Theatre celebrating being exceptional.
There is so much more music happening every year, throughout the year with the SFJazz series. San Francisco is a fun place. If you are traveling to the Bay area between February and late June of next year and you love live music in great settings, check out SF Jazz
by Sandy | Sep 12, 2011 | Blogroll, Concerts, Culture, music
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Jimmy Heath and Jon Hendricks in concert on Saturday September 24, 2011. These 2 legends are still making great music.
“Jazz royalty begins the 2011-12 JALC season with two NEA Jazz Masters, both stylish veterans who are still finding new ways to swing. A triple threat as a composer, arranger, and player, Jimmy Heath was already a forward-looking musician when he formed his first orchestra in 1947, and has remained so… The ageless Jon Hendricks rose to fame with the renowned vocalese group, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross…he’ll revisit favorites from the LHR repertoire…”
An Evening with Jimmy Heath & Jon Hendricks
Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC – September 24, 2011
FYI: Fantastic album from 1959!
