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Apr 30, 2019
7 min

VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: Remembering Jazz on a Summer's Day

By Randy Freedman Set against the elegant and picturesque backdrop of Newport, RI at the height of its summer season, the film Jazz On A ...

Mar 27, 2019
6 min

VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: The Influence of Paul Bley

By Randy Freedman During an interview that Ben Ratliff, music critic, for the New York Times conducted with guitarist Pat Metheny in 2005...

Mar 4, 2019
5 min

VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: A Walk in the World Gardens

By Randy Freedman Any examination of the intersection and distinction between jazz and classical music and culture raises a couple of int...

Feb 1, 2019
8 min

VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: CONTROVERSY IS THE GREEN BOOK

By Randy Freedman Director Peter Farrelly's 2018 film The Green Book is a highly entertaining, yet disturbingly accurate and highly contr...

Nov 1, 2018
5 min

VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: A STAR IS BORN

By Randy Freedman A Star is Born: The Return Of The Hollywood Musical Whatis the definition of a big Hollywood motion picture musical in ...

Oct 2, 2018
7 min

VIEW FROM THE INSIDE

By Randy Freedman Amy Winehouse: Fading To Black The 2015 film Amy is director Asif Kasadia's behind the scenes look at the rise and fall...

Sep 5, 2018
5 min

VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: The Other Side of La La Land

by Randy Freedman Whether it’s just a brush of romantic license in how this film renders 1959 Los Angeles or the lush, warm and earthy to...

Jul 9, 2018
5 min

VIEW FROM THE INSIDE: RIDING WITH JOHN COLTRANE

by Randy Freedman Chasing Trane:The John Coltrane Documentary is a 2016 biographical motion picture celebrating, remembering, illustratin...

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