Happy Birthday! Ornette Coleman Turns 80.

Ornette Coleman was one of the great Free Jazz innovators of the 1960’s. His epoch-making record “Free Jazz” was released by Atlantic Records at the dawn of that decade. This all-star album features Eric Dolphy, Don Cherry, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro, Ed Blackwell and Billy Higgins. Coleman released over 50 LP’s as a band leader. His most recent record, “Sound Grammar”, was recorded live Ludwigshafen in 2005. It won the Pulitzer Prize for music. Shirley Clarke’s Film on realeyz.tv  Ornette: Made in America throws an interesting light on Coleman’s life and work.

Kim Longinotto Speaks with Lou Bolch (Community Channel)

Source: Community Channel

Journalist Lou Bolch interviews Kim Longinotto, director of DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET, SHINJUKU BOYS, HOLD ME TIGHT LET ME GO, RUNAWAY, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, HIDDEN FACES and SISTERS IN LAW. Watch the interview on Community Channel. Longinotto explains her unique approach to filming difficult subject matter and intimate situations. She reminisces about the strong and inspiring women and girls portrayed in her documentaries and the bonds she manages to forge with them.

HERETICS - Joan Braderman pays tribute to Second Wave Feminism

Joan Braderman, whose 80s stand-up media critique classic JOAN DOES DYNASTY is on realeyz.tv, has just released her latest film Heretics. It’s a stylish and insightful documentary about legendary collective second wave feminist journal Heresies.

More information about the project here. (more…)

THE FUGS release album with new material - featuring Tuli Kupferberg

Source: THE SIXTIES blog

Rock pioneers THE FUGS - the world’s first major underground/punk group - will release their final, and arguably best-ever studio recording - BE FREE! FINAL CD (PART 2), on February 23, 2010. (more…)

Tesla news

The new Tesla documentary “On the Road to Tesla”, was selected for the dragon forum film production workshop in Warsaw beginning March 10, 2010. This means that a new docu-fiction about Nikola Tesla, the man who invented the 20th century, is about to be produced. It’ll be inspiring to see Tesla’s life, his approach and his impact on technology and modern society in fabulous on-screen pictures.

The new 43-minute presentation on Tesla will be shown in Vienna on March 12, 2010 during the opening night of the Tesla Symposiom, with Tesla celebrities such as Konstantin Meyl, PhD., Joerg Schauberger, Paul laViolette, PhD., and Leslie Szabo presenting his 50 KW- overunity-system. Come to see the future!

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