Television
Jazz on Television for Christmas? I Think, YES!!!!
by jazzcat on Nov.10, 2015, under Events, Jazzcat Hosting, Television
“The Jazz Creative” New Weekly Music Television Series Launches Across the U.S. September 20
by jazzcat on Sep.15, 2015, under Events, Jazzcat Hosting, News, Television
‘Live From the Blue Whale’ has a BRAND New NAME
The Jazz Creative: Weekly Music Television Series
Launches Across the U.S. September 20th
All Music Television Network bows its first program produced by Emmy-winning veteran Frederick Smith Jr. and hosted by celebrated jazz personality LeRoy Downs!
LOS ANGELES – Showcasing today’s biggest and brightest stars blending jazz, blues, hip-hop, funk and soul, “The Jazz Creative,” a new weekly 30-minute music television series, will begin airing on September 20, today announced three-time Emmy Award-winning producer Frederick Smith Jr., founder and president of All Music Television Network. Over the next three months, the show will be available online and to 25 television stations reaching 20+ million households in many of the top 150 DMAs, including New York and Los Angeles.
Hosted by Los Angeles radio personality LeRoy Downs, the Jazzcat, “The Jazz Creative” is expertly curated and produced with exclusive interviews and intimate performances by emerging and established artists. The Jazz Creative will be filmed on location at clubs and venues around the country like our first episode filmed from the Blue Whale in Downtown Los Angeles, a widely regarded home to the sounds of a new generation of groundbreaking artists.
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“With hot young musicians such as Gerald Clayton, Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin leading the way, we believe ‘The Jazz Creative’ will be the start of a new era for this most resilient and beloved style of music,” said Smith. “Jazz is America’s original art form and continues to reflect our diverse culture.”
GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Gerald Clayton and guitarist Matthew Stevens are profiled in the first show, with saxophone sensation Kamasi Washington, trumpeter Marquis Hill, pianist Kris Bowers and 2015 Monterey Jazz Festival artists and highlights slated for future episodes.
“The Jazz Creative” will air after “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) and “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS) in select markets. The series will also be available by subscription online at allmusictelevision.net and on digital platforms including Roku, Apple TV and other OTT devices and services. Click below for local listings http://www.allmusictelevision.net/#!where-does-lfbw-air/c13f3
Aimed to appeal to millennials and boomers alike, the program presents rising stars and music legends captured live in concert and in conversation at the world-famous jazz clubs, venues and festivals around the globe. Downs, a Los Angeles jazz radio program, will also debut the online jazz radio station “Sounds and Colors Radio” in November.
“LeRoy Downs is passionate about jazz and brings the experience of a lifetime of listening,” said 2015 NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd.
“LeRoy Downs has brought his passion and comprehensive knowledge of Jazz to American radio audiences for years, and now with “Live From the Blue Whale”, television audiences can experience first-hand this vital art form in an intimate ‘workshop’ setting in Downtown LA’s hippest listening room. LeRoy is a man you can trust to open your ears, mind and soul to the real deal!”
All Music Television Network (AMTV)
All Music Television LLC is an independently-owned production and distribution company based in Los Angeles that specializes in the development, production and distribution of music and sports related television projects for local and network broadcast, cable, digital, social media and ancillary distribution markets. Global in reach but local in taste, AMTV is a new source for everything music. AllMusicTelevision.net
Frederick Smith Jr.
Three-time Sports Emmy Award winner Frederick Smith Jr. is the founder and president of All Music Television LLC. He helped launch NBC’s “NBA Inside Stuff” and served as the Los Angeles producer for NBA Entertainment. For 20 years at CBS Sports, Smith was responsible for many of the most iconic and enduring images in the history of televised sports. For 17 years, he worked on CBS’ “Late Late Show” as a video editor and producer. In 2001, Smith founded HoopTV.net, which became the pre- eminent high school and college video recruiting service in the nation and was sold to Maxx Athlete. He has produced and directed shows, games and videos for ESPN, CBS, BET, NBA, NBC and Fox Sports.
From left: Host LeRoy Downs, the Jazzcat, GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Gerald Clayton and Emmy-winning producer Frederick Smith Jr. of “The Jazz Creative.” (Photo: Bob Barry Jazzography)
LeRoy Downs
Known as “The Jazzcat,” Downs has broadcast in Los Angeles on KJazz 88.1 FM as well as KCRW 89.9 FM, KPFK 90.7 FM, KXLU 88.9 FM, 1410 AM KRML in Carmel and KRML 94.7 FM in the Monterey area. For the past 15 years, he has hosted the Monterey Jazz Festival and has been Master of Ceremonies for the Angel City Jazz Festival, the Playboy Jazz Cruise, KPFK’s Hero Awards Tribute to Billy Higgins, The 2015 KJazz Summer Benefit concert and several of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz competitions, among other events. TheJazzcat.net.
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“The Jazz Creative” Promo
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“Live From the Blue Whale” host LeRoy Downs, the Jazzcat (left) and All Music Television Founder and President Frederick Smith Jr. (right). (Photo: Bob Barry Jazzography)
BENNIE MAUPIN’s 75TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION TONIGHT at The Blue Whale
by jazzcat on Aug.29, 2015, under Events, Interviews, Jazzcat Hosting, Television
Come and celebrate the Birth of the Really Cool, Bennie Maupin! For 75 years our world has been given the gift of music through the perception of this extraordinary gentleman!
BENNIE MAUPIN 75TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
at The Blue Whale
Saturday night August 29th
9PM
Two new players in the game… Chitown in the house!!!!
Jeff Parker and Josh Johnson
Of course featuring the brilliance of ..
Patrice Rushen, Darek Oles, Munyungo Jackson and Gene Coye
LeRoy Downs honored and privileged to be your host!
A joyous occasion and great opportunity to see and here our very own Bennie Maupin and explore the enchantment of his adventurous sound; present and future with a giant footprint in the past!
Please be respectful…..
NO SINGLE LENS REFLEX CAMERAS or FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY,
AUDIO OR VIDEO RECORDINGS WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION FROM
MANAGEMENT OR THE ARTIST
Happy International Jazz Day! Check out the 2 hour Re-Broadcast from Paris!!
by jazzcat on Apr.30, 2015, under Events, Television
Sounds and Colors Interview with Kamasi Washington “The EPIC”
by jazzcat on Apr.29, 2015, under Interviews, Jazzcat Hosting, News, Television
Click and Enjoy Los Angeles Saxophonist Kamasi Washington as he talks about the new release “The EPIC” hitting the stores next week! Don’t miss the stunning performance on Monday May 4th at The Regent Theater in Downtown Los Angeles!
The Epic is a 172-minute, three-record set that includes a 32-piece orchestra, a 20-person choir, and 17 songs overlaid with a compositional score written by Washington. Pulsing underneath is an otherworldly ten-piece band, each member of which is individually regarded as among the best young musicians on the planet
Featuring: The Next Step
Kamasi Washington (Saxophone)
Ryan Porter (Trombone)
Dontae Winslow (Trumpet)
Patrice Quinn (Vocal)
Cameron Graves (Piano)
Brandon Coleman (Keyborads) Miles Mosley (Upright Bass) Stephen Bruner (Electric Bass) Tony Austin (Drums) Ronald Bruner (Drums) Leon Mobely (Percussion)
W/ Special Guests:
Battlecat, Dwight Tribble, Rickey Washington, Terrace Martin and more TBA.
String and Choir Conductor: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
String Section:
Paul Cartwright (Violin)
Tylana Renga (Violin)
Jim Simone (Violin)
Molly Rogers (Viola)
Andrea Witt (Viola)
Ginger Murphy (Cello)
Atryom Manukyan (Cello)
Choir:
Charles Jones
Dawn Norsleet
Mashica Winslow
Nia Andrews
Steven Wayne
Taylor Graves
Thalma de Freitas
DJ Sets by:
Daddy Kev (Low End Theory), more TBA
21+
Doors Open at 8pm
Regent Theatre: 448 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA. 90013
Click for Directions
Online Tickets and Info: ArtDontSleep.com
$23 Limited Presale Tickets
All Music Television :30 Sec Promo
by jazzcat on Feb.02, 2015, under Events, Jazzcat Hosting, Television
All Music Television :30 Sec Promo from Morning Music TV on Vimeo.
All Music Television set to launch All New 24/7/365 Digital Music Television Network on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 featuring a series of exclusive, up close, personal and revealing interviews, recorded at the iconic Sonos Studio in Hollywood, Ca. with some of the hottest and brightest young stars in music today, including…
Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition winners Kris Bowers and, Marquis Hill,Los Angeles’ own super sax man Kamasi Washington and up & coming Northern California rapper Cash L3wis.
Hosted by popular LA jazz radio personality LeRoy Downs and television personality Patricia Cage, All Music Television aims to bring music and musicians back to television. All Music Television is also set to launch a slate of new music programming, including Morning Music TV, Midnight Music TV, Weekend Music TV andBlowing Changes.
The new shows, music, music videos, live music, festival and concert programming will be available online, 24/7/365 at www.allmusictelevision.net
All Music Television in 2015!
by jazzcat on Jan.19, 2015, under Events, Jazzcat Hosting, Television
Hello Everyone,
Here we are at the beginning of a brand New Year with so much beauty ahead of us. Everyone has resolutions, new ideas, new projects, new ways of thinking and being and the real question is, “What are we going to do to contribute” to our planet? Well, All Music Television and Sonos Studios has gotten off to a great start with the first iteration of the All Music Television Network!
Today we conducted interviews with some monsters in the music who are carving out paths of honesty, beauty and grace with their music and their accomplishments. Sonos Studio is onboard with the concept for a new television network. 2014 Thelonious Monk Trumpet Competition winner Marquis Hill, pianist Kris Bowers and rapper Cash L3wis all came by the studio to share their knowledge,wisdom and stories about the music.
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Right off a direct flight from Philly and straight to the studio, Los Angeles’ very own Kamasi Washington joined host LeRoy Downs to talk about the new album, playing on the road with Chaka Khan and Harvey Mason and the life of a creative musician!
The brainchild of television producer Fredrick Smith is to create a television network where people can come and experience all kinds of music.
Not one that repeats and concentrates on the same popular music that you always hear, but one where young people are speaking, creating, singing and playing music that moves a new generation!
Patricia Cage is the other host and she spent some great time getting to know Kris Bowers and the impetus behind the the multifaceted pianist. Coming soon to a television near you! All Music Television! We will keep you posted!!!
Make Music LA Holiday Flash Mob Concert at City National Plaza 2014!
by jazzcat on Dec.19, 2014, under Events, Jazzcat Hosting, Television
The Jazzcat has a NEW APP for your mobile devices!!!!
by jazzcat on Aug.31, 2014, under Download The Jazzcat App!, Events, Festivals, Interviews, Jazzcat Hosting, News, Photos, Radio, Television
Yes indeed!! The Jazzcat has a new app that you can download to your mobile devices so let’s roll together. The app is full of content that contains radio archives, performance recommendations, articles, over 150 interviews with you favorite jazz artists and so much more. Download it and check it out!!!
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1) Click the link http://my.yapp.us/THEJAZZCAT
Your phone or mobile device will direct you to your App store and ask you to download the free application YAPP!
2) Download it! Of course this will require that you remember you password!
3) Once you do, select Download and existing app
The application will appear and then you can explore!!!
Lots to see, hear and read and I will be updating it all of the with Jazz content that I know you will enjoy!
Thanks!
LeRoy Downs
TheJazzcat
Screening of "Icons Among Us" on Dec 7th at the Barnsdall Gallery!
by jazzcat on Nov.24, 2010, under Events, News, Television
“Icons Among Us” is one of the most preeminent jazz documentaries of our times!
This Film Screens in Los Angeles on
Dec 7th at 7pm
The
Barnsdall Arts Gallery
Jazz is
undergoing changes of monumental magnitude and importance. Icons
Among Us: jazz in the present
tense, is a documentary film series that captures the metamorphosis of jazz
by showcasing the words, music, and spirit of the artists that are paving the
way for an unprecedented musical revolution.
Through
interviews and live performance footage, we explore the thoughts and lives of
the musicians spearheading today's jazz front lines. This diverse group of musicians, who have committed their
lives to their art, is being missed out on by mainstream media and popular
culture. They continue to record,
play live jazz, and exist in a world that has been distracted from their
brilliance.
Never before has
jazz music meant so many different things to so many different people. From hip-hop to bee-bop, from jam-band
to free-form, the music continues to grow and shape itself in ways as varied as
the musicians who play it. Icons Among Us is not a historical look
at what has been called “America's Music,” but rather a timely,
vibrant trip through the clubs, festivals, international scene, and lives of
the new generation of jazz musicians.
Jazz is
pulsing. In fact, its heart beats
more soundly than ever. Our film
will realign deep pockets of jazz listeners and introduce new audiences to a
varsity level playfield in music.
We wish to show jazz as it is today: an art form that is alive, is
vivacious and is constantly exchanging breath with other genres.
The filmmakers
believe that Icons Among Us is
hitting its stride at a critical moment in music history. Icons’
unique appeal will engage a largely untapped and growing audience of both the
culturally creative and the multi-generational music lovers. The market is ripe, and the musicians
are ready.
Jazz, like the
world we live in, is at a crossroads: continue to look in the rearview mirror,
ponder whether to turn left or right, or move ahead into uncharted territory by
way of innovation and passion. Icons Among Us tackles issues
head-on. It allows the musicians
to comment on their art form in a truly candid manor, and also allows the
viewer an opportunity to realize that the future of jazz is now.
This Film Screens in Los Angeles on
Dec 7th at 7pm
The
Barnsdall Arts Gallery
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