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Post by whitefang on Aug 28, 2019 9:56:11 GMT -5
Wow.... You watch ALL these documentaries? How do you find time for anything ELSE? Whitefang I'm a retiree Hey, I'm a retiree too, but still------------ Whitefang
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Sept 2, 2019 18:05:44 GMT -5
'Music From The Big House'
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Sept 6, 2019 18:19:03 GMT -5
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Sept 11, 2019 10:17:17 GMT -5
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Sept 12, 2019 15:38:19 GMT -5
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Post by tinsmith on Sept 20, 2019 22:45:55 GMT -5
Two guys....holdin' down the fort.....
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Sept 26, 2019 17:35:15 GMT -5
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Nov 12, 2019 17:12:47 GMT -5
Paradise Boogie (2018)
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Post by whitefang on Nov 13, 2019 10:55:48 GMT -5
I'll have to find a way to view that Doc, Scorpio. The title to me(a lifetime Detroit area resident) first made me wonder if the Paradise Theater had anything to do with it(or vice-versa) which was originally Detroit's Orchestra Hall on Woodward Ave. until the '40's when it changed hands and became the Paradise Theater, a home for local and visiting jazz and dance bands. That closed down by the end of that decade and sat vacant until the late '60's and plans for renovation began. Orchestra Hall reopened in 1989 and saw the DSO move back from their then current home of Ford Auditorium, which by 1995 discontinued use as a multi purpose venue(rock concerts, high school commencements and such. I saw The Mothers Of Invention there in late '67, and several other rock and fusion concerts, and my first symphony concerts I attended as well.) Liked that quick flash sight of the Check Mate club sign, on Livernois and McNichols, in the middle of Detroit's "Avenue of Fashion" and where me and some buddies would go in the late '60s to hear local blues bands and The Blues Magoos in their early days. We were 16 and you had to be 21 to get in, but thanks to a buddy's older brother, who worked there,he snuck us in. But, that intersection of HASTINGS ST. and FOREST ST. was in the middle of what then was known as The "Black Bottom" and also as "Paradise Valley", which is probably what the title was referring to. And also the location of Detroit's first major race riot in 1943. Whitefang
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Feb 9, 2020 11:54:24 GMT -5
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2015)
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Feb 10, 2020 9:39:13 GMT -5
Mister Soul: A Story about Donny Hathaway (2020) www.facebook.com/vpro/videos/656233421840663/The legendary American soul singer Donny Hathaway is considered a genius and was a source of inspiration amongst artists like Stevie Wonder and Amy Winehouse. In the midst of his success, however, he got diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Take this poetic musical journey with us, to find out how Hathaway tried to find some sort of balance between his genius world of music and the darkness of his mental state.(IMDb)
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Post by whitefang on Feb 10, 2020 10:34:30 GMT -5
Personally, I'd fall short of considering Hathaway a "genius", but then, that word has been bandied about in the music industry so much that even just a creative songwriter( and there are plenty of them) gets bestowed as a "genius".
Sadly, as uniquely creative Hathaway was as a songwriter, he's mostly best known for his duets with Roberta Flack and his suicide at age 33( which most likely "inspired" a flake like Winehouse) And in comparison to those more recent singers who call themselves "soul" singers, it's clear Donny blows them out of the water. He was one of the good 'uns. Whitefang
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Mar 8, 2020 10:37:13 GMT -5
Miles Davis: Birth of The Cool (2019)
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Post by whitefang on Mar 9, 2020 9:22:48 GMT -5
The PBS program "American Masters" recently did a show about Miles. Whitefang
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Mar 9, 2020 13:32:04 GMT -5
The PBS program "American Masters" recently did a show about Miles. Whitefang That's the aforementioned documentary.
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