A definite companion piece to the BBC’s When Albums Ruled the World (2013), The Joy of the Single covers similar ground in putting the love for an obsolete media format – RCA’s 7” 45 RPM platter – which in 1949 established a whole slew of conventions that still remain part of the way music is written, promoted, and enjoyed by the masses…
Long before When Jews Were Funny (2013), Alan Zweig directed this examination of extreme record collecting, focusing on several figures (mostly men) whose lives are surrounded by thousands of the round music platters…
An obvious companion piece to the BBC’s The Joy of the Single (2012), When Albums Ruled the World gets into the rock doc genre with this taut, prescient chronology of how the lowly long-playing record managed to offer jazz and soon after rock musicians powerful opportunities to create concept albums rather than a series of short tunes the major record labels could spin-off as roughly 3 mins. singles…
Podcast with composer John Murphy regarding his latest album, Anonymous Rejected Filmscore (Taped Noise).
Reviews of two affecting docs – Dogs on the Inside (starts this Friday at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema) + Clark Terry, mentor supreme in Keep on Keepin’ On (Anchor Bay), plus some quick thoughts on getting into jazz.
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