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Upcoming Festival Screenings!

“Provocative…”—Los Angeles Times

“A celebration of the roots of the creative process,”—Huffington Post

“Without a doubt the best series on jazz that’s ever been produced.”—All About Jazz

Never before has jazz music meant so many different things to so many different people.  From hip-hop to be-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 and lives of the new generation of jazz musicians,

Features some of today’s brightest talent, including Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Bill Frisell, Bugge Wesseltoft, Esperanza Spalding, Ravi Coltrane, Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Miguel Zenon, Medeski Martin & Wood, and many more.  Also included are these artists’ legendary predecessors Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Wynton Marsalis.

From the Motion Picture Icons Among Us: Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood at The Moore Theater, Seattle, WA, 9/14/07

Upcoming theatrical screenings of Icons Among Us: jazz in the present tense:

October 2: Sound Unseen Festival, Minneapolis, MN.

7:15 pm – Oak Street Cinema, 309 Oak Street SE

October 3: Ellensburg Film Festival, Ellensburg, WA.

7 pm – Music Bldg. Recital Hall, Central Washington University

October 4: Miami Jazz Film Festival, Miami, FL.

5 pm – Tower Theater, 1508 SW 8th Street, Miami

info: 305-662-8889

October 7: A Benefit for the Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA.

6 pm – Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall, 3rd Floor

For info & tickets: 504.865.2074, montage.loyno.edu

October 11 & 15: Mill Valley Film Festival, San Rafael, CA.

Oct. 11, 4 pm – CinéArts @ Sequoia 2

(also 10/11, 8 pm – Rob Wasserman, Will Bernard & Dale Fanning performing @ Throckmorton Theatre)

Oct. 15, 6:30 pm, Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center 3

October 21: Doctoberfest, Gloucester, MA.

7:30 pm – Cape Ann Community Cinema, 21 Main Street – 2nd Floor

Tickets: http://www.massbayfilmproject.org/tickets.html/#iconsamongus

October 30: AFI Fest, Hollywood, CA.

7:30 pm – Grauman’s Chinese Theater, 6925 Hollywood Blvd.

October 31 & November 2: Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle, WA.

Oct. 31, 7 pm & 9 pm – Northwest Film Forum, 1515 – 12th Avenue

Nov. 2, 7 pm & 9 pm – Northwest Film Forum, 1515 – 12th Avenue

October 31 & November 2: InEdit Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain.