Till Bronner & Bob James –
On Vacation (Masterworks): “Together with jazz legend and Grammy award winner Bob James, trumpeter Till Brönner – Germany’s most successful jazz musician – has transformed holiday moods into a multi-layered sound painting. Close your eyes and dream: “On Vacation is first and foremost a feeling for me and we have transformed this feeling into music,” explains BrönnerVirtuosic, full of creative love for refined details and at the same time of the greatest possible nonchalance, Brönner and James create an imaginative and sonorous music for inspiration, reflection and daydreaming. Confirming the cliché “Unity is Strength”, German trumpetist and singer Till Brönner and the American pianist Bob James have cowritten On Vacation, a work of smooth, hedonistic jazz. Before becoming the king of smooth jazz who has been sampled by every rapper on the planet (his Nautilus has ended up on over 400 tracks by the likes of Public Enemy, A Tribe Call
Horror History: Happy Birthday IDLE HANDS & IT Star Seth Green!
On this day in horror history, Robot Chicken creator and Idle Hands and IT star Seth Green was born in Philadelphia in 1974. By Mike Sprague
Idle Hands and
My Stepmother Is an Alien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ticks, and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
The first thing I remember seeing Green in was
Airborne.
Robot Chicken. That or for his role as Scott Evil in
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and
Austin Powers in Goldmember. And let’s not forget the classic (to some) comedies
We Summon the Darkness,
Hunter Hunter features a seemingly simple premise gone straight to Hell. And it’s a slow and painful journey. Devon Sawa (
Idle Hands) stars as a husband and father hunting a wolf in the woods. Simple, right? And, man, I thought I had this movie pegged from the get-go. But boy, was I wrong. I think what makes the movie so effective is we keep waiting for a major twist ending. And it never comes. Only the final realization this wasn’t a magic trick. Just a good old fashion nightmare. Monsters and all. Strong turns by Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell, and Nick Stahl make the matters all the more horrific.
A Tribute to Those We Lost in 2020
January 1, 2021 by:
As 2020 comes to a close, we here at JoBlo.com would like to take a moment to honour some of the people who sadly passed away this year. Our deepest respect goes out to everyone in the industry we have lost, and our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of those who died in 2020. These talented individuals will always be remembered for their impact on the world of film and television.
In Memory Of.
Buck Henry
Buck Henry passed away on January 8th at the age of 89 due to a heart attack. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Henry joined The Premise, an improv comedy group that performed in the West Village in Manhattan. From there, Henry went on to write for Steve Allen and Garry Moore, and he was even the face of an elaborate hoax created by comedian Alan Abel that spanned close to three years. Henry made many public appearances as G. Clifford Prout, the president of the Society for Indecency