The date for Rochdale's Christmas lights switch-on has been confirmed as the borough prepares to welcome the festive season in 2023.
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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic If there’s a pop musician of the last 60 years who deserves a great documentary, it’s Antonio Carlos Jobim. Some might bristle at my description of him as “pop.” In Brazil, where Jobim, one of the prime architects of bossa nova, is considered a national treasure, he’s simply thought of as a composer, placed on a pedestal along with classical Brazilian composers like Heitor Villa-Lobos. Jobim’s gorgeously complex chord structures — the aural equivalent of melty-colored Impressionist paintings — were arguably more jazz than pop.
Yet we’re long past the point where pop can’t include all that. Just consider Steely Dan’s “Aja,” an album of luminous jazz modalities that also happens to be the purest pop. Jobim, though he wrote in assorted forms, was quintessentially a composer of pop songs, and they had a tranquil forlorn incandescence all their own.
There was something in the air in the ’60s and early ’70s, a beckoning romanticism that informed the work of three artists I think of as a holy trinity: Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, and Jobim. They were kindred spirits of wistful love songs who mingled devotion with the most delicate heartbreak. And they were all harmonic geniuses.
So yes, the artistry of Jobim deserves the insightful cinematic exploration it has never quite gotten. I saw a tasty thrown-together Jobim documentary at Cannes in 2012 — “A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim,” which is nothing more than a shimmering assemblage of concert clips. (It was never distributed in the U.S.) And now we have “Elis & Tom,” a documentary that chronicles the creation of one of Jobim’s most celebrated projects: the 1974 collaborative album “Elis & Tom,” in which he provided the music for a series of songs
.The date for Rochdale's Christmas lights switch-on has been confirmed as the borough prepares to welcome the festive season in 2023.
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Has Hollywood moved on from Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last year? Maybe everyone else has, but Jada Pinkett Smith wants to touch upon it one more time. EW reports (via a new People interview with the actress) that Pinkett Smith was as shocked as everybody else when her husband went onstage and smacked the Oscars host.
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer From hip-hop’s earliest days, female rappers have had to fight for attention, let alone respect. Since the rap song category debuted in 2004, the award has been given to precisely one female rapper: Megan Thee Stallion, for her “Savage” remix, which got an assist (and some vital Grammy familiarity) from featured artist Beyoncé in 2021.
Worthy, to Hoda Kotb on that . Jada confirmed that she and Will have been living “completely separate lives” and divorced in all but name for seven years, but still pretending to be more-or-less happily married for all of that time.So, they weren't together when she and Will had that tearful conversation about their marriage on .
Wow! Jada Pinkett Smith is finally telling the truth about a MAJOR life sitch after nearly a decade of lying! While promoting her book Worthy, out o
This Morning fans have noticed a problem with the tribute to Holly Willoughby that aired on the latest show, after she announced that she was leaving following 14 years of hosting it. Holly, 42, made the announcement via Instagram on Tuesday, 10 October.
If there was a Mount Rushmore of rock bands, there’s no doubt The Rolling Stones would be chosen. They are one of the most famous musical acts to ever exist.
Billboard, in an interview published on Thursday. “Am I allowed to say that?”Murgatroyd, 37, who is currently teamed with The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams, did not reveal, however, what episode it will be.ABC has not confirmed about a possible Swift night.