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'Don Cheadle Reveals Having White Co-Star a "Financial Imperative" for Financing

In keeping with the Oscars' "All White" scandal, Don Cheadle reveals that getting his Miles Davis biopic about the jazz trumpeting legend, entitled Miles Ahead, off the ground would have been an impossible feat had his co-star not been Caucasian. Casting Ewan McGregor as a fictitious Rolling Stone journalist, then, was a "financial imperative."
By Ian Holubiak

  • 'BLOGARRHEA: Talkin' Chet Baker, Haiku, Heroin and Coffee with Trumpeter Nick Phillips

    Trumpeter/Composer/Producer/Music Executive Nick Phillips channels his inner Chet Baker in dreamy duets with singer/songwriter/pianist Jenny Maybee on their self-released new 'Haiku' CD. Backed by only bass, it's an 11-track rarity of pristine playing, beautiful vocals and original compositions in a kind of fragile junkie brilliance.
    By Mike Greenblatt

  • 'EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Lisa Moore

    Lisa Moore is more than just a seminal New York pianist who founded the iconic Band on a Can All-Stars. Her dynamic performances incorporate elemental designs that help her channel a unique flow in the way she plays the instrument. In a one-of-a-kind, one-night only showing, Lisa Moore will take to the downtown dwelling (Le) Poisson Rouge this Tuesday, Feb. 23 for a release show of her new album The Stone People.
    By Ian Holubiak
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