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Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman Files Lawsuit Over 'New Vocabulary' Recordings
EXCLUSIVE: Kent Moran Talks Writing 'The Challenger' Feature Debut, Directing Michael Clarke Duncan's Last Film and Why He's Always Prepared
Tonight, Kent Moran's much anticipated feature debut, 'The Challenger,' will open night one of the Dances with Films Festival in Los Angeles. Mark it as the film's proper West Coast premiere. With press and publicity intentionally sparse, here, then, is Classicalite's brief synopsis: Moran plays the lead, Jaden Miller, a struggling mechanic who turns to boxing in the Bronx to save him and his mother (S. Epatha Merkerson) from a life out on those mean streets. As for Miller's boxing trainer, the bruising Duane Taylor? Well, he's none other than the late Michael Clarke Duncan in his penultimate role. Marcus Belgrave, Motown Session Trumpeter and Influential Detroiter, Dies at 79
A most influential musical icon to generations of Detroiters and musicians as well, jazz trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, died on Sunday. He was 79 years old.
