Django Bates - Tenacity2020 brings Django's 60th birthday and his 40th year as a performing musician, and it also marks the 100th anniversary of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker's birth. So what better way to celebrate than with the release of studio album 'Tenacity', fresh from the Arctic Circle, featuring The Norrbotten big band and Django's piano trio, Beloved. This 53 minute ten track album features four new Parker orchestrations, plus Laura, a film noir favourite of

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2013-18/color/23 hrs/NR/widescreen

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this has become one of the era's most bizarre and hypnotic releases

Renowned composers Joe Kraemer (JACK REACHER

including Louis Prima and his deadpan distaff partner Keely Smith

9 min/NR/fullscreen

A brief appearance on Billboard's Bubbling Under chart belies the fact that the Charmaines were Cincinnati's leading 1960s girl group

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and produced by John Hill