A Bright Nowhere: Journeying Into Improvisation

Chelsea Bledsoe and her husband Graig throw a surprise intervention for her old high school boyfriend, Henry, with a mismatched group of...

For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new,...

Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit’s discussion of the difficulties of working...

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his...

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn...

Several comic greats pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded by Budd Friedman in 1963.

Orson Welles pitches to potential investors his vision of a largely improvised bullfighter movie about an existential, James Dean type troubadour who...

Then, now, where? how?

Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern...

In 1989, a collective of young hip hop artists gathered at a health food café in South Central Los Angeles. Their mandate? To reject gang...