In this never-before-seen interview made for Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (1998), David Bowie speaks with filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders about working with Lou Reed, their respective literary influences, writing lyrics, and what New York City means to Bowie. In a tribute statement, the filmmaker ...
On June 6, 2012, Dick Van Patten was interviewed for American Masters – Mel Brooks: Make A Noise (2013). In this never before seen outtake, Van Patten recalls the first time he met Mel Brooks in a Sunday tennis match with Mel, Carl Reiner, Alan ...
In 2003, American soul and R&B singer Ben E. King (September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015) sat with Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, to describe how his album Supernatural (1975) came to be. King sang with The Drifters before his solo career, which ...
In this film outtake, Sledge recollects growing up in Leighton, Alabama, his love for Elvis Presley and country singers, and his youthful musical performances. Sledge, whose best known classic hit is “When a Man Loves a Woman,” died on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in Baton ...
Celebrated jazz musician Clark Terry (Dec. 14, 1920 - Feb. 21, 2015 ) played trumpet and flugelhorn in a career that spanned more than seven decades and included performing with Count Basie and Duke Ellington in the late 1940s and 1950s, and with Quincy Jones. ...
Trumpeter and composer Clark Terry (1920 - 2015) talks about what Quincy Jones learned from Count Basie: the utilization of space and time. Terry gives examples of how Basie led his band's rhythm section and influenced the classic by trumpeter/composer Neal Hefti, "Li'l Darlin'." This ...
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Bruce Sinofsky (1956 - 2015) wrote, directed and produced the two-hour American Masters documentary Good Rockin’ Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records (2001). In this filmmaker interview, he says his reason for making the film was to pay tribute to the musicians who formed the ...
Peabody Award-winning journalist Bob Simon (1941 - 2015) details his career path as young man, from the foreign service to the United Nations to his first job as a broadcast journalist, for CBS news.
UPDATE: Nov. 2, 2015: American Masters will launch its 30th anniversary season with the first documentary ever about Mike Nichols, to premiere January 29, 2016. Elaine May will direct. Read more. In this web-exclusive video from American Masters: Inventing David Geffen (2012), Mike Nichols speaks ...
Marian Seldes, a vital figure in New York theater, died October 6, 2014, in her Manhattan home. She was 86. Seldes was an enduring presence on the Broadway stage, notably performing in the works of Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, and Tennessee Williams. In a career ...
