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The soundtrack to the new Woody Allen film, Blue Jasmine, has been released. The soundtrack is released on Madison Gate Records, and features 20 tracks from the film. Madison Gate has handled the soundtracks for Allen’s recent films, including Midnight In Paris and To Rome With Love. The soundtrack is available digitally on iTunes internationally […]
With production wrapped on his 2014 film and European press completed for Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen is returning to his regular jazz engagement. Starting this week, Woody Allen and the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band will perform every Monday night at the Carlyle in New York until Christmas. The band performed for most of […]
Woody Allen performed two concerts this summer in France with the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band this summer, taking their regular Monday night New York show across the pond. The two concerts, one in Lyon, one in Antibes, were held in the middle of Allen making his 2014 film. Now the band have posted […]
Woody Allen and the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band have just completed their second and last concert in France, in the town of Antibes. In the audience were the stars of Allen’s newest film, currently in production in France – Colin Firth, Emma Stone (and her partner Andrew Garfield) and Erica Leerhsen. Pretty cool […]
Woody Allen is currently in France, directing his 2014 film. But not one to ever rest, he played a gig in Lyon last night with his regular jazz band – The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band – as part of Nuits de Fourvière. Some pictures appeared in Twitter, there’s an official poster as well as […]
We recently added a new section of the site – Albums. Over the course of however long we run this site, we will continue to add to it. We’ve started with Allen’s three classic stand up albums from the 60s – Woody Allen, Woody Allen Volume 2 and The Third Woody Allen Album. We will […]
Music has always been a passion for Woody Allen. He performs most Monday nights with the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City – always a hot ticket. He only takes a break when he makes films, but this year, the band is heading over to join Allen […]
We had a short twitter chat with Jerry Zigmont, trombone player for The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band – the long standing musical group that Woody Allen has been performing with for decades. He revealed to us more about the schedule of Woody Allen’s music schedule for 2013. After 6 straight months of shows, […]
The soundtrack to Woody Allen’s 2011 film Midnight In Paris has won the Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (essentially Best Soundtrack) at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. It is the first time a Woody Allen film has ever been nominated, let alone win, in the category. ‘Midnight In Paris‘ beat out ‘The […]
UPDATED 2013 Details here – Performance News Woody Allen & the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band returns to their regular Monday night residency at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, according to the website of Jerry Zigmont. Zigmont is the trombonist in the band, and one of the more visible members of Woody Allen’s […]
Our twice monthly round-up of Woody Allen stuff from around the web. It’s a quiet period, with Christmas and New Years, but here’s what we’ve got. Quite an excellent video from the University of Huddersfield. It’s the opening scene of Manhattan, but about their town. It’s beautifully shot and lovingly done, with a nicely modern […]
A bit of fun this week. Lyricist Hal David passed away on 1st September 2012. Along with his partner Burt Bacharach, he penned many memorable songs including ‘(They Long To Be) Close To You‘, ‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head‘, ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again‘, ‘Alfie‘ and dozens more. Possibly the last great sole […]
News Bits from around the web. Usually monthly but with so much going on, we had to do two this month! Artist Nina Boesch has paid tribute to some of the New York City’s icon with a part of New York itself. She has taken thousands of New York subway tickets and created new portraits […]
Wild Man Blues is a documentary about the other side of Woody Allen – the musician. For decades, Allen has been playing clarinet publicly with various jazz bands. He has a regular Monday night appointment at the Cafe Carlyle in New York and according to him, he practises every day. His love and understanding of […]