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SOUND UNSEEN MONTHLY
Second Wednesdays at the Trylon
Sound Unseen presents year-round programming at the Trylon on the second Wednesday of each month, as well as an annual festival in November. Tickets are $12, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit soundunseen.com.
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Upcoming Films in this Series
THE SEEDS: PUSHIN’ TOO HARD
(2014, USA, HD, 90m) dir Neil Norman will be present. Using vintage footage, rare photos, memorabilia and audio, and fresh interviews with band members and associates as well as notable fans and observers, Pushin’ Too Hard relates the bizarre rage-to-riches-to-rags tale of the rock quartet who took Los Angeles by storm in the mid-60s. The band‘s story is examined in detail in The Seeds: Pushin’ Too Hard. All four original Seeds are represented, alongside auxiliary members, band associates, and contemporaries such…
BLUE NOTE RECORDS: BEYOND THE NOTES
(2018, USA/Switzerland, DCP, 85m) dir Sophie Huber. One of the most important record labels in the history of jazz—and, by extension, that of American music—Blue Note Records has been home to such groundbreaking artists as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Art Blakey, and Eric Dolphy, as well as present-day luminaries like Ambrose Akinmusire and Norah Jones. Founded in New York in 1939 by German-Jewish refugees Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, Blue Note’s history goes beyond the records, encompassing the struggle of…