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Drazin David Drazin - PO Box 6442 - Evanston, IL 60204-6442 carseymour@aol.com
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Silent film accompaniments in December (all times are P.M.): BUSTER KEATON Sherlock Jr. and The Playhouse, Sat. 12/5 3:00, Wed. 12/9 6:00 The General and The Scarecrow, Sat. 12/12 3:00, Wed. 12/16 6:00 College and Cops, Wed. 12/23 6:00 Steamboat Bill Jr. and One Week, Sat. 12/26 3:00, Wed. 12/30 6:00 HAROLD LLOYD Safety Last and Get Out and Get Under, Monday 12/28 6:00 Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, 164 North State Street, Chicago, IL, 312-846-2075. www.siskelfilmcenter.org 2010 January January 23, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. HAROLD TEEN (1928, dir. Mervyn LeRoy), starring Arthur Lake and Mary Brian University of Chicago Film Studies Center 5811 South Ellis Ave. Cobb Hall 307 Chicago, IL 60637 773.702.8596 http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin. Program will be introduced by: Christina Petersen Ph.D. Candidate Department of Cinema and Media Studies University of Chicago February February 7, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dave returns to Joplin's Java coffeehouse, where he has scored a big hit with two solo piano concerts, one appearance with the Ten Carrot Ragtime Orchestra, and a performance as everyone from a little boy to a professor to "Marian McPartland" in "The Live Radio Show." Dave will do a 2-hour solo piano concert (no movies this time) as part of the Sunday afternoon Sauter Concert Series at Joplin's Java, Family Piano Store, 114 S. Genesee St., Suite 402, Waukegan, IL 60085, 847-775-1988 or 847-336-7624, http://www.joplinsjava.com. Plus some
not-so-live accompaniments:
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DRAZIN AT CHICAGO BLUES FEST June 9, 2007
In the interest of full disclosure, I should say right off the bat that Dave Drazin is a friend of mine. But I can honestly say he's a terrific piano player, and plenty of others will tell you the same thing. Dave's best known for playing piano at showings of silent movies, but he's also an excellent player of old-time blues, jazz and ragtime, and all of those skills were on display during his superb set Saturday afternoon on one of the side stages at the Chicago Blues Festival. See more photos of Dave Drazin at the Festival. Source: ROBERT LOERZEL, Underground Bee |
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Dave on YouTube! Dave performed for a short silent movie made by Wisconsin Bioscopes (film students at the University of Wiconsin - Madison). Don't miss "A Visit With Grandmother" on YouTube. See it now. Visit Wisconsin Bioscopes for info on more of their fascinating film activities. Other Bioscape videos include "Rent Party" (Dave appears onscreen briefly) and "Cosmo's Magical Melt-aways." Check out this review article about Wisconsin Bioscape. (Yep, it mentions Dave's piano work, too). Dave's first "official" jazz festival appearance, at the Tribute to Bix in Racine, Wisconsin took place in March. Dave played a dynamic impromptu solo-piano set, followed by his appearance with the Ten Carrot Ragtime Orchestra. A brief video clip of Ten Carrot is at http://blip.tv/file/1899538/. Dave has been playing regularly at the University of Chicago's First Friday jam session at the Quadrangle Club on campus. Watch a video of Dave in action at the Quad at Here is the page with Dave's video: http://www.archive.org/details/JazzAtTheQuadrangleClub. |
Recordings: DVD & televisionNew
DVD: Laughsmith
Entertainment,
FORGOTTEN FILMS OF ROSCOE "FATTY" ARBUCKLE, DVD release May 24,
premiering on Turner
Classic Movies Monday, April 4. Milestone
Films,
LURE OF LABRADOR
and SWILIN' RACKET, bonus shorts on WHITE THUNDER On July
29, 2008, Kino released
a double feature of "A Man There Was"/"Ingeborg Holm." Dave provides
the piano soundtrack for Ingeborg Holm, the first significant work by
Swedish director Victor Sjostrom. |
We're
happy to announce
that Dave
has been chosen to be included in the 2006 60th diamond anniversary
edition
of Marquis "Who's Who in America." Who's Who profiles the careers of a
select group of men and women from all significant fields of endeavor -
from business and politics to healthcare and science to entertainment
and
the arts.
ArticlesFebruary 2009 issue of Chicago Magazine, "Hollywood on the Lake: 29 Stars of the Movie Business Here," starting on page 58. Dave is featured on page 60 -- the page between Harold Ramis and Joan Cusack. Here's the (pdf) piece on Dave. The
Sounds
for Silence (newsobserver.com) Fri, Mar. 13, 2009 [PDF] Northbrook
Star,
part of the Sun Times News Group, for September 19, 2008 features an
interview with Dave. Fayetteville, NC Observer newspaper features an article about Dave's performance at the Sunrise Theater, Southern Pines, North Carolina.: http://www.FayObserver.com/article?id=258519. Adventures
of a Pordenone Silent Film Fest Guest Pianist The Sounds of Silents - review of Dave's work in Evanston Review from Pioneer Press (August 5, 2004). Cineblog
March 29, 2003 Entry: David Drazin Interview with Greg
Dunlap. MilestonesFilms.com White Thunder - review of new film about early filmmaker Varick Frissell. Bonus mention of several films made by Frissell, two of them with music by David Drazin. Movies Without Malls - review in Evanston Review from Pioneer Press (January 8, 2004) mentions Dave. Lights,
Keaton, 'Cameraman' - Evanston Review article (April 8, 2004)
mentions
Dave. Jazz Hands - Dave was interviewed for "Better Magazine," July 2008 issue, a project of the students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism]. |
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from
Journalist Robert Loerzel of the Underground Bee: 