Profile
Name:
Bret Primack
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183,547
Style:
Broadcaster
Age:
60
Joined:
March 29, 2006
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Writer/Video Journalist Bret Primack has been at the forefront of new media since he co-founded Jazz Central Station in 1995. In 1997, he was the first Jazz blogger with Bird Lives, where, as the Pariah, his heartfelt diatribes struck a responsive chord in the music industry.
A graduate of NYU Film School of who studied with Martin Scorsese, Bret worked in documentaries and industrials before he became a journalist, writing about Jazz.
In addition to hundreds of articles and interviews, Bret has written liner notes for McCoy Tyner, Joe Lovano, Ella Fitzgerald and many others.
With the advent of computer assisted video, and web distribution, Bret returned to filmmaking in 2004.
Today, Bret Primack produces videos for Sonny Rollins, Joe Lovano and Billy Taylor, as well as Concord and Mosaic Records.
A graduate of NYU Film School of who studied with Martin Scorsese, Bret worked in documentaries and industrials before he became a journalist, writing about Jazz.
In addition to hundreds of articles and interviews, Bret has written liner notes for McCoy Tyner, Joe Lovano, Ella Fitzgerald and many others.
With the advent of computer assisted video, and web distribution, Bret returned to filmmaking in 2004.
Today, Bret Primack produces videos for Sonny Rollins, Joe Lovano and Billy Taylor, as well as Concord and Mosaic Records.
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Filmmaker, Writer
Companies:
Arcadian Arts
Hobbies:
Keeping Jazz from becoming invisible is both my work and my hobby, as well.
Movies:
Lots of film noir lately, and a few classics, including "Force of Evil," which is 118 minutes of dynamite.
Music:
Listening to many film scores, in particular the work of Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota and David Raksin. Herrmann's score for "Taxi Driver" has been on repeat play for days.
Books:
Child of the Century, A New Earth, Whole Earth Catalog, The Politics of Experience, Expanded Cinema, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Act One, A Smattering of Ignorance, Autobiography of a Yogi
Why A Jazz Video Guy?
Bret's mission:
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