"TWO THUMBS UP."®
Richard Roeper and Robert Wilonsky, Guest Critic, EBERT & ROEPER
Today, besides leading his band, Katz
plays with Gregg Allman, Levon Helm
and John Hammond.
Katz also teaches piano, Hammond
organ and theory at the Berklee
College of Music in Boston and teach-
es the first ever in-depth blues history/
analysis course there as well. He also
conducts master classes in Hammond
B3 and blues history at various music
festivals worldwide.
Hear the Bruce Katz Band 9 p.m.-1
a.m. Saturday, June 23, at the Firefly Club,
207 S. Ashley, in Ann Arbor. Tickets are
$10 at the door. (734) 665-9090.
All That Jazz
The ninth annual V98.7 Smooth
JazzFest (WVMV-FM-Detroit) takes
place June 22-24 on the green in
front of the Southfield Civic Center,
just south of 1-696 on
Evergreen, and several
well-known Jewish jazz
saxophonists are part of
the lineup.
Headlining Saturday
evening is smooth jazz sax
man Dave Koz with "Dave
Koz and Friends At The
Movies:' a double feature
with Koz, David Benoit,
Phil Perry and Kelly Sweet
playing their respective
hits during the first half of the show,
then joining together on numerous
selections from Koz's most recent
blockbuster album, At The Movies, an
homage to classic film music.
Taking the stage at 4:45 p.m. on
Saturday is fusion jazz band Spyro
Gyra, founded in the 1970s in Buffalo
by saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, who
still is an active member of the group.
Other highlights include Paul Taylor
and Regina Bell and Jazz Attack with
Rick Braun, Richard Elliot, Jonathan
Butler and Peter White on Friday;
Brenda Russell on Saturday; and the
Rippingtons, featuring Russ Freeman
and India.Arie, on Sunday. For a com-
plete schedule, call (248) 855-5100 or
go to www.smoothjazzdetroit.com.
Gates open at 4 p.m. on Friday and
2:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Performances start approximately
one hour after gate opening, rain or
shine. Concessions will be available
at the event (no bottles, cans, coolers
allowed); blankets, tarps
and low beach chairs
are allowed for seat-
ing. Tickets are $40 gold
circle/$30 general admis-
sion per day; $105 gold
circle/$75 general admis-
sion for a festival pass.
Tickets are available at all
Ticketmaster locations
or through Ticketmaster.
corn; or at the Southfield
Civic Center Parks and
Recreation office during business
hours, (248) 796-4620. LI
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ears Oscárs®'
Ben Lyons, E! ENTERTAINMENT
Steven Chupnick, JEWREVIEW.NET
"Raw and riveting...
Winterbottom exerts
a grip that won't let go."
Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
`Michael Winterbottom
deserves credit for showing
the true power and
determination of the
Jewish people!"
.
Steven Chupnick, JEWREVIEW.NET
"Angelina Jolie's performance
is out of this world ...
one of the best, ln years!"
Larry King
.
Angelina Jolie
the first episode,
she is seen berat-
ing her assistants
and fighting with
network execu-
tives.
Simon Cowell
As previously
noted, Abdul is the
daughter of a Jewish father of
Syrian descent and a Canadian-
born Jewish mother.
As everybody knows, the overt-
ly "nasty" judge on American Idol
is British music executive Simon
Cowell. The Daily Telegraph, a Brit
paper, regularly publishes articles
by family history expert Nick
Barratt on celebrity family trees.
A 2006 Barratt profile of Cowell
notes that Simon's paternal grand-
parents were wed in an English
synagogue in 1915. His paternal
grandmother was born in Poland,
while his paternal grandfather was
an English-born Jew.
While not crystal-clear, it
appears that Simon's mother is of
mixed English and Scottish non-
Jewish ancestry.
Simon's father was an execu-
tive at EMI, the big English music
company, and in 1979, Simon
began his own music career in the
EMI mailroom, rising through the
EMI ranks. Some early attempts
to strike out on his own failed,
but eventually Simon hit it huge
with the British talent show Pop
Idol and its American equivalent,
American Idol. He is now a record
producer for Sony BMG in addition
to his TV duties.
Barratt gives no details about
Simon Cowell's religious training,
if any. However, like most Brits
born into interfaith marriages, it is
likely he was raised in no religious
tradition. Li
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