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The TV, Movie, and Music career of Billy Mumy: interviewed by Harvey Kubernik

Q: You have a new solo album released in the summer of 2009, "Carnival Sky." Explain the title of the collection and some background and information on the selections and how the album developed. A: Well, as usual, the muse strikes when least expected. It had been...

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Janis Lyn Joplin

January 19, 1943 Port Arthur, Texas--October 4, 1970, Hollywood, California By Harvey Kubernik ©...

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Goodbye, Andre Previn (1929-2019)

Goodbye, Andre Previn (1929-2019)

Composer. Arranger. Orchestrator. Conductor. Lecturer. Jazz pianist. We've lost the greatest American musical polymath since Leonard Bernstein. JazzTimes.com eulogizes Previn's career as jazz pianist: “Remembering Andre Previn (1929-2019)” by Kirk Silsbee Upon his...

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Leonard Cohen:  Songs From A Room

Leonard Cohen: Songs From A Room

By Harvey Kubernik ©  2019 April 7, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s second Columbia Records album, Songs From A Room in 1969. It reached No. 63 on the US Billboard Top LPs and No. 2 on the UK charts.  “Initially, Songs From A Room felt like a...

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Tina Turner Meets Harvey Kubernik

Tina Turner Meets Harvey Kubernik

Tina Musical Coming to Broadway In 2019 By Harvey Kubernik © 2018 Tina- The Tina Turner Musical based on the life story of Tina Turner, which opened on London’s West end in April 2018, that starred Adrienne Warren, will be coming to Broadway in the fall of 2019. The...

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Don Webster Host of Upbeat

By Harvey Kubernik © 2018 This week the legendary Cleveland, Ohio television personality, Don Webster died at the age of 79. Webster served as host of Upbeat, before embarking on a 35-year career which included a longtime meteorologist spot at News 5 in Cleveland....

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