| Name |
Jim Newman |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
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| Place of Birth |
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Jim Newman is a film and television producer, contemporary art curator, gallerist and musician. In his capacity as a film and television producer, Newman worked with KQED-TV on production of the Dilexi Series, featuring twelve original TV programs by artists including Terry Riley, Arlo Acton, Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Nelson, Frank Zappa, Andy Warhol, The Living Theater, Philip Makanna, Robert Frank, Edwin Schlossberg, Walter De Maria, and Kenneth Dewey. From 1972 to 1974 he produced two feature films, Phil Makanna's Shoot the Whale and Space Is the Place, featuring jazz bandleader Sun Ra. In 1976 he produced a video documentary on Philippine psychic surgery, Miracles and Metaphors.
In 1978 Newman resumed active music making, studying flute performance. Since 1982 he has held the baritone saxophone chair with the Junius Courtney band. With filmmaker William Farley he produced a video documentary, In Between the Notes, on the life and career of master Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, working closely with Pran Nath's disciples Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.
