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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Storytellers Media Group has released an hour long documentary about one of Northeast Ohio’s most baffling missing child cases, entitledDusk & Shadow – The Mystery of Beverly Potts. Set in August of 1951, the case remains unsolved today.

The program is scheduled to air Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 9:00 p.m. on PBS 45 & 49. There is a web presence with additional information here:

• Dusk & Shadow – The Mystery of Beverly Potts features interviews with Beverly’s surviving sister, Anita, who was 22 when Beverly disappeared in 1951. Other interviewees include retired Cleveland detectives Robert Wolf and John Fransen, eyewitness Fred Krause, writer John Stark Bellamy II, Plain Dealer writers Brent Larkin and Dick Feagler, veteran Cleveland reporter Doris O’Donnell Beaufait, and author Dr. James Jessen Badal, whose book about the case – Twilight of Innocence – is scheduled for a summer 2005 release by Kent State University Press.
  
  
• Dusk & Shadow – The Mystery of Beverly Potts was produced by the makers of 2003’s twice-Emmy-nominated The Fourteenth Victim – Eliot Ness and the Torso Murders. The Dolezal Affair, a documentary about the suspicious 1939 death of the only man arrested for Cleveland’s Kingsbury Run Murders, is slated for release in 2005, as isHigh Fresco, a cinéma vérité profile of classical realist painter Ben Long.
• Producer & editor – Mark Wade Stone; director of photography – David A. Brodowski. Original musical score composed by Carl Michel.
  
  

CONTACT:
Mark Wade Stone - Producer/Director
Storytellers Media Group, Ltd
216.228-1441 home, mobile & message
mark@storytellersmediagroup.com
www.storytellersmediagroup..com
2223 Carabel Ave
Lakewood, OH 44107-5565

The Carl Michel Group (+). The new release features a special lineup for The Carl Michel Group, with four horns plus rhythm section including:

• Carl Michel - guitar

• Gerald Cleaver - Drums - Drummer Gerald Cleaver was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Early in his career he worked with well-known Detroit musicians including bassist Ali Muhammad Jackson, saxophonist Lamont Hamilton, pianist Earl Van Riper, singer Pancho Hagood and later with A. Spencer Barefield, Marcus Belgrave, Donald Walden and Wendell Harrison. While in school at the University of Michigan, as a Music Education major, Gerald began to freelance with visiting jazz artists such as Eddie Harris, Cecil Bridgewater, Reggie Workman, Dennis Rowland, Howard Johnson, Diana Krall, Don Byron and Rick Margitza, among others. During his studies Gerald was also awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Studies Fellowship, to study with noted drummer Victor Lewis. In 1992 he graduated from the University and began teaching instrumental music in Detroit. In 1995 Gerald left public school teaching and joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan, headed by flugelhornist Ed Sarath, as an assistant professor. Gerald maintains an active performance schedule and has performed across the U.S., in Europe and Japan with a variety of artists, including Franck Amsallem, Tim Ries, Roscoe Mitchell, Kevin Mahogany, Henry Threadgill, Joe Morris, Charles Gayle, Jacky Terrasson and David Berkman. He has also worked with Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Hank Jones, Frank Foster, Barry Harris, Bob James, Mark Turner and Ray Bryant.

• Tim Flood - Bass - Tim Flood is a bassist residing in Ann Arbor, MI. He has performed with Roswell Rudd, Peter Kowald, Hank Roberts and others. Flood appeared on the Frank Lowe Trio CD "Bodies and Soul" with Lowe and drummer Charles Moffett. He is a regular member of the Jacob Sacks Quintet and Aaron Siegel's Block. He has performed at festivals all over the world including Edgefest, Montreux Detroit, and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Flood currently teaches acoustic and electric basses at Albion College.

• Andrew Bishop - Tenor Saxophone/Clarinet - Andrew Bishop is an active composer and performer in highly diversified musical idioms. A Doctor of Musical Arts Candidate in Composition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he has studied composition with William Albright, William Bolcom, Evan Chambers, Michael Daugherty, and Walter Mays. Bishop’s compositions include works for orchestra, band, chamber ensembles, jazz, theater, film, dance, multi-media, electro-acoustic, and various popular and folk idioms. Bishop was the winner of the 2000 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. The Albany Symphony Orchestra commissioned, performed, and recorded Bishop’s Crooning in 1999. Bishop’s Hank—inspired by the songs and performance style of country music icon Hank Williams—was selected for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s First Hearing Program in 1997. He received two commissions from the Dogs of Desire Chamber Orchestra, Rose Colored in 1997 and an orchestral arrangement of Jimi Hendrix’s Fire in 1994, which The New York Times called "inventively arranged." Bishop has also received commissions from the Sotto Voce Trio, Wichita Jazz Festival, percussionist Steve Houghton, and numerous colleges and universities. His piece Dance Etiquette is featured in the motion picture "Twister," and his compositions have been recorded for Albany Records, BOPO Records, and Shperc Records. Bishop was a recently a composition fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Bishop has performed with many artists and ensembles, including: Karrin Allyson, Greg Bendian, Karl Berger, Kenny Burrell, Eugene Chadbourne, Ray Charles, James Dapogny’s Chicago Jazz Band, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, The Either Orchestra, Jerry Hahn, The Manhattan Transfer, Hank Roberts, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Matt Wilson, and The Temptations. He leads a variety of his own groups, and is a featured performer on over 20 compact discs.

• Paul Finkbiener - Trumpet/Flugelhorn - Paul Finkbiener grew up in Flint, Michigan and received a Jazz Studies degree from Western Michigan University. He currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI and can be seen playing with The Bird Of Paradise Orchestra and Leading the Sunday Jam Session at the Bird Of Paradise. In 1999 he appeared on four recordings: The Bird Of Paradise Orchestra "Bingo", Bess Bonnier "Sweet William", Paul Keller "Tall Corn", and Paul Vornhagen's "Swing As You Are".

• Ellen Rowe - piano - Ellen Rowe, jazz pianist and composer, is currently Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Michigan. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Rayburn Wright and Bill Dobbins. Prior to her appointment in Michigan, she served as Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Connecticut. Ms. Rowe has performed at jazz clubs and on concert series throughout the U.S. and Europe. Also active as a clinician, she has given workshops and master classes at the Melbourne Conservatory, Hochshule fur Musik in Cologne and the Royal Academy of Music in London. When not leading her own trio, she is in demand as a sideman, having performed with a wide variety of jazz artists including Kenny Wheeler, Gene Bertoncini, Tom Harrell, John Clayton, Harvie Swartz and Jiggs Whigham. She was also recently a guest on Marian McPartland's "Piano Jazz" on National Public Radio. Ms. Rowe's compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by Jazz ensembles and orchestras around the world, including the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Eastman Jazz Ensemble, U.S. Navy Commodores, Berlin and NDR Radio Jazz Orchestras (Germany), London Symphony, DIVA and the Perth Jazz Orchestra. Having been selected to conduct All-State jazz ensembles in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida, Washington, Michigan and Vermont, she has also been an invited clinician at the Music Educators National Conference Eastern Division Convention and the International Association of Jazz Educators Convention.

• Mike Graye - alto saxophone - Mike Graye has been an active member of the Detroit music scene since the mid 80's playing in various music projects. As a long standing member of Blue Dog, he has released recordings with the Knitting Factory and Cobalt 61 Records and has performed at clubs and festivals in Europe and the US.

• Chris Smith - trombone - Trombonist Chris Smith is the eldest of twelve children in a musical family. He joined the Bird of Paradise Orchestra in 1990, took several hiatuses for practice a la Sonny Rollin's "bridge time", and became the band's lead trombonist in 1995. The BOPO performs and recently recorded some of Smith's original compositions and arrangements. He also appears regularly with many other groups, most notably touring the U.S. and Canada with James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band. Chris is one of those rare birds who enjoys playing traditional and modern jazz equally. His ever-growing collection of trombones and mutes has recently expanded to include a slide trumpet, trombonium (valve trombone) and sousaphone, all of which he plays on gigs. Smith is becoming known as an authority on jazz trombone legend J.J. Johnson, having written several Johnson articles and reviews and interviewed him over the Internet. He was a consultant for the discography of the 1999 Johnson biography by Louis Bourgois III and Joshua Berrett, published by Scarecrow Press.

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