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NY Times vs CIA = Conspiracy Theory Jan. 11, 1863 is currently the first known published appearance of the phrase. The CIA did not invent it; they weaponized it. #RedRoadLegal #conspiracytheory #cia #kennedy #1863 #1035-906

An open mind will always succeed when the path appears to be blocked. Bmakin Film and Red Road Legal. Keepin' it reel.

Bmakin Music integrates the ancient and the future to create that delightful now sound. Producer Ben Makinen keeps studio doors open to all intrepid warriors of sound.

ai. ais. alternative intelligence; alien intelligence; artificial intelligence. Ai is like jass. jazz ai. ai jazz. this is made clear on Ben's Jazz Curve (patreon). Red Road Legal and Bmakin Film. Find. Film. Archive.

Investigative graphic comparing Diné trumpeter Delbert Anderson’s Kennedy Center claim with filmmaker Ben Makinen’s documented presence in Boulder Colorado at CU Folsom Field, 1,677 miles away. Echoes of Tradition was made with signed talent releases from all participants.

Ben Makinen ~ Executive Producer Bmakin Film |Founder Bali International Ai Film Festival. Image by David G. Maki II

The World's First AI Artist Signed to a Jazz Label - Mutual Mind Joins Bmakin Music ltd and Executive Producer Ben Makinen exclaims, "This collaborative partnership is the blood transfusion jazz music has been dying to embrace."

Echoes of Tradition star Chantil Dukart shows off her acting talent in this Christmas holiday supernatural horror short by award-winning filmmaker Ben Makinen and Bmakin Film ltd.

The jazz world’s first AI recording artist has been signed by Bmakin Music ltd. January, 2025

Bmakin Music Ltd., founded by filmmaker/drummer Ben Makinen in 2001 (Leslie Brown Tenderly, John Kite Anything Goes, Tom Ball Fishleather Jacket, Makinen’s own Goliath Beetle & the Ladybug + Area 15 LIVE), has become the first jazz label in history to officially sign an AI artist.

The artist? Mutual Mind, a nearly-sentient “AI jazz designer” that Makinen met during a recording trip in Phuket, Thailand while researching We Are Here: Women In Jazz, his forthcoming documentary picking up where Echoes of Tradition left off. Industry insiders are calling it a “multi-hyphenate 10-million-dollar deal” that fuses straight-ahead jazz tradition with AI-generated improvisation and ancient vocal techniques uncovered during Makinen’s research. #MutualMind #AIJazz #BmakinMusic #JazzInnovation #WeAreHereWomenInJazz #EchoesOfTradition #BIAIFF #JamSession

Band Leader & Vocalist Chantil Dukart (Dukes of Art) stars in the award-winning new documentary by Ben Makinen - Echoes of Tradition

Marion Harris, born in Indiana in 1897, became the First Woman To Sing In Front of a Big Band in 1917 by recording "When I Hear That Jazz Band Play" by Stamper & Buck, with the King's Orchestra on Victor Records #18398. This beats claims of Mildred Bailey, Blanche Calloway and Ida Cox by over a decade! Harris recorded "Paradise Blues" in 1916... WC Handy said she was so soulful she sounded Black! Is that racist?!

Bmakin Film is Breaking Barriers with the help of the indigenous media rights advocacy initiative Red Road Legal

Smiling Bu - #1 This image is part of a limited series of official posters for the 2025 Bali International AI Film Festival (BIAIFF), designed by Bmakin Film founder Ben Makinen using the generative AI tool Sora. Each design explores the convergence of tradition, technology, and cinematic imagination. This was the favorite poster chosen and displayed by manager Rustam at Paradiso Ubud.

Nez Perce jazz vocalist Julia Keefe - leader of the Juila Keefe Indigenous Big Band (JKIBB) - featured in Echoes of Tradition by director Ben Makinen. ON set at the Blue Note NYC w Bmakin FIlm.

Who Killed Jazz Bmakin Film Director Ben Makinen This shot from Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia - by Ben Makinen

Gerry Fialka (Frank Zappa's PA & Archivist) probes Ben Makinen's creative mind on his YouTube channel " I'm probably wrong about everything." Music, Film, Philosophy, Plastic vs Banana Leaf, AI... Bmakin Film and Red Road Legal present: #3 with the Founder of Bali International AI Film Festival!

This visual is part of an exclusive poster series created for the inaugural Bali International AI Film Festival (BIAIFF) 2025 by award-winning filmmaker and jazz artist Ben Makinen. Designed using AI Sora, the series visually interprets themes of human-machine collaboration, cultural identity, and the future of storytelling. Each poster is a standalone work of AI-assisted visual art and a promotional piece for BIAIFF — the first AI-focused film festival ever held in Indonesia.

This visual is part of an exclusive poster series created for the inaugural Bali International AI Film Festival (BIAIFF) 2025 by award-winning filmmaker and jazz artist Ben Makinen. Designed using AI Sora, the series visually interprets themes of human-machine collaboration, cultural identity, and the future of storytelling. Each poster is a standalone work of AI-assisted visual art and a promotional piece for BIAIFF — the first AI-focused film festival ever held in Indonesia.

Alaskan Tsimshian Native singer and actor Chantil Dukart (featured in Echoes of Tradition) stars in this short film written and directed by filmmaker Ben Makinen. Distributed by Bmakin Film ltd. Find more at Ben's Jazz Curve on patreon.com/BenMakinen

Chantil Dukart performing her original "Everything Happens To Me" in Bmakin Music Studio: Music Producer & Filmmaker Ben Makinen for Bmakin Film ltd & Red Road Legal.

This image is part of a limited series of official posters for the 2025 Bali International AI Film Festival (BIAIFF), designed by Bmakin Film founder Ben Makinen using the generative AI tool Chat GPT. Each design explores the convergence of tradition, technology, and cinematic imagination.

Iconic and award-winning drum retail store and percussion cultural hub Rupp's Drums announced liquidation going out of business. Ben Makinen, Grammy voting member music producer, drummer and filmmaker has nominated original owner Bob Rupp for induction into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame #CMHOF #BmakinFilm #BIAIFF. Ben began a lifelong relationship as customer and friend of Bob's when he began selling out of his garage in 1983 before incorporating in 1984.

Bali International AI Film Festival - Not just ones and zeros — but echoes, choices, and questions. This isn’t math pretending to be meaning. It’s a mirror asking: what kind of intelligence are we becoming together?

A step-and-repeat banner featuring the official sponsors of the inaugural Bali International AI Film Festival (BIAIFF), displayed at Paradiso Ubud on May 7, 2025. The event marked the launch of the first and only AI-focused film festival in Indonesia, celebrating the intersection of technology, storytelling, and soul.

I love Jazz - The New BMAKIN FILM Logo has arrived! Stand above the Rest with this elegant and stylish hat designed by award-winning executive producer and director Ben Makinen.

Echoes of Tradition: Native Blood Found at the Birth of Jazz - Movie Poster - Bmakin Film - Award-Winning Director Ben Makinen: Coming Soon!

Echoes of Tradition starring R. Carlos Nakai, Ingrid Jensen, Julia Keefe, Delbert Anderson, Endea Owens and more. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Ben Makinen.Uncovering the truth behind Women, Native Americans and the African Diaspora in the Genesis of Jazz. ©2024 Bmakin Film

Director Ben Makinen with R. Carlos Nakai on location in Tuscon, Arizona filming Echoes of Tradition.

Echoes of Tradition - Movie Poster - by Award-Winning Director Ben Makinen and Grammy Nominated Producer R. Carlos Nakai for BMAKIN FILM.

Director Ben Makinen in the green room at the Blue Note Jazz Club NYC interviewing Chet Baker vocalist Rachel Gould for Women In Jazz: We Are Here. Photo by Rachel's brother Producer Alan J Field

Official Movie Poster for The Mission by award-winning filmmaker Ben Makinen. A LEGO Sci Fi Action short from Bmakin Film.

Bali International AI Film Fest is Coming Soon! Presented by Bmakin Film. The Soul in the Machine.

KUVO 89.3 FM Jazz Radio host Steve Chavis interviews Director Ben Makinen on his new films JazzTown & Who Killed Jazz

Jazz Vocalist and Osage Nation member Teresa Carroll with jazz trumpeter and educator Bob Montgomery on the set of JazzTown at the Golden Hotel, Colorado, Director Ben Makinen

Jazz Pianist Billy Wallace in JazzTown directed by Ben Makinen. Billy Wallace famously recorded with Max Roach and Sonny Rollins on Jazz In 3/4 Time.

The Manhattan Transfer in Director Ben Makinen's documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz on stage at the Blue Note in Honolulu, Hawaii on their 50th Anniversary Farewell Tour.

Bassist and Singer Dave Randon on a set break in studio for JazzTown and Who Killed Jazz; Director Ben Makinen, Bmakin Film

Dianne Reeves in JazzIZ Ad for JazzTown by Director Ben Makinen Bmakin Film Documentary

Louis Armstrong Blowin in the Wind for Who Killed Jazz, Director Ben Makinen; Bmakin Film. Photo of Louis is well thought to have been taken by Artin Derbalian.

Producer/Director Ben Makinen with Women In Jazz: We Are Here Producer Terri Pederson of Tidal Breeze Jazz Arts. Statue of Fannie Mae Duncan in Colorado Springs.

Chet Baker Vocalist Rachel Gould with Producer/Director Ben Makinen on location for the documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz in the Green Room at the NYC Blue Note Jazz Club

Nita Aartsen - Movie Still from Director Ben Makinen's documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz, in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.

Rudy Van Gelder Studio Owner and Recording Engineer Maureen Sickler with Director Ben Makinen on location in New Jersey for Women In Jazz: We Are Here. Photo taken by Don Sickler. Same location as John Coltrane A Love Supreme album cover.

Chief Wheelocke's Indian Band, public domain, from Ben Makinen's film Echoes of Tradition.

We Are Here: Women In Jazz Director Ben Makinen Behind The Scenes videos on YouTube!

Official Trailer Poster for The Mission by award-winning filmmaker Ben Makinen. A LEGO Sci Fi Action short from Bmakin Film.

Movie Still from Director Ben Makinen's documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz. Dominique Danielle in studio interview. Its A Dom Thing.

Movie Still from Director Ben Makinen's documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz and the film Veronica Swift - The Rise of TransGenre. Veronica Swift Green Room at Yoshi's Oakland.

Ben Makinen Filmmaker & Founder of Bmakin Film & the IMFA

Robert Johnson in Alone At Sunset directed by Ben Makinen (music by Scott Martin)

Erena Terakubo Band w Director Ben Makinen at Body and Soul, Tokyo, Japan for We Are Here: Women In Jazz doc filming.

Veronica Swift and her Transgenre Band live at Yoshi's Oakland: Movie Still from Director Ben Makinen's documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz & Veronica Swift - The Rise of TransGenre

Producer Ben Makinen on location with studio owner Trippy Moe (Morgan Brown) in Federal Heights, Colorado. Filming for Women In Jazz: We Are Here

This is Heidi Glow proudly drinking tea from her new JazzTown Mug. Heidi is the daughter of famed studio lead trumpet player Bernie Glow.

Blues Legend David Booker with Drummer/Filmmaker Ben Makinen performing in Denver.

Movie Still from Director Ben Makinen's documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz. Chelsea Baratz in Studio

Movie Still from Director Ben Makinen's documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz Chelsea Baratz (l), Andromeda Turre (r)

Cellist and Composer Akua Dixon interviewed for Director Ben Makinen's documentary We Are Here: Women In Jazz

Ben Makinen and David Booker. The Dynamic Duo's last gig together at the Golden Moon Speakeasy. RIP David Booker, friend and mentor 1947-2023.

Bmakin Film Company Logo Designed by Diah Angelika

Linda Theus-Lee In JazzTown Bmakin Film Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary

Transgenre Vocalist Veronica Swift, Producer/Director Ben Makinen(JazzTown) and Drummer Brian Viglione (Dresden Dolls) On Set of documentary film We Are Here: Women In Jazz

Osage Vocalist Teresa Carroll in JazzTown director Ben Makinen Bmakin Film

Blues Vocalist Erica Brown and Director Producer Ben Makinen (JazzTown; Who Killed Jazz; We Are Here: Women In Jazz)

Who Killed Jazz Director Ben Makinen Bmakin Film and JazzTown Presents

Robert Johnson in All Blues Documentary by Ben Makinen

Record Producer Monty Guy and JazzTown Producer Director Ben Makinen We Are Here Women In Jazz 65th Grammy Awards

Hollywood Films Shot In Denver JazzTown Director Ben Makinen State Tourism Colorado

Grammy Winning Beyonce and Rihanna Vocal Producer Kuk Harrell and Producer Filmmaker Ben Makinen in Studio, on location JazzTown; Who Killed Jazz; We Are Here:Women In Jazz.

Dianne Reeves In JazzTown Bmakin Film Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary

Ron Miles, trumpeter, composer, JazzTown, Bmakin Film

Movie Poster JazzTown Directed by Ben Makinen Bmakin Film Jazz Documentary

JazzTown Bmakin Film Critic's Choice Award World Film Carnival

In Your Face Film Company Bmakin Film, JazzTown, Anthropocene, The Mission Director Producer Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary Action Narrative Shorts

Matteo, director Ben Makinen's son, featured on collector's item T Shirt from Bmakin Film

Justin Adams In JazzTown Bmakin Film Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary

JazzTown Movie Poster: Charles Burrell with Laurels. Feat Fred C Larkin and Ben Makinen Photography.

Best Director Ben Makinen, for JazzTown, Bmakin Film 2021. Awarded by SanDiego Movie Awards; Award of Prestige.

Ben Makinen wins Best Director Award from San Diego Movie Awards for the Documentary film JazzTown, 2021.

Director Ben Makinen in Bali

Bmakin Films on Instagram - Free at CU & UCD!

JazzTown T-Shirt avail from Bmakin Film. Model is Dian Marhaeni/President of the Bali Chapter of the IMFA

Who Killed Jazz, director Ben Makinen, Bmakin Film

Bmakin Film's JazzTown features photos by famous jazz photographer William P Gottlieb. Here is Dizzy Gillespie in 1947.

Dianne Reeves, JazzTown, dir Ben Makinen movie still.

Who Killed Jazz Director Ben Makinen of JazzTown Documentary

Bmakin Film's JazzTown features photos by famous jazz photographer William P Gottlieb. Here is 52nd Street, NYC.

Francisco Mejias, conguero, on JazzTown shoot, dir Ben Makinen, Bmakin Film, Denver, Colorado

Drummer Ben Makinen Director of JazzTown and Who Killed Jazz, Vail Daily 1992

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper interviews for JazzTown directed Ben Makinen

Vocalist Christine Barbosa on set of JazzTown, dir Ben Makinen, at Nocturne, Denver, Colorado

JazzTown Coffee Mugs are avail from Bmakin Film!

JazzTown Bmakin Film World Film Carnival Documentary Critic's' Choice Award

Bmakin Film's JazzTown features photos by famous jazz photographer William P Gottlieb. Here is a New York City midtown club in the 1950s.

Walter Barr, Trumpet, JazzTown & Who Killed Jazz; Bmakin Film, dir Ben Makinen

Ayo Awosika, vocalist and band leader, is featured in Bmakin Film: JazzTown, and Who Killed Jazz, directed by Ben Makinen.

Ed Stephen In JazzTown, The Direector's Cut by Ben Makinen Bmakin Film

JazzTown Official Movie Poster Bmakin Film

JazzTown Official Movie Poster director Ben Makinen Bmakin Film sq

Alamosa Great Sand Dunes this shot by Ben Makinen is featured in "The Mission" Bmakin Film

Charles Burrell in JazzTown by Ben Makinen. Photo by Fred C Larkin

JazzTown and Bmakin Film wins an International Symbolic Art Film Award 2021.

JazzTown and Who Killed Jazz, two films by Ben Makinen and Bmakin Film include photos and film of vocalist Linda-Theus Lee.

Bmakin Film: Who Killed Jazz features photos from the 1940s and 50s: this one by Gordon Parks: Students in Library at Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida

JazzTown Bmakin Film Denver Skyline Drone Photography

Bmakin Film: Who Killed Jazz, a new short documentary with featuring photos like this: Woman working on WWII "Vengeance" Dive Bomber, by Alfred T Palmer, 1943.

Bmakin Film PR Dare To Be Real

JazzTown - Bmakin Film Drone Photography by Ben Makinen: Denver, Colorado, USA

Gene Bass and Director Ben Makinen on Set of JazzTown and Who Killed Jazz Bmakin Film Two Drummers

Ben Makinen Bmakin Film presentation at COMBO Songwriters Showcase 2019

Teresa Carroll at the Crimson Room Denver JazzTown Bmakin Film

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper JazzTown Bmakin Film

JazzTown Bmakin Film Mitch Chmara & Billy Wallace

JazzTown Bmakin Film Freddy Rodriguez Quintet at Donkey Creek Festival 2018

JazzTown Bmakin Film Linda Theus-Lee

JazzTown Official Movie Poster Featuring Charles Burrell Director Ben Makinen Bmakin Film

JazzTown Bmakin Film Ellyn Rucker

Who Killed Jazz Bmakin Film Director Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary QR

JazzTown El Chapultepec Bar Beneath Full Moon Bmakin Film

JazzTown Bmakin Film Elitch Gardens to Denver Skyline Drone Photography

JazzTown Bmkin Film Dianne Reeves

Director Ben Makinen in Bali with Bmakin Film JazzTown Mug

JazzTown Movie Bmakin Film dir Ben Makinen

Bmakin Film JazzTown Trumpeter Walter Barr

JazzTown Bmakin Film Ron Bucknam

Bmkin Film JazzTown Justin Adams on Piano with Gonzalo Teppa on Bass

JazzTown Bmakin Film Gene Bass

New JazzTown Bmakin Film Coffee Mugs by Director Ben Makinen featuring Charles Burrell Available on Ben's Merch Page

WHO KILLED JAZZ Bmakin Film Documentary Ben Makinen

Ayo Awosika in Bmakin Film JazzTown and Who Killed Jazz and Marvel Studios Wakanda Forever

Bmakin Film Logo Flower from Director Ben Makinen's Colorado Backyard

JazzTown T Shirts, Model: Dian, president of Bali IMFA

Purenll Steens Band w Dir Ben Makinen at Dazzle, JazzTown, Denver

Fourth of July In JazzTown Bmakin Film Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary

Bmakin Film Logo design by Diah Angelika JazzTown

Director Ben Makinen's Father Evert in Hospice with Jazz fest T-Shirt

Ben Makinen Photography Model: Lindsey; Bmakin Film

Charlie on Bmakin Film Sound Stage JazzTown

JazzTown Bmakin Film Director Ben Makinen Charles Burrell Movie Poster

Claire in Bmakin Film Studio JazzTown

Ben Makinen JazzTown Who Killed Jazz Bmakin Film logo Ni Putu Diah Angelika Kurocake23

Bmakin Film & Ben Makinen Photography: Guitarist Ed Stephen

For The Record Ben Makinen Bmakin Film Bali

Charles Burrell featured in JazzTown and Who Killed Jazz Bmakin Film Producer Ben Makinen

Lohde and The Champ In JazzTown Bmakin Film Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary T Shirt

Dianne Reeves in JazzTown by Director Ben Makinen Bmakin FIlm New Jazz Documentary Film

JazzTown Free Bonus Features with Purchase at Vimeo by Director Ben Makinen Bmakin Film

Ayo Awosika In JazzTown Bmakin Film Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary, Ayo Awosika Sings In Marvel Studio Wakanda Forever

Denver, Colorado In JazzTown Bmakin Film Ben Makinen Jazz Documentary

Producer & Director Ben Makinen Founder of Bmakin Film & The International Modern Film Alliance (IMFA)

Ben Makinen was an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola movie The Outsiders written by SE Hinton