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December 12, 2008
Bachelorette: Bjork [Michel Gondry]
Navid och jag mejlade just om Michel och jag kom på att han regisserat den musikvideo som gjort starkast intryck på mig. Helt beroende på en så underbart kraftfull historia. Jag kom ihåg att jag tänkte på att jag förundrades över hur någon kunde tänka ut en så underbart märklig historia. En historia som trots att den var som från en annan värld ändå hade en så enormt stark intern logik.
Carlo Mollino: [Prostitute Polaroids 1960]
Sometime around 1960, Mollino began to seek out women, mostly prostitutes, in his native Turin, bringing them to his villa for late-night modeling sessions, where they posed for Polaroid photographs, against backgrounds that he designed. The pictures remained a secret between Mollino and his subjects until after his death, in 1973, when some two thousand were found.Carlo Mollino, Designer de Produto, apresentação escolar
Kessel Barney: One Mint Julep [Netherlands 1964]
Barney Kessel One Mint Julep
Video sent by boberwig
One Mint Julep Kessel Barney 1964
Barney Kessel's trio in a broadcast recording in the Netherlands in 1964. With him on bass is Buddy Woodson and Stan Levey on drums.
Barney Kessel (1923 -- 2004) was an American jazz guitarist He began his career as a teenager touring with local dance bands before moving on to bands such as that led by Chico Marx. He quickly established himself as a key post-Charlie Christian jazz guitarist. In 1944 he participated in the Lester Young film "Jammin' the Blues" most of it to be seen on my youtube site, and in 1947 he recorded with Charlie Parker's New Stars on the "Relaxin' at Camarillo" session for Dial Records.
Barney Kessel is known for his innovative work in the guitar trio setting. In the 1950s, he made a series of albums called "The Poll Winners" with Ray Brown on bass and Shelly Manne on drums. Kessel was also a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio with Ray Brown in the early 1950s. The guitar chair was called the hardest gig in show business since Peterson often liked to play at breakneck tempos. Herb Ellis took over from Kessel after a year or so.
A "first call" guitarist at Columbia Pictures, during the 1960s Kessel became one of the most in-demand session guitarists in America, and is considered a key member of the group of first-call session musicians now usually known as The Wrecking Crew. In this capacity he played on hundreds of famous pop recordings. During the 1970s, Kessel presented his seminar 'The Effective Guitarist' in various locations around the world.
Kessel released several solo albums even late into his life. "The Blue Guitar" and "Kessel Plays Standards" were both released late in his career, showcasing his longevity as a performer and his undying creativity.
Kessel died of brain cancer. He had been in poor health after suffering a stroke in 1992.
George Lewis and his Famous Jazzmen: Over the Waves [Preservation Hall, New Orleans - ForJapanese Jazz Fans 1962]
Over the Waves -- George Lewis 1962
From Preservation Hall in new Orleans here is a clip filmed for some Japanese jazz fans played by George Lewis and his famous Jazzmen. I recognize Punch Miller on trumpet and Louis Nelson on trombone.
This was one of the music pieces that made George famous. Many bands, especially in Europe have taken this piece in their repertoire, but yes folks, this is the real thing! This was probably recorded in 1962. George's fame started in 1942 when he was a member of the Bunk Johnson band. He died in 1968.
Marian McPartland: In A Mist [1974]
In a Mist McPartland Marian 1974
[thanks to boberwig on dailymotion]
Pianist Marian McPartland plays a tune composed by Bix Beiderbecke. He recorded "In the Mist" in 1927.
Margaret Marian Turner was born in England on March 21, 1918 near Slough, Buckinghamshire. As a child, young Marian Turner approached the piano around the age of three. While gaining proficiency on her own, she often provided musical entertainment at family gatherings. Her parents, however, enrolled Marian in violin lessons. Marian's enrollment in a boarding school ended her doomed attempt at playing the violin, and she eventually ended up at the famous London Guildhall School of Music where she studied piano and composition.
Marian was introduced to jazz by a boyfriend who often brought jazz records to her house. For hours they would listen to the music of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and others. From that point on, Marian was hooked on jazz. In 1943, Marian began playing in USO camp shows in Belgium and France, where she met a Chicago cornetist named Jimmy McPartland, a Bix Beiderbeck protege. In 1952, Marian's trio began what was to become a long-running gig at New York's Hickory House, where many legendary musicians to whom Marian had once listened often sat in the audience listening to Marian.
In 1978, Marian began hosting her own radio program for National Public Radio and South Carolina Educational Radio: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. Marian's most recently released CD on the Concord Jazz label is Just Friends, featuring jazz greats-- Tommy Flanagan, Renee Rosnes, George Shearing, Geri Allen, Dave Brubeck, and Gene Harris--playing duets with Marian. Additionally, a CD titled Portraits was released on the NPR label in the summer of 1999. This CD, as suggested by the title, is a compendium of Marian's musical portraits of several guests on Piano Jazz.
Schiachperchten beim Pfarrwerfener Lauf im Salzburger Pongau
Schiachperchten beim Pfarrwerfener Lauf im Salzburger Pongau
Alfred Kubin in seinem Arbeitszimmer
Ebenfalls 1909 gründete er zusammen mit u. a. Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Adolf Erbslöh, Gabriele Münter, Marianne von Werefkin und Karl Hofer die Neue Künstlervereinigung München, einen Vorgänger des Blauen Reiters, und beteiligte sich 1911 an dessen ersten Ausstellung. Er illustrierte ca. 60 Bücher, darunter Werke von Dostojewski und Edgar Allan Poe, veröffentlichte druckgrafische Mappenwerke (1921 „Am Rande des Lebens, 1918 „Ein Totentanz, 1941 „Abenteuer einer Zeichenfeder) und hinterließ tausende Federzeichnungen.
Kubin verstarb am 20. August 1959 in Zwickledt und wurde auf dem Friedhof in Wernstein beerdigt.
Sein Werk befindet sich heute teils in der Staatlichen Grafischen Sammlung Albertina in Wien, teils im Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum Linz. Seit 1962 gibt es in Zwickledt die „Kubin-Gedenkstätte (vom Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum betreut seit 1992). Beim Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich wird auch ein Alfred-Kubin-Preis verliehen
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