Charles Mingus and sextet play "Take the 'A' Train" at Montreux festival in 1975. The personnel:
Charles Mingus: bass; George Adams: tenor saxophone and vocals; Don Pullen: piano; Jack Walrath: trumpet; Dannie Richmond: drums; Gerry Mulligan: baritone saxophone; and Benny Bailey: trumpet.
(Two parts)
Anita O'Day, in Tokyo in 1963 TV special, singin' and swingin' on Four Brothers:
Anita sings "That Old Feeling," from the same '63 TV production:
Jazz on a Summer's Day: Anita O'Day, Thelonius Monk, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, others, the full film:
The background to "Jazz on a Summer's Day": in 1958, fashion photographer Bert Stern (famous for Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot 'The Last Sitting', six weeks before her death) set out to make a film about the annual Jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
He approached his subject as an occasion to prove that music didn't have to be merely recorded; the film making itself could be as artful as the onstage sound. So the movie is itself a piece of jazz; in the first half of the film, the camera often wanders away from the stage to fixate on the crowd and the boats in the America's Cup yacht races, thus creating a great time capsule.
Fielding five cameras simultaneously, some handheld and some with telephoto lenses, and using the finest Kodak positive-reversal color film, Stern captured brilliant images that, as he said 'just jumped off the screen'. Usually jazz films are all black and white, kind of depressing and in little downstairs nightclubs. This brought jazz out into the sun. It was different.'
Hence the selection for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being 'culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant'.
"JATP Blues," with the colorful Irving Ashby guitar solo I love, from an April 22, 1946 Jazz at the Philharmonic concert. From the original Clef label 3 record 78rpm album set of "Jazz At The Philharmonic, Volume 6." Introduction: Norman Granz. The personnel:
Buck Clayton - trumpet
Charlie Parker, Willie Smith - alto saxes
Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young - tenor saxes
Irving Ashby - guitar
Kenny Kersey - piano
Billy Hadnott - bass
Buddy Rich - drums
"How High The Moon," a buoyant JATP treatment from Feb. 12, 1945, with:
Howard McGhee, Joe Guy - trumpets
Willie Smith - alto sax
Illinois Jacquet, Charlie Ventura - tenor saxes
Ulysses Livingston - guitar
Garland Finney - piano
Red Callender - bass
Gene "Chicago Flash" Krupa - drums
"Tea for Two," a wonderfully easy-swinging version, with a 1944 JATP all-star band that includes Nat King Cole, and Les Paul (who takes a wildly inventive solo):
1950's drum battle on Steve Allen Show, with Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, and Louie Bellson:
Bucky Pizzarelli and Frank DiBussolo, on "In A Mellowtone." Delightful music, with great views of the guitarists' fingers!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
To Be Perfectly Frank ....
From 1965, it's Frank, Dean, Sammy (and Johnny!):
Frank and Dean on TV, particularly funny kibitzing around on "I Get A Kick Out of You," starting around 4:10:
Sinatra, in 1968 TV special, singing (beautifully) "All The Way."
Celine (yuck) Dionne sings "duet" with a cinematic Sinatra on "All The Way." I have to admit it is really well done.
Sinatra sings "Witchcraft," in 1965 TV special, "A Man and His Music."
Sinatra does "I've Got the World on a String" on '65 TV special, "A Man and His Music."
Sinatra sings "Nevertheless I'm in Love With You," on his TV show, around 1950.
"This Love Of Mine," live on TV, sometime in the '50s:
"Fly Me To the Moon," from the TV special "A Man and His Music, Part II":
"Moonlight in Vermont," the terrific rendition from the 1966 TV special (the arranger is Billy May, not Nelson Riddle, as the text superimposed over the film says at the outset).
An exciting version of "Luck Be A Lady," from the '66 TV special:
"I've Got You Under My Skin," at Royal Festival Hall, around 1970
Sinatra in mesmerizing TV performance of "Old Man River," highlighted by the long note holds on "jaaaaailllll," around 1966.
"I Get Along Without You Very Well," the moving rendition from '71 Royal Festival Concert. The strings start the squeamish feeling for me from the get-go.
"Pennies from Heaven," a muscular treatment from the '71 Festival Hall outing, notable particularly for its thrice-repeated for-you-and line at the ending and Sinatra's pronunciation of "thun-dah!"
"You Make Me Feel So Young," kicking off the '71 Festival Hall concert. Again, notable for its ending.
Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin" kicks off the 1965 "A Man and His Music" special.
"Without a Song," from "A Man and His Music" TV special, 1965.
"Don't Worry About Me," from "A Man and His Music," the '65 TV feature:
"I Get A Kick out of You," from "A Man and His Music," with a new, Nelson Riddle-created arrangement.
"Last Night When We Were Young," from "A Man and His Music."
"In the Still of the Night," from 1961, in Sydney, Australia, including false start.
"Night and Day," the uptempo version, performed in 1961 in Sydney:
A swingin' "I'll Be Seeing You," from '61 Sydney concert:
"I Concentrate on You," from live Sydney show, 1961:
"The Second Time Around," from Sydney performance, '61:
A very lively "Come Fly with Me," from his late '50s TV show:
A suave "I Get A Kick out of You," by a hat-wearing Sinatra, in original chart, from a TV appearance:
A feverishly fast "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," from the TV special:
Sinatra's swinging "Granada," performed in a TV special:
Sinatra kicks off a TV special, "A Man and His Music + Ella +Jobim," with "Day In, Day Out":
Sinatra, in a moody "Angel Eyes," live from the late '50s:
Sinatra's emotional reading of Jacques Brel's "I'm Not Afraid," at this link:
http://youtu.be/fhPus6kGMfo
Sinatra sings "Star!"
Now here's Sinatra performing "Star" on TV at Academy Awards ceremony in the early or mid-60s (note the shots of the nervous stars to whom he is singing):
Sinatra performs "My Way," on TV in the late '60s:
Sinatra swings very well, despite a bit of hoarseness, on this appealingly slow, late '60s rendition of "Please Be Kind":
Sinatra's Reprise recording of "We'll Meet Again":
Sinatra sings "Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong":
Sinatra is in excellent voice on this mostly serviceable '63 waxing of "Some Enchanted Evening":
Frank and Dean on TV, particularly funny kibitzing around on "I Get A Kick Out of You," starting around 4:10:
Sinatra, in 1968 TV special, singing (beautifully) "All The Way."
Celine (yuck) Dionne sings "duet" with a cinematic Sinatra on "All The Way." I have to admit it is really well done.
Sinatra sings "Witchcraft," in 1965 TV special, "A Man and His Music."
Sinatra does "I've Got the World on a String" on '65 TV special, "A Man and His Music."
Sinatra sings "Nevertheless I'm in Love With You," on his TV show, around 1950.
"This Love Of Mine," live on TV, sometime in the '50s:
"Fly Me To the Moon," from the TV special "A Man and His Music, Part II":
"Moonlight in Vermont," the terrific rendition from the 1966 TV special (the arranger is Billy May, not Nelson Riddle, as the text superimposed over the film says at the outset).
An exciting version of "Luck Be A Lady," from the '66 TV special:
"I've Got You Under My Skin," at Royal Festival Hall, around 1970
Sinatra in mesmerizing TV performance of "Old Man River," highlighted by the long note holds on "jaaaaailllll," around 1966.
"I Get Along Without You Very Well," the moving rendition from '71 Royal Festival Concert. The strings start the squeamish feeling for me from the get-go.
"Pennies from Heaven," a muscular treatment from the '71 Festival Hall outing, notable particularly for its thrice-repeated for-you-and line at the ending and Sinatra's pronunciation of "thun-dah!"
"You Make Me Feel So Young," kicking off the '71 Festival Hall concert. Again, notable for its ending.
Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin" kicks off the 1965 "A Man and His Music" special.
"Without a Song," from "A Man and His Music" TV special, 1965.
"Don't Worry About Me," from "A Man and His Music," the '65 TV feature:
"I Get A Kick out of You," from "A Man and His Music," with a new, Nelson Riddle-created arrangement.
"Last Night When We Were Young," from "A Man and His Music."
"In the Still of the Night," from 1961, in Sydney, Australia, including false start.
"Night and Day," the uptempo version, performed in 1961 in Sydney:
A swingin' "I'll Be Seeing You," from '61 Sydney concert:
"I Concentrate on You," from live Sydney show, 1961:
"The Second Time Around," from Sydney performance, '61:
A very lively "Come Fly with Me," from his late '50s TV show:
A suave "I Get A Kick out of You," by a hat-wearing Sinatra, in original chart, from a TV appearance:
A feverishly fast "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," from the TV special:
Sinatra's swinging "Granada," performed in a TV special:
Sinatra kicks off a TV special, "A Man and His Music + Ella +Jobim," with "Day In, Day Out":
Sinatra, in a moody "Angel Eyes," live from the late '50s:
Sinatra's emotional reading of Jacques Brel's "I'm Not Afraid," at this link:
http://youtu.be/fhPus6kGMfo
Sinatra sings "Star!"
Now here's Sinatra performing "Star" on TV at Academy Awards ceremony in the early or mid-60s (note the shots of the nervous stars to whom he is singing):
Sinatra performs "My Way," on TV in the late '60s:
Sinatra swings very well, despite a bit of hoarseness, on this appealingly slow, late '60s rendition of "Please Be Kind":
Sinatra's Reprise recording of "We'll Meet Again":
Sinatra sings "Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong":
Sinatra is in excellent voice on this mostly serviceable '63 waxing of "Some Enchanted Evening":
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