Larry Kart

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Eddie Cano Esquivel Teasing the Korean

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/07/rip_gil_bernal_los_angeles_ten.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hts7CgNugWU

See this thread on Steinweiss:

Sugar Ray Robinson Ray Romano Floyd Camembert

Half-Pint Jaxon Jackson Browne Mantan Moreland

Here's Rooney on drums from "Strike Up the Band," but I think much of what he plays here is dubbed: As for Cook Jr. in "Phantom Lady," his character is meant to be a hop-head loser (look at his eyes at the end of his solo), not a successful ladies man.

E. F. Bleiler Theodore Sturgeon Hamilton Fish

Or to these two great clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5eGEest0g BTW, in both those clips, the players are miming to themselves from a previously recorded audio-only performance.

For me, that jam session scene is to laugh. Everything that is (was?) jive about the erstwhile Young Lions is right there. A comparison with "Jammin' the Blues" is instructive.

Here's a slightly fuller version (stuff before and after) of the "Phantom Lady" clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbCFZpEzeU4&feature=related Gotta love Cook Jr.'s line to Raines when she comments on his dump of an apartment: "I spend my dough on other stuff, baby." And here's an exceptionally creepy sequence from the film (talk about film noir!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ARFH6LPRh4

Got it! Robert Siodmak's "Phantom Lady" (1944). Ella Raines (alarming though she is in this scene) does not play the title character, Elisha Cook Jr. plays the drummer. Here's the scene (and ain't that what jazz is all about?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vEgZM5x0ik You can find out who's in the band here (including Barney Bigard, Howard Rumsey, misidentified as Howard Ramsey, and Freddie Slack): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036260/fullcredits#cast More about the film (with a spoiler near the top): http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/cteq/phantom_lady/

Another clip from "The Strip," with fine Armstrong and Teagarden. The dancing, not so much:

Pearl!

Can't think of it right now, but I'm pretty sure there's a 1940s film noir in which a mentally disturbed jazz drummer goes berserk on the stand in the middle of a solo. Any ideas? In lieu of that, here's a scene with the Armstrong All-Stars from the 1951 film noir "The Strip," in which Mickey Rooney plays a jazz drummer suspected of killing a mobster: Pretty sure "The Strip" isn't the film I was referring to above. If the scene I mentioned there is on YouTube, it's a must see. I have a vague memory that Dana Andrews, or another actor of his style and era, is the main male protagonist (not the drummer), but none of Andrews' films seems to fit.

I've been offline since Monday a.m. thanks to a power outage after a line of thunderstorms knocked off almost 900,000 Com Ed customers in the Chicago area. Second time that's happened in three weeks. I surrender.

I'll tell you one thing -- ypu haven't lived until you've raised doubts about the veracity of two allegedly molested kids in front of eleven strangers who believe them. Also, though I no longer can recall the details, I offered some theory about the possible nature and motives of the natural father in all this that my fellow jurors regarded as way too fancy-assed "psychological" on the face of it. To go on like that to ever more stony faces...

Well, at the least this was after the judge had been told by the clerk that we had reached a verdict. Maybe it was even after it had been read in court, I'm not sure. My recollection was that it was in the jury room, and would we have gone back into the jury room after that? Without doubt what the judge said was both good humored and meant to convey that he thought it was an open and shut case. I also had the feeling that all the prior cases connected to this one had gone against the accused, which, if so, the judge knew and we did not.

You tell me. The case did have a '50s TV "problem" drama aura to it, though perhaps in fact it was I who was applying that framework, reacting to what I assumed was the other jurors' pre-judgment on the basis of the accused's demeanor. Also, as I'm sure you know, one of the things about many court cases -- certainly this one, or so it seemed to me -- is that no one who testifies is telling the whole truth, maybe not even anything close to it. Further, this was, again IIRC, maybe the third or fourth time some aspect of this case had come before a court, and we were barred from knowing what had happened in those instances.

Lovely player. I'm particularly fond of his recordings of the Berg Violin Concerto with Ancerl (Supraphon), though my copy seems to have vanished, and the Brahms Horn Trio (Acanta), with a deliciously warm (though some might find it fruity-toned) contribution from French Hornist Peter Damm of the Dresden Staatskapelle.

I was on a jury in a case of some gravity -- alleged child molestation of a girl and a boy by their male stepfather, case based on the testimony of the children, now some eight years older IIRC, plus the fact that the accused looked and acted rather creepy. While the jury was basically reasonable in their deliberations, I thought there were some holes in the kids' testimony, that they also had been heavily coached (both by the prosecutors and even more so by their natural father, who was estranged from his former wife [she stood by the stepfather, to whom she was still married], had had custody of the kids for several years now, and seemed to me to be at least as creepy in his own way as the accused and a very manipulative, vindictive guy). I did get a chance to raise my (admittedly speculative) doubts, but everyone else thought I was nuts or an idiot ("How can you not believe the kids?"), so I finally voted guilty with everyone else. When the judge was told that we'd reached a verdict after maybe three or four hours, he came into the jury room grinning and said, "What took you so long?" This didn't make me feel any better, particularly because I felt that the accused's demeanor -- puffily overweight, with an unusually boyish face for a man in IIRC his mid-30s -- led many on the jury to turn against him from the first.

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Stephanie Zimbalist? But if that's right, I needed the hint.

The Fresh Sound CD Burnin' also mentions those names (Harris-Austin-Gant) for the Sonny Stitt date, and so does the Bruyninckx discography; however, the latter notes that "Barry Harris is said not to be present at the above session, so probably the other musicians are also uncertain." Just found a note I put inside the booklet of my CD copy of this session. It indicates that according to the late Jack Tracey, who was the producer of this Stitt recording, the sidemen are Ramsey lewis, Eldee young, and Red Holt. Many thanks.