Brownian Motion

Romy Schneider Remy Martin Gene Ramey Rainy Day Chon Day Rick Monday

Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones Rosey Grier

November 29, 2009 Intimate Ella Fitzgerald, Rediscovered By FRED KAPLAN WITH all the multi-disc jazz boxes that have come out in recent years — the complete Miles Davis on Columbia, the complete Charlie Parker on Savoy, the complete Duke Ellington on RCA and so on — it’s hard to believe that any significant tapes by any major musician might still be languishing undiscovered in a record company’s archives. Yet Verve has just released “Twelve Nights in Hollywood,” a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo, a small jazz club in Los Angeles, in 1961 and ’62 — and none of it has ever been released until now. These aren’t bootlegs; the CDs were mastered from the original tapes, which were produced by Norman Granz, Verve’s founder and Fitzgerald’s longtime manager. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/arts/music/29ella.html?hp

Nancy Reagan Dr. No Yes Man

Pancho Gonzalez Sancho Panza Man of La Mancha

Teachout essay on Pops from Commentary Magazine.

Porter Kilbert Gilbert & Sullivan Louis Sullivan Henry Hobson Richardson Jerome Richardson Jerome K Jerome Three Men In a Boat Three Men On a Horse Three On a Match

Porter Kilbert Gilbert & Sullivan Louis Sullivan

Henderson Chambers Henderson Rain King Snowbilly

Tom1960 The Beatles The Marvelettes Now, how do you get from Pete Postlethwaite to Tom1960? Andrew Marvell Wonder Woman The Miracle Worker Anne Sullivan Ed Sullivan Silky Sullivan

The Norgran session dates from 1955 and is coupled to European Windows on this CD. Blithering dishwater? What's that? I came to John Lewis' orchestral works through an unlikely source---a radio beer commercial-- the orchestral work being a few measures of Lewis' composition, Little David's Fugue, the beer being Rheingold, This would have been in the mid to late 1960s. (No reference on Google. I must have dreamed it.)

Gunther Grass Grassella Oliphant Lorne Greene Lorna Doone Larry Poons Lily Pons

Bebe Rebozo Bibi Andersson Baba Black Sheep

The 98 Pound Weakling Mr. Sandman Peter Rodino

Ronnie Ross on Baritone sax, Gerald Weinkopf on flute, plus the MJQ's rhythm section shine in this release. The rest of the players, a large string section a few woodwinds, are unidentified. As a bonus, the Modern Jazz Society's 1955 release, which came out on a Verve elite CD a decade ago, is also included (though not the rehearsal tracks), so if you missed that one here's another chance to pick it up.

Eric the Red Eric Erickson Doughy Pantload

Mr. Goodbar George Washington Carver Mr. Peanut

Franz Kline Fred Becker Al Hirschfeld

Little Dot Governor Moonbeam Annabelle Lee

Tom Thumb Thomasina Tommy Tucker

Wilhemina Mine Okubo Citizen 13660

Potter Stewart Jon Stewart John Stuart Mills

John Osborne Mortimer Borne Max Born

I just finished Between Sittings, an autobiography by sculptor Jo Davidson (1883-1952). Davidson called himself a "plastic historian", and indeed, he "busted" many of the movers and shakers of the first half of the 20th Century: Pershing, Wilson, Roosevelt, Gandhi, Einstein, Rockefeller, Scripps, Lincoln Steffens, Gertrude Stein, Helen Keller, Madame Chang, and many many more. The writing is friendly, conversational and anecdotal, and when I reached the end I craved more.