Frankie Trumbauer

Hoje, dia 30 de Maio de 2011, completam-se 110 anos sobre o nascimento do saxofonista de jazz Orie Frank Trumbauer.

Frankie Trumbauer
(1901-1956)

What's your name # 38

"Deedles" - Dianne Joan Schuur (b. 1953)

"Snooky" Young - Eugene Edward Young (1919-2011)

"Tram" - Orie Frank Trumbauer, a.k.a. Frankie Trumbauer (1901-1956)

"Sonny" Payne - Percival Payne (1926-1979)

"Duke" Ellington - Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899-1974)

Skip Bolen

Nicholas Payton


James Brown


Etta James


Lauryn Hill


T-Model Ford


Trombone Shorty


Christian Scott

Site de Skip Bolen

Clips de letras # 17

Eddie Bert
Trombonista de jazz



Foto de Thelonious Monk por William P. Gottlieb

Monk trusted Hall [Overton] because Hall knew exactly what to do. He knew what to leave out and what to put in. And you got to know that with Monk. I mean, you can't just – you know, it's not vanilla. In other words, it ain't like usual. It's got to be what Monk did. And the band, that tentet, was like a piano. You had to write it like a piano. So you'd be playing all kind of parts. They intertwine and go up and down. Each instrument was like a key on the piano. Monk must have been pleased with Town Hall or else he wouldn't have wanted to work with Hall again on Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.

Hall would be playing piano for the rehearsal, and Monk would be in the other room dancing around in the way he did. Hall would ask him, 'When are you going to play?' Monk would say, 'When the tempo gets right.'
(in Stephenson, Sam: The jazz loft project)

Pois, pois ... # 129

"That's why we study history. So that we stop killing each other."



The Da Vinci Code (2006), Ron Howard

Quotes # 184

I do Jazz, Blues, Country & so forth. I do them all like a good utility man.
Ray Charles

Uma música, um filme # 42

Swing dance scene

Hellzapoppin' (H. C. Potter, 1941)



Slim and Slam Allstars:
Slim Gaillard - piano, guitar
Slam Stewart - bass
Rex Stewart - trumpet
Elmer Fane - clarinet
Jap Jones - trombone
C. P. Johnston - drums

&

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

Contando peixinhos

Contando peixinhos...

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...No Río de los Ángeles, em Pinofranqueado.

Os Roscas

Janela, perto do Rio Ponsul.

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Big Joe Turner

Hoje, dia 18 de Maio de 2011, completam-se 100 anos sobre o nascimento do cantor de blues Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., The Boss of the Blues.

Big Joe Turner (1941)

(Foto via Shorpy)

3 Desejos # 41

Bill Hardman (1933-1990)
Trompetista de jazz

"To play the horn.
A crazy old lady.
Money."

Bombos e pífaros

O grupo "Pifaradas do Álvaro Pessoa", de Unhais da Serra, actuando na Feira do Queijo, em Soalheira, no dia 14 de Maio de 2011.

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Serra da Gardunha # 2

Pedras, na Serra da Gardunha.

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Castelo Novo # 2

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Edmond Hall

Completam-se hoje 110 anos sobre o nascimento de Edmond Hall, clarinetista de jazz e chefe de orquestra.

(1901-1967)

He is a boy from my hometown, you know, and we have known each other for years. Been the best of friends and, you know, he is a fine clarinet man and I just want you to know that I am all for him. Edmond played with us so many years, may the Lord bless him, you know.
Louis Armstrong on Edmond Hall

For jazz clarinet give me Ed Hall - His feel for hot music is perfect!
Benny Goodman on Edmond Hall

Garça boieira

Garça boieira
(Bubulcus ibis)



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Quotes # 183

(Artwork: Atilla Atala)

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
Charlie Haden

Serra da Gardunha # 1

Serra da Gardunha - Pedras




Serra da Gardunha - Casa do Guarda de Castelo Novo

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Pois, pois ... # 128

"Yes, love, of course!
Fire and flames for a year, ashes for thirty.
I too know what love is."



Il gattopardo (1963), Luchino Visconti

Snooky Young

Eugene Edward Young
(1919-2011)

Livros de jazz # 14

Jazz People
Valerie Wilmer

Olhares muito pessoais acerca de pouco mais de uma dúzia de nomes do jazz. As letras e as fotografias pertencem ambas a Val Wilmer.
Uma escolha muito peculiar de nomes como Babs Gonzales e Big Joe Turner, passando por Howard McGhee, Monk, Buck Clayton e Billy Higgins, mas também Archie Shepp e Cecil Taylor, entre outros.

Colecção de bandeiras

Hoje, a homenagem que o Google prestou à bailarina e coreógrafa Martha Graham fez com que este tacho de caldeirada recebesse visitas dos 4 cantos do mundo.
E isto devido a uma foto de exposição múltipla do grande Gjon Mili que publiquei por aqui faz já algum tempo.

Playlist - Maio

Este mês o gira-discos tem música nova.

Coleman Hawkins - The Stanley Dance sessions (rec. 1958)
Bird of prey blues (Coleman Hawkins)


George Russell Orchestra - New York N. Y. (rec. 1958)
Manhattan (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)


Lester Young - The jazz giants (rec. 1956)
I didn't know what time it was (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)



Earl Hines - Plays Duke Ellington (rec. 1971-75)
The shepherd (Duke Ellington)


John Coltrane - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (rec. 1963)
They say it's wonderful (Irving Berlin)


Miles Davis - '58 Sessions (rec. 1958)
On Green Dolphin Street (Bronislaw Kaper)



Dinah Washington - All stars jam session (rec. 1954)
You go to my head (J. Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie)

What's your name # 37

"Buck" Hill - Roger Hill (b. 1927)

"Hound Dog" Taylor - Theodore Roosevelt Taylor (1915-1975)

"Jay Jay" Johnson - James Louis Johnson (1924-2001)

Meade "Lux" Lewis - Meade Anderson Lewis (1905-1964)

"Lightnin'" Hopkins - Sam John Hopkins (1912-1982)

Árvores # 2

Nos arredores de Portaje.

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Quotes # 182

A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!
Cannonball Adderley on Coleman Hawkins

Pois, pois ... # 127

"Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books."



Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939), Frank Capra

Livros de jazz # 13

Jazz Greats
David Perry

Um livro de David Perry com boas fotografias e ilustrações que acompanham um excelente texto.
Perry começa por nos dar a conhecer a sua visão das origens do jazz, debruçando-se depois sobre as vidas de algumas das mais proeminentes figuras desta música - Buddy Bolden, Satchmo, Duke, Parker, Coltrane, entre outros.
Recomenda ainda algumas obras para leitura e uma discografia seleccionada referente aos músicos que aborda.

Castelo Novo # 1

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Clips de letras # 16

Frank Gant
Baterista de jazz

I must have been 13 or 14... I [had] bought drumsticks, but I had no idea what drummers would do. So I went home and started beating around the chairs and tables and listening to the radio. But it was hard: you could hear the drummers, but to actually pick up on what they were doing was impossible.

So by that time I became a fan of the Paradise Theatre, where the big bands were comin in, you know. So I’d go down there on Sunday. I might get there about 12 o’clock and stay all day, just to sit and watch and listen. And I caught all the big bands... Duke, Count, Billy Eckstine... he [Eckstine] had all the stars in the band... Charlie Parker... Diz, and Miles... but I was watching the drummer... Art Blakey. So I went backstage and said: “I’d like to talk to the drummer” and the stage manager said: “Art, somebody wanna see you!” He came over to the door said: “Hey kid, how’re you doin’? Come on in!” He took me in, just like I was a regular, you know... Buhaina [Blakey], I hung out with him the rest of the day, took me to his hotel, you know... that’s the way Art was, he was very positive about young guys getting into it.

Made me feel very good you know, so I decided to study drums... I just had a set of sticks, not even one drum.
(in Björn, Lars & Gallert, Jim; Before Motown: A history of jazz in Detroit, 1920-60)

Linha da Beira Baixa # 3

Entroncamento (c. 1980).


Comboio (c. 1980).

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Quotes # 181

Jean-Paul Sartre por Alltagsopfer

Le jazz c'est comme les bananes, ça se consomme sur place.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Pois, pois ... # 126

"- Cara mia.
- Mon sauvage."



The Addams Family (1991), Barry Sonnenfeld

What's your name # 36

"Billy Bang" - William Vincent Walker (1947-2011)

"Philly Joe" Jones - Joseph Rudolph Jones (1923-1985)

"Fats" Navarro, "Fat Girl" - Theodore Navarro (1923-1950)

"Slam" Stewart - Leroy Elliott Stewart (1914-1987)

"Swee'Pea" - William Thomas Strayhorn, a.k.a. Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967)