Jack Kerouac in a public reading of the the last page of On the Road, with pictures of Keourac and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarity). Video: mojo4mojo the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all […]
Picture This: 3 – Chuck Koton
Born into a family of photographers, the teenage Chuck Koton began carrying his camera wherever he went. He even set up a darkroom in his parents’ Bronx apartment. Around the same time Koton began his lifelong love affair with jazz. One night he came across his older brother’s copy of Miles Davis’ Someday My Prince […]
Jazz Is 4 – Sing Sing Sing
My intent with this series is not simply to present the greatest hits of jazz. I’m looking for video that are visually, if possible, or at least contextually, compelling too. I think you will find this one the former. ——- Related articles by Zemanta A Love Affair with Jazz Brings Mary Talbot Fee’s New CD […]
Jazz Is: 3 – Jammin’ the Blues
I’m repeating this “Jazz Is” entry from “How We Lived on It” (2), but it is so exceptional, no collection of jazz riches should be without it. The better quality of the two full-length versions available at Daily Motion is ad defaced, while the other has very poor video quality, and Mili’s filmmaking is too […]
Jazz Is 2
It is indication of the secret repositories of soul soaring talent that Dwight Tribble, the vocalist you are about to hear if you wisely stick around, worked for some years in the audio-visual department of my college. He established his career locally, playing clubs throughout Los Angeles with his own ensemble, then adding to that […]