Vitro Nasu

Happy birthday Anoushka Shankar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CnhcGpmH9Y

(Michael McClure, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg)

During his 1965 tour with the Hawks, Bob visited Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s book store, City Lights, in San Francisco, and posed in an alley behind the store.
Bob’s original intention was to use one of the pictures from this session on the cover of his next album, Blond on Blonde.

Tight Connection to My Heart directed by Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader, writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and director of late 70s sleaze gems Blue Collar, Hardcore, and the climate dread classic First Reformed, teamed up with Dylan for a doozy of a music video for “Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love),” from 1985’s divisive Empire Burlesque lp. True to form for both artists, the video is an elliptical and visually ambiguous affair, something either half-remembered or imagined all together.

(Visiting Rubin Carter)

Dylan and Levon Helm

NYtimes Obit When Levon died <> <>Dylan responds (Rolling Stones)

Good Golly Little Richard sure influenced Beatles.

See a video of Tutti Fruitty from the obit (Rolling Stone)

Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87

Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow.

Bob Dylan on Little Richard Tribute

I just heard the news about Little Richard and I’m so grieved. He was my shining star and guiding light back when I was only a little boy. His was the original spirit that moved me to do everything I would do. I played some shows with him in Europe in the early nineties and got to hang out in his dressing room a lot. He was always generous, kind and humble. And still dynamite as a performer and a musician and you could still learn plenty from him. In his presence he was always the same Little Richard that I first heard and was awed by growing up and I always was the same little boy. Of course he’ll live forever. But it’s like a part of your life is gone.

McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938 – March 6, 2020)

McCoy Tyner Jazz Pianist dead (Rolling Stone)

McCoy Tyner, Jazz Pianist Who Anchored John Coltrane’s Legendary Quartet, Dead at 81

Musician’s bluesy, muscular approach made him one of the most influential pianists of the past six decades

Letters

‘Write me and tell me your heart’ — Leonard Cohen’s letters to Marianne Ihlen

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Jacob Dylan

Dylan has written notable hits such as “6th Avenue Heartache” and “One Headlight”, which is listed at number 58 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Pop Songs”. He has won two Grammy Awards, and released two solo albums: Seeing Things in 2008 and Women + Country in 2010. Women + Country became Dylan’s highest-charting album since the Wallflowers’ 1996 breakthrough Bringing Down the Horse, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard 200.

Echo in the Canyon (Laurel Canyon Music Scene documentary) – Rolling Stone

The film, directed by Dylan’s manager and former record exec Andy Slater, combines history lessons with new performances of the era’s music (from “In My Room” to “Goin’ Back”) from Fiona Apple, Beck and others. Dylan found himself nostalgic for an era before his birth. “There was a lot of support,” he says, “and a lot of tradition.”

Bob Dylan

To Edna Gundersen, USA Today:
GUNDERSEN: Your son Jakob has been very much in the spotlight this year. Do you worry about him?
DYLAN: I’m proud of his accomplishments. He’s still young, and he’s come a long way in a short time. I worried about him when he started out. I just didn’t want to see him get roughed up. This business can really throw you into deep water. He’s had his ups and downs. What he does with the future remains to be seen, but he and his band have done rather well. In the contemporary music scene, they have got a voice to be heard.

Letter to Edgard Varese, Zappa was 16 years old

Dear Sir:

Perhaps you might remember me from my stupid phone call last January, if not, my name again is Frank Zappa Jr. I am 16 years old … that might explain partly my disturbing you last winter. The reason for my letter at this time is that I am visiting relatives in Baltimore and as long as I am on the East Coast I hope I can get to see you.

It might seem strange but ever since I was 13 I have been interested in your music. The whole thing stems from the time when the keeper of this little record store sold me your album “The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Vol.l.” The only reason I knew it existed was that an article in either LOOK or the POST mentioned it as being noisy and unmusical and only good for trying out the sound systems in high fidelity units (referring to your “IONIZATIONS” [sic]). I don’t know how the store I got it from ever obtained it, but, after several hearings, I became curious and bought it for $5.40, which, at the time seemed awfully high and being so young, kept me broke for three weeks. Now I wouldn’t trade it for anything and I am looking around for another copy as the one I have is very worn and scratchy.

Frank Zappa – Birth date, December 21
Edard Varese – Birth date, December 22

Benjamin Britten (22 November 1913)

Life in Picturess

Britten and Shostokovich

Rebels with a cause: the friendship of Britten and Shostokovich

Benjamin Britten & W H Auden

‘Love’s a little boy’
Alan Bennett’s new play imagines a meeting between Britten and Auden 25 years after they fell out irrevocably. But why did their creative relationship go wrong?

Hoagy Carmichael November 22, 1899
Hoagy Carmichael

Photo by Marc Riboud

Imagine: cinematography by Nestor Almendros

Louis Malle, John Lennon, Yoko Ono e Jeanne Moreau, 1971 (AP Photo)

Kristin Scott Thomas played aunt Mimi in “Nowhere Boy” ..(directed by artist Sam Taylor Wood)

(Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow)

Adam Gussow

is an American scholar, memoirist, and blues harmonica player. He is currently a professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Sterling Magee (Satan & Adam wiki)

Magee recorded several near-hits on Ray Charles’s Tangerine label in the early 1960s, including “Get in My Arms Little Girl.” His proficiency on guitar earned him gigs with a number of rhythm-and-blues performers, including James Brown, King Curtis, Big Maybelle, Joey Dee and the Starliters, and a transvestite duo known as The Illusions That Create Confusion. In the mid 1970s he played sessions with Paul Winley and the Harlem Underground, a loose-knit unit that included George Benson.

Satan and Adam (on Netflix)

SATAN and ADAM – I Want You / C C Rider (youtube)

(João Gilberto plays his guitar to João Marcelo & Astrud.)

Father of Bossa nova died

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Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

The Girl from Ipanema (youtube)

Chega De Saudade

30th Century Man, Pola X (Previous post)

Scott Walker 30 Century Man

Obit (Perfetly)

Scott Walker dead at 76

Guardian Obit

Two stars from Pola X have departed early.

Yekaterina Golubeva (9 October 1966 – 14 August 2011)

(29 Palms, Pola X, I Can’t Sleep – Claire Denis )

Guillaume Depardieu(7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008)
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(Soundtrack from Pola X)