Vitro Nasu

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Tributes to Michel Legrand (Variety) Pour In

Criterion – Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand – partners in song

Michel Legrand studied under Nadia Boulanger – see two videos from Go Between)

In Memoriam …

Photo by Michael Woods who was a close friend of Nicolas Roeg.
Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci left us last Novemeber.

Hugh Masakela, Ursula Le Guin, Jack Whitten,, and Ed Moses left us last Jan 2018

Jeff Geys (Belgian conceptual artist)

Stephane Audran, Stephen Hawkins, Givenchy left us last March.

Miyagawa, Milos Forman, and Cecil Taylor left us last April

Philip Roth, Robert Indiana, Tom Wolf , Per Kerkeby Ermmano Olmi left us last May

Donald Hall and Anthony Bourdain in June.

Robby Muller, Shinobu Hashimoto and…

Jeanne Moreau and Martin Landau in July.

Tom Clark, Aretha Franklin, VS Naipal, Antonio Dias,and Paul Taylor

Kiki Kirin

Annette Michelson

Arthur Mitchell Paul Virillo

Helen Alemida

Charles Aznavour

Subrata Mitra

Robert Morris

Pablo Ferro

Sister Wendy

Aznavour
via aznavour

Charles Aznavour wiki

In a career spanning over 70 years, he recorded more than 1,200 songs interpreted in eight languages.[6] He wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs for himself and others.

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Shoot the Piano Player
(Truffaut archive here)

A tribute from Fuse Akira who translated Aznavour’s song here ..(youtube)

Ararat by Atom Egoyan
Who is telling the truth? about the Armenians.

(Franco Zeffirelli, Olivia Hussey and Akira Fuse)

Olivia Hussey and Fuse Akira

Olivia Hussey in Japan

Building Bloc -積木の部屋 (積木の部屋 / 布施明)

Flamenco guitar and hear him singing (Youtube)

My way in Japanese.

1)Cyclamen Fuse’s early hit song.

2)
Playing Oboe..
Cyclamen his early hit.

Fuse’s interpretation of Aznavour song in Japanese

Doukoku

(An elegant calligraphic note is a poem written by Fuse Akira)

Fuse Akira’s Novel: Daddy

Happy birthday Leonard Bernstein!

Aretha Franlin
(photographed by George Hurrell, 1979)

Duet with Frank Sinatra was her favorite..

Read (Independent)

Aretha Franklin: How the Queen of Soul offered to post bail for Angela Davis, saying ‘black people will be free’

Guardian obit – Cecil Taylor was 89. (Excellent coverage)

Cecil Taylor: a visionary pianist who breathed fire and life into jazz -John Fordham.

NYtimes obit

Cecil Taylor (March 25, 1929-2018)

was an American pianist and poet.[1][2] Classically trained, Taylor was generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms. His piano technique has been likened to percussion, for example described as “eighty-eight tuned drums” (referring to the number of keys on a standard piano).[3] He has also been described as “like Art Tatum with contemporary-classical leanings”

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through. – Cecil Taylor.

(Thx to Jeff O’Connell)

His music meant so much to me, the dancing on the keys, the huge chordings/speeds/oceanic, then pointillist, the intensity, the uncompromising musics…

Alan Sondheim

(Nina with James Baldwin)
A Raised Voice
How Nina Simone turned the movement into music.

See a painting Homage to Nina Simone here.

It took her one hour to write Mississipi Goddam

Dr. Nina Simone- –Alabama Got Me So Upset (previous post)

Wild is the Wind..his tribute to Nina Simone.. (How David Bowie helped Nina out of a slump)..

Nuovomondo

What Happend Miss Simone? (Film)

Hugh
Via

As a warrior artist I like to feature art by other warrior artist or pieces of art that inspire warrior artists, and these two tracks by South African horn player Hugh Masekela are just that. Born April 4, 1939 music found Masekela at a young age. He took up trumpet at 14, and after quickly mastering it went on to lead several jazz ensembles. Growing up in apartheid South Africa, his music has always been a reflection and form of protest against the system that enslaved his people.

What Hugh Masekela meant to South Africa’s Freedom Fighter.

Many people have paid tribute to the musical genius of Hugh Masekela, known as the father of South African jazz. But he was not just known for his musicianship. The artist, who died on Tuesday at age 78, used his public platform to speak out against apartheid and substance abuse.

Paterson

A Musical, Visual and Poetic Experience based on Paterson by William Carlos Williams

Williams said: “The Falls let out a roar as it crashed upon the rocks at its base. In the imagination this roar is a speech or a voice, a speech in particular; it is the poem itself that is the answer. “

The Next Day – Marion Cortillard played a sexworker for priests – read more here.

Bowie at Berlin Wall – 1987
Take peek, David Bowie’s art collection.

David Bowie showing off his knowledge of contemporary art with Julian Schnabel here on Charlie Rose. (youtube)

Peter Cook, Bowie and Dudley Moore – via

David Bowie returned to space at 69 (Jan 10,2016 Bowie passed away 2 days after his birthday)
See more photos and links here.

The Cop, The Nun and Peter Cook – the Comic Genius
Jan 9 1995, Peter Cook died

An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.

Leonard Cohen

Can’t imagine a world without Leonard Cohen, a deep void we must face in “Future” and hear his song again.

Lonard Cohen dead at 82 (Rolling Stone)

Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca were Cohen’s favorite poets.

Long time ago I was about 15 in my hometown of Montreal, I was rumbling through….or rambling as you say down here. We say “rumbling” .Actually we don’t say that at all. I was rumbling through this bookstore in Montreal. And I came upon this old book, a second-hand book of poems by a Spanish poet. I opened it up and I read these lines : “I want to pass through the arches of Elvira, to see your thighs and begin weeping”. Well that certainly was a refreshing sentiment. I began my own search for those arches those thighs and those tears….Another line “The morning through fistfuls of ants at my face” It’s a terrible idea. But this was a universe I understood thoroughly and I began to pursue it, I began to follow it and I began to live in it. And now these many years later, it is my great privilege to be able to offer my tiny homage to this great Spanish poet, the aniversary of whose assassination was celebrated two years ago. He was killed by the Civil Guards in Spain in 1936. But my real homage to this poet was naming my own daughter Lorca. It was Federico Garcia Lorca. I set one of his poems to music and translated it. He called it “Little Vienese Waltz”. My song is called “Take this Waltz”.

Cohen and Dylan

With Sonny Rollings – Who by Fire

More from Leonard Cohen Archive.