Peter says that it will only last about three days or so. Life is fragile!

In celebration of the season, the New York public library has posted a number of interesting vintage Thanksgiving images from its collections on its Facebook page.

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Ever wondered what "Othello" would be like if the story took place in the early 1960s and all the main characters were jazz musicians? With Patrick McGoohan portraying a drum-playing Iago?

People with all-region DVD players can find out (sadly, the only copies of this movie available on DVD are Region 2). Charles Mingus gets a nice cameo in the film, but he doesn't make it into the trailer.

I found the articles reproduced below on the Internet Archive website.

[THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, issue of 6 August 1921]

Jewish Jazz Becomes Our National Music

About a year ago the following article appeared in the New York Times, a newspaper that has never been accused of anti-Semitism, and whose proprietor is one of the best-known Jews in the United States:

"Irving Berlin, Leo Feist and other officers of seven music publishing corporations in this city were charged with violating the Sherman anti-trust law in an equity suit begun yesterday in Federal District Court by the United States Government. The defendants, it was alleged, controlled 80 percent of the available copyrighted songs used by manufacturers of phonographs, player piano rolls and other musical reproducing instruments, and fixed prices at which the records or rolls were to be sold to the public . . . .

"The corporations involved in the action were the Consolidated Music Corporation, 144 West Thirty-seventh street; Irving Berlin, Inc., 1567 Broadway; Leo Feist, Inc., 231 West Fortieth street; T. B. Harms, Francis, Day and Hunter, Inc., 62 West Forty-fifth street; Shapiro, Bernstein & Company, 218 West Forty-seventh street; Watterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc., 1571 Broadway, and M. Witmark & Sons, Inc., 144 West Thirty-seventh street.

"The agreement which the government seeks to dissolve is alleged to provide that the defendant would make contracts only through the Consolidated Music Corporation which they had organized . . . ."

Many people have wondered whence come the waves upon waves of musical slush that invade decent parlors and set the young people of this generation imitating the drivel of morons. A clue to the answer is in the above clipping. Popular Music is a Jewish monopoly. Jazz is a Jewish creation. The mush, the slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of sliding notes, are of Jewish origin.

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Who woulda thought it?

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From the Three Frames website!

Thanks to William, who thanked Dan for forwarding the link to him on Facebook. Which Dan that was, I can't say...

May they get them under control soon!

I'll keep my list limited to concert hall events going as far back as I can recall; there are too many club dates for me to even try to list...Starred titles were George Wein-produced events.

"Star-Spangled Women for McGovern" Benefit Concert: Chita Rivera and Judy Collins performed, among others, but the only three minutes preserved in my memory is Tina Turner singing and shimmying "Proud Mary" (Madison Square Garden)
Dave Brubeck/Two Generations of Brubeck (Philharmonic Hall)
Thelonious Monk (Carnegie Hall)
Frank Zappa (Felt Forum)
Billy Cobham (The Rainbow Theater, London. The opening act was Average White Band, but we gabbed in the lobby instead of watching them.)
*Miles Davis (the 1st time in 1975 at Philharmonic Hall)
Return to Forever (Carnegie Hall)
Count Basie Jazzmobile Concert at Grant's Tomb
*McCoy Tyner/Keith Jarrett/Herbie Hancock solo piano (Carnegie Hall)
*Tribute to Roy Eldridge with surprise guests Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie (Town Hall)
*Tribute to John Coltrane (posthumous, of course!) with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Andrew White (Town Hall)
*Gil Evans Retrospective with Budd Johnson, Lew Soloff, Jon Faddis, Gil Evans Orch. (Town Hall)
*Herbie Hancock Retrospective (1st "V.S.O.P." Concert) (New York City Center)
*An evening of solo performances by Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Joe Venuti (!), Gary Burton/Steve Swallow and others (Carnegie Hall)
*Ted Curson/George Coleman/Anthony Braxton triple bill (Carnegie Hall)
Shakti/Weather Report double bill (Beacon Theater)
David Bedford's "The Odyssey" (Royal Albert Hall, London)
Sun Ra (I saw him first at The Squat Theater, but The Public Theater is a more "theater-y space)
Cecil Taylor (Delacorte Theater in Central Park)
*Ornette Coleman Retrospective (Avery Fisher Hall: 1977)
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time (The Public Theater)
Art Ensemble of Chicago/World Saxophone Quartet double bill (Symphony Space)
Lester Bowie's Sho 'Nuff Orchestra (Symphony Space)
"Interpretations of Monk" with Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Charlie Rouse, etc. (Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University)
Jay McShann and Claude "Fiddler" Williams (Public Theater)
WKCR Benefit Concert Philip Glass/Steve Reich/David Van Tiegham & many more (Same weekend as Three Mile Island: Carnegie Hall)
Steve Lacy Sextet (Public Theater, 1983)
Min Tanaka/Milford Graves/Derek Bailey (Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium, 1982 - I still have the program for this one)
Dizzy Gillespie (The first time as a headliner was at Avery Fisher Hall in 1981)
Benny Carter Orchestra/Ella Fitzgerald (Radio City Music Hall)
"Swing Reunion" (Red Norvo, Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, etc.: Town Hall)
Carmen McRae backed by Paul Jeffrey Orch. with guest Dizzy Gillespie (Symphony Space: Not a "concert," per se. A recording session to fill missing gaps in a videotaped concert performance that I didn't see.)
Ellis Larkins (Carnegie Recital Hall)
Stan Getz (Carnegie Hall)
Joao Gilberto (Carnegie Hall - much more recently, and now I'll get closer to the present just so I can finish this!)
Betty Carter and Strings (Alice Tully Hall: JALC)
Jackie McLean Retrospective (Alice Tully Hall: JALC)
*Tito Puente/Celia Cruz + Mongo Santamaria (Carnegie Hall)
B.B. King (Beacon Theater)
Charles Mingus "Epitaph" Premiere, Gunther Schuller, conductor (Alice Tully Hall)
Sonny Rollins with Guest Wynton Marsalis (Town Hall)
Alice & Ravi Coltrane + Ravi & Anoushka Shankar (Town Hall, I think. Not the first time I saw Ravi Shankar - that was at Carnegie Hall - but this was the only time I saw Alice Coltrane)
Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra (St. John the Divine)
Charles Lloyd (Merkin Concert Hall)
Tomasz Stanko (Merkin Concert Hall)
*Shirley Horn (Carnegie Hall)
Gerry Mulligan/Zubin Metha (Avery Fisher Hall)
Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra plays Thelonious Monk, with guests Steve Lacy and Danilo Perez (Carnegie Hall)
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra plays Ellington (Alice Tully Hall + many other concerts afterwards)
Phil Woods Quartet / Jon Hendricks Group: "Tribute to Charlie Parker" (Palais des Festivals in Cannes, 1990)
Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra (Carnegie Hall)
Joe Henderson Big Band (Alice Tully Hall)

Edit: The Squat Theater was not where I saw Sun Ra for the first time. He played there starting in '79, and I'd seen him play two years before at the Storyville jazz club. I don't think that was the where I saw him for the first time, though, so when and where that was is a mystery for now....

What a movie still!

I probably won't be able to go myself, but I saw the listing for this, and thought that LJ-ers would like to know about it.

Saturday, June 20, 7:30 P.M.
La Nave de los Monstruos, with live score by Ethel and Gutbucket

The vintage Mexican science fiction classic La Nave De Los Monstruos (The Monsters’ Ship, 1959) with live music, no less! For more info, go here.

Annie Ross performs "Twisted" (No, Joni Mitchell didn't write that!).

Count Basie is at the piano; Tony Bennett is in the audience. It's quite a party!