This week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed former Hollywood executive Sherry Lansing for my "House Call" column on growing up in Chicago and what she said to her dad as a child that she wishes she could take back (go here). Also in the WSJ, my chat with author Christopher Broomyre for my "Playlist" column on why Big Country's In a Big Country was so meaningful to him (go here). [Photo above courtesy of Sherry Lansing]
JazzWax interviews. JazzWax is undergoing a bit of summer cleaning, so some of the interview links in the right-hand column may be down. They're being re-uploaded little by little. Sorry for the disappointment but all should be back to normal by summer's end.
Benny Golson and Jimmy Heath will be performing together in New York at 92Y on Wednesday, July 19, at 7:30 p.m. The legendary Philadelphians will be playing their jazz standards, which hopefully will include Benny's Along Came Betty and Jimmy's For Miles and Miles. You can read my interview with Benny here and with Jimmy here.
Here's Benny's Along Came Betty...
And here's Jimmy's For Miles and Miles, by Chet Baker, Art Pepper and Phil Urso...
From Bill Crow's Facebook page. Writes Bill, "I forget where I got this photo of Charlie Ventura's band. Must be in the late 1940s. Tiny Kahn on drums, Gerry Mulligan (bs), Brew Moore (ts), Curley Russell (b) and George Wallington (p)."
Slippery When Wet. The surf craze began in Southern California in the late 1950s after amateur filmmakers began shooting footage of friends surfing and screened the results accompanied by record soundtracks at high schools in small towns along the Pacific Coast. Among those who pioneered the surf film was Bruce Brown, who would go on to make The Endless Summer (1966), the granddaddy of all surf movies. Brown's first film was Slippery When Wet in 1958. When Brown shot the film, surf rock and the Beach Boys didn't exist yet. So Brown turned to Bud Shank and his quartet for music throughout. Fascinating that the very first surf-film soundtrack featured West Coast jazz. Here's Brown explaining how he recruited Bud followed by the film itself and Bud's glorious music, with guitarist Billy Bean, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Chuck Flores...
You'll find the Slippery When Wet soundtrack here.
What the heck. Here's Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, featuring Teddy Pendergrass, on Soul Train in 1975...
Oddball album cover of the week.
Yes, relaxing, until you have to get up to turn over the album.
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