Film Poster : José Giovanni - Le Rapace [1968]

Pocket Book Cover Art : David Goodis - Black Friday

Film Poster : Fritz Lang - The Blue Gardenia [1953]

Cal Tjader and Milt Jackson - Club Night (Live TV 70s)

Film Poster : George P. Cosmatos - Escape to Athena [1979]

Dave Brubeck R.I.P.

Here's a short but nice article by Jeremy Bersntein on Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond.

Pocket Book Cover Art : Charles E. Fritch - Negative of a Nude

Film Poster : Rudolph Maté - The Siege At Red River [1954]

June Christy sings Something Cool, live, 1959

Pete La Roca R.I.P. (2)

Just a short message to post the link to the NYT obituary here.

Pocket Book Cover Art : Alan Hynd - Violence in the Night

Film Poster : John Sturges - The People Against O'Hara [1961]

Jeff Alexander - Day Of The Evil Gun OST

Pete La Roca R.I.P.

Apparently Pete La Roca passed away on November 19th following this article.

No more news at hand for the moment.

R.I.P. Mr. La Roca!

Jack DeJohnette

This morning, in one hour almost, "Le Matin Des Musiciens" will dedicate its program to Jack DeJohnette.

One can listen online, relisten online afterwards or podcast the program.

Enjoy!

Film Poster : Arnold Laven - The Rack [1956]

Pocket Book Cover Art : David Goodis - The Wounded and The Slain

Sonny Rollins Interview

I recently found this interview from September at the SFWeekly blog here.

Enjoy!

Film Poster : George Waggner - Pawnee [1957]

James Ellroy Interview

The Economist has an interview with James Ellroy available here.

Enjoy!

Pocket Book Cover Art : George Sanders - Stranger at Home

Elliot Carter R.I.P.

Given the passing away of Mr. Elliot Carter and the NYT obituary here, the NYRB has a lenghty article about the composer here.

R.I.P. Mr. Carter

Horace Silver

Tomorrow morning France Musique's program "Le Matin des Musiciens" will be about Horace Silver.

It starts as usual at 11.00 A.M. CEST.

You can find more info here and here.

Programmation musicale

• Horace Silver, Room 608

  Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
  13 nov. 1954[Frémeaux & Associés (FA 287)]

• George Gershwin , Strike Up The Band

  Stan Getz, Horace Silver, Joe Gallaway, Walter Bolden
  10 déc. 1950[Roost / EMI (7243 8 59622 2 6)]

• Dizzy Gillespie , A Night In Tunisia

  Bud Powell, Curley Russell, Max Roach
  1er mai 1951[Masters Of Jazz Cabu R2CD 8033]

• Dizzy Gillespie , A Night In Tunisia

  Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver, Curly Russell, Art Blakey
  21 février 1954[Blue Note (7243 5 32146 2 3)]

• Thelonious Monk, Misterioso

  Jay Jay Johnson, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Paul Chambers
  14 avril 1957 [Frémeaux & Associés (FA 249)]

• Miles Davis , Blue Haze

  Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Art Blakey
  10 mars 1954[Prestige (OJC20 093-2)]

• Horace Silver , Silver’s Blue

  Joe Gordon, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Kenny Clarke
  2 juin 1956[Columbia (COL 476521 2)]

• Horace Silver , Opus de Funk

  Percy Heath, Art Blakey
  23 nov. 1953[Frémeaux & Associés (FA 287)]

• Horace Silver , Quicksilver

  Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver, Curley Russell, Art Blakey
  21 février 1954[Frémeaux & Associés (FA 287)]

• Horace Silver , Sister Sadie

  Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Horace Silver, Gene Taylor, Louis Hayes
  30 août 1959 [Frémeaux & Associés (FA 287)]

• Horace Silver , The Preacher

  Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
  6 février 1955[Blue Note (CDP 7 911143 2)]

• Horace Silver , Blowin’ the Blues Away

  Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Horace Silver, Gene Taylor, Louis Hayes
  29 août 1959 [Frémeaux & Associés (FA 287)]

• Horace Silver , Senor Blues

  Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Louis Hayes
  10 nov. 1956[Frémeaux & Associés (FA 287)]

• Horace Silver , Song For My Father

  Carmell Jones, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Teddy Smith, Roger Humphries
  26 octobre 1964[Blue Note (0777 7 84185 2 8)]

• Horace Silver , The Cape Verdean Blues

  Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Bob Cranshaw, Roger Humphries
  1er oct. 1965[Blue Note (0777 7 84220 2)]

• Horace Silver , Doodlin’

  Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
  13 nov. 1954[Blue Note (CDP 7 911143 2)]

• Horace Silver , Nicas’s Dream

  Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
  5 avril 1956 [CBS (465630 2)]

• Horace Silver , Ecaroh

  Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
  4 mai 1956 [Dreyfus Jazz (FDM 46050 367982)]

• Horace Silver , Cookin’ at the Continental

  Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Horace Silver, Gene Taylor, Louis Hayes
  31 janvier 1959[Blue Note (CDP 7 911143 2)]

• Horace Silver , Peace

  Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Horace Silver, Gene Taylor, Louis Hayes
  30 août 1959 [Blue Note (7243 4 95342 2 3)]

• Horace Silver, Lonely Woman

  Horace Silver, Teddy Smith, Roger Humphries
  31 octobre 1963[Blue Note (0777 7 84185 2 8)]

• Horace Silver, Que pasa

  Carmell Jones, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Teddy Smith, Roger Humphries
  26 octobre 1964[Blue Note (0777 7 84185 2 8)]

• Horace Silver, The African Queen

  Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Larry Ridley, Roger Humphries
  1965-1966 [Silveto Productions (32005)]

• Horace Silver, Summer in Central Park

  David Friedman, Horace Silver, Bob Cranshaw, Mickey Roker
  6 octobre 1972 [Blue Note (7243 5 35758 2 3)]

• Horace Silver, I want you

  Claudio Roditi, Michael Brecker, Steve Turre, Ronnie Cuber, Horace Silver (...)
  fév.-mars 1966[Impulse (IMP 11922)]

Ted Curson R.I.P.

I received this email this evening :

"I just read that Ted Curson has died on Sunday morning, Nov 4th, 2012 in New Jersey due to a heart attack. His death was reported at least by the Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, largely because he was an annual visitor of the Pori Jazz festival since the 1960's and
a well-known figure in Finland."

Pocket Book Cover Art : David Goodis - Behold This Woman

Bernlef R.I.P.

Just received the news that the dutch author and jazz connaisseur Bernlef passed away at 75.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/3352/boeken/article/detail/3339216/2012/10/29/Schrijver-Bernlef-75-overleden.dhtml.

Edit :
http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20121029_00351516

Tom Wolfe : Back To Blood

Here's the NYT review of Tom Wolfe's latest novel, Back To Blood, anyone read it yet?

Film Poster : Billy Wilder - The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes [1970]