Run the Jewels fans are familiar with her music, even if they don’t know it.
They probably are… El-P especially strikes me as a true music nerd.
Ive always wondered exactly why the video feels the need to blur the names of the countries “debating” in that video (in the original its the US and the UK)
Souther was also known for acting roles on ‘Nashville’ and ‘Thirtysomething,’ as well as being a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee associated with Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor.
Oh, dang. He was a piano-playing firefighter (or perhaps just a guy who hangs out at a firfighter bar) in Always (remake of the Spencer Tracy A Guy Named Joe). Sang a great version of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
Jameson was a major figure in the left long since long before I was aware there was a left. While he may not have been a household name some of the things he said were later said by more popular thinkers, celebrities if you like, and became much quoted.
NGL I’m not that familiar with his work. After playing with lots of people like Art Blakey and so on he took a break from jazz and did studio and soundtrack work. Lots of arrangements and composing.
Perhaps he is most poignantly remembered today as the second last musician alive from the famous group photograph.
There was a famous documentary on it which I didn’t get to see unfortunately. I remember the ads in the cinema but unfortunately you can’t go to everything. As well as celebrating him I’m thinking of Sonny Rollins tonight. Still alive I believe.
Nooooo!
FWIW, if y’all have seen The Terminal, he was in that (in the context of his inclusion in A Great Day in Harlem).
I had the pleasure of meeting him just about 5 years ago (Oct. 2019, right after the Nats won the World Series) at the Library of Congress. Jonathan Kane* had just published a book about A Great Day in Harlem, which his father, Art Kane, photographed. Benny Golson was the special guest and wrote the introduction for the book. Larry Appelbaum, the jazz specialist in the LoC’s Music Division (and until recently, a long-time DJ on WPFW-FM), co-hosted the event.
Benny reminisced about the day of the photograph but also talked about how he got to appear in The Terminal. The LoC (as they usually do for presentations like this, or for concerts) brought out related items for display (e.g. holographs, but this time, also dozens of various musicians’ old US passport photos):
( Benny Golson checks out the LoC’s artifacts)
Afterward I managed to share the elevator down to the lobby with him. Wow, he was a nice guy & made me feel like he was glad to meet me. When we got to the first floor (& I was otherwise starstruck & unsure what else to say), I mentioned that the Library had Gerry Mulligan’s sax on display up ahead. He was glad to see it & said he’d planned on working with Mulligan not long before he died (early 1996, IIRC). I got someone to take our picture on the way out.
As a huge fan of jazz in general, and especially from around the time A Great Day in Harlem was made, meeting him was a real blessing.
I got to see him about 4 months later (Feb. 2020) at Blues Alley – that was right before Covid, we knew it was coming, and it was the last show I went to (there or anywhere) for, I think, two years (the next one [The Cookers] was also at Blues Alley & incidentally, both shows had Dr. Eddie Henderson on trumpet).
P.S. The film A Great Day in Harlem is thoroughly enjoyable, but the DVD has an extra disc with additional interviews & info (its website is still up). Also, from what I remember the film’s popularity led to the photo itself becoming known as A Great Day in Harlem – it was originally just “Harlem 1958”.
*Come to find out, he’s the same Jonathan Kane who played drums in Swans. I told him I was a fan from way back & he said he wouldn’t have expected too many jazz fans who were attending this event to be Swans fans, as well. I suggested that The Velvet Underground was (at least in a roundabout way) the gateway to both.
Thank you for all that!
I’ve listened to him on many records and I will absolutely be finally getting round to watching that documentary very soon.