MAX FLEISCHER PRESENTS Minnie the Moocher (1932), featuring Betty Boop and Bimbo, with Cab Calloway and his Orchestra. Walt Disney this is not. Max Fleischer, born in Poland and raised in New York City, was generally uninterested in the pastoral aesthetic of round-eared, anthropomorphic mice schoonering paddleboats down the countryside. Made only four years after [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Einen Kleinen Nacht Musik//’
May 3, 2010
Janis Joplin sings “Get It While You Can.”
Janis Joplin performing “Get It While You Can” with the Full Tilt Boogie Band on The Dick Cavett Show, June 25, 1970.
March 28, 2010
Byron Janis plays Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
THOUGH SOME OF THE KIDDIES might prefer Lang Lang’s thunderous, somewhat comical phrasing (and facial expressions), I’m mostly a classicist when it comes to classical music, and thus have tended towards the work of Byron Janis. Above is some Youtubage of Mr Janis performing one of my favorite pieces, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with [...]
December 31, 2009
Mahalia Jackson, for the Last Night of the Decade.
I love Bert Stern’s film Jazz on a Summer’s Day, even writing about it here, and thought, what better way to close out a decade than with the last musical act from the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, Mahalia Jackson performing “Everybody Talkin’ ‘Bout Heaven” and ”Didn’t it Rain,” and then closing out the festival with the Lord’s Prayer. In many [...]
December 17, 2009
The Band with the Staple Singers, “The Weight.”
From one of the greatest concert films of all time, Martin Scorcese’s The Last Waltz, here is the studio rendition of The Band’s “The Weight,” performed with the Staple Singers.
December 1, 2009
Malcolm McLaren’s “Buffalo Gals.”
Because people were so much cooler in olden times!
November 5, 2009
SWV’s “Right Here.”
I’m a big softie when it comes to early-90s music, am pretty enamoured with Michael Jackson remixes, and know I’m not alone in this.
October 22, 2009
Jackie Mittoo’s “Drum Song”.
I’ve been listening to a lot of old school ska dubs lately, so I thought I’d post some Jackie Mittoo, my favorite (and perhaps the most famous) organist from Studio One. Here’s a good anthology of his music, though, as per most of the Amazon purchases I suggest, it costs close to $40 and only ships [...]
September 23, 2009
Humming, iTechnology, &. Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations.
And so, I’ve become whole-heartedly obsessed with Glenn Gould through my act of reading books and essays — both primary and secondary — about the pianist, and listening to his very fine music, which has begun to quasi-crypto-change my thoughts on iPods, iTunes, and all things iRelated-to-Technology. Stephen Dixon‘s Gould and 30 Pieces of a Novel (Buy them. Now.) [...]
September 8, 2009
All for the girl I don’t know.
And now, for a very late night musical interlude, by Teitur:
