Jimmy Giuffre
Earlier we had to report that Oscar Peterson had passed away at 82
Last week I reported on Humph (Humphrey Lyttleton) who went to that great jamming session in the sky at 84
Today there is an obit in the UK Daily Telegraph for another revered jazzman who has just died at 86
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...C-new_02052008
Somewhere I think I still have a superb video of arguably the best ever jazz film called
"Jazz On A Summer's Day"
a 1960 documentary film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island which features
a teriffic list of jazz greats
including amongst a stellar cast
Mahalia Jackson and
Theloneus Monk (a.k.a. "The Loneliest Plunk"), "Satchel Mouth" (
Lewis Armstrong),
Chuck My Ding-a-Ling Berry,
George Shearing and
Jack Teagarden
Better still I have found a
torrent for the complete DVD, A 699 MB avi file that will when I get it and convert to an SD media card storable flash video format play on my shiny new Nokia N800 wonder device
No on second thoughts I found and bought a still sealed copy of the pukka DVD in the 'new and used section" at amazon.com for total of $22.75
As usual my dial up connection coughed and spluttered so that that seemingly simple task took an agonising 20 minutes to complete and then only after I sussed out that the vital "add to cart " image and link were refusing to appear.
Fortunately while waiting impatiently I was simultaneously google image searching for a suitably large image of the DVD which appeared in due course:-
after even more thumb twiddling on a competitor's sales page:-
http://www.buy.com/prod/jazz-on-a-su.../40127939.html
which was even slower loading than amazon and turned out to be all of 4 cents more expensive. so amazon got my order
Meanwhile I must dig out my VHS video because for the opening sequence
there is a wonderful series of mainly overhead views of the two yachts
the US defender Columbia and the British Challenger
Funny that those are the names of the two lost Space shuttles. coincidence or what??
which If I remember correctly was brilliantly accompanied by the haunting saxophone of Jimmy Giuffre playing "The Train And The River"
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"Sir" John Fowles Bt
Honorary Curator Bootleg Museum
(where Sir does not signify that I am a fully benighted Knight just a Bt which signifies a humble Baronet -?? read the wiki!)
I meant no one no harm
Once inside we found a curious moonbeam
Doing dances on the floor