Saturday, June 28, 2003

Classical Music



Arturo Toscanini with granddaughter Sonia (her parents were Wanda Toscanini and Vladimir Horowitz)

NZZ, 22 September 1938, advert for concert of 26 September 1938 - Horowitz played a programme of Chopin pieces, the Busch quartet w/guests the first string quintet by Mendelssohn for starters, and Schubert's string quintet after Horowitz' middle section 

Tuesday, June 25, 2002

Jazz Fotos

Sahib Shihab, Elvin Jones, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey - backstage at Salle Pleyel, Paris Jazz Festival, November 1968 (photographer unknown)

John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane in Japan, prob. Nagasaki, July 14, 1966 (prob. from same date as the photo on the back of the original issue of "Cosmic Music", the sign in the back translates to "Groun Zero [Monument]") (photographer unknown)

Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones (photographer, date and location unknown)
Arnett Cobb with his daughter Lizette Cobb, Alexandra Palace, London, 1979 (Foto: Val Wilmer)
John Coltrane, dressing room, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 1963 (Foto: Henk Visser)

Duke Ellington playing baseball (Florida, 1950s, photo: Charlotte Brooks/Look)

Edith & Roland Kirk with Ronnie Scott in front of Ronnie Scott's, London, c. 1966 (photo: John Hoppy Hopkins)

Dizzy Gillespie playing tennis (date/location/photographer unknown)


Jack DeJohnette gardening, c. August 2020



Alice Coltrane and family: Michelle (7), Oran (6 months), John Jr. (3), and Ravi (2) at their home, Dix Hills, Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, November 1967 (four months after John passed). (from Ebony Magazine)



Thursday, April 19, 2001

Food


Thursday, February 1, 2001

RS-Forum

Palasthotel

Kenneth Rexroth rehearsing (Brew Moore on ts) (photo: Harry Redl)

Lovano? Lovano!



Monday, January 1, 2001

StoneFM

Babs Gonzalez in Paris on Champs Elysées, 1956 (Photo: Jean-Marie Perier)
Sonny Rollins & Henry Grimes
Giovanni Sollima

Malamondo (1965)


Sunday, March 26, 2000

Wednesday, May 2, 1990

West Coast Jazz

Howard McGhee & Charlie Parker, c. 1947

Howard McGhee's band at Jade Club, Hollywood, c. 1945
From left to right: Roy Porter (d), Howard McGhee (t), TeddyEdwards (ts). J.D. King (ts)

The first Californian bebop band: leader Howard McGhee (t) with Vernon Biddle (p), J.D. King (ts), Bob Kesterson (b), Teddy Edwards (ts), and Roy Porter (d), c. 1945/1946

Hollywood Palladium, Opening Night, 23 Sep 1940

Hollywood Palladium, Opening Night, 23 Sep 1940

Brew Moore

Cal Tajder & Vince Guaraldi

The Curtis Counce Quintet at The Haig 1957: Curtis Counce (b), Carl Perkins (p), Harold Land (ts), Frank Butler (d), Jack Sheldon (t)

Teddy Eddwards

Horace Tapscott

Ornette Coleman, late 50s (photo: William Claxton)