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Showing posts with label 1959. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1959. Show all posts
Aug 26, 2014
Dec 24, 2013
Before & After: Have a cool yule, man, and later, like, dig?
Before: Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes - Yulesville (1959)
After: Tony Rodelle Larson - Cool Yule (1962)
A beatnik's wish: Merry Christmas everyone!
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| Ellen Stratton, 1959 |
Patsy Raye & The Beatniks - Beatnik's Wish (1959):
Jan 5, 2013
Movie of the Week: The Cry of Jazz with Sun Ra (1959)
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white. Rarely seen in cinemas, this is the first commercial release of The Cry of Jazz.
Buy the film on DVD here.
Hat tip to Dangerous Minds
Aug 1, 2012
Jun 20, 2012
The Sound of New York (1959)
The Sound of New York, via. Written by Kenyon Hopkins, and produced by Creed Taylor. If a Mingus record isn't available, perhaps this one will do.
Apr 16, 2012
Shot By: Christer Strömholm
Jan 27, 2010
Pull My Daisy
This is sublime...someone has posted the entire legendary beat film, Pull My Daisy, on Google Video.
"A short 1959 film that typifies the "Beat Generation". Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a never-completed stage play entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross, Delphine Seyrig and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-infant son.
Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Originally intended to be called "The Beat Generation" the title "Pull My Daisy" was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Neal Cassady over the 40's and 50's. Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in David Amram's jazz composition that opens the film."
For more interesting beat related film click here. Hat tip to Tex Edwards for finding this.
Sep 2, 2009
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