June 24 is an important day for English pop music: today we celebrate the birthdays of Mick Fleetwood (1942), Jeff Beck (1944), Chris Wood (1944) & Colin Blunstone (1945) ππππ
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Aaron Rapoport, 1980
Stanley Bielecki, 1965
Michael Putland, 1973
Gijsbert Hanekroot, 1973
But wait, there's more!
English rockers born on June 24:
Patrick Moraz of Yes & The Moody Blues (1947) π
π· Paul Natkin, 1981
Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1959) π
π· Pete Still, 1993
Did I miss any? Yes, I did!
Curt Smith of Tears for Fears was also born on June 24 (1961) π
π· Michel Linssen, 1990
Also, I missed John Illsley of Dire Straits! (1949) π
π· Michael Putland, 1979
June 24 should be a national holiday in Britain- National Music Day, just like Brazil celebrates Dia da MΓΊsica ClΓ‘ssica on Heitor Villa-Lobos's birthday, March 5th.
Here's Time of the Season, by The Zombies; lead vocals by birthday boy Colin Blunstone
New Ways / Train Train written by Jeff Beck
From the Jeff Beck Group 1971 album Rough & Ready
Birthday boy Pat Moraz plays keyboards with Yes: the Gates of Delirium, from 1975.
(BTW, Moraz was born in Switzerland, not in the UK)
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Remembering Sidney Lumet on his birthday π
He directs Nina Foch & Stephen Elliott in a scene for a TV program.
Photo: Yale Joel, 1953
"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen."
Sidney Lumet by Raphael Gaillarde, Paris, 1986
Sidney Lumet began as a child actor in the Yiddish Theater, & then on Broadway. His only feature film appearance is in 1939's ... One Third of a Nation... When he returned from his WWII service he went into television, & soon became a theatre/TV/movie director.
My favourite jazz album was recorded 60 years ago today, on June 25, 1961 at the Village Vanguard in New York. Bill Evans's great trio, with Scott La Faro & Paul Motian. Great music captured from the five sets the trio played that Sunday.
Here's the Bill Evans Trio at The Village Vanguard.
Scott LaFaro, Bill Evans, Paul Motian
Photo: Steve Schapiro, 1961
"It is not going too far to see this short-lived trio as redefining the nature of the jazz rhythm section."
- @tedgioia
Producer Orrin Keepnews checks in with the trio.
Scott LaFaro, Bill Evans & Paul Motian, at the Village Vanguard, 1961
π· Steve Schapiro
The trio performed five sets that Sunday; songs from each were recorded.
One of my favourite photos of Claude Chabrol, by Jeanloup Sieff, 1959
Heck, it's one of my favourite photos of a director. Today we're celebrating Chabrol's birthday π
On the set of Madame Bovary: director Claude Chabrol & script supervisor (& his wife) Aurore Chabrol, with Isabelle Huppert.
Photo: Jacques Prayer, 1991
Claude Chabrol plays #Pinball. If France the game is known as #flippers or #tilts
Photo: Jack Garofalo
Remembering Alan Turing on his birthday π
Photo: Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 29 March 1951 @NPGLondon
This portrait is featured on the new UK Β£50 note
The firm of Elliott & Fry was founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott & Clarence Edmund Fry, who opened their first premises at 55 Baker Street. The @NPGLondon has over 10,000 negatives in their collection. Here are some of my favourites.
Christina Rossetti, 1880s
"Cabinet cards" from Elliott & Fry, London's great photography studio
John Ruskin, 1867
Kate Greenaway, 1870s
Remembering Milt Hinton - The Judge - on his birthday ππ
Besides being a great jazz bassist, Hinton was a fine photographer. I'm listening to Here Swings the Judge, from 1975, while I search out some of his best photos. The cover photo is by Les Line.
Milt Hinton took the great photo of Ben Webster on the back of this album. Of course he had access to the jazz greats, but Hinton had such a great eye!
Milt Hinton
Ben Webster, Red Allen & Pee Wee Russell
"Good photographs are there to be listened to as well as looked at; the better the photograph the more there is to hear. The best jazz photographs are those saturated in the sound of their subject."
- Geoff Dyer
A stunning self-portrait by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1939 @NPGLondon
Leonora Carrington by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1939 @NPGLondon
Humphrey Jennings by Lee Miller
gelatin silver print, 1942 @NPGLondon
I didn't know Jennings; he's a documentary filmmaker. Lindsay Anderson in 1954 called him "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."
But Miller seems more interested in the smoke...