Music Monday - Buddy Rich

Things are sort of dull around the Music Monday composing room, so for the next few weeks the cracked editorial staff has decided on a new feature for the day:

The artwork of David Stone Martin on record covers.

One exciting work of art (called Illustration by some) will be presented here each week until they run out. Most scans are from the editor's personal library and the original copyrights apply.

They are presented here for admiration and educational purposes only.

September 30 in 1917 Buddy Rich was born. Next Friday is his birthday. Did you send a card?

From WIKI:
Although Rich was usually helpful and friendly, he had a short temper. While he threatened many times to fire members of his band, he seldom did so, and for the most part he lauded his band members during television and print interviews. Dusty Springfield allegedly slapped Rich after several days of "putting up with Rich's insults and show-biz sabotage."

In the Beastie Boys song "Sabotage", the lyrics "I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle," referred to Rich's temper. Buddy Rich held a black belt in karate, as mentioned in a CNN television interview with Larry King, c. 1985.

Band member and lifelong friend David Lucas says that "Rich had a soft heart underneath it all. His favorite song was "It's Not Easy Being Green".



Though Buddy Rich appeared on a number of Norman Granz and Clef albums, I can only find two that he actually led and have David Stone Martin artwork.

Track listing
Side one:
1."Everything Happens To Me"
2."Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams"
3."Sure Thing"
4."Glad To Be Unhappy"
5.Ballad Medley
Side two:
1."Over The Rainbow"
2."You've Changed"
3."Time After Time"
4."This Is Always"
5."My Heart Stood Still"
6."I Hadn't Anyone Till You"

Track listing
Side one:
1."Yellow Rose of Brooklyn" (Harry "Sweets" Edison) – 4:31
2."Easy Does It" (Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) – 8:16
3."All Sweets" (Edison) – 2:09
4."Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:04

Side two:
1."Barney's Bugle" (Buddy Rich) – 9:39
2."Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:39
3."You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 5:10

Music Monday - Billie Holliday

Things are sort of dull around the Music Monday composing room, so for the next few weeks the cracked editorial staff has decided on a new feature for the day:

The artwork of David Stone Martin on record covers.

One exciting work of art (called Illustration by some) will be presented here each week until they run out. Each is a scan from the editor's personal library and the original copyrights apply.

They are presented here for admiration and educational purposes only.

This is David Stone Martin's interpretation of the Jazz Singer Billie Holiday.

Her legend need not be repeated here. If you don't know it already, you never will.

Yesterday July 17, in 1959, we lost Billie Holiday.

LP side 1
1."Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:12
2."Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:35
3."Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 6:14
4."Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 4:25
5."We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 4:24
6."All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) – 5:39

LP side 2
1."Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 4:48
2."April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg) – 3:02
3."I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) – 3:25
4."But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:48
5."Say It Isn't So" (Berlin) – 3:22
6."Our Love Is Here to Stay" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:41

Music Monday - Andy Warhol - pinch hitter

I couldn't coordinate any musicians, David Stone Martin art and today's date, so instead today I will feature all the Andy Warhol album cover art I could find. There are nine.

They are presented here for admiration and educational purposes only.

The Profile (more than you really wanted to know)is HERE.

Lost Gallery The rescue mission for battered and abused orphan photographs.

Still the most popular page on this blog. The Subway Collection

Music Monday - Charlie Parker

Things are sort of dull around the Music Monday composing room, so for the next few weeks the cracked editorial staff has decided on a new feature for the day:

The artwork of David Stone Martin on record covers.

One exciting work of art (called Illustration by some) will be presented here each week until they run out. Each is a scan from the editor's personal library and the original copyrights apply.

They are presented here for admiration and educational purposes only.

Charlie Parker was/is considered one of the key influences in all of jazz. He died March12, 1955 at age 34 while watching the Dorsey brothers television program which was the summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show.

Parker’s saxophone style usually seemed frenetic but was actually well calculated melody. He seemed to dislike empty places in known melodies and usually filled them in with graceful trills and runs. No squeals or honks; just improvised melody.

The album with strings is an album that anyone can appreciate. It handles standard songs and jazz numbers in a tasteful manner. The shimmering passages invented on the spot by Parker can be heard throughout.

There are various incarnations of this album including the 45RPM illustrated above-right. There was a 10" LP and a 12" LP and numerous re-issues.

Just above is the David Stone Martin artwork for one of the original LP issues.

This collection comes from various sources from 1947 through 1952. Parker is accompanied by four or five orchestras with varying combinations of musicians. Included are jazz musicians
Stan Freeman, Piano
Al Haig, Piano
Lou Stein, Piano
Ray Brown, Bass
Tommy Potter, Bass
Manny Albam, Bass
Bob Haggart. Bass
Buddy Rich, Drums
Don Lamond, Drums
Shelly Mann, Drums
Saxes: Toots Mondello, Flip Phillips
Trombones: Bill Harris, Will Bradley
Trumpets: Chris Griffin, Bernie Glow
...and many others.

Here are the selections on the CD version:
Just Friends
Everything Happens to Me
April In Paris (1949)
Summertime
I Didn't Know What Time it Was
If I Should Lose You
Dancing in the Dark
Laura
East of the Sun
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Easy to Love (1950)
I’m in the Mood for Loave
I’ll Remember April
What is This Thing Called Love
April In Paris (1950)
Repetition ( 950)
Easy to Love (1950 - live)
Rocker
Temptation
Lover
Stella By Starlight
Repetition (1947)

The Profile (more than you really wanted to know)is HERE.

Lost Gallery The rescue mission for battered and abused orphan photographs.

Still the most popular page on this blog. The Subway Collection

Jim Flora - An Original

	Today in 1914 one of the best was born. Jim Flora. Thanks Jim.
AND ALSO TODAY In 1980 Paul McCartney was released from a Tokyo jail where he had been imprisoned for nine days after trying to carry a half pound of marijuana through customs at the Tokyo airport. Then ten years later in 1990 McCartney was the featured profile on CBS-TV's "48 Hours".

The Profile (more than you really wanted to know) is here.

Lost Gallery The rescue mission for battered and abused orphan photographs.

For more about Double Exposures see this page in Lost Gallery.

Musical Monday - Whoopie John Wilfahrt

Just for your information: This polka band had to be referred to as "Whoopie John" by any disk jockey that wanted to play his records on the radio. Americans, again proving the existence of a huge stick, would not allow his last name to be said on the air. And: Today in 1983, Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys drowned while swimming near his boat in the harbor at Marina del Rey, CA.

The Profile (more than you really wanted to know) is here.

Lost Gallery The rescue mission for battered and abused orphan photographs.

For more about Double Exposures see this page in Lost Gallery.