Posted in Shows on Sep 30th, 2008
Peter Gunn was a hit TV crime show with jazz at its center that ran from 1958 to 1961, with Craig Stevens (described as “a poor man’s Cary Grant”) as the stylish, jazz-loving private detective title character, and often directed by Blake Edwards, who would go on…
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Posted in Jazz Notes on Dec 1st, 2007
Previously on Night Lights: Don Ellis and The French Connection. It offers more than a taste of later, larger-ensemble Ellis, heard at the dawn of the 1970s…
Posted in Videos on Aug 24th, 2007
… not to mention Dick Contino and The Platters!
Yesterday I suggested listening to our previous episode The Wild One as a companion program to this weekend’s upcoming I Want to Live! show, which tells the story of the film based around jazz-lover and accused-murderess Barbara Graham (the real-life Graham was…
Posted in Jazz Notes on Aug 23rd, 2007
As we head into this weekend’s “I Want to Live!” program, with Susan Hayward as a jazz-loving murder suspect, here’s a suggested companion show from our archives: the December 2004 program The Wild One. Released at the end of 1953, The Wild One is a key entry in the cinematic annals of jazz-as-the-soundtrack-of-rebellion (rendered here by Leith Stevens and some of the emerging West Coast usual suspects)… and it’s interesting to consider that…
Posted in Shows on Aug 20th, 2007
Based on the true story of accused murderess Barbara Graham, the 1958 movie I Want to Live! employed a jazz soundtrack written by Johnny Mandel and performed by such jazz stalwarts as Gerry Mulligan, Bud Shank and Art Farmer (who appeared in the movie’s opening scenes), along with Frank Rosolino, Jack Sheldon, and Shelly Manne. Susan Hayward (who met a grisly demise in many of her films from the 1940s and 1950s) played Graham, a woman with a troubled past and a real-life jazz and Gerry Mulligan fan who…
Posted in Shows on Dec 2nd, 2006
This 1971 crime drama was based on a real-life early-1960s New York City investigation that resulted in what was, at that time, the largest heroin bust ever in the United States. The film, starring Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider as characters modeled on narcotics officers Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, was a box-office smash and won five Academy Awards. The soundtrack was composed and recorded by trumpeter Don Ellis…
Posted in Shows on Oct 22nd, 2005
Peter Gunn was a hit TV crime show with jazz at its center that ran from 1958 to 1961, with Craig Stevens (described as “a poor man’s Cary Grant”) as the stylish, jazz-loving private detective…
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