Dean Frey

Grandíssim Nat Adderley. La meua favorita és "This Here". youtu.be/RYDGzJDJeDI

You're welcome! Happy Thanksgiving!

Desmond with his saxophone in the recording studio. He has his eyes closed as he listens to the music.

Remembering Paul Desmond on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bob Willoughby, LA, 1954

"He used to try and trick me, & play the worst possible note in a chord & see if I could resolve it. I thought, 'Wow he's playing a very wild note in this chord, I'd better get on it'."
- Dave Brubeck

Album cover Beethoven - Kempff The Complete Piano-Sonatas With a painting of the pianist.

"It is a wonderful set, one of the finest things the gramophone has ever given us, not simply because it offers great music & great music-making, but because it is, over its ten-hour span, a thing of such unquenchable vitality."
- Richard Osborne

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Kempff photographed in a park, with a statue behind him

Wilhelm Kempff by Erich Auerbach, 1970 (Beethoven's Bicentennial Year)

For me Beethoven's piano sonatas are Kempff's Beethoven piano sonatas.

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Kempff at the piano, partially reflected in the piano top

Remembering Wilhelm Kempff on his birthday 🎂
📷 Herbert List, Munich, 1960

"No other pianist can so hover at the threshold of a rapt, musical silence. And, like Schubert, Mr. Kempff is a perpetual singer, vocalizing the tunes with an easy, undulating legato."
- Joseph Horowitz

Closeup of Nat playing his trumpet in profile

Nat Adderley by K. Abe, 1970s

"He could play ballads with sublime eloquence and expressiveness, yet, in his uptempo bop mode, he could exhibit a glittering precision that made his work vibrant and energetic without histrionics."
- John Fordham

Closeup of Nat in profile, playing his trumpet

On Nat Adderley's birthday I'm listening to his 1955 album, "That's Nat".

With Kenny Clarke, Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall, Jerome Richardson.

The cover photo on this re-issue album is by Chuck Stewart

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Nat blows his trumpet, cheeks out. Dizzy demonstrates the proper cheek position.

Nat Adderley with Dizzy Gillespie
📷 Guy Le Querrec, 1984

Nat plays his trumpet with a mute

Remembering Nat Adderley on his birthday 🎂
📷 Laird Scott, 1961

"With Cannonball Adderley's buoyant, linear style & Nat Adderley's more dynamic sound, the quintet became one of the longest-running groups in postwar jazz."
- Ben Ratliff

Nat's composition, "Work Song":
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Painting of revelries at the first Thanksgiving: people dancing, partially disrobed. People drinking. At the top, WITCH is spelled out with naked women; the T is a naked woman being crucified.

Warrington Colescott
The First Thanksgiving
1973
Museum of Modern Art

Tag yourself. I'm the guy with the sunglasses & the straw hat at the bottom left.

A farm scene in the snow, with turkeys

Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses
Turkeys, 1958

#HappyThanksgiving 🦃

Poster A woman in Renaissance dress carries a dish to the table, underneath an apple tree, with a cornfield in the background

Louis John Rhead
Harper's Bazar Thanksgiving
1894

Rehearsal footage of Trisha Brown building “Phrase 5” from “Foray Forêt” (1990) with Lance Gries, Carolyn Lucas, Diane Madden, Shelley Senter, Wil Swanson and David Thomson

Brown in profile, striking a pose.

Trisha Brown by Jack Mitchell
New York, June 1976

"Her choreography, showcased primarily in New York, helped shape generations of modern dance creators into the 21st century."
- Alistair Macauley

Brown dances in front, with two male members of her company behind her

Trisha Brown & her Dance Company perform "Set and Reset"
📷 Jack Mitchell, April 1987

Brown, barefoot & wearing a white outfit, strikes a pose

Trisha Brown by Jack Mitchell
New York, June 1976

Brown in a dance pose, her arms up

Remembering Trisha Brown on her birthday 🎂
📷 David Seidner

"Her work pondered relations between people, the systems in which they play a part, and the space we all occupy."
- Alex Greenberger

Description: A still life of vegetables used in stuffing, which includes an onion, a garlic clove, shallots, and sage.

Romulo Yanes
Vegetables for Thanksgiving Stuffing
Gourmet, November 2000

Description: A still life of vegetables used in stuffing, which includes an onion, a garlic clove, shallots, and sage.

Romulo Yanes
Vegetables for Thanksgiving Stuffing
Gourmet, November 2000

The highest possible level of name-dropping here.

“I was staying at L’Hotel on the Rive Gauche, in Oscar Wilde’s old room.”

Robertson is a good storyteller and a fine writer. I’m enjoying this!

Zappa at the microphone, playing his guitar. He has one open hand by the side of his head.

Jean-Pierre Leloir
Frank Zappa, 1970

Boulez at the podium, with his hand by his ear

Jean-Pierre Leloir
Pierre Boulez conducts Wozzeck
Maison de la Mutualité, 1966

Colour version of Steig's cartoon

William Steig turned his cartoon into a New Yorker cover
November 30, 1992

Happy Thanksgiving (for some)

Cartoon A gypsy fortune teller with her crystal ball is consulted by a turkey. She has a tear running down her cheek.

William Steig
A Turkey Before Thanksgiving, 1992

Long exposure shot of the building at night

Cass Gilbert's Woolworth Building all done, and lit up.

A photo from the Library of Congress collection, after 1913

The skyscraper under construction (nearly finished).

Remembering Cass Gilbert on his birthday 🎂
His Woolworth Building under construction. It was completed in 1913.
📷 Edwin Levick, 1912

Candy Darling in a long yellow dress & white muff

A spectacular portrait of Candy Darling by Kenn Duncan
NYPL digital collection, 1971

Beaton, in a wide-brimmed hat, shoots Andy & his Superstars.

Cecil Beaton takes a photo in The Factory, April 24, 1969
Andy Warhol with Ingrid Superstar, Candy Darling, Ultra Violet & Brigid Berlin

Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah is always on the scene!

Candy Darling poses with Curtis standing behind her.

Candy Darling, with Jackie Curtis as Blue Denim, in his hit play Vain Victory: the Vicissitudes of the Damned
📷 Jack Mitchell, New York, 1971