Locus Solus

Excellent blog about a great novelist who was at the forefront of Virago’s rediscovery of women writers fifty years ago but now almost qualifies as ‘neglected’ again.

Roman d’une drôlerie délectable, traduit en français sous le titre « Cette sacrée vertu » (10/18).

Pochettes des albums Les Double Six Meet Quincy Jones ; et Claude Nougaro, Tu verras.

Adaptations.
For Lena And Lennie de Quincy Jones inspire des paroles printanières à Mimi Perrin pour une des plus belles réussites chorales des Double Six ; des pensées estivales à Claude Nougaro.

Les Double Six :
youtu.be/AKfIxHQ1msk

Claude Nougaro :
youtu.be/nxmjHD683S0

Merrill in the recording studio; she looks at the camera

Happy birthday Helen Merrill 🎂
A wonderful photo by David Redfern, from the 1970s

Merrill turns 95 today!

"You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To":

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Ways you can tell that someone has died No. 2,374: You find three dozen Archiv Produktion classical LPs in mint condition in the one remaining crate of record albums in the local Goodwill.

YouTube video by Kenny Garrett - Topic Giant Steps

Tune of the day…Kenny Garrett - Giant Steps. One of the craziest versions of Coltrane’s classic ever conceived. Reducing each melody note and chord to 1 beat (the last one is 2)25 beats grouped in measures of 4/3/4/3 3/3/3/2 8 bars with just 4 tonal centers for soloing. #jazzsky youtu.be/DRUbrZYueIw

Chaînon manquant. J’apprends que Dorothy Richardson a pratiqué le monologue intérieur dans son cycle romanesque Pilgrimage, après Édouard Dujardin mais avant James Joyce et Virginia Woolf.

Sacha Guitry dans Faisons un rêve.

Image de Rebecca d’Alfred Hitchcock.

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L’image absente.
Rapprochement aussi inattendu qu’improbable entre Faisons un rêve et Rebecca, suggéré par le hasard des revisions.
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#NowSpinning Vaughan Williams’s Phantasy Quintet, from this most magnificent of RVW chamber discs. In this phenomenal trio of performances, the Magginis find pathos, humour and steel. A truly magnificent achievement.

'Running the Bath.' (1895) Ramón Casas was a leading Spanish avant-garde painter. This picture, with its subtle graduations of colour and suffused light, is reminiscent of the introverted 'symphonies' of Whistler and the muted interiors of Vilhelm Hammershøi.

One of the most aptly named LPs ever. Teddy Wilson's playing, appearance, and personal manner were always impeccable.

🎬 Rétrospective IDA LUPINO
📅 Du 16 au 27 juillet
Elle fut longtemps l’unique femme à siéger parmi les membres de la Directors Guild of America… C’est dire la singularité d’Ida Lupino ! ✊
Actrice au caractère affirmé, elle défie Hollywood et devient réalisatrice.
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Dorothy Whipple, High Wages, bestseller des années 1930.
L’ascension sociale d’une employée d’un magasin de confection, qui conquiert son indépendance et finit par ouvrir sa propre boutique.
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Album cover Igor Stravinsky Apollon Musagète Dumbarton Oaks Concerto in D Nieuw Sinfonietta Conducted by Lev Markiz Empty seats in a theatre, with violins & violas lined up in rows.

Seems like a good time to post some of Marco Borggreve’s album cover photos. He has over a thousand album credits in Discogs.

Really good classical music photography is hard; let’s see how Borggreve does.

A good start with this Stravinsky album from 1992.

Filmmaker Chris Marker (1921 - 2019).

Smith sits cross-legged on top of his desk

Happy birthday Paul Smith 🎂
📷 Peter Macdiarmid, 1995

"The way men dressed changed in the early 80s and I sort of nudged them into it, I think."

Eva Marie Saint in a wardrobe test photograph for Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959).

Happy 101st birthday to Eva Marie Saint! Here she is in a wardrobe test photograph for Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959).

Caisse en bois ancienne portant l'inscription au pochoir « Matière explosive ».

Au marché aux puces.

Brigitte Fassbaender - BOTD

A repost for Elizabeth Taylor's birthday, 3 July 1912.

I plan to celebrate with The Sleeping Beauty (1953), the only novel of hers I haven't yet read.

#ElizabethTaylorAuthor #BOTD 📚

Claude Chabrol à la Cinémathèque française (Auteurs divers, 1986) à voir en ligne sur HENRI, la plateforme des collections films de la Cinémathèque française Le 5 mars 1986, Claude Chabrol est reçu à Chaillot par Jean Douchet dans le cadre du cinquantenaire de la Cinémathèque française.

Les questions du public fusent autour de son goût pour la critique de la bourgeoisie, pour les romans à énigmes, pour les productions modestes.
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A hardback book - Agatha Christie: The First Lady Of Crime, edited by H.R.F. Keating. The cover features a purple tinted photograph of Christie.

Today's best second-hand buy: a collection of essays on Agatha Christie written by other crime writers, including Celia Fremlin, Dorothy B. Hughes, Christianna Brand and Edmund Crispin.

The Biggest Stories From Two Years of Londonist: Time Machine The top 10 stories you read the most.

Secret tunnels and medieval maps... the 10 biggest stories from the first two years of Londonist: Time Machine

YouTube video by Martial Solal and Johnny Griffin - Topic Mystère Solal

Mystère Solal.
Martial Solal dans ses œuvres de compositeur-orchestrateur pour grande formation. Un art jubilatoire de la surprise, de la syncope et de la concision, avec du beau monde aux pupitres.
#Jazzsky
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Florence Delay c’était la Jeanne D’Arc de Bresson mais aussi la voix de Sans soleil de Marker

@modinmetro.bsky.social

Couverture du livre de Joshua Abbott et Philip Butler : London Tube Stations 1924-1961 (Fuel, 2023).

[Blog] J. Abbott et P. Butler, London Tube Stations 1924-1961.
Un petit volume richement illustré, aussi élégant qu’instructif, qui intéressera aussi bien les férus du métro londonien que les curieux d’histoire de l’architecture civile et de la période moderniste.
www.locus-solus-fr.net?p=1561

Billie sings; she's seen on the right side of the frame, against a black background

Billie Holiday by Bob Willoughby, 1952

Willoughby is best known for his Hollywood work, but his musician portraits are fabulous. I think this might be my favourite portrait of Lady Day

Lea Massari in "L'Avventura" - BOTD