#Dick McDonough

[highwayorgantrade]

I Can't

Pairing: fem!reader x John Price

Request: "hey whore  can i pls have a fic where price saves the reader's ass and then professes his love but like in a captain price im a hard ass way thx stinker butt” by @quizzyisdone

Word Count: 1.5k

Warnings: Graphic descriptions of injury, cursing, brief mentions of torture, Price being a dick.

Author’s Note: 

quizzy I could've seen this coming a mile away, but wait! am I now attracted to him? reader's code name is echo.

Being in the hospital was embarrassing.

Well, it was embarrassing for you. You weren’t the type to mess up that badly. For days, the only people who spoke to you were nurses, doctors, and the occasional psychiatrist. It was frustrating, listening to your company whisper about you, and it only added to the frustration of allowing yourself to get hurt, and even worse: get saved.

“Isn’t that Echo? I thought she wasn’t able to get caught.”

“Looks like I’ve caught you.” You felt your heart stop when cool metal pressed into the back of your head. Ice ran through your veins, and your hands froze on the sniper rifle that was positioned in front of you.

You had every advantage point, your high-caliber scope could catch even the most minute details from the cliff. Your mission was simple, and it was one you had done a thousand times before: Protect Task Force 141.

“Go ahead, kill me.” You finally responded, indignantly. In reality, you just wanted the fear that struck your heart to leave. Whoever it was, you knew they wouldn’t let you go. You wanted this situation to be over, as soon as possible. Your communication device crackled to life, and Captain Price’s voice came in, causing your anxiety to worsen. Please, Price, don’t say anything confidential.

“Echo, status?”

Instinctively, your hand reached toward the walkie, and you were met with a shocking crack across the back of your head. White spots blinded your vision, and a buzz settled in your ears, loud enough so you could barely hear John’s voice again. 

“Echo, please confirm status.” He instructed, sounding a bit more aggravated, like you had gotten distracted by the flowers, and not by an enemy holding you at the wrong end of a gun. 

“Tell him you are fine.” The voice behind you spoke, and you felt blood begin to drip its way down your face and neck.

“Are you going to hit me again?” You taunted weakly, but stiffened when you felt a boot on your back. “Fine.”

You held the side of the walkie, and waited.

“Price, this is Echo.” You took a deep breath. “Price, I’ve been made, don’t say anything-.” You didn’t even hear the butt of the gun meeting the back of your head, all you felt was a ripping pain, and a burning anger before your vision was overwhelmed by darkness.

“Privates Andrés and McDonough, do you get paid to gossip?” John’s harsh voice cut through the silence, and pulled you back to reality. The men didn’t even respond, all you could hear were their boots quickly walking away from your room. Finally, he appeared in the doorway of your room, crowding the frame. A scowl was apparent on his face, and he barely looked at you before casting his eyes to the wall behind you.

“You look upset.” You noted, and to be honest, you were a little annoyed he was mad at you. 

“Upset doesn’t cover it. You were completely unfocused.” He hissed, and anger ate at your throat.

“I’m alive. Everybody’s alive. The mission was successful. Do any of these sentences sound incorrect to you?” You knew you shouldn’t be like this, that you should be grateful he found you. His fist clenched, and he finally took you in. 

“I’m so glad that the bare minimum is enough for you, Echo.” The strained venom in his voice was obvious. “Do you know? Do you know what you looked like when we found you?”

“I had decided to take a nap, so I didn’t have time to look in the mirror.”

At this, Price stiffened, and you knew you hit some kind of nerve. In lieu of responding, he walked over to the door of your room, and shut it quietly. His back stayed turned to you, and you prepared yourself for him to yell at you for your insubordination. 

“You looked like you were already dead.” Price whispered, barely audibly, and your heart softened. “You were pale, and the way they put you in that car was like they were carrying a body.” He turned back to you, but his gaze was cast at the floor. “Gaz had to check for your pulse, I couldn’t… I didn’t want to. Do you know how many men I killed getting to you?” John’s voice cracked, and he sat down on the bed next to you.

“I still don’t understand why you’re so mad at me. If it was such a hassle, why even bother? Why did you even come here to visit me? Nobody’s talked to me in days!” Bitterness poisoned your voice, and you gripped your sheets, a brand new headache introducing itself.

“Because they feel bad! We all feel bad!” He barked, standing up again. “Echo, I can’t-.” He cut himself off, running a hand over his facial hair.

“You can’t? You can’t what?” You pushed. “You keep saying ‘I can’t, I couldn’t,’ what can’t you do?” You matched his volume as defiance reared its ugly head.

“I can’t think about what it would be like without you!” John yelled, slamming his fist against the counter, causing you to jump. “If you had died, who would take your place? Who would sit in your seat at the bar? Who would get your bed?” John didn’t allow you to respond before he continued. “Echo, if you had died, it would be like there’s a puzzle piece missing! How dare you ask me why I saved you, why do you think!”

He paced while he rambled, staring at you desperately, begging you to come to your own conclusions. “I’m looking at you in this bed, I saw the way you flinched, and every single person that made you like this, I want their blood on my hands.” A coldness creeped into his eyes, and you had finally decided: enough was enough. You needed to know exactly what he was trying to say, because so far, it has fallen on deaf ears. 

“Price, just say it.” His shoulders dropped, and you saw his lips twitch as he tried to form the words.

“I couldn’t live with myself if you never knew how I feel about you. How I see you.” He spoke slowly, like his words would break you. “You are… The single bright spot I have. Your jokes over comms, the way you smile when we meet after a complete mission. When you try to mimic my accent, everything you do, every word you speak, it’s painful knowing you’re not mine.”

Price’s long-winded confession rendered you speechless. You thought back to every time you noticed his gaze lingering on you longer than the rest of the Task Force, but the way he acted toward you gave no indication of his feelings.

Of course, that’s not to say that you haven’t thought of him that way - you’ve wasted a lot of time fumbling over your words around him, taking longer to answer questions because you just got too distracted by his voice, or the way he always made direct eye contact with you. You remember the nights where you would stay awake for hours, overthinking your interactions with him for that day. Or that one time he adjusted your hips for you when you were practicing in the field. 

“Please.” He took your hand in his. “Please just tell me to leave, and I will never talk about it again. Everything will go back to normal.”

Your chest tightened when you thought about the implications. Would you have to keep your relationship a secret? What would happen if it wasn’t a secret? No matter the question, the only answer in the back of your mind was that you didn’t care.

“Don’t leave.” You found your voice, and it cut through the hanging silence. “Please stay.” Price stared at you, searching for any sign of hesitation or regret, and when he couldn’t find any, he cupped your jaw with his hand, thumb tracing over the edge of a bandage, and he leaned in to place a soft kiss on your forehead. 

“If you ever endanger yourself like that again, there will be severe consequences.” He whispered against your skin, and you smiled, all previous anger and frustration long gone. 

“John,” He pulled away from you at his name, and he sat back next you. “Do we keep this a secret?” Your voice was small, and Price’s ensuing laugh made it seem even smaller.

“Task Force knows.” He rubbed the back of his neck. “I might’ve complained a lot, and Soap caught on first.” 

“And Soap has issues keeping his mouth shut.” You confirmed, rolling your eyes.

“Correct. How much longer do you have to be in here for?” He looked around at the hospital room, like he was just noticing all the machines and the sounds. 

“A few more days, but at least the coffee isn’t terrible.” You shrugged, resigned to your fate. John groaned, and he pursed his lips, considering the situation.

“Alright.” He sighed when he stood up again. “Coffee date it is, then."

[shelyue99]

I came across BoB only last year (thanks Netflix the best thing you have done to me) hence 22 years late. I wish I had done it earlier (I definitely heard about the title, maybe in the 2000s, but I was too young at the time to take interests in it and I forgot about it), but because of it there are already a lot of resources and materials (and numerous fanfics) to dig into. I love research and meta and here are something I found interesting and relevant to BoB (with a focus on Winters and Nixon) :

Documentary:

Ron Livingston's Band of Brothers Video Diary

We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company

He Has Seen War

Book:

Band of Brothers, by Stephen E. Ambrose

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoir of Major Dick Winters, by Dick Winters, Cole C. Kingseed

Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers, by Larry Alexander

Conversation with Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers, by Cole C. Kingseed

Hang Tough: The WWII Letters and Artifacts of Major Dick Winters, by Erik Dorr, Jared Frederick

Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich, by David Kenyon Webster

Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, By James Andrew Miller

Podcast:

HBO's official Band of Brothers 20th Anniversary Podcast

The Ross Owen Show, this blog has all the BoB cast interview recordings.

Dead Eyes

Other Materials:

"Band of Brothers" 20th Anniversary Symposium, the video can be found here.

Re the symposium, I love some of the trivia stories the cast shared, like when some replacement guy (I remembered it's Rene Moreno who played Ramirez but my memory could be fuzzy) were having dinner with the OG Easy men at this posh restaurant after shooting. Someone asked Moreno what he did today and he said he cut his hair and got to shoot the gun something like that, and Neal McDonough (Compton) asked him to drop and gave him 20, Moreno looked at Ron Livingston for help, who he thought was the only normal person at the table, but Ron was like yeah you had to do it, and so he dropped and did 20 push-ups and startled the waitress and other customers.

The other interesting episode is that when they were shooting for the river crossing scene in Ep 8, a replacement guy (Ramirez or Hashey?) who wasn't in the bootcamp and wasn't that immersed, jokingly told Dexter Fletcher (Martin) to fuck off, everyone went quiet like how dare you say to that to the officer, and Ross McCall (Liebgott) asked, "Permission to throw him off the boat, sir," Fletcher said let him think about it. They didn't throw him off the boat but I find the comparison between those who went to the bootcamp vs. those didn't and thus didn't have a clue is so interesting. Oh, and Matthew Settle still scared the other cast and staff because Speirs is so scary lol.

[oncasette]

𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄…

✷ here’s a list of characters i currently write for + some common themes / tropes i tend to enjoy !

✷ favs, requests open, requests closed, *sfw only

in terms of requests! my ask box is always open but i reserve to write or not write anything that comes in. i keep everything in the bin in case one day it sparks something!

✷ links lead to fan castings!

BALDUR’S GATE III. astarion ancunin, gale dekarios, karlach, shadowheart

DC. barry allen, adrien chase, rick flag, dick grayson, harley quinn, jaime reyes, tdk!bruce wayne

EIGHTIES. ferris bueller*, darry curtis, charlie dalton*, jason dean, kevin dolenz, cameron frye*, daniel larusso, johnny lawrence, blane mcdonough, ronald miller*

HARRY POTTER. regulus black, sirius black, james potter, remus lupin, theseus scamander, fred weasley, george weasley, oliver wood

TED LASSO. roy kent, ted lasso, jamie tartt

MARVEL. druig, eddie brock, frank castle, scott lang, matt murdock, mcu!peter parker, tasm!peter parker, steve rogers, peter quill, helmut zemo

MILES TELLER. willard hewitt, andrew neiman

OBX. rafe cameron, jj maybank, topper thornton

PEDRO PASCAL. jack daniels, frankie morales, javier peña, marcus pike

SCREAM. ethan landry, stu macher, charlie walker

STRANGER THINGS. steve harrington, jim hopper, eddie munson

TOP GUN. bradley bradshaw, nick bradshaw, tom kazansky, jake seresin, beau simpson

MISC. art donaldson, carlisle cullen, walt finnegan, mark grayson, logan huntzberger, percy jackson, peeta mellark, benny miller, eric northman, kai parker, harvey specter, stiles stilinski, jesse swanson, thomas webb, phil wenneck, sebastian wilder, pacey witter, charlie young, patrick zweig

TROPES I’M PARTIAL TO... mutual pining, fake dating, lovers to enemies to lovers, (childhood) best friends to lovers, summer love, vampire!au, domesticity, age gap, guy falls first, hurt/comfort, second chance romance, roommates to lovers, old money!au, dad’s best friend, best friend’s brother

TROPES I WON’T WRITE… non-con, rpf, pedophilia, age play/regression, pet play, anal play, water sports, scat, sister!reader (ex. eddie munson x henderson!reader)

[almost-a-class-act]

I know you have better things to do, but will you sell me on why I need to start watching Justified?

Oh buddy. Oh pal. Where to begin.

I enjoyed it very much. There are six seasons, so lots of content, especially if you're in the mood to just deep-fry your brain in something not that deep for like a week and a half. There's lots of action! The characters are interesting! The villains are larger than life! The setting is basically a character in its own right, a thing I love in media! Timothy Olyphant and Jacob Pitts are all-time smokeshows and should probably make out about it!

But it is decidedly the Use of Excessive Force show. LOL. If you can kind of squint your eyes and treat it like the wild west show it wants to be and not you know, the little slice of copaganda that it is, then you're gonna love it. The central conflict, as it were, is the strange, intense relationship between US Marshal Raylan Givens and two-bit criminal mastermind Boyd Crowder, who can't seem to stop orbiting each other based on the fact that they *checks notes* once dug coal together. (Nobody knows what it means! It's provocative!)

As the show goes on, I would say there's more of a focus on what increasingly unhinged shenanigans Boyd and the other criminal elements are getting up to rather than just a tight focus on the Marshals. (Boyd's gf Ava is my favourite. Does she murder a man in the first fifteen minutes? Yeah. And we love it. Justified™.)

A whole slew of HBO War actors are in it, if that's a selling point for you. Jacob Pitts my beloved of course. Scott Grimes has a recurring part later on. Neal McDonough is in it a bunch, Rick Gomez. Dick Speight, Joe Mazzello a few times. Frank John Hughes turns up once.

There's lots of room in and around canon for writing fic, since I know you do some of that. I've been churning out HCs like they're paying me.

I hope this was helpful! It has to be better than my first draft, "An enumerated a list of times when Timothy Olyphant and Jacob Pitts could've made out with tongue and didn't". Hit me up if you watch it, we can yell about it.

[thornfield13713]

Okay, nice to get some more information.

And, got to say, shankings aside, I am broadly in favour of Mayor Hancock's political philosophy of 'everyone is allowed to live in this town so long as they're not an asshole'. Would definitely vote for him over Mayor McDonough if they were ever, by some wonder, running against each other in any sort of official election.

Okay, maybe don't put 'violators of the "don't be a dick" rule will be knifed' on the campaign posters, but...eh, it's the wasteland, everyone is getting things done through violence out here.

[jpbjazz]

LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

RED NICHOLS, POUR UN PENNY DE PLUS

‘’Much of his vast recorded output was released in Europe, where he was regarded by early jazz critics as the equal, if not the superior, of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke (...). Nichols' chief fault was an overly stiff, academic approach to jazz trumpet, but he did recognize merit as far as other jazz musicians were concerned and made some wonderful small group recordings.’’ -Michael Brooks

Né le 8 mai 1905 à Ogden, en Utah, Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols était le fils d’un professeur de musique. Enfant prodige, Nichols avait commencé à jouer du cornet à l’âge de cinq ans.

Nichols a joué avec le groupe de son père à partir de l’âge de douze ans. Nichols a été fortement influencé par Original Dixieland Jazz Band puis par Bix Beiderbecke. Nichols avait entendu Beiderbecke jouer pour la première fois sur un enregistrement de George Olsen intitulé ‘’You’ll Never Get To Heaven With Those Eyes.’’ Nichols a également joué une transcription du solo de Beiderbecke sur le classique “Jazz Me Blues” qui avait été enregistré le 18 février 1924.

Durant une partie de l’année 1920, Nichols avait étudié à la Culver Military Academy, dont il avait été expulsé, à l'instar de son idole Bix Beiderbecke.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

Au début des années 1920, Nichols s’est installé dans le Midwest. Le 25 mai 1923, à l’âge de dix-sept ans, Nichols avait fait ses débuts sur disque avec le groupe Syncopating Five d’Howard Lanin. Nichols avait éventuellement pris la direction du groupe qui avait été rebaptisé le Royal Palms Orchestra. Le groupe s’était particulièrement produit sur la Côte est, et plus particulièment à Atlantic City.

Même s’il avait enregistré deux chansons avec Howard Lanin en mai 1923, c’est surtout après avoir été associé au frère d’Howard, Sam Lanin, que la carrière de Nichols avait vraiment décollé. Après le démantèlement du Royal Palms Orchestra, Nichols a fait partie du Johnny Johnson Orchestra avec lequel il s’était installé à New York en 1923. À New York, Nichols avait rencontré le joueur de trombone Miff Mole, avec qui il avait joué durant une dizaine d’années. Avant de signer un contrat avec les disques Brunswick, Nichols et Mole, qui étaient devenus inséparables, avaient enregistré avec Pathé-Perfect sous le nom de Red Heads. En plus de Mole (qui avait participé à la plupart des enregistrements de Nichols en 1927-28 avant de se lancer dans une carrière de musicien de studio), Nichols avait également collaboré avec de futurs grands noms du jazz comme Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey et Will Bradley au trombone, Pee Wee Russell, Benny Goodman et Frank Teschemacher à la clarinette, Bud Freeman, Eddie Miller, Babe Russin et Fud Livingston au saxophone ténor, Frankie Trumbauer au C-melody saxophone, Charlie Teagarden et Wingy Manone à la trompette, Dudley Fosdick au mellophone, Adrian Rollini au saxophone basse, Dick McDonough, Carl Kress et Eddie Condon à la guitare, Lennie Hayton, Joe Sullivan, Rube Bloom et Roy Bargy au piano, Joe Venuti au violon, Joe Tarto au tuba, Artie Bernstein à la contrebasse, Red McKenzie au chant et Gene Krupa, Chauncey Morehouse, Stan King, Dave Tough, Ray Bauduc et Ray McKinley à la batterie. Dans le film biographique ’’The Five Pennies’’, le personnage de Nichols prononçait souvent la réplique “Don’t worry, someday they’ll all be working for me.” Ironiquement, malgré le nombre impressionnant de futurs chefs d’orchestres qui avaient fait partie de son groupe, Nichols n’avait jamais vraiment connu de succès comme leader de ses propres formations à l’époque du swing.

Au début de sa carrière, Nichols avait également enregistré avec les disques Edison (1926), Victor (1927, 1928, 1930, 1931), Bluebird (1934, 1939), Variety (1937) et Okeh (1940). Parmi les nombreux artistes ou groupes avec lesquels Nichols avait enregistré de 1924 à 1926, on remarquait les Bailey’s Lucky Seven, les Charleston Seven, le Goofus Five, les Tennessee Tooters, le Lou Gold, les Melody Sheiks, les California Ramblers, les Lanin’s Red Heads, le Varsity Eight, les Five Birmingham Babies, Billy Wynne, les Little Ramblers, Bill Wirges, les Georgians, les Seven Missing Links, Ross Gorman, les Cotton Pickers, les Hottentots, Cliff Edwards, Ipana Troubadours, les Walter Davidson’s Louisville Loons, le Original Memphis Five, les Broadway Bellhops, Bob Haring, Arnold Brilhart, Little Pilgrims Orchestra, Frank Signorelli, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Albin, Annette Hanshaw, Don Voorhees, John Clesi’s Areoleans, Evelyn Preer et Lee Morse, et on ne parlait que des formations orientées vers le jazz.

Nichols, qui savait lire la musique, avait facilement obtenu du travail comme musicien de studio. En décembre 1926, Nichols avait commencé à enregistrer avec Mole dans le cadre de différentes formations connues sous le nom de Red Nichols and His Five Pennies. En réalité, le nom du groupe était un peu trompeur, car très peu de ces formations étaient des quintets. Parmi les membres du groupe, on remarquait Jimmy Dorsey à la clarinette et au saxophone alto, Vic Berton (un batteur qui pensait comme un percussionniste et jouait parfois du tympani), Eddie Lang à la guitare et Arthur Schutt au piano.

Nichols a enregistré plus de cent pièces avec les Five Pennies pour les disques Brunswick. Même si la taille du groupe avait évolué avec les années, son nom était demeuré échangé. De 1926 à 1932, Nichols a également enregistré avec les Arkansas Travelers, les California Red Heads, les Louisiana Rhythm Kings, le Wabash Dance Orchestra, les Alabama Red Peppers, les Charleston Chasers, les Red and Miff's Stompers et les Miff Mole and His Little Molers. Nichols avait aussi dirigé des groupes plus importants sur certains enregistrements et dans le cadre des revues ‘’Strike Up The Band’’ et ‘’Girl Crazy.’’

Extrêmement prolifique, Nichols enregistrait parfois une vingtaine de pièces par semaine.

En plus de Nichols au cornet, de Mole et de Jimmy Dorsey au saxophone alto et à la clarinette, le groupe de Nichols avait été notamment composé au cours de la décennie suivante de Benny Goodman à la clarinette, de Glenn Miller et Jack Teagarden au trombone, de Pee Wee Russell à la clarinette, de Joe Venuti au violon, d’Eddie Lang au banjo et à la guitare et de Gene Krupa à la batterie. Le groupe avait connu un succès inattendu avec la pièce "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider", qui s’était vendue à plus d’un million de copies et s’était mérité un disque d’or de la Recording Industry Association of America. La composition de Nichols intitulée "Nervous Charlie Stomp" avait même été enregistrée par l’orchestre de Fletcher Henderson.

En 1927, Nichols avait passé quelques mois dans l’orchestre de Paul Whiteman. Son remplaçant était nul autre que son idole Bix Beiderbecke.

À la fin des années 1920, Nichols a également enregistré avec les Miff Mole’s Molers, Peggy English, Carl Fenton, Sophie Tucker, Art Gillham, Cass Hagan’s Park Central Hotel Orchestra, the Midnight Airedales, Irving Brodsky et les Red Hot Dogs. En plus de jouer du cornet, Nichols était un arrangeur imaginatif qui, un peu comme Jelly Roll Morton, avait le don de combiner des musiciens établis avec des groupes spécialement réunis pour l’occasion. Les arrangements de Nichols étaient d’une telle qualité qu’il devait souvent faire appel aux meilleurs musiciens disponibles.

Dans les années 1930, Nichols avait tenté de s’adapter au swing alors en effervescence, mais il avait beaucoup moins enregistré à partir de 1932. Nichols n’avait même pas enregistré du tout en 1933. L’année suivante, Nichols avait dirigé un groupe de onze musiciens appelé His World Famous Pennies. À la même époque, Nichols avait aussi dirigé des orchestres anonymes à la radio. Désormais considéré comme une relique du passé, Nichols avait été progressivement abandonné par ses musiciens qui avaient décidé de lancer leurs propres groupes. Le critique Michael Brooks écrivait:

‘’What went wrong? Part of it was too much, too soon. Much of his vast recorded output was released in Europe, where he was regarded by early jazz critics as the equal, if not the superior, of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. People who make fools of themselves usually find a scapegoat, and when the critics were exposed to the music of Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins and others they turned on Nichols and savaged him, trashing him as unfairly as they had revered him. Nichols' chief fault was an overly stiff, academic approach to jazz trumpet, but he did recognize merit as far as other jazz musicians were concerned and made some wonderful small group recordings.’’

Durant la Crise des années 1930, Nichols avait gagné sa vie en se produisant dans des revues. Pendant un certain temps, Nichols avait aussi dirigé l’orchestre de Bob Hope, avant de s’installer en Californie.

Nichols avait épousé Willa Stutsman, une danseuse de la revue Scandals de George White, avec qui il avait eu une fille. En 1942, la fille du couple avait contracté la poliomyélite après qu’on lui ait diagnostiqué une méningite spinale. Jusqu’en 1943, on avait perdu toute trace de Nichols, qui s’était trouvé un emploi dans les chantiers maritimes afin de pouvoir mieux s’occuper de la santé de sa fille. Après s’être produit au Merry-Go-Round à Dayton, dans l’État de l’Ohio, Nichols avait fait son service militaire dans le cadre de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

DERNIÈRES ANNÉES

En 1944, Nichols, qui n’avait rien perdu de son habileté au cornet à l’âge de trente-neuf ans, avait tenté un retour sur scène. Après avoir joué avec le Casa Loma Orchestra durant quelques mois, Nichols avait formé une nouvelle version de son groupe les Five Pennies, cette fois sous la forme d’un sextet qui s’était produit dans de petits clubs de Los Angeles. Le groupe avait joué par la suite dans de plus grandes salles comme le Zebra Room, le Tudor Room de l’Hôtel Palace à San Francisco et le Shearton de Pasadena, en Californie. À la suite du retour en force du Dixieland, Nichols avait aussi participé à des sessions avec Peggy Lee, Julia Lee, Phil Harris et Kay Starr. Il avait également fait des apparitions à la radio avec Bing Crosby.

Très populaire sur la scène locale, les Five Pennies mettaient souvent en vedette des artistes comme Heinie Beau ou Rosy McHargue à la clarinette et Herbie Haymer au saxophone ténor. L’une des pièces les plus populaires du groupe à cette époque était “Battle Hymn Of The Republic” (1949). Même si Nichols jouait parfois des arrangements innovateurs datant des années 1920, la plupart du temps le groupe interprétait une musique inspirée du Dixieland. Les Five Pennies s'étaient éventuellement dotés d'un son plus distinctif après qu’un saxophoniste basse et le joueur de trombone King Jackson se soient joints au groupe en 1949. Dans les années 1950, le groupe avait enregistré une série d’albums pour les disques Capitol, Jump et Audiophile et avait continué de se produire sur scène.

À la fin de sa carrière, Nichols a également joué le rôle d’ambassadeur de bonne volonté pour le Département d’État.

Nichols a participé à de nombreux films au cours de sa carrière. En 1929, il a joué dans un court-métrage de la compagnie Vitaphone qui mettait également en vedette son groupe les Five Pennies ainsi que les musiciens Eddie Condon and Pee Wee Russell. En 1935, Nichols a fait une apparition dans le film ‘’The Parade of the Maestros’’ aux côtés de Ferde Grofe. En 1950, Nichols a participé au tournage du film ‘’Wabash Avenue.’’ L’année suivante, Nichols avait partagé la vedette avec Mickey Rooney et Jeanne Cagney dans le film ‘’Quicksand.’’ La même année, Nichols avait également eu un petit rôle dans le film ‘’Disc Jockey’’ aux côtés de Tommy Dorsey. En 1959, Nichols avait aussi fait une apparition dans le film ‘’The Gene Krupa Story.’’

En octobre 1956, Nichols avait participé à un épisode de l’émission de télévision ‘’This Is Your Life’’, dans lequel il avait été réuni avec ses anciens collaborateurs Miff Mole, Phil Harris et Jimmy Dorsey. Ces derniers avaient d’ailleurs remercié plus tard Nichols de s’être assuré que tous les membres du groupe avaient été payés.

En juin 1965, Nichols avait obtenu un contrat pour se produire avec les Five Pennies au Mint Hotel de Las Vegas. Le 28 juin, quelques jours après avoir participé à son premier concert, Nichols avait éprouvé des douleurs à la poitrine durant son sommeil. Nichols avait appelé la réception pour obtenir du secours, mais il était déjà mort au moment de l’arrivée de l’ambulance. Il était âgé de soixante ans. Le soir-même, le groupe avait rendu hommage à Nichols en se produisant comme prévu, avec un projecteur orienté vers la chaise vide du trompettiste.

À la suite du succès de l'émission ''This is your life'', Nichols avait fait l’objet en 1959 d’une film biographique intitulé ‘’The Five Pennies.’’ Le film, qui reposait sur une vision très romancée de la vie et de la carrière de Nichols, et l’avait décrit comme un musicien irresponsable qui était la principale cause de ses propres malheurs. Le film mettait en vedette l’acteur Danny Kaye. Nichols, qui avait joué lui-même ses propres parties de cornet dans le film, avait également fait une apparition comme membre d’un groupe fictif appelé les "Clicquot Club Eskimos". Heureusement, la complicité de Nichols avec Louis Armstrong, qui avait également joué dans le film, avait contribué à contrebalancer les nombreuses erreurs historiques de la production. Par exemple, contrairement à ce que laissait entendre le film, Nichols n’avait jamais été chanteur.

Tentant par la suite de capitaliser sur le succès du film, Nichols avait enregistré d’autres disques pour Columbia. La pièce-titre de son dernier album “The Battle Hymn Of The Republic” (1959) était d’ailleurs tirée de la trame sonore du film. Par la suite, Nichols avait continué de se produire avec les Five Pennies dans la région de Los Angeles.

Le film ‘’The Five Pennies’’ avait décroché quatre nominations au gala des Academy Award. L’épouse de Kaye, Sylvia Fine, avait composé la chanson-thème du film, ainsi que d’autres pièces apparaissant dans la production. La pièce "Poor Butterfly" de Nichols a été reprise dans le film de Woody Allen ‘’Bullets Over Broadway’’, qui a été publié en 1994. On peut également entendre l’enregistrement du standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" dans un autre film d'Allen tourné en 1999 et intitulé ‘’Sweet and Lowdown.’’

Red Nichols a été intronisé au sein du Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame en 1986. Compositeur prolifique, Nichols a écrit ou co-écrit plusieurs pièces, dont "Hurricane" (avec Paul Mertz), You're Breakin' Me Down" (avec Glenn Miller), "Five Pennies", "Sugar" (avec Jack Yellen, Milton Ager et Frank Crum), "Bug-A-Boo", "The Parade of the 'Pennies'", "The King Kong", "Trumpet Sobs", "Get Cannibal", "Junk Man's Blues", "Delta Roll", "Corky", "Bugler's Lament", "Nervous Charlie Stomp" (qui a été enregistrée par Fletcher Henderson), "Last Dollar", "That's No Bargain" et "Blues at Midnight".

Considéré comme un des plus grands cornettistes à avoir émergé dans les années 1920, Nichols avait été longtemps sous-estimé, à la fois en raison de sa personnalité controversée (il préparait parfois ses solos à l’avance) et parce que sa tonalité était très peut-être un peu trop influencée par le style de Bix Beiderbecke. En réalité, Nichols avait une tonalité plus cool que celle de Bix ainsi qu’un style beaucoup plus réservé.

Certains musiciens comme Eddie Condon n’avaient pas toujours été très tendres envers le jeu de Nichols. Le fait que les enregistrements de Nichols du début des années 1930 aient été mieux connus en Europe que ceux de ses compatriotes afro-américains n’avait guère contribué à le faire mieux connaître aux États-Unis. Certains des musiciens associés à Condon semblaient aussi avoir porté rancune à Nichols de son succès.

Au cours des dernières années, les disques Jazz Oracle ont publié trois coffrets de CD comprenant la quasi totalité des enregistrements de Nichols comme leader de 1926 à 1932. Même si Nichols avait été bien loin d’être un innovateur de la trempe de Louis Armstrong et de Bix Beiderbecke, il n’en était pas moins un des plus grands musiciens de l’histoire du jazz.

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SOURCES:

‘’Red Nichols.’’ Wikipedia, 2023. ‘’Red Nichols.’’ All About Jazz, 2023. YANOW, Scott. ‘’Profiles in Jazz: Red Nichols.’’ The Syncopated Times, 1er février 2018.

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Special issue Early Jazz No.39 Dick McDonough.

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A Day in the Studio with Dick McDonough

The short-lived brilliant guitarist Dick McDonough is thankfully brought back into the spotlight from this well done blog found at The Pop Of Yestercentury. We’ve had some McDonough on Mosaic sets in the past and he is found along with Carl Kress in our recent Savory Collection.

-Scott Wenzel

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Feb.25 2015: Last jump.

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Closer, December 21

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Cover: The Waltons -- we’re still a family

Page 1: Contents 

Page 2: The Big Picture -- Natalie Wood 

Page 4: Ken Jennings -- will he win as Jeopardy!’s new host 

Page 6: Picture Perfect -- Mariah Carey on her Magical Christmas Special 

Page 7: Derek Hough and Julianne Hough hosting The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration, Drew Scott with a guitar and a Santa hat, Joan Collins toasts the holidays 

Page 8: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Today show 

Page 10: Olivia Colman playing a game of Ibble Dibble on the set of The Crown 

Page 12: Eva Longoria and her son Santiago

Page 13: Sofia Vergara

Page 22: Cover Story -- The Waltons -- we’re still a family -- the warm relationships that began on the show have lasted on a lifetime -- Michael Learned, Richard Thomas, Kami Cotler, Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Eric Scott, Judy Norton

Page 26: Secrets from the 9 to 5 set -- our favorite woman-powered workplace comedy starring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton 

Page 31: Spot the Difference -- Gabrielle Union 

Page 33: Horoscopes -- Sagittarius Brad Pitt turned 57 on December 18 

Page 34: Entertainment -- Viola Davis on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, James Marsden on The Stand, In the Spotlight -- Maura Tierney 

Page 36: On the Move -- Cameron Diaz 

Page 38: Best Friends -- Elizabeth Hurley and her new puppy Shivraj, Dr. Mehmet Oz and his cat Babycat, Kate Bosworth and her dog Happy 

Page 40: Great Escape -- Jacki Weaver on Savannah, Georgia 

Page 44: How to avoid holiday weight gain 

Page 46: Heart to Heart -- Angela Bassett -- keep falling in love -- the acclaimed actress shares her thoughts about work, family and staying healthy 

Page 50: Christopher Plummer -- why I’ll never retire -- happy to be done with leading man days the star insists that his life and work have gotten more interesting as he’s aged 

Page 52: Felicity Huffman is happy to be back -- the actress is ready to get to work and put the college admissions scandal behind her 

Page 54: John Travolta healing over the holidays -- the actor has vowed to make Christmas special for his children following the death of their mom Kelly Clarkson 

Page 58: My Life in 10 Pictures -- Dick Van Dyke 

Page 60: Flashback -- berets, Mission: Impossible, Lawrence of Arabia, tree trimming 

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

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