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The Raven (1935)

"The raven is my talisman."

"Curious talisman. Bird of ill omen. A symbol of death."

"Death is my talisman, Mr. Chapman. The one indestructible force, the one certain thing in an uncertain universe - death."

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Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown - September Song 👇 🎼 👇

"September Song" is an American pop standard composed by Kurt Weill, with lyric by Maxwell Anderson, introduced by Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday. It has since been recorded by numerous singers and instrumentalists. It was also used in the 1950 film September Affair, and for the credits in the television series May to December (a quote from the opening line of the song). Although the song was written as an old man's lament for the passing of his youth, some of the most famous versions have been recorded by women artists. Thus Sarah Vaughan's version of 1955, and Ella Fitzgerald's with pianist Paul Smith on the 1960 Verve release Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs From Let No Man Write My Epitaph are both regarded as Jazz classics. Eartha Kitt and Weill's wife Lotte Lenya both recorded the song in 1957, and Jo Stafford, Patti Page as well as Anne Shelton also recorded versions during the 1950s. In 1958 Eydie Gormé included the song in her album, Love is the season and in 1989 both Lena Horne in The Men in My Life, and Julie Wilson in an album of Kurt Weill songs. Personally this song reminds me of waking up in on an early Saturday morning just as the sun starts to pierce through the window shade slits and the flowers outside with morning dew start to open up. As one eye slightly opens up and then the other followed by a fisted hand arm stretch and yawn… then Sarah starts to sing this song… oh so beautifully! Sarah's accompanied by Leader/Arranger: Ernie Wilkins, Clifford Brown (trumpet), Herbie Mann (flute), Paul Quinichette (tenor), Jimmy Jones (piano), Joe Benjamin (bass), and Roy Haynes (drums). Recorded in New York, December 18, 1954. (EmArcy Records)

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👄One of the greatest of all voices. Nobody comes close to even copying her.

👄 This is one of the greatest version of September Song not only for Sarah Vaughan rendition but for Clifford Brown solo. It is epochal, this solo is one of the greatest trumpet solo in the history jazz.

👄 You're right on target. I've always felt that Clifford's solo is a perfect complement to Sarah's enchantment. Been listening to this for almost 50 years and it still makes my flesh crawl.

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April In Paris, Sarah Vaughan

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Woody Shaw: A Jazz Virtuoso's Journey Through Innovation and Legacy

Introduction: Woody Shaw, born Woody Herman Shaw Jr. seventy-nine years ago today on December 24, 1944, in Laurinburg, North Carolina, emerged as a transformative force in the world of jazz. A trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator, Shaw left an indelible mark on the genre. Widely regarded as one of the most influential jazz trumpeters and composers of…

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Polka Dots And Moonbeams - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown

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If you can find this 1950s vinyl in the cut-out bin, grab it. The music is excellent. Purloined from my father’s collection, this is one of the first jazz LPs my brother Pete and I ever heard. We wore it out. And many decades later, I'm listening to it frequently again. It holds up. https://www.discogs.com/release/1474375-Various-Jazz-Of-Two-Decades

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It’s Wednesday, my fellow Drewds! Going into the holidays I can’t help thinking about how our favorite Crew are celebrating the holidays. Can’t wait for all of the @secretsleuthexchange fics, gifsets, and fanvids we’re going to get!

In the meantime, I was inspired by a poll from @burningblake about which classic “standard” song best represents Nace (all excellent choices). I wound up making a Season 4 playlist of standards from the Great American Songbook, and a few other classic tracks, that represent their Season 4 journey for me. If you’re interested in this sort of thing, here we go!

I’ll be linking the Spotify tracks, but you should be able to find them all on Apple Music or YouTube. If you want a link to the full playlist, just hit me up here or on Discord.

1. The Nearness of You - This Hoagy Carmichael classic brings to mind Nancy and Ace’s inability to stay apart every time they’re near each other in Episode 401 🥺. I love the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong duet, but I picked Norah Jones’ version from her 2002 debut album because it’s just so perfectly wistful.

2. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby - this so so cool track was written by Louis Jordan, but I first heard it on Tom and Jerry (that’s the fighting cat and mouse cartoon in case you’re too young to remember them). I immediately envision the back and forth argument Nancy and Ace have throughout Episode 402 in the lyrics of this song. Ace just wants to know! I adore Joe Jackson’s version, but I went with Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones from 1956 because it is absolutely perfect.

3. Night and Day - I like to imagine that Nancy and Ace stayed up all night talking at the end of 402. This song perfectly embodies their relationship at this stage 🥹. It was written by Cole Porter for Fred Astaire to sing in the original ‘The Gay Divorce’ Broadway musical (catch the film, a classic Fred and Ginger madcap musical romcom with such amazing dancing🕺🏼). But I had to go with Frank Sinatra from 1957’s ‘A Swingin Affair’ because it’s such a classic swing tune.

4. April in Paris - I’m not crying, you’re crying. Warning, there’s going to be a lot of crying in this playlist. Nancy telling Ace the story of her parents’ honeymoon in Paris in Episode 403, that shy smile when she tells him she always wanted to recreate it with someone, GAH. I had to pick the wonderful Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown on trumpet, simply exquisite. I’m going to have to take a break to sob quietly in the corner. “What have you done to my heart” indeed.

5. Fever - There was only one song, and only one version of this song, that matches the heat Nancy and Ace generated in the infamous Sigil scene. Peggy Lee burned the house down in 1958 with this track. “What a lovely way to burn” - Nancy can relate.

6. So in Love - Another genius Cole Porter song, written originally for Kiss Me Kate, but sung here by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald (my personal hero). I had to pick it for THE KISS. They are just so in love 😭. A beautiful song and a beautiful rendition worthy of Nancy and Ace’s love. The fact that Kiss Me Kate is a musical about bickering exes who eventually find love again makes it even more perfect.

7. Crying - Roy Orbison, 1962. Need I say more? I may never recover from the final scene of 403. This song at least helps a little with the pain by naming it. Roy hits some insane notes in this song—the intensity matches both Nancy and Ace’s misery in that moment.

8. Good Morning, Heartache - More like Good Morning, Sorbet. In Episode 404, Nancy drowns her sorrows in her favorite frozen dessert to deal with the heartache of gaining and losing Ace. And no one does heartache like Billie Holiday, who recorded this song in 1946. Heartache haunts Nancy all throughout S4, and this track represents it perfectly.

9. I had two contenders for the Nace scenes in Episode 405, both from the early 60’s. I Fall to Pieces, released by Patsy Cline and The Jordanaires in 1961, was a country crossover and Patsy’s number one hit—an incredible track that embodies Nancy’s emotions on seeing Ace again. She can’t even look him the eye at the beginning of the episode. Which brings me to my other choice, Walk on By, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, and famously sung by Dionne Warwick in 1964. Nancy puts up a brave front for most of this episode, but inside she wants to break down and cry.

10. Episode 405’s speed dating montage is one of my favorite scenes of Season 4. Again I have two contenders—why should I have to choose? Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer’s One For My Baby (and One More for the Road), as sung by Ella Fitzgerald (again ‘cause she’s the best), is an ideal soundtrack for Nancy’s increasingly desperate descent as she spends every would-be speed date talking about Ace and THAT KISS. Equally appropriate is Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life—velvet-voiced Johnny Hartman and saxophonist John Coltrane’s 1963 track positively drips with ennui, elegantly over cocktails, of course. If you’ve never heard this one, please give it a listen. There’s even a mention of a week in Paris 🥺.

11. Episode 406, with the infamous Spider Prom, is Ace’s episode IMO—we finally get to see how he’s dealing with the loss of the love of his life and his best friend. He so desperately wants to somehow get back to being friends with Nancy, he resorts to spending countless hours with the help of S4 MVP Nick trying to catch Chunky Velez for her. Can’t We Be Friends? is the perfect song for him in this episode, gorgeously sung by Ella and Louis. That is, until he spies Nancy and Tristan dancing, and realizes what he can never have. Etta James’ blistering track I’d Rather Go Blind captures Ace’s feelings in that moment. He may have been the one to halt their attempts to brake the curse, but he’s hurting just as much as Nancy is.

12. I’ve got two seminal songs to represent Episode 407. When Nancy realizes that Ace let Chunky go, and hears his admission that seeing her with Tristan hurt, it positively screams Cry Me a River. No, not the Justin Timberlake song 😅. This epic torch song was famously sung by Julie London in 1955, and expresses beautifully Nancy’s scorn at Ace’s hypocrisy even as she admits that he broke her heart.

Their fight, and Nancy’s subsequent dashed hopes that Ace would call her bluff and come back, makes me think of Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye. Another Cole Porter masterpiece sung by Ella. What can I say? You can’t top perfection:

Every time we say goodbye, I die a little Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little Why the gods above me, who must be in the know Think so little of me, they allow you to go

I dare you to listen to this track without weeping over the Nace of it all. Enjoy!

Well, Drewds, we’re just past the halfway mark of Season 4 and this post is already a novel, so I’m going to stop here for now. What did you think of my picks? Any you think I missed?

I’ll do a Part 2 as long as I get a few notes on this one 😂 . It will feature more classic songs that represent Nancy and Ace as they head into the back half of the season. I know it’s going to get rough ahead, but I promise the music will be sweet.

Update: Part 2 is here!

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Dread by the Decade: The Raven

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Year: 1935 Genre: Psychological Horror, Gothic Rating: Passed (Suggested: PG-13) Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 1 minute

Director: Lew Landers Writer: David Boehm Cinematographer: Charles Stumar Editor: Albert Akst Composer: Clifford Vaughan Cast: Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds, Boris Karloff, Lester Matthews, Inez Courtney, Ian Wolfe

Plot: A doctor becomes violently obsessed with a young dancer after saving her life.

Review: Despite some issues with uneven tone and characterization, this film's solid performances and dynamic sets make it a fun, campy ride.

Overall Rating: 3/5

Story: 3/5 - This standard tale of obsession is elevated some by the almost meta way in which the villain tries to steer it into gothic territory.

Performances: 3/5 - Ware, Hinds, and Karloff are all quite good and likable. Meanwhile, Lugosi fluctuates between maniacal and a bit too campy.

Cinematography: 3.5/5 - Not as stunning as some of its gothic contemporaries, but still engaging.

Editing: 3.5/5 - A few memorable dissolves.

Music: 2.5/5

Effects: 3.5/5

Sets: 4/5 - Really fun sets, including a gothic torture chamber, shrinking space, and room that turns into an elevator.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 2.5/5 - Mostly standard but solid. Karloff's make-up, though, is a bit cheap.

Trigger Warnings:

Moderate but brief violence

Attempted torture

Ableism

Medical scenes

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"lullaby of birdland - Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown"

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Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in The Raven (Lew Landers, 1935)

Cast: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds, Spencer Charters, Inez Courtney, Ian Wolfe, Maidel Turner. Screenplay: David Boehm. Cinematography: Charles J. Stumar. Art direction: Albert S. D'Agostino. Film editing: Albert Akst. Music: Clifford Vaughan. 

The Criterion Channel includes The Raven in its collection of pre-Code horror movies, but in fact the movie started filming after the Production Code was introduced, and director Lew Landers had to negotiate over details in the script. The enforcers were nervous about "excess horror," and in particular wanted the film not to show any details of the operation that Dr. Vollin (Bela Lugosi) performs on Bateman's (Boris Karloff) face. Even so, censors took aim at what they called "horror for horror's sake," and The Raven was banned in several countries. The defense from Universal Studios that the movie was a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe impressed nobody. It's still a fairly creepy movie, largely because the filmmakers managed to include some torture devices from Poe's stories like "The Pit and the Pendulum." The poem "The Raven" mainly gives Dr. Vollin an excuse to explain to everyone that the bird is a symbol of death, but it also prompts a rather silly dance recital by the object of Vollin's obsession, Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware). Vollin is a neurosurgeon who saves Jean's life after she's injured in an automobile accident. She's engaged to another surgeon, Dr. Halden (Lester Matthews), and when her father, Judge Thatcher (Samuel S. Hinds), stymies Vollin's interest in Jean, Vollin takes his revenge. He has a collection of torture devices and an old house outfitted with gimmicks like a bedroom on an elevator and a secret room whose walls close in on people trapped in it. Karloff's Bateman is a bank robber who escaped from San Quentin and is on the run, so in the guise of giving him plastic surgery to change his identity, Vollin instead disfigures him, and then makes him play servant at a house party to which Halden, the Thatchers, and various other guests are invited. Madness ensues. The movie's chief virtue is brevity -- it runs 61 minutes -- so it never gets tedious even though it also never gets either scary or plausible.   

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Sarah Vaughan

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Sarah Vaughan è stata una vera leggenda del jazz, cantante e pianista, ha inciso oltre cinquanta dischi.

Quattro volte vincitrice dei Grammy Award, incluso un Lifetime Achievement Award, nel 1989 il National Endowment for the Arts, le ha conferito il NEA Jazz Masters Award, la più alta onorificenza statunitense del genere jazz.

Nacque a Newark il 27 marzo 1924 in una famiglia di umili origini che amava la musica, sua madre cantava nel coro della chiesa e suo padre suonava la chitarra e il pianoforte che lei iniziò a studiare a soli tre anni. Da bambina si esibiva come organista e solista del coro di una chiesa battista. A quindici anni lasciò la scuola per dedicarsi completamente alla musica.

A diciotto anni vinse un concorso canoro al mitico Apollo Theater di Harlem che le consentì di aprire il concerto di Ella Fitzgerald dove fu notata dal cantante Billy Eckstine che la fece entrare nell’orchestra diretta da Earl Hines.

La sua carriera da solista è iniziata nel 1945.

Ha inciso dischi con i più grandi musicisti e compositori di tutti i tempi come Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis e sfornato un successo dopo l’altro. Molte sono le sue canzoni rimaste nella storia della musica di tutti i tempi.

Aveva una profonda carica interpretativa e la capacità di controllare ogni dettaglio, dall’intensità del vibrato e del volume, all’articolazione delle sillabe. Una parte della critica la giudicava troppo manierata, accusandola di crogiolarsi troppo nei virtuosismi, ma lei riusciva sempre a stupire il suo pubblico, trasmettendo il suo enorme potenziale attraverso ogni tipo di repertorio.

In bilico tra la passione e le esigenze del mercato, Sarah Vaughan ostentava una forte personalità ma in realtà era fragile, insicura e dipendente da fumo e droghe. Sboccata e impertinente i colleghi le avevano appioppato vari soprannomi come Sailor e Sassy, il pubblico, invece, la chiamava La Divina.

Una profonda amicizia l’ha legata al suo mentore Billy Eckstine, con il quale ha realizzato storici duetti e che chiamava padre e anche my blood (il mio sangue). Erano talmente uniti che, alla notizia della sua morte, l’uomo subì un colpo apoplettico.

Nella sua travagliata e sofferta vita sentimentale si è sposata per ben quattro volte. Il primo è stato il trombettista George Treadwell che divenne anche il suo manager e ne decise il look, capelli, abiti e addirittura le fece cambiare la dentatura. Il secondo è stato il giocatore di football Clyde Atkins con cui, nel 1961 adottò una bambina, Debra Lois, attrice cinematografica nota col nome d’arte Paris Vaughan. Il loro matrimonio fu breve perché lui era un violento. Ha sposato poi Marshall Fisher, ristoratore di Las Vegas e ancora il trombettista Waymon Reed.

Sarah Vaughan è morta a Hidden Hills, il 3 aprile 1990, aveva sessantasei anni.

L’anno successivo la musicista Carmen McRae l’ha omaggiata col disco Dedicated to Sarah, in cui ha interpretato i suoi maggiori successi. Sempre nel 1991 si è tenuto un tributo alla Carnegie Hall che ha visto l’esibizione di importanti musicisti e musiciste.

Dal 1998 è presente nella Hall of Fame con due dischi, l’album Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown del 1954 e il singolo If You Could See Me Now del 1946.

Nel 2003 Berkeley e San Francisco hanno proclamato il 27 marzo, sua data di nascita, il Sarah Lois Vaughan Day.

Nel 2016 le è stata dedicata la versione 4.7 della piattaforma WordPress.

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1955

Expect reviews of these albums from 1955:

In the Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra

Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan

Study in Brown - Clifford Brown & Max Roach

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Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was a jazz composer, arranger, and pianist.

Born in Cleveland, he was the most influential arranger of the bebop era but wrote charts for swing and hard bop players. The bands he arranged for included Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, and Sarah Vaughan. In 1940-41 he was the piano player and arranger for the Kansas City band Harlan Leonard and his Rockets. He and lyricist Carl Sigman wrote “If You Could See Me Now” for Sarah Vaughan and it became one of her first signature songs. According to the composer, his greatest influences were George Gershwin and Duke Ellington.

He wrote arrangements for Gillespie’s big band, who gave the première of his large-scale orchestral piece Soulphony in Three Hearts at Carnegie Hall. He led his group in New York, which included Fats Navarro; the following year he was at the Paris Jazz Festival with Miles Davis. He scored for recordings by Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, and Blue Mitchell. He arranged and played for rhythm and blues musician Bull Moose Jackson.

He composed several bop and swing standards, including “Hot House”, “If You Could See Me Now”, “Our Delight”, “Good Bait” (composed for Count Basie), and “Lady Bird”. His bands from the late 1940s and early 1950s featured leading players such as Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Wardell Gray, and Clifford Brown. In 1956 he led two sessions based on his compositions, released as the 1956 album “Fontainebleau” and the 1957 album “Mating Call”. The latter featured John Coltrane. He recorded a single notable project as a leader, The Magic Touch, but was sidelined by health problems; he had several heart attacks before dying of cancer. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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The Incomparable Sarah Vaughan: A Look at the Life and Legacy of a Jazz Legend

Introduction: Sarah Vaughan, also known as “Sassy,” was one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time. Her rich, powerful voice and impeccable phrasing made her a true icon of the genre, and her influence continues to be felt today. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the life and legacy of Sarah Vaughan, examining her early years, her rise to fame, and her enduring impact on jazz…

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It's Crazy - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown