In The Wall Street Journal this past week, I interviewed former baseball commissioner Bud Selig for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). Selig talked about the person in his family who turned him on to baseball as a child and took him to every Milwaukee game, all while scoring games and chastising managers and umpires for bad calls from the upper deck. That person was his mother. [Photo above of Bud Selig courtesy of Wikipedia]
Here are highlights of the Dodgers-Yankees World Series in 1955...
Carlos Lyra, the magnificent bossa nova legend, sent me a link last night to his latest video, E era Copacabana (And It Was Copacabana), just in time to include in this weekend's post so you can enjoy. Carlos's latest album is Além da Bossa here....
Jimmy Heath. If you enjoyed my post on Voice of the Saxophone, a rare promotional album featuring tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath with the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, you may want to re-read the post. I heard from Juan Martinez last week, the orchestra's musical director, who sent along the album's liner notes and updated the information. Go here. [Photo of Jimmy Heath above courtesy of Jimmy Heath]
Jimmy Heath2. Last week, I also heard from John Kettlewell, who sent along the following email and links...
Hi, Marc. Here are three more examples of Jimmy Heath playing with a European orchestra. This time it’s Germany's West Deutsche Rundfunk Big Band [photo of Jimmy Heath above courtesy of Jimmy Heath]:
Here's Brother Sonny...
Here's Changes...
And here's Bruh Slim...
Oscar Peterson. Following my post last week on four new Oscar Peterson videos, here's another from Richard Busiakiewicz...
Movie podcast. If you love film as much as I do, you'll dig director Raymond De Felitta's new podcast, Movies 'Til Dawn. His first two episodes are in-depth conversations with actor Andy Garcia and director John G. Avildsen (Rocky, Karate Kid, etc.). Go here. And for Raymond's blog post in support of the podcast, go here. [Photo above of Andy Garcia courtesy of IMDB]
What the heck. Here's the Ritchie Family vocalists performing the group's biggest hits, Brazil (1975) and The Best Disco in Town (1976), plus Life Is Music (1977) on public television in Spain in the late 1970s...
Oddball album cover of the week.
Nothing like a stroll on Rio's #MeToo Beach in the late 1950s.
