In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed actor Chris Lowell for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). Chris has appeared in the teen drama series Life As We Know It and the movie and TV series Veronica Mars. He currently co-stars in the Hulu comedy series How I Met Your Father. [Photo above of Chris Lowell with Hilary Duff in How I Met Your Father, courtesy of Hulu]
Here's Chris in the new-series trailer...
Elza Soares. Following my post on the late Brazilian singer Elza Soares, drummer Duduka Da Fonseca sent along the image above of him with Soares in the early 1990s when they worked together in New York.
Tommy Dorsey. Here's Dorsey with his post-war band in 1946 playing an incredible Bill Finegan arrangement of his own Pussy Willow, recorded at the Casino Gardens Ballroom in Ocean Park, Ca....
And here's the amazing Brooks Tegler Big Band playing Pussy Willow in 2007, from Brooks's album That's It! To read my JazzWax interview with Brooks, go here...
Dave Thompson this weekend plays Blue in Green here...
Barry Trengrove. More graphic eye-candy from FishInk.com, a British design site, which this week focuses on book-cover designer Barry Trengrove. Go here. [Image above of a book cover designed by Barry Trengrove]
Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams radio. On Sunday this weekend, Sid Gribetz of WKCR-FM in New York will presents a three-hour Jazz Profiles show on the collaborations between trumpeter Donald Byrd and baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, starting at 2 p.m. (ET). Listen from anywhere in the world by going here. [Photo above of Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams by Francis Wolff (c)Mosaic Images]
And finally, here's Arthur Prysock singing his 1964 hit, Close Your Eyes...
