This week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed actress Rhea Seehorn for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). Rhea (pronounced "Ray") co-stars in AMC's wildly popular color-noir series Better Call Saul. The sixth and final season just started. Rhea had a tough childhood. Her father was in Naval intelligence and the family moved around a great deal depending on his investigations. Then her parents settled down in Virginia but divorced a few years later when she was 12, followed by her father's death when she was 19. What Rhea's parents always stressed is that she pursue what she was most passionate about. After her father's death, she switched majors, from art to acting. [Photo above of Rhea Seehorn in Better Call Saul by Ben Leuner, courtesy of AMC]
Here's the season 6 trailer for Better Call Saul...
Here's Rhea in action in the series...
And here...
Christopher Walken. After I posted a link to my interview with actor Christopher Walken several weeks ago, Michael O'Daniel sent along this clip with Christopher reading a children's book, which I had forgotten about [photo above of Christopher Walken in Severance courtesy of Apple+]...
Piano break. Here's Dave Thompson playing Toots Thielemans's Bluesette...
Tyner-Hubbard. Following my post last week on the McCoy Tyner-Freddie Hubbard Quartet, Kim Paris of the FM Radio Archive sent along the following:
Marc, hope all is well with you. I have several broadcast recordings of both musicians in concert. We have five by Freddie Hubbard, one of which is with McCoy and the Great Quartet in Chicago in 1982. Go here.
Also, there are four McCoy concerts, including the one mentioned above and one with Gary Bartz in Stuttgart. Go here.
Five on Sullivan. Newly uploaded this week on YouTube's Ed Sullivan Show page are the following video performances:
Here's Peggy Lee singing I Love Being Here With You/Yes Indeed in 1960. This has been up online with a time stamp but never in its full form...
Here's Billy Eckstine singing If I Can Help Somebody in 1957...
Here's Ella Fitzgerald singing Hotta Chocolatta and Lady Be Good...
Here's Peggy Lee singing Fly Me to the Moon in 1960. It seems they actually taped her at the beach and then she overdubbed her vocal. At first I thought it was back-screen footage of the Pacific in the TV studio. But if that were the case, her shadow on the rock would have continued onto the water and waves...
And here's the Count Basie Band in 1960 playing One O'clock Jump...
Vintage book covers. Craig at FishInk in the U.K. is at it again. To view his most recent colorful post on children's book covers, go here.
Ella Fitzgerald radio. On Monday (April 25), WKCR-FM in New York will present a 24-hour broadcast celebrating the late Ella Fitzgerald on the anniversary date of her birth in 1917. The broadcast will start at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday and run all day Monday. Listen from anywhere in the world by going here.
And finally, here's the late Ed Shaughnessy at the Chicago Drum Show in 2012 playing along to a recording of The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson theme, which Ed helped make famous while playing in the Tonight Show band for many years. When the applause starts at the end, Ed was distracted from turning off the tape but doesn't miss a beat. To read my JazzWax interview with the famed drummer, go here (for the second part, scroll up above the red date for the link)...
