Last week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed Walton Goggins for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). Walton is a superb actor probably best known for his role in the first season of the FX series Justified. [Photo above of Walton Goggins by Prashant Gupta, courtesy of FX]
Here's Walton in Justified. Walton plays a white supremacist and Timothy Olyphant is a Federal Marshal. They know each other from working in a Kentucky mine when they were kids...
Here's Walton with Olyphant in a dramatic scene from Justified. How they play off of each other during the series is remarkable...
Here's Walton and Timothy Olyphant in conversation about Justified...
And here's Walton in his first film, The Accountant (2001), which won the Oscar for best short film...
JazzWax note: FX's new Justified: City Primeval, starring Timothy Olyphant, starts on July 18.
More Chet Baker From Circle Records. Following my post on Chet Baker and Jon Eardley's live recording in Cologne, Germany, in 1981, I spoke with Frieder Mollat of Circle Records in Germany. Frieder informed me that there's another album to hear from Circle: Conception: Chet Baker Live in Paris. Recorded June 27, 1980, the Chet Baker Quartet consisted of Baker (tp,vcl), Nicola Stilo (fl), Karl Ratzer (g) and Riccardo Del Fra (b). The tracks are the gorgeous Beautiful Black Eyes (attributed variously to Wayne Shorter or Lou McConnell), The Touch of Your Lips and Conception. The first runs 20 minutes and the other two run about 15 minutes each. You'll find it on streaming platforms, including Spotify here. Enjoy!
Jo Stafford remains one of my favorite vocalists. The clip of her on her Jo Stafford Show in London in 1961 with England's Dots vocal group is back up at YouTube. Watch Jo's right hand. [Photo above of Jo Stafford by William P. Gottlieb in the late 1940s] Go here...
Frank Sinatra. In December 1959, Frank Sinatra and the Hi-Lo's teamed up to sing I'll Never Smile Again. The clip was part of the vocal group's appearance on An Afternoon With Frank Sinatra, the second of Sinatra's four Timex TV specials. As I recall, the group comes out, Sinatra asks if he can join them on a song and the Hi-Lo's begrudgingly make room for him, playfully asking if he has vocal group experience. Then they're off to the races. Frank still had his vocal group chops, and you can see emotionally he has returned to the early 1940s. Go here...
Here's Sinatra with Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1941 film Las Vegas Nights singing I'll Never Smile Again...
And here's Jo Stafford singing It Started All Over Again with the Pied Pipers in late 1942 or '43 after Frank Sinatra left to become a solo artist...
Unheralded heroes of film are sound-effects specialists known as "foley artists" who overdub much of the incidental audio color we hear in drama and comedy. Here's a precious clip on the foley team at Walt Disney in the 1940s...
Carmen McRae radio. On Sunday, from 2 to 7 p.m. (ET), Sid Gribetz of WKCR-FM in New York will host a five-hour broadcast on jazz singer and pianist Carmen McRae (above). To listen from anywhere in the world, go here.
Here's McRae with Sammy Davis Jr. on the Hollywood Palace...
Reggie Workman radio. On Monday, WKCR will feature a 24-hour special tribute to bassist Reggie Workman. The music begins at 11:59 p.m. (ET) Sunday night and continues all day and night on Monday. To listen from anywhere in the world, go here. [Photo above of Reggie Workman]
Here's Workman with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recording This Is for Albert in 1962, with Art Blakey (d), Freddie Hubbard (tp), Curtis Fuller (tb), Wayne Shorter (ts), Cedar Walton (p) and Reggie Workman (b)...
In New York or New Jersey on Saturday? Check out the 47th Annual Jazz Record Collectors' Bash on Saturday at the Hilton Garden Inn, 50 Raritan Center Pkwy, Edison, N.J. 08837. For more information, go here.
And finally, here's Blue Magic's What's Come Over Me from their first album in 1974...
