Jeanie, Django and McCoy

This week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed Jeanie Buss for my House Call column in the Mansion section (go here). Jeannie is the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and co-owner of WOW—Women Of Wrestling. She was portrayed by Hadley Robinson in the terrific HBO series, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. Even if you have zero interest in sports, it's a must-see for the acting, casting and script. [Photo above of Jeanie Buss courtesy of Jeanie Buss/Instagram]

Here's the trailer...

John Cassavetes. Last week, director Raymond De Felitta featured clips of the independent director at his blog. Go here for the listing and click on the three entries. [Photo still above of John Cassavetes and Angie Dickinson]

Edith and Django. Last week, photographer Gilles D'Elia in Paris sent along an email:

Hi Marc, How are you my friend? Above is a photo that I just discovered by chance, which allows me to send you a little virtual postcard from Paris. It's our national singer Édith Piaf, who is pictured reading the hand lines of Django Reinhardt! Beautiful pic, isn't it?

Jazz performances. Mark Rabin, the dean of live jazz recordings, sent along the following last week:

Hi Marc. An item of interest for JazzWax readers is the SF Jazz Historical Archive on the Internet Archive. It has a wealth of recorded performances from 1984 to 2012. There are multiple performances by Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Joao Gilberto, McCoy Tyner and many others. There are tribute programs hosted by Orrin Keepnews for musicians including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Jelly Roll Morton.

It is an impressive collection with hundreds of hours of live jazz available to stream for free. The Internet Archive is funded by donations, so I encourage everyone to donate here to help support their mission. The music can be found here.

Summer's end. It's a short post this week, so I thought I'd end with five seasonal songs [photo above courtesy of Summit Kids Academy]:

Here are The Happenings singing See You in September (1966)...

Here are the Beach Boys singing Girls on the Beach (1964)...

Here are Chad & Jeremy singing A Summer Song (1964)...

Here are the Isley Brothers singing Seals & Croft's Summer Breeze (1974)...

Here are the Beach Boys singing The Warmth of the Sun (1964)...

And here are the Beach Boys singing Surf's Up (1971), originally written for Smile, an album project that wound up shelved by Capitol...