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Bix Beiderbecke: A Jazz Legend Ahead of His Time
Introduction:
Bix Beiderbecke was a jazz cornetist and pianist who rose to fame in the 1920s. Despite his short career, his innovative style and unique approach to music have had a lasting impact on jazz. In this blog post, we will explore the life and legacy of Bix Beiderbecke, and his contributions to the jazz genre.
Early Life and Career:
Bix Beiderbecke was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1903.…
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#Bix Beiderbecke#Chet Baker#Frankie Trumbauer#Jazz Cornetists#Jazz History#Jazz Pianists#Jean Goldkette Orchestra#Miles Davis
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Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra (w/Bix Beiderbecke) – Sunday
New York, October 15, 1926.
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Holidays 1.28
Holidays
Christa McAuliffe Day
Daisy Day
Data Privacy Day
Global Community Engagement Day
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Great Mental Health Day (UK)
International Lego Day
International Make Your Point Day
International Reducing CO2 Emissions Day
Jackhammer Day
January Revolution and National Police Day (Egypt)
José Marti Memorial Day (Cuba)
King’s Name Day (Sweden)
Love Among the Nations Day
Make Your Point Day
National Amy Day
National Army Day (Armenia)
National Film Day (Argentina)
National Gift of the Ladybug Day
National Kazoo Day
National Pediatrician Day
National Serendipity Day
National Spieling Day
National Tina Day
Number Please Day
Paul Jackson Pollock Day
Pop Art Day
Rattlesnake Roundup Day
Telephone Exchange Day
Thank a Plugin Developer Day
Welcome Home the Heroes from Iraq Day (St. Louis, Missouri)
World Day for the Abolition of Meat Day
Youth Climate Action Day (Indiana)
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Blueberry Pancake Day
4th & Last Saturday in January
Big Garden Birdwatch (UK) [begins 4th Saturday]
Great Fruitcake Toss (Manitou Springs, Colorado) [Last Saturday]
Local Quilt Shop Day [4th Saturday]
National Seed Swap Day [Last Saturday]
Yay Day (Sam & Cat TV Show) [Last Saturday]
Independence Days
Roschfallen (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Agnes (Christian; Saint)
Alan Funt Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
The Apocalypse (Pastafarian)
Black Pepper with Everything Day (Pastafarian)
Charlemagne (Christian; Saint)
Cyril of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Ernie (Muppetism)
Glastian of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
John of Reomay (Christian; Saint)
Joseph Freinademetz (Christian; Saint)
Julian of Cuenca (Christian; Saint)
Margaret, Princess of Hungary (Christian; Saint)
Muhammad (Positivist; Saint)
Paulinus (Christian; Saint)
Thaipoosam (India)
Thaipoosam Cavadee (Mauritius)
Thaipusam (Malaysia)
Thomas Aquinas (Christian; Saint)
Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinions (Christian; Martyrs)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [6 of 53]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [5 of 71]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 5 of 60)
Premieres
Blue Valentine (Film; 2011)
The Duck Hunt (Disney Cartoon; 1932)
How to Be a Sailor (Disney Cartoon; 1944)
The Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild (Animated Film; 2020)
I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, by Jean Goldkette (Song; 1927)
La Vie Commence Demain (Film; 1951) [1st X-Rated Film]
The Mechanic (Film; 2011)
My Cherie Amour, by Stevie Wonder (Song; 1969)
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1813) [#2]
Red Rock West (Film; 1994)
The Shining, by Stephen King (Novel; 1977)
Sullivan’s Travels (Film; 1942)
We Are the World, recorded by Supergroup USA for Africa (Song; 1985)
Today’s Name Days
Caroline, Karoline, Manfred, Thomas (Austria)
Toma, Tomislav (Croatia)
Otýlie (Czech Republic)
Carolus, Karl, Magnus (Denmark)
Kaarel, Kaarli, Kaaro, Kalle, Karel, Karl, Karli, Karro (Estonia)
Kaarle, Kaarlo, Kalle, Mies (Finland)
Manfred, Thomas (France)
Karl, Karolina, Manfred, Thomas (Germany)
Haris, Palladios (Greece)
Karola, Károly (Hungary)
Tommaso, Valerio (Italy)
Kārlis, Spodris (Latvia)
Gedautas, Leonidas, Nijolė (Lithuania)
Karl, Karoline (Norway)
Agnieszka, Augustyn, Flawian, Ildefons, Julian, Karol, Leonidas, Piotr, Radomir, Roger, Waleriusz (Poland)
Efrem, Iacob, Paladie (Romania)
Alfonz (Slovakia)
Tomás (Spain)
Karl, Karla (Sweden)
Edward (Ukraine)
Carlotta, Charleen, Charlene, Charlotta, Charlotte, Charmaine, Manfred (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 28 of 2023; 337 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 4 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 7 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 7 (Bing-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 6 Shevat 5783
Islamic: 6 Rajab II 1444
J Cal: 28 Aer; Sunday [28 of 30]
Julian: 15 January 2023
Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter
Positivist: 28 Moses (1st Month) [Muhammad)
Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 39 of 90)
Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 8 of 30)
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Holidays 1.28
Holidays
Christa McAuliffe Day
Daisy Day
Data Privacy Day
Global Community Engagement Day
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Great Mental Health Day (UK)
International Lego Day
International Make Your Point Day
International Reducing CO2 Emissions Day
Jackhammer Day
January Revolution and National Police Day (Egypt)
José Marti Memorial Day (Cuba)
King’s Name Day (Sweden)
Love Among the Nations Day
Make Your Point Day
National Amy Day
National Army Day (Armenia)
National Film Day (Argentina)
National Gift of the Ladybug Day
National Kazoo Day
National Pediatrician Day
National Serendipity Day
National Spieling Day
National Tina Day
Number Please Day
Paul Jackson Pollock Day
Pop Art Day
Rattlesnake Roundup Day
Telephone Exchange Day
Thank a Plugin Developer Day
Welcome Home the Heroes from Iraq Day (St. Louis, Missouri)
World Day for the Abolition of Meat Day
Youth Climate Action Day (Indiana)
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Blueberry Pancake Day
4th & Last Saturday in January
Big Garden Birdwatch (UK) [begins 4th Saturday]
Great Fruitcake Toss (Manitou Springs, Colorado) [Last Saturday]
Local Quilt Shop Day [4th Saturday]
National Seed Swap Day [Last Saturday]
Yay Day (Sam & Cat TV Show) [Last Saturday]
Independence Days
Roschfallen (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Agnes (Christian; Saint)
Alan Funt Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
The Apocalypse (Pastafarian)
Black Pepper with Everything Day (Pastafarian)
Charlemagne (Christian; Saint)
Cyril of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Ernie (Muppetism)
Glastian of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
John of Reomay (Christian; Saint)
Joseph Freinademetz (Christian; Saint)
Julian of Cuenca (Christian; Saint)
Margaret, Princess of Hungary (Christian; Saint)
Muhammad (Positivist; Saint)
Paulinus (Christian; Saint)
Thaipoosam (India)
Thaipoosam Cavadee (Mauritius)
Thaipusam (Malaysia)
Thomas Aquinas (Christian; Saint)
Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinions (Christian; Martyrs)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [6 of 53]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [5 of 71]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 5 of 60)
Premieres
Blue Valentine (Film; 2011)
The Duck Hunt (Disney Cartoon; 1932)
How to Be a Sailor (Disney Cartoon; 1944)
The Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild (Animated Film; 2020)
I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, by Jean Goldkette (Song; 1927)
La Vie Commence Demain (Film; 1951) [1st X-Rated Film]
The Mechanic (Film; 2011)
My Cherie Amour, by Stevie Wonder (Song; 1969)
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1813) [#2]
Red Rock West (Film; 1994)
The Shining, by Stephen King (Novel; 1977)
Sullivan’s Travels (Film; 1942)
We Are the World, recorded by Supergroup USA for Africa (Song; 1985)
Today’s Name Days
Caroline, Karoline, Manfred, Thomas (Austria)
Toma, Tomislav (Croatia)
Otýlie (Czech Republic)
Carolus, Karl, Magnus (Denmark)
Kaarel, Kaarli, Kaaro, Kalle, Karel, Karl, Karli, Karro (Estonia)
Kaarle, Kaarlo, Kalle, Mies (Finland)
Manfred, Thomas (France)
Karl, Karolina, Manfred, Thomas (Germany)
Haris, Palladios (Greece)
Karola, Károly (Hungary)
Tommaso, Valerio (Italy)
Kārlis, Spodris (Latvia)
Gedautas, Leonidas, Nijolė (Lithuania)
Karl, Karoline (Norway)
Agnieszka, Augustyn, Flawian, Ildefons, Julian, Karol, Leonidas, Piotr, Radomir, Roger, Waleriusz (Poland)
Efrem, Iacob, Paladie (Romania)
Alfonz (Slovakia)
Tomás (Spain)
Karl, Karla (Sweden)
Edward (Ukraine)
Carlotta, Charleen, Charlene, Charlotta, Charlotte, Charmaine, Manfred (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 28 of 2023; 337 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 4 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 7 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 7 (Bing-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 6 Shevat 5783
Islamic: 6 Rajab II 1444
J Cal: 28 Aer; Sunday [28 of 30]
Julian: 15 January 2023
Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter
Positivist: 28 Moses (1st Month) [Muhammad)
Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 39 of 90)
Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 8 of 30)
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New Issue Modern Recording No.274 Jean Goldkette.
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“I’d go to hell to hear a good band.”
Happy birthday, Bix Beiderbecke! March 10, 1903- August 6, 1931
(home movie footage of Bix Beiderbecke with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra, 1926)
#these gifs are horrendous but the quality of the film is bad to begin with#bix beiderbecke#jazz#happy birthday#jean goldkette#1920s#1926
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The Music of Uranus/Taurus
Something I have yet to read in the veritable blizzard of Uranus/Taurus articles, is a discussion of what happened musically during the last time Uranus was in Taurus. Even if one isn’t as obsessive about music as this author, there are plenty of amazing watershed events which can lead us to some intriguing speculations about the years 2018-2026.
April 23, 1935 - “Your Hit Parade,” sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes, is broadcast on the radio for the first time
Uranus, of course, rules radio. This show, broadcast every Saturday night for the next 20 years, was immensely popular. It exposed the entire nation to the week’s top 15 songs (performed by cover artists). We can argue that it was perhaps one of the first attempts to profit (Taurus) from establishing a homogenous (Taurus) US pop music (Taurus) culture (Uranus).
January 4, 1936 - “Billboard” publishes its first music hit parade
Exactly how the folks at “Your Hit Parade” calculated its top 15 song rankings is a bit, ah, murky. “Billboard,” at least, based chart positions on quantifiable sales, radio, and jukebox plays. Again, we’re seeing an attempt to standardize (and therefore make a buck from) musical taste for an entire nation. It was an innovative way (Uranus) to take advantage of electronic means of hearing popular music (radio, record players, jukeboxes) and make money (Taurus) off it, too. This was also an important milestone in the progress of “Billboard” itself, from an advertising-agency rag, to an exclusively music-oriented publication.
January 26-28, 1936 - Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich denounced by Joseph Stalin
On the evening of January 26, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and some “friends” attended a performance of Shostakovich’s opera “Lady MacBeth of the Mtsensk District.” Joe didn’t like it, made his displeasure visibly known - and Shostakovich left town in a hurry, only to learn, on the 28th, that the USSR paper “Pravda” had published (take it away, Wikipedia):
...a tirade entitled Muddle Instead of Music, complaining that the opera was a "deliberately dissonant, muddled stream of sounds...(that) quacks, hoots, pants and gasps." This was the signal for a nationwide campaign, during which even Soviet music critics who had praised the opera were forced to recant in print, saying they "failed to detect the shortcomings of Lady Macbeth as pointed out by Pravda".... When Shostakovich returned to Leningrad, he had a telephone call from the commander of the Leningrad Military District, who had been asked by Marshal Tukhachevky to make sure that he was all right. When the writer Isaac Babel was under arrest four years later, he told his interrogators that "it was common ground for us to proclaim the genius of the slighted Shostakovich.”
On 6 February, Shostakovich was again attacked in Pravda, this time for his light comic ballet, The Limpid Stream, which was denounced because "it jangles and expresses nothing" and did not give an accurate picture of peasant life on the collective farm. Fearful that he was about to be arrested, Shostakovich secured an appointment with the Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Culture, Platon Kerzhentsev, who reported to Stalin and Molotov that he had instructed the composer to "reject formalist errors and in his art attain something that could be understood by the broad masses", and that Shostakovich had admitted being in the wrong and had asked for a meeting with Stalin, which was not granted.
As a result of this campaign, commissions began to fall off, and Shostakovich's income fell by about three-quarters.... During 1936 and 1937, in order to maintain as low a profile as possible.., Shostakovich mainly composed film music, a genre favored by Stalin and lacking in dangerous personal expression.
This wasn’t mere censorship; Shostakovich’s life was in danger. Family and close friends (including his protector Tukhachevsky) were killed in the Stalinist purges which followed. From a certain cold-hearted perspective, this (as well as what was happening in Nazi Germany at this time) was an attempt to “set in stone” (Taurus) what popular culture (Uranus) defines as music (Taurus).
December 25, 1937 - Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony for its first broadcast concert
The NBC Symphony orchestra was specifically created for Toscanini. Two things were going on here. One, NBC had clearly realized that there was money to be made via promulgating the classics; two, Toscanini’s particular tastes in music influenced what US symphonies played in concert halls for the next several decades (Taurus).
January 16, 1938 - Benny Goodman and his Orchestra play Carnegie Hall, New York (at 8:45 pm EST, for event chart addicts)
I can (and will!) argue that this was THE most significant musical event in the US, during the 20th Century. Originally conceived as a mere publicity stunt - Carnegie Hall, at that time, was “reserved” for classical musicians - this gig was the first jazz concert held there, and the recorded results were (upon their release in 1950) the first double LP. Best of all, the troupe was racially integrated: if we had no integrated Goodman band, then there would have been no Jackie Robinson in baseball in 1948. (No less a figure than vibraphonist Lionel Hampton averred this.)
April 9, 1939 - classical contralto Marian Anderson sings for 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC
She was there because the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused permission for an integrated concert at their own Constitution Hall. (One “reason:” no integrated bathrooms, which at the time were legally required.) Following that, the DC Board of Education refused permission for her to sing at a local high school, for the same “reason.” Again, Wikipedia:
As a result of the ensuing furor, thousands of DAR members, including First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned from the organization.... At Eleanor Roosevelt's behest, President Roosevelt and Walter White, then-executive secretary of the NAACP, and Anderson's manager, impresario Sol Hurok, persuaded Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to arrange an open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The concert was performed on Easter Sunday, April 9….
Where the heck do I start?!? This was striking a blow against racism and segregation as manifested in the US capitol city. The US First Lady made this concert happen, which ensured the blow could not have been missed or glossed over - and set the bar high for future First Lady activism..
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This is of course a “small sample” - I’m handicapped somewhat by my classical background and training, which means I am personally thrilled to pieces about things like (say) the premieres of Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” or Copland’s “Billy the Kid” or Piston’s “The Incredible Flutist.” And so forth. I don’t know if my readers have a similar background, though; I’m therefore forced to leave things at “the second half of the 1930s was an amazing time for US composers.”
(And that may be due to the nation’s Neptune return anyway. However, over two-thirds of the Uranus/Taurus transit will fall in the US natal 5th House - and for part of that time, the U.S. has an opposition from natal to transiting Neptune. Author rubs hands together gleefully.)
So, what kind of music can we expect from Uranus/Taurus in our 21st century? I think we have identified three general themes:
Making money off music, by innovatively “organizing” previous technological innovations
Think digital recording, the MP3, autotune, iPod, GarageBand, and SoundCloud - and remember that before “Your Hit Parade” and “Billboard,” nobody had ever heard of a “Top 15,” much less any idea of the marketing capabilities.
Homogenous, nationalistic pop culture
This may well manifest as censorship; I don’t believe that Dolt 45 (for example) has any more musical taste or chops than Joseph Stalin had. And, he seems to share the general Nazi abhorrence for the non-Aryan.
Breaking down racial barriers in music
Benny Goodman’s chosen genre of jazz, swing music, “brought to fruition ideas originated with Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Jean Goldkette” - only the latter of whom was not an African-American - and furthermore “was precipitated by spicing up familiar commercial, popular material with a Harlem oriented flavor and selling it via a white band for a white musical/commercial audience.” (Wikipedia) In a cynical mood befitting 2018, we have to wonder if white people won’t again “discover” some non-white form of musical expression, rendering it palatable for/to the (white) masses, and therefore making a ton of money.
I’d rather think of music making people steadfast. Someone who once used the n-word around Benny Goodman was told by the feisty clarinet player, “I’ll knock you out if you use that word around me again.”
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Finally, let me throw in this Uranus/Taurus caveat: astrologers aren’t any more immune to the lure of clickbait than anyone else. I’ve seen so many articles already about how to survive the dire times ahead - and, let’s face it, human monkeys like to be scared and thrilled. Please don’t believe everything you read, here included; please keep in mind that (to a certain extent) our dread of what’s to come will actually affect what actually comes.
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Audio & Playlist for February 9, 2019: Home
Illustration by Doris Smith from Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse!
Here are some songs about home! Houses, hometowns, the general concept of home, and a lot of songs about being away from home in various ways and for various reasons.
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Playlist:
Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening theme song)
Lene Lovich - Home
DJ speaks over The Avengers VI - Coming Home Baby
The Breeders - Don't Call Home
The Troggs - From Home
Colin Blunstone - Let's Keep the Curtains Closed Today
Sebastian Williams - Hometown Boy
The Lewd - Mobile Home
DJ speaks over Tal Henry & His Orchestra - My Little Home Down in New Orleans
The Kinks - A Long Way From Home
The Shop Assistants - Home Again
The Fall - My New House
Husker Du - Broken Home, Broken Heart
X - In This House That I Call Home
The Rolling Crew - Home on Alcatraz
DJ speaks over The Clean - Safety at Home
Shopping - The Long Way Home
The Raincoats - Adventures Close to Home
The Missing Lynx - Louie Go Home
Voo-Doo Church - Live With the Dead
The Auteurs - Housebreaker
The Freeze - No One's Ever Coming Home
Gil Scott-Heron - Home is Where the Hatred Is
The Pentangle - Travelling Song
The Tourists - So Good to Be Back Home Again
Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist
Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra - That's What Puts the Sweet in Home Sweet Home
The Carter Family - My Old Cottage Home
Jacqueline Perez - Go Home
Adam and the Ants - Killer in the Home
The Osmonds - Goin' Home
Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home
Asterix - Broken Home
Drake Tungsten - Call Me When YOu Get Home
The Clash - Safe European Home
Solomon Burke - Home in Your Heart
Clarence Ashley - The House Carpenter
The Viscounts - I'm Coming Home Baby
The Desperate Bicycles - The Housewife Song
Doris Day - Sentimental Journey
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Harry & Edna on the Wireless; Author Lord Joe Wells
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In this episode of Harry & Edna on the Wireless the vintage duo are joined by author Lord Joe Wells.
Plus they play tip top gramophone Tunes from the 1930s and 1940s.
So enjoy this hour with Harry & Edna on the Wireless as they take a look at the current British vintage scene.
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Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra – My Pretty Girl
“My Pretty Girl” (Charles Fulcher)
Recorded on the 1st February, 1927 for Victor.
This was the alternative take of this song, listed as BVE 37587-2
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Sharaf (1997) von Sonallah Ibrahim - شرف (١٩٩٧) لصنع الله ابراهيم
Trotz dass das heiße und schwüle Wetter schlimmer wurde, oder gerade deswegen, machten die Bewohner Kairos sich auf den Weg und überfluteten die Straßen von Downtown, besonders die Talaat Harb Straße. Sie trafen sich durchweg vor den Mode- und Schuhgeschäften, vor Sandwich- und Fruchtsaftläden, vor den Kinos und Theatern. Sharaf kam vom Tahrir-Platz. Er überquerte die Talaat Harb Platz, selbstverständlich mit dem Rücken zur Statue. Er war hungrig und durstig. Er war ratlos, wie er die verbleibenden Abendstunden verbringen sollte.
Folgende Optionen hatte er: Er könnte ins Kino gehen, einen Film auswählen, in dem genug Blut vergossen wird, solange die Filme mit richtigen Szenen zensiert waren, dank einer tugendhaften und strikten Frau. Oder er könnte eine Malboro-Schachtel oder einen Sandwich mit einer Coladose und zwei Kleopatra Zigaretten kaufen, deren Geschmack er hasste. Oder er könne nach Hause gehen. Die letzte Entscheidung hatte eigentlich zwei Ebenen: Oben und unten. Unten: das heißt an der Straßenecke (wo der Kiosk lag, an dem er Schulden angehäuft hatte) oder an der Autowerkstatt mit der Clique und zwei Haschisch Joints, die ihm Kopfschmerzen und Übelkeit auf leerem Magen bereiten würden. Dann würde er einen Tee trinken in einem Café an der Nilpromenade, dass sich zu einem strategischen Ort am Rand eines alten Kanals etabliert hatte, jetzt aber eine Müllhalde war (sollte der Mechaniker ein funktionierendes Auto haben, um die Gruppe in das nahe Maadi zu fahren, damit sie sich der Studentenclique anschließen und mehr Haschisch rauchen konnten). Oben: Das bedeutet in der Wohnung (klein, wo es kein Platz zum Sitzen oder Schlafen gab) und es bedeutete Konfrontation (mit sich selbst und anderen). Es war ein Versuch eine unmögliches Dilemma zu lösen.
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Zurückzugehen war auf Grund der zwei Optionen folglich nicht verlockend. Er konnte keine Entscheidung treffen und tat so als wäre er beschäftigt, das richtige Accessoire für sein neues Outfit auszusuchen.
Er schaute durch die sportliche Hemden von ‘Van Heusen’, ‘Silvano’, ‘Pierre Cardin’ und ‘Sonneti’ durch. Für einen Moment hielt er vor einem ‘Levis’-Shirt an und stimmte es mit einer ‘Wrangler’ Jeans ab. Dann ging er zu den Accessoires über: Eine ‘swatch’ Uhr mit schwarzem Hintergrund und einem dazu passenden Armband mit der gleichen Farbe (solche Uhren waren gerade ‘in’, obgleich sie so groß wie ein Kompass waren). Eine goldene Halskette und eine für das Handgelenk. Das Outfit wird am heutigen Abend oder zu einem anderen Zeitpunkt nicht vervollständigt werden. Unter den ganzen Sonnenbrillen von ‘Sting’, “Police’ oder ‘Rayban’ fand er keine Brille, die ein goldenes Gestell mit schwarzen Gläsern hatte, so wie sie Silvester Stalone in einem seiner letzten Film getragen hatte.
Inzwischen erreichte das Gedränge seinen Höhepunkt, aus dem Frauen und Mädchen herausgesiebt wurden. Der Verkehr, der die Breiten der Straßen füllte, verwandelte sich in ein langsames Kriechen. Die fieberhafte Hitze, die die letzten Kinovorstellungen mit sich brachte, brach aus. Eine große Gruppe junger Männer stand unter einem großen Filmplakat mit Leila Elwi, deren Gesicht die gesamte Fläche überproportional ausfüllte. Der junge Mann, der unverständig vor dem Schuhladen stand, war auf einem anderen Gebiet erfahren: Er begann die Wagen, die die Straße ausfüllten, mit seinem Blick zu inspizieren. Er ignorierte die populären Marken, wie ‘Fiat’ oder die anderen Klassiker, wie ‘Mercedes’ und konzentrierte sich auf die Marken ‘Honda Civic’, ‘Toyota Corolla’, als er einen Glücksmoment erhaschte: Ein ‘Golf’ mit dunkel getönten Fensterscheiben, aus dem laute Musik dröhnte, wurde von einer jungen Frau mit im Wind wehendem Haar gefahren. Sie betonte ihren nackten Arm auf dem geöffneten Autofenster, das Gutes verheißen sollte. Ein BMW verhüllte jedoch seinen Blick auf sie und war dabei direkt vor ihm anzuhalten. Somit konnte er auf zwei prächtige Beine zu blicken, die aus dem Kleid hervorschienen, damit sie Bremsen und Gas geben konnte. Ihn interessierte nicht, was unten war, sondern das, was sich oben befand. Sein Blick war immer noch an den obigen Ort gehaftet, der ihn füttern würde und wanderte zu dem unteren Ort aus dem er geboren wurde. Der Verkehr bewegte sich jedoch vorwärts und machte es ihm unmöglich länger zu starren. Das Auto fuhr schnell los und verschwand aus seinem Sichtfeld.
Er wartete bis die Autos langsamer fuhren und überquerte die Straße. Er ging zurück zum Platz und stolperte über den Bürgersteig vor einem Optiker und landete in einem Schlammloch, das mit Müll gefüllt war. Ein paar Schritte weiter war er vor ‘Wimpy’, und hielt an, um auf die Leute mit Hamburgern in der Hand und die erleuchtete Preisliste zu schauen, trotz dass er sie auswendig kannte. Er ging weiter, bis er vor einem Shawarma-Stand angekommen war, dessen Geruch ihm verhalf, eine Entscheidung zu treffen, das jedoch mit einem Opfer verbunden war: sich selbst mit einer Chipstüte und einer Cola zu begnügen.
Er gesellte sich zu den anderen Menschen, die die Bürgersteige bevölkerten, um zu essen und die blonde Phänomen zu verfolgen, als es in Erscheinung trat: zwei Touristinnen - eine von ihnen trug Shorts, die zwei dicke und sonnenverbrannte Beine unterhalb von prallen Pobacken zur Schau stellten. Die andere betonte andere stark ausgeprägte Kurven: oberhalb der engen Jeans trug sie eine bunte schulterfreie Bluse, die ihre Achselhaare und einen Teil ihres BHs zeigte. Wie auch immer, die zwei jungen Frauen haben geschafft, worin alle politischen Parteien in Ägypten bisher versagt haben.
Plötzlich fand sich Sharaf an der Spitze einer Menschenmenge, die dem Appell der festen Pobacken folgten, die der Touristin mit den Shorts gehörte. Er war gezwungen, seinen Platz an der Spitze mit seinen Ellbogen zu verteidigen. Dadurch war er direkt hinter ihr, als sie auf einmal anhielt und er beinah auf sie gefallen wäre. Sie interpretierte die Situation falsch, als sie sich umdrehte und mit finsterer Miene ihre Handtasche öffnete und einen Ein-Pfund-Schein herauszog, den sie Sharaf gab und ein Wort wiederholte, was er nicht verstand.
Er war von ihrer Handlung überrascht, griff nicht nach dem Ein-Pfund-Schein und ließ ihn auf den Boden fallen, als sie mit ihrer Freundin weiterging und von ihren neu gewonnen Fans verfolgt wurden. Er blickte um sich und bemerkte, dass er von mehreren Seiten spöttisch betrachtet wurde. Möglicherweise war das der Grund, weswegen er rot wurde. Er drehte sich um und lief mit seinen Händen in den Hosentaschen fort, ohne sich um das Geld zu scheren, dass auf den Boden gefallen war. Somit näherte er sich seinem Schicksal, das auf ihn wartete.
Er musste nicht weit laufen, bis seine Aufmerksamkeit auf eine andere Menschenmenge gezogen wurde, die neben einem riesigen Filmplakat stand, auf dem nicht die übermäßige Fleischmasse von Leila Elwy zu sehen war, sondern die von Arnold Schwarzenegger. Als er auf die Poster auf der Anzeigetafel blickte, hörte er jemanden, der ihn auf Englisch anredete.
Er drehte sich um und stand vor einem Ausländer: groß, gut gebaut, blondes Haar, Augenbrauen und ein Oberlippenbart. Er trug das Shirt seiner Träume: kurze Ärmel und schwarz und eine Goldkette, die um seinen Hals hang. Er sagte: Ich habe eine Extra-Ticket. Willst du es haben?
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Bix Beiderbecke
The Bix Beiderbecke Story
@1957 UK Pressing
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Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.
With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. "In a Mist" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions and one of only two he recorded, mixed classical (Impressionist) influences with jazz syncopation.
A native of Davenport, Iowa, Beiderbecke taught himself to play cornet largely by ear, leading him to adopt a non-standard fingering some critics have connected to his original sound. He first recorded with Midwestern jazz ensembles, The Wolverines and The Bucktown Five in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based Jean Goldkette Orchestra before joining Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer for an extended gig at the Arcadia Ballroom in St. Louis. Beiderbecke and Trumbauer joined Goldkette in 1926. The band toured widely and famously played a set opposite Fletcher Henderson at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City in October 1926. He made his greatest recordings in 1927 (see above). In 1928, Trumbauer and Beiderbecke left Detroit to join the best-known dance orchestra in the country: the New-York-based Paul Whiteman Orchestra.
Beiderbecke's most influential recordings date from his time with Goldkette and Whiteman, although they were generally recorded under his own name or Trumbauer's. The Whiteman period also marked a precipitous decline in Beiderbecke's health, brought on by the demand of the bandleader's relentless touring and recording schedule in combination with Beiderbecke's persistent alcoholism. A few stints in rehabilitation centers, as well as the support of Whiteman and the Beiderbecke family in Davenport, did not check Beiderbecke's decline in health. He left the Whiteman band in 1930 and the following summer died in his Queens apartment at the age of 28.
His death, in turn, gave rise to one of the original legends of jazz. In magazine articles, musicians' memoirs, novels, and Hollywood films, Beiderbecke has been reincarnated as a Romantic hero, the "Young Man with a Horn". His life has been portrayed as a battle against such common obstacles to art as family and commerce, while his death has been seen as a martyrdom for the sake of art. The musician-critic Benny Green sarcastically called Beiderbecke "jazz's Number One Saint," while Ralph Berton compared him to Jesus. Beiderbecke remains the subject of scholarly controversy regarding his true name, the cause of his death, and the importance of his contributions to jazz.
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“One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you?”
Happy birthday to Bix Beiderbecke, March 10, 1903- August 6, 1931. Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke, better known as Bix, was a jazz cornetist and pianist in the 1920s. He played for notable bands such as the Jean Goldkette Orchestra and the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, before his untimely death at the age of 28 due to years of battling alcoholism.
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