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Rare Jazz Films Restored
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
The Los Angeles Museum of Films One Watches In Order to Make Themselves Feel Intellectually Superior (or LAMFO, to its friends) will be unveiling a series of long-forgotten jazz-related films sure to please both jazz snobs and film snobs, if such a thing is possible. The Swing Forward, Fall Back Series follows in the tradition of ...
How High the Moon
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
“The man is a drummer. Everything he plays, he contains it." --Elvin Jones on Keith Moon“Waahaa! Dibbabo, nuggle fidigum. Relafoon, mate. Yeee!" --Keith Moon on rum, codeine cough syrup, Jack Daniels, mushrooms, Guinness, some Necco wafers he mistook for blotter acid, brandy, horse tranquilizers and 246 Geno's Pizza Rolls As ...
Return of the Revenge of the Son of the Genius Guide to Jazz
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
I was sitting around the 'Dome the other day, thumbing through my Peterson Field Guide to North American Marsalises (because you never know when one might be called upon to differentiate the Mocha-Crested Branford from the Roundheaded Wynton) when it suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't had a decent death threat this year. As a ...
Cecil Taylor: Tackling the Ivories
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
If you were to take all of the films of noted Japanese director Takashi Miike (who shares my birthday of August 24th, along with Cal Ripken, Jr., Academy Awardâ„¢-winner Marlee Matlin, and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed ancient Pompeii), plus doomed 1919 Black Sox third baseman Buck Weaver's career fielding percentage (.937), in very ...
Wordy Gurdy Man
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
It has been said that if Bill Evans were alive today, he'd be clawing desperately at the inside of his coffin. If you were of a mind to, you could delve deeper into that statement and see it as a validation of the current state of Our Music, that the legendary pianist would be keen on ...
Hillbilly Jazz: From the Blue Ridge to Blue Note
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
If you were to take the entire purview of American music, trace each form back to its roots, and compare those roots side-by-side, you would notice several very interesting things. For one, just how easy it is to manipulate you into undertaking a detailed, time-consuming activity with just a single sentence. You'd also notice that virtually ...
High and Outside
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
Prior to 1920, during the Deadball Era of professional baseball, a pitcher was not only allowed to alter a new baseball when it came into play, but was expected to do so. A variety of techniques and substances were used to change the appearance or trajectory of the ball, from roughing it up with an emery ...
A Rosenwinkel by Any Other Name
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
If you were to ask the average jazz fan who the biggest names in jazz are, it is a sure bet that Kurt Rosenwinkel would be among them with 15 letters. Compare that to Sun Ra, or even Al Hirt, and you can see just how big a name that is.For the record, Your ...
Holiday Gift Guide 2005
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
Recently, your Own Personal Genius and the award-winning Queen of Plum Creek were guests in the beautiful home of our friends “McArthur Parke and “Special Kaye M. After enjoying a display of true Southern hospitality, we naturally wanted to give them a small token of our gratitude but found ourselves up against the age-old poser of ...
More About All About Jazz
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
Hey, kids, remember that time I wrote an article about the history and development of All About Jazz? Those were good times, weren't they? Things were simpler then, the world was new and full of promise, the good Roosevelt was in the White House and the Cubs were on their way to winning the World Series. ...
