All Night Long - Basil Deardon - 1962

Imagine a noir take on Shakespeare's Othello set in a swanky London apartment with a live jazz score featuring some of the greatest musicians of the time. That's what you've got here with All Night Long starring Patrick McGoohan, Keith Mitchell, Paul Harris and more in this tale of a conniving drummer (McGoohan) who will stop at nothing to get what he needs to start his own band, even if it means breaking up his friends marriage and getting people addicted to drugs.

Several cameos by famous jazz musicians, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, John Dankworth, Tubby Hayes and more, make this a really interesting film as they provide the entire soundtrack throughout the course of the film. There is a particularly smoking bongo set by a Brazilian drummer called, simply, Paco. I have no idea who this is, I thought it might be Dom Romeo but I don't know. does anybody else know ? He isn't credited on IMDB, but I'd love to find out. Seek this one out jazz lovers. I only wish I had the soundtrack to share.

"Hope you don't mind, man. I just walked in."

"How's Rex feel about this ?"

"What's the difference ?"

"What's the difference ? His drummer's forming his own band, his wife is gonna sing with his drummer, a competitor and you ask me what's the difference ?"

Happy Anniversary Delia and Rex

Toot!

Dave Brubeck

"Rex doesn't want her to sing, okay ? Not even with his own band. Maybe he doesn't want their marriage in the limelight, I wouldn't know, but I do know that Delia is an artist, one day, she's gonna go back to work, when she does, they'll bounce apart, they're through !"

"Why don't you tape the session ?"

BANG !

BOP!

BAP!

SAMBA!

RATATATAT !

"Bravo, Bravisimo !"

Dave & Charlie

"What have you done to me ? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME ?!"

"Johnny's a liar. He always was, he's a liar ! He never tells the truth in his whole life, his whole miserable life !"

"But Johnny, but johnny, I love you, I love you. I love, you love, she loves, everybody loves everybody , well I don't, see ? I love nobody, I don't even love Johnny. Get out Emily. Go find somebody else to love."

Romesville ! - Googie René - 1959

Well, it's been a while since the last album share. This is one I've been

meaning to do for a while. I'm just lazy with the vinyl digitizing bit.

I paid probably much more than I should have for this album, but it's

a nice part to the collection. A cool mix of beat jazz inspired space age

pop, also a lot of heavy hitters appear on this record, Plas Johnson, Jack

Costanzo, Earl Palmer & Howard Roberts to name a few. Some serious

bongo bashin' fun. Get it here

Retro French Girl Fabric

Beat Books

Tormented - Bert I. Gordon - 1960 - Unexpected Hipster #6

This one isn't a very good one either but the character of Nick The Blackmailer is actually the guy who reminded me of the rebop scene in The Wild One which led me to come up with this idea of unexpected hipsters. After watching Tormented I started actively looking for these guys in all kinds of movies and found many many better examples than this one, but I thought I should give old Nick his due for being the catalyst. Nick doesn't give any long jive talking speeches, he sticks to mild understandable slang like calling everyone "dad", remarking on "dad's cool pad" and things like that, but he is very capably played by Joe Turkel who is probably the most believable actor in this film.

Tormented is a perfect example of 50's drive-in horror films and one that I would recommend at that. The story of a man whose ex lover falls to her death and then comes back to haunt him as he is about to get married. Directed by Bert I. Gordon, you can expect all kinds of special effects which many call cheesy but I think they work quite well, given the restrictions of budget and time, I think Gordon always did remarkably well with his effects and even blazed a trail for effects artists to come.

"This is a swell pad, dad."

"Say, dad, what did you say was the handle of the cat that's gettin' spliced ?"

The Photos Of Nick DeWolf

The amazing photo's by Nick DeWolf can be seen on Flickr, here. Here's a cool one of a girl at a costume party in Boston 1958, dressed as a beatnik. Check them out, one great shot after another.

Thank you, anonymous commenter.

Beats On TV - Peter Gun - Season 1, Episode 4 - The Blind Pianist

Peter Gunn - private detective, is a true denizen of the night. Alternately solving crimes that concern the dwellers of the city at night and hanging out at Mothers, a pizza jazz joint, where his girlfriend sings and he himself sometimes wails on the axe.

A private dick quite often is able to cultivate friendships that a cop cannot. This gives them a leg up on the local law enforcement quite frequently. One of these friendships for Mr. Gunn is Wilbur, a really cool cat who runs a private beat club for those in the know.

Me typing out this dialog is just not going to do it justice so I've ripped the whole scene, which you can listen to below. Wilbur is just too cool for words.

"Makes you wonder what ever happened to the good old iambic pentameter."

"Oh, man, like, that's strictly for squares. Like, todays poets are free from all those rigid rules and restrictions. Like, man, they don't even know what he's sayin' but, you know, like, they make the scene."

"Do you ever paint anything but yourself ?"

"I mean, like, why should I ? I'm so infinitely complex."

"Oh man, you ain't been by for a while. You should fall in. Shirley Blaze is our new, intellectual, ecdysiast. "