danasgoodstuff Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Bob Willoughby: Classic Photographs from Hollywood's Golden Age (ibtimes.co.uk) this IDs the photographer and discusses his work in connection with an ehibit of the photogs work, that would be weird if it was screwed up, but weirder things have happened. In any case it is a great photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 11 minutes ago, danasgoodstuff said: Bob Willoughby: Classic Photographs from Hollywood's Golden Age (ibtimes.co.uk) this IDs the photographer and discusses his work in connection with an ehibit of the photogs work, that would be weird if it was screwed up, but weirder things have happened. In any case it is a great photo. Gotta say, that's authoritative. Thanks. But where the hell did he get that audience from? MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Just now, The Magnificent Goldberg said: Gotta say, that's authoritative. Thanks. But where the hell did he get that audience from? MG LA 1951, supposedly. Things were never as cut 'n dried as wanted them to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said: Gotta say, that's authoritative. Thanks. But where the hell did he get that audience from? MG Of course that photograph shows Big Jay McNeely. This pic was taken at a Midnight Matinee Concert organized by Hunter Hancock (which does explain the - predominantly - white audience, I think) at the Olympic Auditorium in L.A. on 6 October 1951. The Big Jay McNeely bio "Nervous Man Nervous" by Jim Dawson explains how that concert (and others of that kind) came about in L.A. This photo also figures in the liner notes to the Big Jay McNeely "Road House Boogie" LP (Saxophonograph BP-505) from the mid-80s, and the liner notes to this album provide some background on the L.A. scene. More info on the black and white interaction at the club gigs and concerts in L.A. in the first part of the 50s can also be found in the liner notes to the "Jimmy Wright - Let's Go Crazy Crazy Baby" LP (Saxophonograph BM-1301). This and many other photographs taken by Bob Willoughby at that concert (in addition to his other jazz photographs) were shown in at least two relatively recent major books: - "Bob Wiloughby - Jazz in L.A. " published by Nieswand in the 90s (which included a bonus 30x45 cm poster of that very photograph. That huge oversized coffee-table folio cost huge money in the 90s but I did not regret shelling out for it) - "Bob Willoughby - Jazz Body & Soul", Evans Mitchell Books (UK), 2012 (also published in French by Editions Milan in 2013) Some sources say LIFE featured the photo in a feature story in 1952, and one photograph from that very concert (of teenagers screaming wildly) made it into the important worldwide "The Family of Man" photo exhibition of 1955. So Willoughby's photographic documentation of that concert did leave its mark. Like Dansgoodstuff said .. Things were never as cut 'n dried ... Edited October 3, 2021 by Big Beat Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Goodness. Thanks to both of you. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted October 3, 2021 Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 I'm very fond of this particular photo and have posted it in many places. One interesting response from the Steve Hoffman Forums was along the lines of 'Man, those kids were sure ready for rock 'n roll'. and yes, yes they were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ListeningToPrestige Posted September 21, 2022 Report Share Posted September 21, 2022 No one has mentioned Little Willie Jackson, who consistently blew his ass off in Joe Liggins' band, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 Worth mentioning in this regard that Don Wilkerson's epic Preach Brother! has been reissued on vinyl in blue Note's more affordable Classics series. By far my favorite recording of his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, ListeningToPrestige said: No one has mentioned Little Willie Jackson, who consistently blew his ass off in Joe Liggins' band, Indeed. And this probably is the definite reissue of his own works: https://www.discogs.com/de/release/9407353-Little-Willie-Jackson-Jazz-Me-Blues It shows he did not blow full steam all the time but also had other nuances to his playing, not unlike Earl Bostic, Joe Lutcher and others. Mention of the name of this often-overlooked sax man and looking at the cover of the CD above begs this question: Could it be that the saxophonist on the photograph below (from the reedition of the 1961 "JAZZLIFE" book by Joachim Ernst Berendt and William Claxton) is Little Willie Jackson again? This pic is an excerpt from a photo taken at the set of the "Five Pennies" film feat. Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye but the backing musicians are uncredited in the text. Edited September 22, 2022 by Big Beat Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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