#Joe Farnsworth

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"Autumn Leaves" w/ Emmet Cohen & James Morrison

Emmet Cohen (p), James Morrison (tb), Philip Norris (b), Joe Farnsworth (dr)

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Alan Dawson: A Drummer's Drummer and Master Educator

Introduction: The world of jazz drumming is filled with numerous influential figures, each contributing uniquely to the evolution of the genre. Among these legends, Alan Dawson stands out not only for his extraordinary skill and versatility as a drummer but also for his profound impact as an educator. His ability to blend technical proficiency with deep musicality made him a sought-after…

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Bad movie I have Motherless Brooklyn 2019

[ruleof3bobby]

THE TWO JAKES (1990) Grade: C

Too long. The tension is not quite the same as Chinatown. Jake Gittes needs to be in more danger. He seems to be outside of it. Also, it pales in comparison with its iconic original.

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Please say sike right now

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Propaganda

Mr. Jordan (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) - Comfort personified. Just the right amount of warm fuzzy and his voice is the equivalent of a blanket fresh from the dryer, a warm beverage, and a roaring fire while there's rain pouring down from the sky. He puts me at ease and I adore him so. What I wouldn't give to have him be my personal guardian angel. He always seems to have everything under control and knows just the right thing to say in the moment. This was apparently a favorite role of his and he plays it to perfection. He seems to float through life and his performance is heavenly, pun intended. With him, everything just seems alright in the world.

Prince John (The Adventures of Robin Hood) - He's pretty, he's poncy, he's a little unwholesome. He's gleeful and oily and so fun to watch. He's an unworthy successor to his brother and he's just having the best time! If loving him is wrong, I don't want to be right.

This is round one for The King of The Claudes tournament and other matchups can be found here!

Additional Propaganda under the cut!

Mr. Jordan

He's literally so perfect in every single way. He could fix me. I also love it that we get to see how kind and gentle Claude can be when compared to his other villainous roles. If this character and his character from 'Angel on My Shoulder' had a crossover, I think I could die a happy girl. :)

Prince John

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From Mitchell Bell to Builds by Baz:

Baz Builds, Merry Christmas brother! A good Marine Brother, Freddie Joe Farnsworth worked with Tricia Helfer, who played Cylon number 6 and on BSG. When I told him about your Viper, he connected me with her and she was blown away by your passion for the details on your project. I humbly asked for a shout out and she made you this great piece! She is so incredibly nice!

This video is for you, you deserve it mate!

Semper Fi Taco

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Commons Vote

On: Motion to sit in private

Ayes: 1 (100.0% Lab) Noes: 49 (68.8% Lab, 12.5% Con, 10.4% DUP, 2.1% RUK, 2.1% Ind, 2.1% UUP, 2.1% TUV) Absent: ~600

Day's business papers: 2024-12-06

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Labour (1 vote)

Alex McIntyre

Noes

Labour (33 votes)

Alex Ballinger Allison Gardner Ben Coleman Bill Esterson Calvin Bailey Chris Bryant Chris Elmore Christian Wakeford Danny Beales Emma Hardy Fleur Anderson Gen Kitchen Georgia Gould Janet Daby Jeff Smith Joe Powell Lilian Greenwood Linsey Farnsworth Louise Jones Miatta Fahnbulleh Nicholas Dakin Peter Dowd Peter Lamb Rachel Blake Rupa Huq Rushanara Ali Samantha Dixon Sarah Jones Scott Arthur Simon Opher Stella Creasy Torcuil Crichton Will Stone

Conservative (6 votes)

Alex Burghart Christopher Chope David Simmonds Gagan Mohindra Matt Vickers Rebecca Paul

Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)

Carla Lockhart Gavin Robinson Gregory Campbell Jim Shannon Sammy Wilson

Reform UK (1 vote)

Richard Tice

Independent (1 vote)

Alex Easton

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Robin Swann

Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)

Jim Allister

[fayestardust]

for bob tours: was there a moment (or more than one) at a place where you felt ~connected to a scene from bob/the real events?

All the tours I’ve been on have special moments, though some more than others. Thank you for asking me about this, as I love recounting these memories. Some of this is actually what you asked for; the rest is just me being sappy.

Okay, ready? Behind the read more because it's SUPER long.

Eindhoven tour, April 2022

This was the first WW2 tour I’ve ever been on and the first of We Happy Few 506’s Band of Brothers tours. Special for that reason alone. It was a one-day tour with a Q&A the day before, and only four out of six actors who were supposed to join actually made it over to Eindhoven. First up: Matthew Leitch (Floyd ‘Tab’ Talbert), our fierce leader on all of the tours so I won’t mention him every time. He co-founded WHF506. He’s kind of a very annoying older brother to me now. Also there were Tim Matthews (Alex Penkala), Doug Allen (Alton More) and Mark Lawrence (William H. Dukeman).

I enjoyed the Q&A, though at that point was far too insecure to ask anything about Band because the room was filled with much bigger WW2 nerds (at the time, I’ve now caught up) who all seemed to ask very profound questions. I also shied away from taking any photos with the actors because people pretty much swarmed them, and I’m slightly claustrophobic.

I was making art already at that point, and for this trip had managed to draw Matt and Mark. See here a moment of joy for me.

The next day was the day of the tour, and I was pretty nervous about it because I’d never done a bus tour before, but in my experience, buses aren’t particularly wheelchair-friendly. Such was the case here, too, but the moment I approached the daunting steps of the Megabus, guests (special and not) flocked over to help me up them. All doubt evaporated. I got appointed the spacious back-of-the-bus seat, with my cousin on one side and Mark Lawrence on the other.

I’ll single Mark out for this tour because our conversations on the bus were very real and important to me. But also because one of the most moving moments on the tour happened when we visited the Crossroads. This is where Mark’s character and the real Dukeman died. If you ever get to visit... the Crossroads in the show looks exactly like the real location. Easily one of the most true-to-life set locations. And Mark had never been to the Netherlands. It tore him up. We all sniffled, watching him cry. The thing you have to realise is that he feels like he owes his entire life to the show. He met his lovely wife because she saw him on tv, and they fell in love. He has Dukeman’s service number tattooed on his body. And he’s the kindest, sweetest soul.

Later, months after the tour, he called me up to sing me happy birthday at six in the morning.

Both Doug and Tim remain my friends to this day. I’m perhaps most grateful for the connections made on these tours. Some of the other guests are now also like family.

Bastogne tour - part 1, November 2022

Bastogne is a magical place for me. I took one of my geekiest friends on this second tour. Special guests were Freddie Joe Farnsworth (military advisor on both BoB and the Pacific) and Phil McKee (Strayer). Not the most well-known people in this fandom I think. But interesting. And funny. 

This tour was led by Reg Jans, and he’s THE guide who knows everything you could ever want to know about the Battle of the Bulge. So, during this tour, I feel like I learned a lot more about that, beyond what we see in Band.

Of course, we also visited Easy Company’s foxholes in the Bois Jacques. There was no snow (stay tuned for that on a later tour), so it’s not like it is in the show. But the woods are eerily quiet. I don’t know if I believe in anything supernatural beyond things like intuition, but if I were to start anywhere, it’d be there. Freddie Joe explained the consequences of sleep deprivation for your brain to us, to help us understand the soldiers better. Sometimes, they were their own worst enemies. They were freezing, underfed, underdressed and barraged by artillery, and most of the time, could not even see the Germans.

We also visited where John Julian was pinned down by Germans for hours. It’s still unclear what exactly happened to him, or when or how he died. We only see seconds of it in the show. It's like that with many things in the show actually. All the battles took a long, long time.

This tour isn’t my favourite - there’s a better one right after this, but this did solidify the idea that I would go on these tours just to see the people I’ve met while there. 

Bastogne tour - part 2, January 2023

Here it is, my favourite tour. Barely two months after the last one. Bastogne in the very dead of winter. Let me tell you: it was COLD. But it would have been, for the soldiers of Easy.

The special guests on the second day of the tour were Shane Taylor (Eugene ‘Doc’ Roe), and Lucie Jeanne (Renee Lemaire). Doug (Alton More) was also there, and it was lovely to see him again. But as you can guess, having Doc Roe and Renee on the tour in Bastogne is pretty amazing. Eugene and Renee never actually met each other, one of the few dramatisations of the show. It serves a purpose, though, so it’s mostly seen as acceptable. Renee’s story is quite tragic, and she died very close to where she had lived with her parents and her body was wrapped in the fine silk of parachutes and brought back to them. 

There were also some good hugs at the 'Nuts' bar! But the absolutely most amazing part of the tour happened without them. Our second day started really, really early. We got up at 5 am, got on the bus, and drove to the Bois Jacques. It was still pitch black when we got out, freezing cold and fresh snow crunched underneath our sleepy feet. 

Reg Jans was on this tour again, and he had something truly haunting in store for us. We all stood in a circle around him with our (mostly just purchased for this trip) head torches on as he recited a prayer by Lt. Col. Robert L. Wolverton, commanding officer of 3rd battalion, 506th PIR. 

Here it is.

Men, I am not a religious man and I don't know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us. And while we pray, let us get on our knees and not look down but up with faces raised to the sky so that we can see God and ask His blessing in what we are about to do: God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world. We do not know or seek what our fate will be. We ask only this, that if die we must, that we die as men would die, without complaining, without pleading and safe in the feeling that we have done our best for what we believed was right. O Lord, protect our loved ones and be near us in the fire ahead and with us now as we pray to you.

And into the woods, we went. You have to remember, there are no cars at this hour. It’s dark. It’s quiet. We were told to be quiet. We were told to sit in the foxholes in the snow. We switched off our lights. No one was shooting at us, but we felt, in part, what the men of Easy Company would have felt. And then we watched the sun come up. It’s the closest thing to a religious experience I’ve ever felt.

I met one of my favourite people in the world on this tour, too. He took these wonderful photos of me and inspired me to take up photography again, myself.

Normandy tour, June 2023

This tour was a bit of an odd one out. It felt chaotic because it was scheduled around D-Day, which made Normandy really poorly accessible. It’s so busy, so our tour was mostly improvised around areas with the least amount of traffic jams. 

It did have its moments, though. Normandy is a cool place. And we had the amazing Pete McCabe (Donald Hoobler) with us. 

The day before the tour, I actually got to meet three Normandy veterans. Humbling, to say the least. I also met several more Band actors (Peter Youngblood Hills, Alex Sagba-Brady, Christian Black, Nolan Hemmings) and Scott Gibson, who played Captain Haldane in the Pacific. We still keep in touch. Christian Black is now a Still Photographer, and mostly shoots Tom Cruise’s movie stills. He also took this photo of Nolan Hemmings, this painting of him and little old me. 

I was really glad to see many friends again. And I brought my own camera and took amazing pictures (teehee). We saw most of Easy’s known landing spots in Sainte Mère Eglise, like Winters’ and Lipton’s, to name a few.  

Our guide here was Paul ‘Woody’ Woodadge, an English guy married to a French woman. He’s nice, but critical of Easy’s fame, not so much on account of Easy, but mostly because Easy was just one of the many companies that did incredible things. We visited the area around Brécourt Manor, where we learned that other company Paratroopers cleared the way for Easy’s famous mission.  It doesn’t make it less impressive, but it adds loads of context.

Another thing that I found incredibly moving was the reading of Lt. Meehan’s last letter home. It’s easy to forget how young these men were. And how wise. Meehan’s plane crashed in a field, and nearly 80 years later, you can still see where it landed because while the field is fully planted, there’s a part near a hedgerow that remains barren to this day. Haunting. 

We also visited Marmion Farm, where many famous Easy Company photos were taken (it’s where they more or less come back together after the jump).

One of my favourite stories, though, is that of medics Robert Wright and Ken Moore of the 101st Airborne. They treated 80 injured American and German soldiers and a child in a church in Angoville-au-Plain. There are still bloodstains on the pews. 

So, as you can tell, not everything had to do with Easy, because we also went to Omaha Beach, where I got out of my chair and walked. Just to walk where these brave men had walked and really feel the history.

Eindhoven/Arnhem Market Garden Tour, October 2023

My second favourite tour after Bastogne in winter. Our guest here was Mark Huberman (Lester Hashey) who was meant to come on the original Eindhoven tour but couldn’t. He’s delightfully Irish, and had the best anecdotes from the set. Also absolutely hilarious.

Many of my friends weren’t on this tour, so going on to it, I couldn’t have guessed it would rank among my favourites.

It was split between two things. Some Easy Company sites and stories (some repeats from the first tour, but often with a slightly different angle or experience), and the British side of Operation Market Garden!

By the way, did you know that Hoobler picks up the Luger that ends up killing him in Bastogne, at the Crossroads? I think they changed it in the show to let the story flow better.

Anyway. I loved this tour. We visited Schoonderlogt and the Crossroads again. This time I sat in the grassy field while everyone else did the famous run across. It’s such a long way!

But the stories of the British troops were perhaps even cooler to me. Because that all happened right on my doorstep. I knew the bigger picture, but we had Reg Jans on this tour again, which is synonymous with really personal stories. So for our British troops day, we followed in the footsteps of leaders and soldiers alike, until we met them again in their final resting place in the military cemetery. A really rewarding journey. Mark also read a letter by Ivar Rowberry, which I posted about here. There’s an audio recording of it too, which is well worth a listen. 

If you want to read more about any of these tours (I’m a bit tired of writing so much, check out my actual - non tumblr - blog over here. There is an entry for each one, there.

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"Future Stride" - Live in Warsaw w/ Joey Ranieri and Joe Farnsworth

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Ticklish KISS Members!

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Heaven Can Wait - CBS - November 16, 1960

A presentation of DuPont Show of the Month Season 4 Episode 3

Comedy / Drama

Running Time: 90 minutes

Stars:

Anthony Franciosa as Joe Pendleton

Joey Bishop as Max Levine

Wally Cox as Messenger 7013

Frank McHugh as Lefty

Diana Van der Vlis as Julia Farnsworth

Robert Morley as Mr. Jordan

Paul Stevens as Tony Abbott

Paul Reed as Inspector

Patrick Waddington as Butler

Elizabeth Ashley as Bette

Bud Palmer as Announcer

Martin Ashe as First Escort

Jean Sincere as Suzie

Farrell Pelly as Doctor

Henry Wallitsch as Smallings

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Mike LeDonne – On Fire

Mike LeDonne – organ, Hammond Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone Peter Bernstein – guitar Joe Farnsworth – drums

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Wynton Marsalis Amongst the People: Live at the House of Tribes

Live at the House of Tribes finds Wynton Marsalis leading his sextet at the intimate community theater space in New York City in 2002. An annual ritual of sorts, the performance makes for one of the trumpeter's best live recordings since 1986's stellar Live at Blues Alley. Backed by a slightly altered lineup from 2005's The Magic Hour, Marsalis gains first-class support from alto saxophonist Wessel Anderson, pianist Eric Lewis, drummer Joe Farnsworth, bassist Kengo Nakamura, and percussionist Orlando Q. Rodriguez. Special mention goes to Robert Rucker for his highly energetic tambourine performance on the New Orleans "2nd Line" finale.

- Matt Collar

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Joe Farnsworth In What Direction Are You Headed?

Joe Farnsworth In What Direction Are You Headed? Smoke Sessions In What Direction Are You Headed? is the third album as a leader on Smoke Sessions for “ Time to Swing,” drummer Joe Farnsworth. He has built his reputation as one of the best straight-ahead drummers in jazz for the likes of Wynton Marsalis, George Coleman, and prior to that a staggering litany of greats including McCoy Tyner, Harold…

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QUARTETS AT SMALLS

JOE FARNSWORTH with Sarah Hanahan, Emmet Cohen, and Yakasushi Nakumara, 20 JANUARY 2025, 9 pm

RICKY FORD with Mark Soskin, Todd Marino, and Barry Altschul, 21 JANUARY 2025, 9 pm

The presence of Emmet Cohen moved JOE FARNSWORTH’s regular gig often with Sarah Hanahan from probable to sure. RICKY FORD was a name from the late ‘70s whom I’d lost track of but who had Barry Altschul behind the kit. So, I had powerful horns and drummers to explore with, in the back of my mind, that I will look at the new/old Joe Henderson/McCoy Tyner album from Slug’s in 1966 as if it were one of these gigs that I would check out because the players were interesting.

These two were fascinating but not, I think, completely successful due to the material. JOE FARNSWORTH set the puzzle of trying out some new material on the bandstand as part of his suit and tie adventurousness while RICKY FORD, it seems, had played most of the new compositions he wanted to showcase in the first set. But the drumming, FARNSWORTH and Altschul, was fascinating but not as overwhelming as they have each been.

The playing in the FARNSWORTH set was both tentative and restrained as they simply didn’t stretch out. The Joel Ross tune never jelled but each member of the band had a tune that at least had the composer leading. Hanahan’s was both shorter and melodic as she and they didn’t take it as far out as she often goes. Yakashusi Nakamura was steady as always and his tune was slinky; Hanahan soared on it but kept the structure of the tune as a reference point throughout. Cohen’s tune, done in trio had the feel of a standard. Then Ada Brandis Hargrove came out to sing My Romance and the bossa Quiet Nights. Me and singers, so I felt the constraint as her voice was thin and her delivery as tentative as everything else that night. They did close out with The Theme which explore the rhythm changes for several choruses before resolving to the closing phrase.

RICKY FORD too kept the structure of the tunes in place despite playing with the growls and overtones I remember from my first experience with him 45ish years ago. He’s primarily been in Europe but also Türkiye. The first tune of this set’s title was translated from Turkish as Welcome. I didn’t hear particular Middle Eastern/Eastern Europe elements but perhaps I was merely getting my bearings. As with most of the tunes, the outro conversation between FORD and Altschul was a highlight. The drummer was active, inventive, and always listening. He was worth attending to, but unlike at a Mezzrow’s trio gig or two, he fit the larger room and the band. Mark Soskin had some interesting voicings, particularly on the Monk, Ask Me Now, audible Ford called, but he played quieter than the rest which brought the energy down. Todd Marino’s bass was solid enough when I could hear. The other ballad was probably Lonnie’s Lament and I did hear some Coltrane as one does with most tenor players but never fully the tune. As with the Farnsworth set, they said their piece in about ten minutes, though such players could and have gone on for several choruses more each. And this time they only did five tunes, finishing up well before the usual hour.

I was not fully satisfied with these sets, but, that said, neither do I regret turning my attention to them.