#dickie bailey

[hitchell-mope]

This may have been the bizarrely edited version. But this was still a great movie

[b1lliesb1ues]

📸 Art Kane, 1958

‘I have no idea how they decided to stand where they did, and with whom, but they did. Slowly they formed themselves into a big group … and I saw they couldn’t have got themselves into a better position’ – Art Kane

[darkimpala1897]

Happy Easter! So here's....

Masters Of Air crew and Easter egg hunting.

Bucky: Stole all the "special eggs"

Croz: Got only like ten eggs, said he was fine. He wasn't.

Buck: he watched like a parent, hands on the hips and everything.

Murphy: opened the eggs well still hunting them.

Blakely: opened the eggs, stole the candy and proceeded to put it back.

Brady: only found Blakelys unfill eggs.

Hambone: thought he could eat the plastic eggs, someone had to explain to him that he couldn't.

DeMarco: Brought Meatball, saying he wanted to hunt eggs.

Douglass: stealing eggs from everyone elses baskets.

Kidd: hid them the night before, made sure that they'd be finding eggs until the next year.

Lemmons: Helped everyone find eggs, mostly because he could squeeze into pretty much anything.

Rosie: Spent all night filling the eggs.

Winks: Saves eggs for Lemmons.

Quinn: Checks in every spot that nobody thought of.

Bailey: Found no eggs mostly because he was making sure Quinn didn't get himself lost.

BabyFace: Got extremely hyper on the candy, and he ran around for about two hours afterwards.

Smokey: Complained because he kept finding eggs in his office till New Years.

Harding: Giving everyone hints, terrible hints but hints.

Bubbles: Helped Crosby find eggs, but somehow he himself ended up with the most.

Stormy: Planned the whole thing with Kidd and Rosie because he's the weather guy.

Curt: Complained about Bucky stealing the special eggs, because he wanted one.

Dickie: Stole a special egg from Bucky, for Curt.

Fredkin: Said he wasn't going to join, because it's for kids. That lasted ten minutes.

Macon: Got invited by DeMarco, had a absolute blast.

Daniels: He brought dinner for afterwards, but he ended up joining helping DeMarco and Macon.

Jefferson: Watched from the sidelines, drew visual hints to help Harding.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

TODAY'S FROZEN MOMENT - Today marks the 65th Anniversary of this phenomenal photo - August 12th, 1958 - this now-famous photo was taken… later to be given the title "A Great Day in Harlem" when it was published in Esquire magazine. Art Kane, an art director for the magazine, was finally allowed to do a photo assignment... A jazz lover, Kane said he wanted to assemble the best in jazz for a shot, at 10 in the morning... Most people laughed at him...but...somehow he pulled this off; they showed up...as requested, to 17 East 126th Street...astonishing really... Subsequently, a documentary about the photo added to the magic... as did the allowance of the neighbors, the kids in the front and the folks in the windows… just so special… See below for a list of who's who... of the 57 musicians here, only 2 remain: Sonny Rollins and Benny Golson... but the shot, like all of the music, is eternal…

[01 – Hilton Jefferson, 02 – Benny Golson, 03 – Art Farmer, 04 – Wilbur Ware, 05 – Art Blakey, 06 – Chubby Jackson, 07 – Johnny Griffin, 08 – Dickie Wells, 09 – Buck Clayton, 10 – Taft Jordan, 11 – Zutty Singleton, 12 – Red Allen, 13 – Tyree Glenn, 14 – Miff Molo, 15 – Sonny Greer, 16 – Jay C. Higginbotham, 17 – Jimmy Jones, 18 – Charles Mingus, 19 – Jo Jones, 20 – Gene Krupa, 21 – Max Kaminsky, 22 – George Wettling, 23 – Bud Freeman, 24 – Pee Wee Russell, 25 – Ernie Wilkins, 26 – Buster Bailey, 27 – Osie Johnson, 28 – Gigi Gryce, 29 – Hank Jones, 30 – Eddie Locke, 31 – Horace Silver, 32 – Luckey Roberts, 33 – Maxine Sullivan, 34 – Jimmy Rushing, 35 – Joe Thomas, 36 – Scoville Browne, 37 – Stuff Smith, 38 – Bill Crump, 39 – Coleman Hawkins, 40 – Rudy Powell, 41 – Oscar Pettiford, 42 – Sahib Shihab, 43 – Marian McPartland, 44 – Sonny Rollins, 45 – Lawrence Brown, 46 – Mary Lou Williams, 47 – Emmett Berry, 48 – Thelonius Monk, 49 – Vic Dickenson, 50 – Milt Hinton, 51 – Lester Young, 52 – Rex Stewart, 53 – J.C. Heard, 54 – Gerry Mulligan, 55 – Roy Eldridge, 56 – Dizzy Gillespie, 57 – Count Basie.]

[Mary Elaine LeBey]

[bcolfanfic]

young vets au bagram background world building no one cares about except for me (probably) - roomates edition

from my research it appears that it was 4 to a room (w/ two bunk beds) in bagram so. this is where my head's at.

room 1

to start: curt and dickie, and 2 people that curt sweet talks into getting thrown somewhere else to make room for gale and bucky when they come in from africa.

after curt and dickie are in the IED explosion (new ppl: gentle remember curt indeed lives in this au!) rosie and nash show up and get moved in there. kinda a shit show at first bc nash and bucky bump heads, and bucky is already kinda 24/7 agitated bc not knowing them well means he's back to sleeping on the top bunk. at a time when he *really* needs his gale </3. but eventually its talked out and obv nash and rosie are chill guys. bucky feels bad for bein' so belligerent to nash when, well. alex shows up and gets moved in there after that spot becomes open.

room 2

douglas, demarco, croz and bubbles. very left brain right brain vibes going on in there. one side is women from magazines taped on the wall and the other is snowglobes LMFAO. bless em, they all become buds.

room 3

brady, blakely, bailey, and quinn. bailey annoys the hell out of them in a very "i love you brother but PLEASE go the fuck to sleep" way lmfao. quinn is always corralling him to shushhh and go night night and brady and blakely jokingly (affectionately) call him his doting wife.

when bailey and quinn end up going home macon and daniels come in. brady and blakely joke about finally some peace and quiet, but they do actually quite miss bailey and his wifey!

room 4

ken, herman (if you are thinking 'who'? he was ken's ground crew buddy!), crank, hambone.

ken and crank are the yappers in this room. hambone whips a pillow across the room at ken one night and gets him right in the face, hard. whoopsies.

(if your blorbo is missing just assume they are also there, choose your own adventure about where. babyface also exists in this au but i do fear he is a part of the 'since i let curt live' tax)

[madamlaydebug]

{A Great Day in Harlem}

Red Allen

Buster Bailey

Count Basie

Emmett Berry

Art Blakey

Lawrence Brown

Scoville Browne

Buck Clayton

Bill Crump[2]

Vic Dickenson

Roy Eldridge

Art Farmer

Bud Freeman

Dizzy Gillespie

Tyree Glenn

Benny Golson*

Sonny Greer

Johnny Griffin

Gigi Gryce

Coleman Hawkins

J.C. Heard

Jay C. Higginbotham

Milt Hinton

Chubby Jackson

Hilton Jefferson

Osie Johnson

Hank Jones

Jo Jones

Jimmy Jones

Taft Jordan

Max Kaminsky

Gene Krupa

Eddie Locke

Marian McPartland*

Charles Mingus

Miff Mole

Thelonious Monk

Gerry Mulligan

Oscar Pettiford

Rudy Powell

Luckey Roberts

Sonny Rollins*

Jimmy Rushing

Pee Wee Russell

Sahib Shihab

Horace Silver*

Zutty Singleton

Stuff Smith

Rex Stewart

Maxine Sullivan

Joe Thomas

Wilbur Ware

Dickie Wells

George Wettling

Ernie Wilkins

Mary Lou Williams

Lester Young

[hopusthebrainlessfloof]

Character Voices!! :D

[These all lead to Spotify links, by da way]

Ludwig: Vanilla Twilight (Owl City)

Wendy: Break Free (Lead the Way) Cover (Qumu)

Roy: This is Halloween- Pop Version (Marilyn Manson)

Morton: Happy Face (Jagwar Twin)

Lemmy: Better Off Dead (Sleeping With Sirens)

Iggy: Nightmare (Set It Off)

Larry: So What (P!nk)

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Bully: I Write Sins, Not Tragedies (Panic! At The Disco)

Kootie Pie: bury a friend (Billie Eilish)

Big Mouth: Boy Division (My Chemical Romance)

Kooky: True Friends (Bring Me The Horizon)

Cheatsy: Welcome Home (SquigglyDigg, Gabe Castro)

Hip: Rhapsody of Blue Sky (fhána)

Hop: Little Love Song (Rie Takahashi)

Toadstool: Sweet but Psycho (Ava Max)

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Topper: What's This (Flyleaf)

Hariet & Rango: Come Little Children / The Hanging Tree (Peter Hollens; Bailey Pelkman)

Spewart: Teeth (5 Seconds of Summer)

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Boom Boom: Kidnap the Sandy Claws (Korn)

Pom Pom: Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne)

Motley: Jack's Lament (The All-American Rejects)

Madame Broode: Sally's Song (Amy Lee)

Peasley: Poor Jack (Plain White T's)

Bonnet: Ex's & Oh's (Elle King)

Dieter: Killer Klowns (The Dickies)

Kaley: Smoke and Mirrors (Jayn)

Beef: American Idiot (Green Day)

Olly: Turn the Lights Off (Tally Hall)

Olivia: Happy Halloween (Junky, DAZBEE)

Hopus*: The Apple Juice Song (Kirby's Dream Band)

*Hopus is the one behind the "nuh-uh" button and is also Roy's pet bunny.

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You can find the playlist (in order) here!!

Want a non-musical reference? We got that too!

Reposting cause my dumbass LOST THIS SOMEWHERE (and cause I updated it :3- )

ALSO ALSO This is inspired by zis powost, except unlike this OP, I don't watch TV or cartoons or anything similar (boring, I know), so I chose to do this one with music! :3

[ALSO THIS VERSION IS GOING TO GET LINKED IN THE LIBRARY OF IMPORTANT POSTS, I PROMISE]

[lauralot89]

Named Ginger Cats in Live Action Television

I’m compiling a database of every ginger cat in the media. See the master post for all forms of media here.

Animated shows have their own post. Unnamed cats also have their own post, because this was too many links for Tumblr to handle.

If I am missing any ginger cats, please comment so it can be added to the list.

Abigail (iCarly)

Alex (Animals)

Baciagalup (The Sopranos)

Boomer (Maron)

Circe (Batman)

Clooney (This Is Us)

Dicky (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

Fluffy (The Brady Bunch)

Fritzy (Mission Impossible)

George (Murder, She Wrote)

Grandpa (Love)

Gus (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

Harriette and Kittens (The Donna Reed Show)

Henrietta (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C)

Herbie (My Favorite Martian)

Hermione (Thriller)

Jennet (Night Gallery)

Little Ray (Sister, Sister series regular)

Macbeth (The Outer Limits)

Marmalade and Unnamed Cat (The King of Queens)

Max (My Favorite Martian)

Mew Mew (Tales from the Crypt)

Minerva (Our Miss Brooks, series regular)

Miranda (Petticoat Junction)

Miss Puss (Everybody Loves Raymond)

Mr. Ash (The Office)

Mr. Bailey (Designing Women)

Mr. Henderson (The Dick Van Dyke Show, series regular)

Mr. Whiskers (Bosom Buddies)

Mrs. Stephens (Bewitched)

Nancy (2 Broke Girls)

Oatmeal (Russian Doll)

Patches and Unnamed Kittens (Three's Company)

Picky-Picky (Ramona)

Ralph (The Carol Burnett Show)

Rusty (The Beverly Hillbillies episodes The Army Game, The Cat Burgular, Clampett City, The Clampetts are Overdrawn, The Clampetts Go Fishing, The Clampetts Go Hollywood, Dash Riprock, You Cad, Drysdale's Dog Days, Elly's Animals, Elly, The Working Girl, Jed Plays Solomon, and Jethro's Friend )

Rusty (Mission Impossible)

Sabrina (Sabrina The Teenage Witch)

Simba (Emergency!)

Skidmark (Fear the Walking Dead)

Skinner (Bones)

Spot (Star Trek: The Next Generation, series regular)

Spot II (Star Trek: Picard)

Stanley (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

Teresa and Frisky (Dennis the Menace)

Thomas (Route 66)

Tibolt (Magnum, P.I.)

Tigger (Last Man Standing)

Tippie (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

Toni Devlin (Bewitched)

Victoria (Bewitched)

[dear-indies]

I was so disappointed to see Nyle Dimarco on that masterlist & he's been the FC of one of my favorite characters. Could you help me brainstorm an alt? Age is early 30s (but not necessary!) and I think the most difficult thing for an alt is that he speaks and looks like he just stepped out of the 1930s in a newsboy cap and everything (because he basically did). Something about Nyle just nailed that? Anyway, Deaf/HoH would be preferred, but I recognize this is already hard! Thank you so so much!

Alex Lacamoire (1975) Cuban [French, Spanish, possibly other] - is HoH.

Ace Mahbaz (1986) Iranian - is deaf.

Daniel Durant (1989) - is deaf and gay.

Taehyun / Nam Tae Hyun (1994) Korean - is deaf in left ear.

Dickie Hearts (?) Guyanese - is deaf and gay.

Jeremy Lee Stone (?) African-American - is deaf.

also:

Michael Malarkey (1983) Palestinian and White.

Arthur Darvill (1983)

Aaron Tveit (1983)

James Norton (1985) - has diabetes.

François Arnaud (1985) - is bisexual.

Daniel Ings (1985)

Josh Segarra (1986) Puerto Rican.

Yon González (1986)

Penn Badgley (1986)

Kaan Yildirim (1986) Turkish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Push Puttichai Kasetsin (1986) Thai.

Karim Kassem (1986) Egyptian / Egyptian Jewish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Saagar Shaikh (1986) Pakistani - has spoken up for Palestine!

Oliver Jackson-Cohen (1986) Egyptian Jewish / White.

Christian Ochoa Lavernia (1986) Cuban.

Tyler Hoechlin (1987)

Justice Joslin (1987)

Kerem Bürsin (1987) Turkish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ismael Cruz Cordova (1987) Afro Puerto Rican.

Manny Jacinto (1987) Bisaya Filipino, Tagalog Filipino, Chinese.

Ludi Lin (1987) Chinese.

Jim Sarbh (1987) Parsi Indian.

Jonathan Bailey (1988) - is gay.

Nick Sagar (1988) Afro Jamaican and Indo Guyanese.

Alfred Enoch (1988) Afro-Barbadian / White.

Giacomo Gianniotti (1989) - is gay. 

Pierre Niney (1989) Egyptian Jewish.

Kim Woo Bin (1989) Korean.

Laith Ashley (1989) Afro Dominican - is a trans man and asexual - has spoken up for Palestine!

Raymond Ablack (1989) Indo-Guyanese.

Josh O'Connor (1990)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (1990)

Callum Turner (1990)

Xiao Zhan (1991) Chinese.

Kang Ha-neul (1990) Korean.

Taylor Zakhar Perez (1991)

Ali Burak Ceylan (1991) Turkish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ray Nicholson (1992)

Burak Çelik (1992) Turkish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Nick Hargrove (1992)

Aaron Pierre (1994)

Rafael L. Silva (1994) Brazilian - is gay.

also:

Rhys Nicholson (1990) - is non-binary and gay (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

I hope this helps you out, anon!

[madamelaydebug]

{A Great Day in Harlem}

Red Allen

Buster Bailey

Count Basie

Emmett Berry

Art Blakey

Lawrence Brown

Scoville Browne

Buck Clayton

Bill Crump[2]

Vic Dickenson

Roy Eldridge

Art Farmer

Bud Freeman

Dizzy Gillespie

Tyree Glenn

Benny Golson*

Sonny Greer

Johnny Griffin

Gigi Gryce

Coleman Hawkins

J.C. Heard

Jay C. Higginbotham

Milt Hinton

Chubby Jackson

Hilton Jefferson

Osie Johnson

Hank Jones

Jo Jones

Jimmy Jones

Taft Jordan

Max Kaminsky

Gene Krupa

Eddie Locke

Marian McPartland*

Charles Mingus

Miff Mole

Thelonious Monk

Gerry Mulligan

Oscar Pettiford

Rudy Powell

Luckey Roberts

Sonny Rollins*

Jimmy Rushing

Pee Wee Russell

Sahib Shihab

Horace Silver*

Zutty Singleton

Stuff Smith

Rex Stewart

Maxine Sullivan

Joe Thomas

Wilbur Ware

Dickie Wells

George Wettling

Ernie Wilkins

Mary Lou Williams

Lester Young

[jpbjazz]

LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

RUSSELL PROCOPE, LE CLARINETTISTE OUBLIÉ

‘’Pendant plus d’un demi-siècle, il a fait chanter sa clarinette et son saxophone avec allégresse, reprenant chez Duke Ellington l’héritage de Barney Bigard dont il retrouve le swing léger, l’élégance naturelle et la tradition néo-orléanaise. Au saxophone alto, il s’exprime avec la même grâce, dans un style qui pourrait être un compromis entre la manière de Benny Carter et celle de Johnny Hodges.’’

- André Clergeat

Né le 11 août 1908 à New York, Russell Keith Procope a grandi à San Juan Hill, près de New York, où il avait étudié aux côtés de Benny Carter. Après avoir d’abord étudié le violon, Procope était passé à la clarinette et au saxophone alto.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

Procope avait amorcé sa carrière professionnelle en 1926 avec l’orchestre de Billy Freeman. En décembre 1928, à l’âge de vingt ans, Procope avait fait ses débuts sur disque avec les Red Hot Peppers de Jelly Roll Morton, qui se produisaient alors au Rose Dance Land, une école de danse située à l’intersection de la 125e rue et de la 7e Avenue. Évoquant sa collaboration avec Morton, Procope avait précisé: “Jelly was the first’ man who ever fired me. I was a fresh kid, always arguing. Jelly. said, ‘I'm going to run this band or break it up.’ Well,’ I said, ‘looks like you're going to have to break it up.’ ‘O.K., ‘ said Jelly, ‘you're fired.’ That’ taught me you can rub people but you can't rub ‘em too far.”

Par la suite, Procope avait joué avec les légendaires McKinney's Cotton Pickers à Detroit, puis avec les groupes de Benny Carter, Chick Webb (1929–1930), Fletcher Henderson (de 1931 à 1934), Tiny Bradshaw, Teddy Hill (1935-1937), King Oliver et Willie Bryant. Décrivant sa collaboration avec Webb, Procope avait précisé: “Chick had the damnest jazz band you ever heard, as opposed to the commercial band he had when he got Ella Fitzgerald. In those days we didn't have money to buy music so we made head arrangements [that is, arrangements that were extemporized, not written]. It was better for jazz.”

On ignore souvent qu’un peu comme un joueur de baseball, Procope s’était joint à l’orchestre d’Henderson dans le cadre d’un échange avec le groupe de Webb. Dans le cadre de cet échange, Webb avait cédé Procope et le tromboniste Benny Morton à Henderson en retour du saxophoniste Benny Carter et du tromboniste Jimmy Harrison. Commentant la transaction, Procope avait déclaré avec humour: “It was great for me. It doubled my salary.”

Après la dissolution de l’orchestre d’Henderson en 1934, Procope s’était joint au groupe de Benny Carter avec d’autres anciens membres de l’orchestre. Par la suite, Procope avait travaillé durant un certain avec les groupes de Tiny Bradshaw et Willie Bryant avant de se joindre à l’orchestre de Teddy Hill en 1935. À l’époque, la section de trompettes du groupe de Hill avait été composée successivement de Roy Eldridge, Bill Coleman, Frankie Newton et Dizzy Gillespie. Les autres solistes du groupe étaient le tromboniste Dickie Wells et le saxophoniste ténor Chu Berry. C’est dans le cadre de sa collaboration avec le groupe que Procope s’était rendu pour la première fois en Europe en 1937. À l’époque, l’orchestre de Hill était très populaire faisait partie intégrante de la Cotton Club Revue, un spectacle entièrement composé de musiciens de couleur qui avait été présenté notamment au Palladium de Londres.

Après avoir quitté le groupe de Hill en 1938, Procope avait remplacé Pete Brown dans le sextet de John Kirby, avec qui il avait joué exclusivement du saxophone alto jusqu’en 1945 mis à part une brève période durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. C’est d’ailleurs avec le groupe de Kirby que Procope avait commencé à se faire connaître. Le groupe comprenait de grands noms du jazz de l’époque comme Charlie Shavers à la trompette, Buster Bailey à la clarinette, Billy Kyle au piano et O'Neil Spencer à la batterie. Surnommé "The Biggest Little Band In The World", le groupe combinait la précision à un son plutôt doux et était caractérisé par la qualité de ses solos. Décrivant sa collaboration avec le groupe, Procope avait commenté:

“Rehearsals were the making of the Kirby band. {Le violoniste} Stuff Smith was a big hit at the Onyx Club, but he was going on the road. The Kirby band was hired to fill in until then. By the time Stuff Smith came back, the Kirby Band had gotten so good that Joe Helbock, who owned the Onyx, wanted to keep it together but he didn't know what to with it. He told us; ‘Hang around a couple of months. I'll put you on half salary. Just come in in the afternoons and rehearse; get it all together.’ So for two months we did nothing but sit around and work up arrangements. Then when Stuff Smith left again, we were ready.”

Mobilisé en septembre 1943, Procope avait fait son service militaire dans le 372nd Infantry Regiment band.

En 1946, Procope s’était joint à l’orchestre de Duke Ellington en remplacement de d’Otto Hardick puis de Barney Biggard. Initialement prévu pour un seul soir lors d’un engagement à Worcester au Massachusetts, l’engagement de Procope s’était poursuivi jusqu’à la mort d’Ellington en 1974. Procope explique comment il s’était joint à l’orchestre:  

“Duke called me to take Toby Hardwick's place on alto saxophone for one night for a broadcast in Wooster, Mass. I played with Duke once before — in 1927 in a pickup band Duke had put together for .a one‐nighter in Baltimore. In Wooster, Duke said, ‘Since you're here, you might as well go to Providence with us and play a dance.’ Then there was another gig in New England and I played that. I was having a ball after those years in the Army, but after a week, I said, ‘Duke, who's supposed to give me some money?’ I never dreamed he really wanted me in his band. But 10 days later, in Hartford, Duke said, ‘I don't know what Toby Hardwick's going to do. I'd like you to stay.' and he finally hired me.''

Procope s’était de nouveau rendu en Europe avec l’orchestre à l’été 1950. À l’instar des autres membres de la section de saxophones du groupe à l’exception de Johnny Hodges et de Paul Gonsalves, Procope alternerait entre le saxophone et la clarinette. C’est d’ailleurs principalement comme clarinettiste que Procope s’était fait connaître du grand public. En effet, même si Procope excellait au saxophone alto et au saxophone ténor, il était surtout réputé pour la sensualité et la chaleur de ses solos à la clarinette, qui contrastait avec le style beaucoup plus froid et classique de Jimmy Hamilton. Sur la suite en trois parties "Idiom '59", Ellington avait d’ailleurs confié le premier solo à Procope et le second à Hamilton. Dans son autobiographie intitulée Music is My Mistress publiée en 1973, Ellington avait décrit Procope comme ‘’an utterly sober and reliable musician, always to be depended upon." Dans d’autres extraits de ses mémoires, Ellington avait ajouté:

‘’Russell Procope était une sorte d’enfant prodige. Il a commencé par étudier le violon, mais quand il a entendu l’orchestre de Fletcher Anderson, il a été emballé par le jazz ; cet engouement a grandi quand son copain d’école Benny Carter s’est mis au saxophone alto. Également attiré par la clarinette il a été séduit d’abord parle jeu de Buster Bailey au sein de l’orchestre de Fletcher, puis par celui d’Omer Siméon, enfin par celui de Barney Bigard quand il l’a entendu chez King Oliver et chez nous. On comprend pourquoi Procope est un maitre du style Nouvelle Orléans à la clarinette système Albert ! J’ai eu la grande chance d’employer des musiciens qui aimaient tellement leurs prédécesseurs qu’ils les ont imité. Quand Paul Gonsalves est entré dans l’orchestre, il n’a pas même eu besoin de répéter. Il adorait Ben Webster et connaissait par cœur notre répertoire. Idem avec Russell Procope et le jeu de clarinette de Barney Bigard.’’

Avec l’orchestre d’Ellington, Procope s’était particulièrement illustré dans des pièces comme ''Mood Indigo'', une composition de son prédécesseur Barney Biggard. Selon Procope, Ellington avait été impressionné par son solo. Il expliquait: ''After I finished my solo, Duke looked at me and applauded quietly. I never saw Duke applaud men in his own band.''

Comme il l’avait fait pour plusieurs membres de son groupe comme Johnny Hodges et Cootie Williams, Ellington avait composé plusieurs pièces expressément pour Procope, dont ‘'4:30 Blues'', ''Blues to Be There'', ''Second Line'' et ''Swamp Goo.''

En 1956, Procope avait enregistré son premier et seul album comme leader intitulé The Persuasive Sax of Russ Procope. Se produisant exclusivement au saxophone alto sur l’album, Procope était accompagné de  Remo Biondi à la guitare rythmique, d’Earl Backus à la guitare solo, de Paul Jordan au piano, de Mel Schmidt à la contrebasse et de Frank Rullo à la batterie.

DERNIÈRES ANNÉES

Même si après la mort d’Ellington en mai 1974, l’orchestre avait poursuivi ses activités sous la direction de son fils Mercer, Procope s’était joint au trio du pianiste Brooks Kerr. Le trio était également composé du légendaire batteur Sonny Greer, qui avait fait partie de l’orchestre d’Ellington de 1919 à 1951. Expliquant son départ du groupe, Procope avait précisé: ''I joined the band because I wanted to play with Duke.'' Procope, qui avait toujours rêvé de faire partie de l’orchestre d’Ellington, avait déjà déclaré qu’il ‘’jouait mentalement’’ avec le groupe depuis son enfance à Harlem et qu’il achetait tous les disques de l’orchestre au moment de leur parution. Il expliquait: “When I eventually Joined Duke almost 20 years later, I had been mentally playing with him all those years. When I was a kid and I had 75 cents, I would buy a Louis Armstrong or a Duke record. I'd go into the store and just. say, ‘Give it to me.’ I wouldn't even play it first.”

Procope avait quatorze ans lorsqu’il avait entendu Ellington jouer pour la première fois au Lincoln Theater de la 125e rue. À l’époque, Ellington dirigeait un petit groupe de six musiciens, les Washingtonians. Mais Procope avait surtout été impressionné par Ellington après l’avoir entendu lors de la diffusion d’un de ses concerts du Cotton Club à la radio. Procope poursuivait: “But. the first time I really paid attention was when Duke broadcast from the Cotton Club — that's when I fell in love with Duke's music. Old Man River’ was big then. Most people played it fast. But Duke played it in long meter. It was different. It was beautiful.’’

Faisant le bilan de sa collaboration avec Ellington, Procope avait ajouté:

“But now that it's over. I don't know that I'd want to go on. Age, you’ know: You can't do what you did when you were younger. Duke did it as long as he could. He died trying to do it. It was rough on him in later years. He used to be terribly tired. His contract had a clause that he'had to have a bed in his dressing room.”

En 1978, Procope avait formé un quintet appelé Ellingtonia qui interprétait un répertoire composé majoritairement de compositions associées à Ellington. Le groupe, qui se produisait régulièrement dans le West End, à Broadway et sur la 113e rue, était composé de George Kelly au saxophone ténor, de Sadik Hakim au piano (un ancien membre des groupes de Charlie Parker et Lester Young), de Peck Morrison à la contrebasse et de Ronnie Cole à la batterie, un ancien collaborateur de Earl Hines et Erroll Garner.

Décrivant sa collaboration avec le groupe, Procope avait précisé:

“We play. Duke's tunes because the fellows in the band Mow them. They even, get‐something close to the Duke's harinceny every now and then. You know; Duke's death was a greittorIoss than people- realize. Other compositors — you could. play their, music. But Duke's music didn't sound’ the seine without, his personal harmony.When I'm playing Duke's music; don'l get into that ‘what the hell’ attitude after the melody hits been play. I respect it because it's Duke and because it's in my head”.

Russell Procope est mort le 21 janvier 1981, probablement des suites d’une crise cardiaque, alors qu’il se promenait à l’intersection de la 9e Avenue et de la 43e rue, à proximité de l’appartement qu’il occupait à Manhattan Plaza. Il était âgé de soixante-douze ans. Procope avait livré sa dernière performance dans un club de la 113e rue dix jours avant sa mort, le 11 janvier. La femme de Procope, Helen, qu’il avait épousée en 1937, étant décédée en septembre 1980, il laissait comme seuls survivants son frère William et sa soeur May Procope Gonzales. Procope était aussi l’oncle de John Procope, l’éditeur du Amsterdam News. Les funérailles de Procope ont été célébrées à St. Peter's Church, à l’intersection de Lexington Avenue et de la 54e rue est.

Même si le son de Procope au début de sa carrière était très influencé par le jeu de Benny Carter, il avait progressivement bâti son propre style qui combinait une sonorité très lyrique et très swing. Même si Procope avait été très influencé par le jazz de La Nouvelle-Orléans, il était rarement mentionné aux côtés des autres grands clarinettistes de l’époque comme Jimmy Noone, Johnny Dodds, Omer Siméon, Barney Bigard, Sidney Bechet et Albert Nicholas. Une des principales causes de cet oubli réside probablement dans le fait que Procope s’était surtout fait connaître comme saxophoniste alto.

Procope, qui aimait s’identifier au style de La Nouvelle-Orléans, avait déclaré un jour: ‘’The New Orleans thing always appealed to me’’. Dans son Autobiographie du Jazz publiée en 2002, Jacques Réda évoquait d’ailleurs le jeu de ‘’Russell Procope qui conserve un savoureux cachet Nouvelle Orléans à la clarinette.’’ Pour sa part, André Clergeat écrivait dans le Dictionnaire du Jazz publié chez Robert Laffont : ‘’Pendant plus d’un demi-siècle, il a fait chanter sa clarinette et son saxophone avec allégresse, reprenant chez Duke Ellington l’héritage de Barney Bigard dont il retrouve le swing léger, l’élégance naturelle et la tradition néo-orléanaise. Au saxophone alto, il s’exprime avec la même grâce, dans un style qui pourrait être un compromis entre la manière de Benny Carter et celle de Johnny Hodges.’’

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SOURCES:

‘’Russell Procope.’’ Wikipedia, 2024.

‘’Russell Procope.’’ Fandom, 2024.

WILSON, John S. ‘’A Touch of the Duke From Russell Procope.’’ New York Times, 20 juillet 1979.

WILSON, John S. ‘’Russell Procope, 72, Clarinetist with Ellington 29 years, dead.’’ New York Times, 23 janvier 1981.

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Saturday, August 10, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: MY DREAMS OF YOU (W Network) 8:00pm

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA OUTSIDE LANDS 2024 LIVE – DAY 2

NETFLIX CANADA LADY BIRD ROMANCE IN THE HOUSE (KR)

2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS (CBC) 4:30pm: Canoe Sprint (SN) 4:50am: Olympic Morning (CBC) 6:00am: Sport Climbing (TSN4) 5:00am: Olympic Games (CBC) 7:00pm: Canoe Sprint (CBC) 8:15am: Morning (CBC) 9:00am: Men’s Diving (CBC) 10:30am: Morning (CBC) 11:00am: Track Cycling (SN1/TSN) 12:00pm: Olympic Daytime (CBC) 1:00pm: Athletics (CBC) 3:30pm: Men's Basketball, Gold Medal Game: France vs. U.S. (CBC) 5:30pm: Prime (CBC/SN/TSN4) 6:30pm: Olympic Primetime (CBC) 11:00pm: Late Primetime (CBC) 2:00am: Overnight (Sunday)

NATIONAL BANK OPEN (SN1) 12:30pm: Men's Day Session Quarterfinals (SN360) 12:30pm: Women's Day Session Quarterfinals (SN1) 7:00pm: Men's Evening Session Quarterfinals (SN360) 7:00pm: Women's Evening Session Quarterfinals

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 2:30pm: A’s vs. Jays (SN Now) 7:00pm: Orioles vs. Rays (TSN5) 7:00pm: Red Sox vs. Rangers

2024 HLINKA GRETZKY CUP (TSN3) 3:30pm: Bronze Medal (TSN3) 8:00pm: Gold Medal

2024 NFL PRE-SEASON (TSN2) 7:00pm: Seahawks vs. Chargers

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN5) 7:00pm: Ti-Cats vs. Alouettes

KINA & YUK (Crave) 7:30pm: The adventure following two foxes who are preparing to become parents for the first time at a time when global warming is altering the rules for everyone.

WOULD YOU KILL FOR ME? THE MARY BAILEY STORY (Global) 8:00pm:  The lives of three generations of women take a turn for the worse when one of them becomes trapped in a toxic relationship with an increasingly abusive man.

HOMETOWN REMEDY (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm:  Back home to celebrate her dad's mayoral election, a busy surgeon has a chance encounter with the town's only doctor and its most eligible bachelor.

THE CREATOR (Crave) 9:00pm:  As a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence rages on, an ex-special forces agent must hunt down and kill the elusive architect of advanced AI whose mysterious weapon has the power to end all of mankind.

SISTERHOOD OF SECRETS (Super Channel Fuse) 9:05pm:  Jennie joins an exclusive college study group for influential young women, but soon discovers that there's a price to pay to stay in the sisterhood.

EAST HARBOUR HEROES (CTV) 10:00pm: The harbours are bustling and it's all hands on deck; as countless ships arrive, one fisherman fights to head out before the season closes. There's chaos on both land and sea as a massive ship prepares to sail with millions in cargo and a skipper faces a potential season-ending disaster.

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK  (CTV) 12:35am:  Young Tony Soprano navigates the streets of Newark, N.J., just as rivals start to challenge the DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence leaves a lasting impression on Tony.

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Buck and Bucky wedding would be pure chaos I'm just saying.

Bucky would walk down the aisle to 20th Century Fox Fanfare, because he's Bucky.

Hambone, and Douglass would do drunk karaoke.

Brady would be the one crying the entire time and I mean the entire time.

Blakely would be trying to sleep with the groomsmen.

DeMarco snuck Meatball in, who ate everything.

Rosie would have the best speech ever.

Crosby would have a drunk speech.

Bubbles would embarrassingly dance around, making everyone question who invited him.

Curt would be spilling all the embarrassing stories, he definitely knocked down either the wedding cake or ice sculpture or both well screaming "I'm Irish" at the top of his lungs.

Dickie is trying to clean up Curts mess.

Quinn lost BabyFace, and Bailey within five seconds somehow.

Winks and Ken are just filming the entire thing.

Kidd and Harding are just old man dancing together.

Helen is wondering why she came.

Sandra and Marge are also questioning why the fuck they came.

Murphy and Fredkin are literally the most chill ones, but Murphy eventually gets so drunk that he starts taking off his clothes.

Smokey is making sure nobody gives themselves alcohol poisoning, he ends up herding everyone home like drunk cattle.

Stormy is just embarrassed to know these people.

Daniels, Jefferson, and Macon were dragged to this shingdig by DeMarco who said "It'd be fun." And fun was one way to describe it.

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1, 2, 4, 8, for the mota asks!!

Hi hi, thank you for the ask and sorry for the delayed response, the weekend was busier than expected lol

1 - What is your favorite episode?

Hmmm I think either 2 or 5. I think 2 is where we get to see most of the genuine friendship between all of these guys (even if the random antagonism toward the raf pissed me off a bit lmao) and I just adore seeing the part where they refuse to leave Curt and Dickie and the guys behind. Meanwhile, 5 is the other end of the spectrum; it's got a display of the impact that losing Buck has on Bucky, and also it's when we get to see Rosie have his famous moment!

2 - What is your least favorite episode?

I think I'd have to say 4 or 7? Although they both have their moments of being great - Kenny fixing the magneto and Rosie reaching 25, for example. In 4, I felt like there was a little too much emphasis on Bucky's pass in London in a way that I think could have been a good change and fitted in really well if they'd had even just that one extra episode and paced it right, but as it was lingered too long with a little too much focus on telling not showing for some of the other aspect of the episode. For 7, I personally just really don't like watching people cheat on their wives and spent the whole episode wanting to shake Croz like a bit of laminated paper; they were already cut down on time, so it felt like it wasn't enough about the main premise of what the show was trying to display, plus again it comes down to pacing. Also these two episodes are the two ends of the weird "Quinn and Bailey disappear and then reappear absolutely fine" thread which I feel really emphasises the whole pacing issue.

4 - Buck or Bucky?

I started out prefering Buck and then switched over to Bucky. I think it's partly because we spend more time getting to see inside Bucky's head and getting to know what he thinks, and also I've written a few fics which are very often Bucky-centric because he's fun to write which probably helped with that.

8 - Who was your favorite pair in the show?

Given the phrasing of the next question, I'm assuming this one is about ships? In which case the question is, do the ones I made up out of nowhere with no supporting interactions count lol. I'm very big on ot3 curt/bucky/buck though! As I've definitely mentioned elsewhere on this blog though I'm a rarepair gremlin and like putting people with people they're not usually shipped with, even if there's nothing to base it on.

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audiobook : Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse By: Arthur Scott Bailey (1877-1949)