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Dodo Greene’s My Hour of Need Dodo Greene sang throughout her childhood in Buffalo, NY. She appeared several times on the Buster Brown Shoes Amateur Hour radio show and was a member of an ensemble known as Miss Margaret Scott’s Personality Steppers. She came from a musical family. Her two brothers, James and Sonny Hawkins, were a […]
The Kokusai himitsu keisatsu series kicks off the post-007 era If you were to chart the number of spy movies released before and after 1962, you would see a massive spike. That year was defined by two very different spy movies. One, The Manchurian Candidate, was an unnerving, claustrophobic exploration of brainwashing and Cold War […]
Hideki Matsutake’s 007 Digital Moon The endearing popularity of James Bond has resulted in a lot of strange, obscure ephemera. 1979’s 007 Digital Moon has to be among the strangest and most obscure. The album, a collection of spacy disco-synth covers of James Bond theme songs, is the work of synth pioneer Hideki Matsutake and […]
The Sultry Sound of Slow Grind Fever In the years after World War II, American products flooded a world hungry for something other than slaughter and pain. With so much of Europe and Japan left in ruin, it was challenging for locals to fill the void themselves. But America was there, ready and relatively unscathed. […]
Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Duke Ellington are in a studio together. That sounds like the set-up for a particularly intense one-set drama a la Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom or One Night in Miami.
The imagination apparent in every aspect of The Silent Star 's design is a joy, with a story that is solid and economical enough in its construction to survive instances of ideological lip service.
For fans of lounge music, cocktail jazz fusion, exotica, and pop that occupies a dreamy space between psychedelia and easy listening, Conversations With The Silhouettes is an absolute gem waiting to be rediscovered.
The action may be bad, but there's a lot of it. Like stars Melissa Moore and Cat Sassoon, all this movie wants to do is entertain you. And like its stars, the results are feeble but admirably enthusiastic.
Shaggy-haired young author Adam Diment created one of the swingingest spies of the 1960s, the counter-culture answer to James Bond. And then he vanished.
A 5-disc set exploring the jazz soundtracks of seven crime dramas from the 1950s A shadow cast against a plume of steam billowing from a manhole in the middle of a potholed, rain-slick street. Neon light imprisoned in puddles of rainwater. The shadow emerges from the steam, becomes the form of a man wrapped in […]
