Archives for October 8, 2014

The Jimmy Giuffre 3 plays John Lewis’ “Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West” on Italian TV in 1959. Jim Hall is the guitarist, Buddy Clark the bassist. The introduction (in Italian) is by Norman Granz:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

“I have seen two authentic geniuses in this industry, Orson Welles and Marlon Brando. And this town, not knowing what to do with genius, destroys it.”

Hugo Friedhofer (quoted in Gene Lees’ epilogue to Linda Danly, Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life)