First broadcasted in 1961, Martin Luther King here talks to Martin Freeman about his childhood experiences and the incidents that led to the Montgomery bus boycott.
These events shaped King’s life, led to him becoming a national figurehead and civil rights leader, and became an emblematic moment in America´s 20th Century history.
Until next time
Ignacio
©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
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This may be a discovery for many of you, so it is not completely live but still, a non-stop trip through many of their songs and performances.
From their website:
Club des Belugas is one of the leading Nujazz bands in Europe, perhaps in the world. They combine contemporary European Electro, Lounge & Nujazz Styles with Brazilian Beats, Swing and American Black Soul of the fifties, sixties and seventies using their unique creativity and intensity.
Since 2002 they released 11 studio albums, a 2CD live album, a live DVD, 15 singles and 1 EP.
I really enjoy them, and I hope you do too. They are a lot of fun.
Until next time!
Ignacio
©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
I believe that in times like the present, where the pressures of the pandemic, plus our general economic hardships, added to the lockdowns that still exist around the world, there is nothing better than making a bit of popcorn on a Friday night and watching an old… a very old movie.
It can be in black and white or color, although, I love black and white and mono sound movies. They bring your brain down to a level of simplicity in terms of “processing power”, that is hard to beat.
For a start, the monochrome picture is asking a lot less to decipher from your brain. A full blast color 7 channel surround movie will exacerbate your brain functions so as to deal with all that complex, multi-layered information. A B&W mono sound movie just floats in, and relaxes you, while still being entertaining. On top of that, the stories are from a reality that is not our own in this day and age, so as we watch, it will feel a lot more like one of those stories mom or dad used to read to us before we went to bed.
The end result, is utter satisfaction, relaxation, and the discovery that these stories turn out to have a lot more in common with our lives that we expected, albeit far from the technological wizardry, and imbued in certain innocence that seems so distant from of our contemporary daily lives.
So, I hope you enjoy these popcorn Fridays.
This time it is Film Noir plus and old B movie serial.
Today we watch “BLACK FRIDAY”, a noir horror movie with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. After that, we follow with the detective mystery “CALLING PHILO VANCE” with James Stephenson as the famous detective. Both movies are from 1940.
Enjoy!
Until next time!
Ignacio
©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
This is another video from the same British series from which we saw, not long ago, a charming conversation with Bertrand Russell.
In this case it is the turn of another of today´s greater than life figures, Carl Gustav Jung. As many of you know, Jung -together with Freud- are the fathers of modern psychology.
Here, Professor Jung is interviewed at his home in Switzerland by John Freeman. So, before someone starts analyzing my comments…let´s go straight to the interview!
Until next time
Ignacio
©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
Ignacio Alperin Art
http://www.ignacioalperin.com
http://www.theartofthinkingoutloud.com
This is an excellent trio headed by gifted pianist Emmet Cohen, playing live at the Detroit Jazz Festival 2018
The Band:
Emmet Cohen (piano) – Russell Hall (bass) – Evan Sherman (drums)
And as an added bonus, a second live video below the Detroit Concert.
The second video, is just one song… but very much worth it. Recorded live without frills at his own home, this is Cohen´s trio (this time with Kyle Poole on drums) plus the voice of Cyrille Aimée singing La Vie En Rose.
Enjoy!
Until next time!
Ignacio
©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
I believe that in times like the present, where the pressures of the pandemic, plus our general economic hardships, added to the lockdowns that still exist around the world, there is nothing better than making a bit of popcorn on a Friday night and watching an old… a very old movie.
It can be in black and white or color, although, I love black and white and mono sound movies. They bring your brain down to a level of simplicity in terms of “processing power”, that is hard to beat.
For a start, the monochrome picture is asking a lot less to decipher from your brain. A full blast color 7 channel surround movie will exacerbate your brain functions so as to deal with all that complex, multi-layered information. A B&W mono sound movie just floats in, and relaxes you, while still being entertaining. On top of that, the stories are from a reality that is not our own in this day and age, so as we watch, it will feel a lot more like one of those stories mom or dad used to read to us before we went to bed.
The end result, is utter satisfaction, relaxation, and the discovery that these stories turn out to have a lot more in common with our lives that we expected, albeit far from the technological wizardry, and imbued in certain innocence that seems so distant from of our contemporary daily lives.
So, I hope you enjoy these -now and again- popcorn Fridays that we launch today.
This time it is a wonderful and lovely romantic comedy. “THE MORE THE MERRIER”, with Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and a favorite of mine, the great Charles Coburn. The movie is from 1943, right in the middle of WWII… yes, it is 82 years old and yet, many themes in the movie will feel right at home, as we find common ground in the issues we deal with today in this, our own world war against a little virus.
Enjoy!
Until next time!
Ignacio
©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
I selected this video a long time ago. For many reasons, mostly my own life pushing me to concentrate on other things, I have left it on the backburner all this time. Yet, it is not something to be kept there. It is a thoroughly enjoyable conversation with a man that possessed one of the most robust minds of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
He says the chat, which he tried to title as if it was a lecture (I think out of an excess of formality) should be called “80 years of changing beliefs and unchanging hopes”. A lovely title.
Another little detail which I find fascinating, because it mostly talks indirectly about how WE live our lives, is the fact that he recalls that his grandfather -the man who actually raised him- was born in the early years of the French revolution and lived through the reign of Napoleon.
Today, we see these facts as ancient history, yet we are watching an interview with someone who acts, momentarily, as a visible connector between what many consider the distant past, and our present time. An era so dedicated to looking at the future. To reaffirm this feeling, he talks with such modernity that, beyond his old fashion tone, he seems so much in the present.
I also say that it is a call to arms for our present time, not only because of the importance of applying the experience learned from the lessons lived (the French Revolution, Napoleon, Bismarck, Hitler, and so on), but also because we seem to gloss over so many facts that have so much power to enlighten us, and by treating them as being so ancient, we buy into the notion that these social tests of history may no longer apply.
Yet, here he is, talking about them as a lived experience. And it is the simple fact that we see him talking about them, the one that puts everything squarely in the now and make us think about how important all these lessons are, as well as how sad it is that we, as a culture, do not rely a bit more in our collective experience as a civilization. The constant repetition of mistakes should have sounded the alert long ago, and yet, here we are…muddling through similar turmoil as before.
One more thing that I find close to my heart is the lovely connection that he makes between mathematics and philosophy. I studied both and I always felt that philosophy, and particularly logic, was the expression of mathematics in words. The nice thing -at least for me- was that words, did not necessarily need to add up in the same way as numbers do, so I always found them more relaxing!
But enough contemplation, let´s watch Lord Russell and enjoy seeing him “think live”.
Until next time
Ignacio
©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
Ignacio Alperin Art
http://www.ignacioalperin.com
http://www.theartofthinkingoutloud.com
I remember buying Jazz records when I was a kid in Melbourne, going through the Monash University Record shop when I had no lectures, seeing if I could find something new. My whole life is a long quest about “finding something new”, I guess.
When I found something I had never heard before, I always used to look for the lineup to see who made up this band. If Steve Gadd was on drums, it would be a sign that these guys were probably very good. Chick Corea said of Mr. Gadd: “all the drummers want to play like Gadd because he reaches perfection”.
He has played with Simon and Garfunkel, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Joe Cocker, Grover Washington Jr., Chick Corea, Lee Ritenour, Frank Sinatra, Al Jarreau, Eric Clapton, Chet Baker, Michel Petrucciani, The Bee Gees, Michael McDonald and many others. In addition, he is the leader of his own band, with which he also won the 2019 Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album.
This was recorded at Jazz San Javier. I hope you enjoy one of the best drummers in the history of Jazz.
Lineup:
Steve Gadd (drums)
Kevin Hays (piano and keyboards)
David Spinozza (guitar)
Jimmy Johnson (bass)
Walt Fowler (flugelhorn and trumpet)
Enjoy!
Until next time!
Ignacio
©2021 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
IGNACIO ALPERIN: THE ART OF THINKING OUT LOUD / EL ARTE DE PENSAR EN VOZ ALTA 