# With saxophonist Ornette Coleman and cornetist Bix Beiderbecke: Video, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/03/05/with-saxophonist-ornette-coleman-and-cornetist-bix-beiderbecke-video-photos/
- Published: 2018-03-05T18:21:58+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**This week in _The Wall Street Journal,_ I interviewed Joan Baez for my “House 
Call” column on growing up in multiple locations around the country. Her father 
was completing his studies in physics and took various university jobs as he wrestled
with his conscience. **

Through the interview, you get a clear sense of the events that shaped Joan as the
first major solo female protest singer in the post-Elvis age. Before Joni, Judy,
Laura, Carly and all the rest, there was Joan in 1959. Joan has a new album out,
Whistle Down the Wind. Here’s Joan in concert in 1965…

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in the _WSJ_, my “Anatomy of a Song” column for the Life & Arts pages on the Pet
Shop Boys’ _Being Boring__._ The 1990 song was never a pop hit in the States, though
it did reach #10 on the Billboard dance chart. What makes the song important is 
its heavy use of analog synthesizers, its influence on electronic dance music and
the folk quality of its narrative. As the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant told me, it
was an elegy to a friend who had died of AIDS. If you’re a Pet Shop Boys fan, all
of their albums are being re-issued with remixes from Parlophone. Several are out
already with more to come. The official _Being Boring_ video directed by Bruce Weber…

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finally, I interviewed actress, comedian and director Whitney Cummings on Mary Chapin
Carpenter’s _He Thinks He’ll Keep Her_and the song’s impact on her own life growing
up. [Photo above of Whitney Cummings courtesy of Twitter]

A trailer for Whitney’s new insanely funny film, _The Female Brain,_ in theaters
now…

⌊0888072359734xr⌉⌊0888072359734xr⌉Ornette and Bix radio. Unfamiliar with saxophonist
Ornette Coleman and cornetist Bix Beiderbecke? You’re in luck. WKCR-FM in New York
will present its annual Ornette Coleman and Bix Beiderbecke Birthday Broadcasts 
back to back on March 9 and 10—for 24 hours each day. To access the radio marathon
on your computer or phone from anywhere in the world.

![JOANB_Vol1](http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f0883401b8d2de8063970c-
500wi)

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David Clayton Thomas with Blood Sweat & Tears in 1971 singing _You’ve Made Me So
Very Happy…__

**Oddball album cover of the week.**

![Cf6d39377a3163875f3bde0da3be6ea8--nancy-walker-nancy-dellolio](http://marcmyers.
typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f0883401bb09f779c2970d-500wi)

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