# Nick Nolte, Hugh Masekela and Ketty Lester: Videos, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/03/12/nick-nolte-hugh-masekela-and-ketty-lester-videos-photos/
- Published: 2018-03-12T10:38:30+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**In The Wall Street Journal this week, he interviewed actor Nick Nolte on growing
up in Iowa, the pills his mom gave him when he felt too tired to get up for school,
why he almost wound up banned from high school football, the turning point that 
led him to become an actor and the house he lives in today in Malibu that he built
around a sycamore tree. Nick has a new memoir out, Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines.**

**[⌊Joely-fisher-1⌉⌊Joely-fisher-1⌉[
 Also in the _WSJ,_
 I interviewed Joely Fisher
on her father, singer Eddie Fisher, and why Kate Bush’s _The Man With the Child 
in His Eyes_ helped ease her frustration with the man she wishes were more like 
her daddy. Joely’s mom is Connie Stevens.

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 **Spotted in England**, my book, _Anatomy of a Song,_ at
a Waterstones book shop in Cheltenham, courtesy of Colin Goodall. Can’t make it 
to a book store? To buy in the U.S. In the U.K., My next _WSJ_ “Anatomy of a Song”
column will be up online on Monday and in Tuesday’s paper. Hint: It’s a song that
was in the Top 20 as a duet and three years later was #1 as a solo recording.

**[⌊618X2ptUCwL⌉⌊618X2ptUCwL⌉[
 Back in 2013,
 Bret Primack interviewed me for a
series of videos he was producing for Prestige in support of the label’s anniversary.
I totally forgot about it until the video wound up on my Facebook timeline. It is…

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 **Hugh Masekela (1939-2018),** a masterful South
African jazz trumpeter whose _Grazing in the Grass_ instrumental was a #1 Billboard
pop hit in the States in 1968, died on January 23. He was 78. I interviewed Hugh
for the _WSJ_ in 2014 about Louis Armstrong’s _When It’s Sleepy Time Down South_.
Hugh struck me as a gentle, thoughtful man who thoroughly loved jazz and never forgot
Pops for giving him one of his horns and the jazz spirit (photo above of Hugh Masekela
by Bruno Vasil in 2013). Hugh’s _Grazing in the Grass_…

Friends of Distinction’s cover of the song released a year later in 1969…

**Albums you should dig.**

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 Soho Scene ’63
 _(Rhythm and 
Blues Records) is the fourth double-CD in a terrific series on British jazz in the
early 1960s. Compiled by Nick Duckett, the first CD features Brit jazzers such as
Alan Elsdon’s Band, Johnny Hawksworth Trio, Dave Lee and Ronnie Ross, among others.
On the second CD are influential tracks by American artists such as the Chris Columbo
Quintet, Billy Mitchell, Dave Pike, Jack Wilson and Eddie Baccus, to name a few.
Forty-nine tracks in all, plus a 24-page booklet by Simon Spillett.

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 Ohio Players: The Definitive 
Collection
 _(Robinsongs). This funk-disco band from Dayton, Ohio, had seven major
hits in the States in the 1970s and were notable for their suggestive, glossy album
covers. Hits included _Skin Tight, Fire_ and _Love Rollercoaster_. This three-CD
set showcases their early years, the golden years and later and solo years.

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 Dave Bartholomew: Jump Children!
_(
Jasmine). New Orleans trumpeter Dave Bartholomew is best known as the bandleader
and arranger behind Fats Domino’s success. But Dave also recorded as a leader. This
two-CD set remasters Dave’s Imperial singles plus additional singles between 1950
and 1962. If Fats was one of rock ‘n’ roll’s fathers, Dave was its first arranger.
Notes by Bob Fisher. Back in 2010, I had a gumbo lunch with Dave in New Orleans 
at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant. I must transcribe my tape. For the album.

**[⌊41wwzYhe1TL⌉⌊41wwzYhe1TL⌉[
 Update.
 Last week, I told you about three MPS albums
that were recently remastered for CD. I now have a link from MPS to Mark Murphy’s
_Midnight Mood_. Here again are all three with links to Amazon… _In Tune: The Oscar
Peterson Trio and the Singers Unlimited_ (1971), _Monty Alexander: Here Comes the
Sun_ (1971) and _Mark Murphy: Midnight Mood_ (1968).

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 Roy Eldridge
radio.
 WKCR-FM will present its annual “Roy Eldridge Birthday Broadcast” on Tuesday,
January 30, celebrating the legacy and career of the trumpet virtuoso by playing
his music for 24 hours, on Tuesday at midnight (EST).

**What the heck**. Ketty Lester singing _Love Letters_ in 1961…

**Oddball album cover of the week.**

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 Short of the sound of someone purging, it’s hard
to imagine what audio would help you develop a dislike for fattening foods—”without
the need for will power!” And according to the cover, your only role is to “watch
the pounds melt away.” The followup was probably _Never Age._ “Helps time stand 
still as friends grow old. Watch as gray hair turns black and old jeans fit perfectly
as you listen.”

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