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A late-night playlist from Mrs. T’s personal DJ

September 30, 2015 by Terry Teachout

I was playing records for Mrs. T in our hotel room late last night. She claimed to be more than usually pleased by my eclectic playlist, so I thought I’d share it with you as well:

• Johnny Hodges, “Castle Rock”

• Lucinda Williams, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”

Unknown• Mabel Mercer, “The Best Is Yet to Come”

• Pete Steele, “Coal Creek March”

• Brahms Waltzes, Op. 39 (played by Nadia Boulanger and Dinu Lipatti)

• Dave Dudley, “Six Days on the Road”

• The Dominoes, “Sixty Minute Man”

• Dave Frishberg, “Slappin’ the Cakes on Me”

• The Sons of the Pioneers, “Cool Water”

• Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, “Cherry Red”

• James P. Johnson, “Caprice Rag”

• Stan Getz and Chick Corea, “Captain Marvel”

• Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “Up Above My Head”

national-portrait-gallery• Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo: Si come nella penna (performed by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten)

• Charles Trenet, “La Mer”

• Bill Stepp, “Bonaparte’s Retreat”

• John Scofield with Medeski, Martin & Wood, “Boozer”

• Chopin Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 42 (played by Josef Hofmann)

• The Louvin Brothers, “Cash on the Barrelhead”

• Chabrier Villanelle des petits canards (performed by Pierre Bernac and Francis Poulenc)

• Frank Sinatra and the Hollywood String Quartet, “Close to You”

• Robert Johnson, “Come On in My Kitchen”

Snapshot: Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in 1965

September 30, 2015 by Terry Teachout

TV CAMERAFrank Sinatra and Count Basie perform “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Please Be Kind,” “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Everybody Has a Right to Be Wrong,” and “The Gal That Got Away” on The Hollywood Palace, originally telecast on ABC on October 16, 1965. The conductor is Quincy Jones:

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

Almanac: Sybille Bedford on youthful ignorance

September 30, 2015 by Terry Teachout

INK BOTTLE“You see, when one’s young one doesn’t feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not ‘for good’; one thinks everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.”

Sybille Bedford, A Compass Error

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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