Weegee’s Camera, Bergdorf Goodman, 2023
“…from ashes to Asch’s”
“Jazz Me Blues”; Stella Brooks; Joe Sullivan; Sidney Bechet; Frank Newton; George Brunies; George Wettling; Jack Lesberg; Tom Delaney; Disc (5031B); May 7, 1946
PM, April 16, 1946 (Unidentified Photographer)
“Parallel Fifths”; Frankie Newton and his Cafe Society Orchestra; Newton; Vocalion (5410); April 15, 1946
PM, 1946
Don Freemans’ Newsstand Finds Frankie Newton Practicing in the Furnace Room
Frankie Newton, considered by some people who should know, to be the greatest living trumpet player, had a busy day last week – it was a matter of going from ashes to Asch’s. I found him sitting in front of his apartment house on E. 17th Street… “Man,” he said, “you can’t beat this place for a joint to practice in. I could blast all night long and nobody would get wind of it.”…
PM, 1946
“The Onyx Hop”; Frankie Newton and his Uptown Serenaders; Frank Newton and Pete Brown; Frank Newton; Vocalion (v 3839); July 13, 1937
Weegee, Weegee’s People, 1946
A group of night club musicians, finished with their night’s work spread the word that a friendly superintendent would let them hold a ‘jam” session in the sub-basement of his building…
Weegee, Weegee’s People, 1946
“Frankie’s Jump”; Frank Newton & his Cafe Society Orchestra; Newton; Parlophone (R 2708); September 1939
Frank Newton (January 4, 1906 – March 11, 1954), born 117 years ago today…
Weegee’s “Naked City” Map
A map of where every photo in Weegee’s book “Naked City” was made.
A map of crime scenes, fires, circuses, tenements, and townhouses… a map of people sleeping, laughing, loving, dancing, dying… crowds in Coney Island, Times Square, Lower East Side, and Harlem… A map of the inhabitants of New York City (mostly during World War Two)… A map of some of the 8 million stories, the “beauty and ugliness,” the “real,” New York City…
The Wrong Man on Center Market Place
13 seconds of “The Wrong Man”… ending on Centre Market Place…
Screenshots, “The Wrong Man,” 1956
“To me a picture’s a picture…”
Shakedown, 1950, Screenshots
Shakedown, 1950, Directed by Joseph Pevney; Featuring: Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, etc., etc.
(A movie about a photographer who did not use a Ouija board:-)
“…And Not One Was Lost”
“Gotta Find My Baby”; Doctor Clayton; Joe Clayton; Bluebird (B-8901-B); Publication date: November 11, 1941
745 Moved to New Prison And Not One Was Lost
[$20,000,000 had the same buying power as $387,028,571 in October 2022.]
PM, November 11, 1941, p. 18
Waxy Gordon…
“Doctor Clayton Blues”; Doctor Clayton; Joe Clayton; Bluebird (B-8901-A); Publication date: November 11, 1941
“Burlesque… Bellevue Morgue”
“Take It Off The “E” String”; Peter Piper and his Orchestra; Cahn; Akst; Hit (7055); September 1943
PM, November 8, 1940, p.16
Burlesque… By Reginald Marsh
The Artist as Reporter
…Reginald Marsh [1898–1954], for this page, worked backstage at Harold Minsky’s [1915-1977] Gaiety, Broadway at 46th St…
PM, November 8, 1940, p.17
Bellevue Morgue By Frederick Castellon [1914–1971]
The artist-as-reporter in the house of death…
“…Vote Early and Often!”
PM, November 4, 1941
“This is the old tombs.”
“I’m a Prisoner”; Eddie Boyd and His Chess Men; E. Boyd; Chess (1606); 1955
PM, November 7, 1941 (Photos by Irving Haberman)
Prisoners Go to the New ‘Tombs’ Some Dark Night Soon – Shhh!
“Jail Bird”; Joe Mitchell; King Curtis; Monarch (MO-703)
“Murder by Suggestion”
“How About That Mess”; Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra; William Anderson; Decca (4099 A); Publication date: November 6, 1941
PM, November 6, 1941
Murder by Suggestion:
“Let Me Off Uptown”; Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra; Trevor Bacon; Earl Bostic; Redd Evans; Decca (4099 B); Publication date: November 6, 1941
Screenshots, “Ladies in Retirement,” 1941
Ladies in Retirement, 1941
PM, November 7, 1941 (By Louise Levitas)
Some Crackpot Ladies Make Murder
“That’s All”; Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra; Rosetta Tharpe; Decca (48057 A); Publication date: November 6, 1941
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