Singer, composer and guitar player, Skip James recorded on Paramount label in the 1930’s, and disappeared for thirty years ! He only came back during the blues revival, in early 1960’s, still with his own...
Between 1955 and 1967, Reid Miles would become another key of the Blue Note success story. His artwork, his design letters, his view angles, coincided with the golden age of the legendary label… He signed...
What could be Blue Note without the presence of this sound engineer ? No doubt, his name, his sound, his touch, his studio located in Englewood Cliffs, are associated to the story of the magnificent...
1978. The Sensational Friendly Brothers of Tallulah, Louisiana, perform “Where Shall I Be (When the First Trumpet Sounds)” at the St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Canton, Mississippi. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and...
Based on the original Hanna-Barbera Space Ghost series, this cartoon was in the early 90s a light-hearted post dada manifesto. In this episode, Thurston Moore incarnates briefly the strange Fred Cracklin : a pretext to...
“A Cajun is a guy who doesn’t give a damm about anything. He lives on the bayou and in prairies.” In the early seventies, Jean-Pierre Bruneau shot the last survivors of this tradition, talking about...