Tag: 1960s
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Had Dark Purpose been an hour-long TV episode, it would have delivered. But as a film it can’t sustain the momentum, and Shirley Jones, while acceptable, isn’t dynamic enough to make us… more ›
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There’s who you’ve heard. There’s who you’ve heard of. And then there’s the rest. Small, local, and one-off bands who maybe cut a 45, maybe survived for a while as… more ›
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Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Duke Ellington are in a studio together. That sounds like the set-up for a particularly intense one-set drama a la Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom or One Night in… more ›
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For fans of lounge music, cocktail jazz fusion, exotica, and pop that occupies a dreamy space between psychedelia and easy listening, Conversations With The Silhouettes is an absolute gem waiting to be… more ›
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Outside of official James Bond film scores, there was a lucrative cash-in industry of record labels releasing Bond and spy-themed albums not connected to any actual movie—at least not officially. more ›
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In the late 1960s, pretty much every studio arranger was putting together an album of baroque pop influenced by Sgt. Pepper. Some were good. Some, less so. A lot of them… more ›
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Shaggy-haired young author Adam Diment created one of the swingingest spies of the 1960s, the counter-culture answer to James Bond. And then he vanished. more ›
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Private dick Rod Striker navigates a chaotic mix of threats and romantic entanglements while trying to get some mooks off a society dame’s back. more ›
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Robert Colby’s “The Star Trap” is a fast-paced hardboiled detective novel featuring Glenn Harley, an actor drawn into blackmail and murder, navigating Hollywood’s seedy underbelly. more ›
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Kingsley Amis, inspired by a vacation to Greece, continued Ian Fleming’s legacy with “Colonel Sun,” a James Bond novel blending Fleming’s style with modern political undertones. more ›
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Leipzig-born pianist Jutta Hipp may seem an odd artist to be the first woman signed to Blue Note, but it reflects the Eastern European roots of the label’s founders. more ›
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The In-Keepers, a studio band led by Ray Davies, released this groovy 1968 album blending baroque pop and light psychedelia. more ›
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