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David Lynch’s Influence on Kubrick’s The Shining
“Among Eraserhead’s many admirers was none other than Stanley Kubrick, who appropriated a great deal from Lynch’s film for his own horror masterpiece, 1980’s The Shining. The latter uses the same...
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Avant-Garde Art Magazines (1960s and 1970s)
“This week, Open Culture reported that all 16 issues of Avant Garde magazine, published between 1968 and 1971 by editor Ralph Ginzburg and art director Herb Lubalin, is now available digitally....
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John Coltrane: Becoming “a force for good”
“I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be...
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Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities
Call for Papers for a conference to be held in Vienna, 29 September–1 October 2016. Source: British Association for Modernist Studies.Filed under: Art, Call for Papers, Conferences, Events, Feminism,...
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Blue Note Records: The Covers
Filed under: Art, Graphic Design, History, Jazz, Music, Photography, Video Tagged: 20th Century, 21st Century, Blue Note Records, Francis Wolff, John Coltrane, Reid Miles
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David Bowie’s Private Art Collection
David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth (dir. Nicholas Roeg, 1976) While it is no secret that the chameoleon popstar was a great admirer of contemporary art, and indeed an...
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Sofia Coppola’s First Works (1993-1998)
Sofia Coppola behind the camera The Directors Series begins reviewing the work of American filmmaker Sofia Coppola, taking stock of her early acting career and first forays into the world of directing....
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RhysTranter.com reaches over 10k Subscribers!
RhysTranter.com now has over 10,500 subscribers A big thank you to everyone that has read, shared, and engaged with the site so far. I really appreciate your continuing enthusiasm and support. If you...
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John Coltrane died 49 years ago today
“I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.” — John Coltrane Recommended Records A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) Blue Train (Blue Note, 1958) Giant Steps...
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The Age of Bowie
David Bowie Barney Hoskyns (The Guardian) reviews a new biography entitled The Age of Bowie: How David Bowie Made a World of Difference. The book is written by former NME journalist Paul Morley, a...
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When Jazz Great Dizzy Gillespie ran for President
It’s a little known fact that bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie actually ran for president of the United States back in 1964: “What began as one of Dizzy’s famous practical jokes, and a way to raise...
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Teju Cole’s Favourite Records
Teju Cole “I think the big musical moment happened for me in my second year of college, after I went to the US. That was when I really got into both jazz and classical, at the same time. I was amazed...
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Miles Davis Quintet: A New Box-Set
Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter “The Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s has long been praised as one of the most advanced small groups in jazz history, and anyone seeking to test the claim can choose from...
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Paying Tribute to Rudy Van Gelder, Jazz Icon
The most important sound engineer in jazz history has died, aged 91 If you’ve ever heard a jazz record, chances are you’ve heard the work of Rudy Van Gelder. But you wouldn’t have heard him playing the...
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Weekly Round-Up (29 August 2016)
Curating some of the best recent links across literature, philosophy, and the arts This is the first in a new weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that...
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A Guide to David Bowie’s Favourite Books
A glimpse into the singer’s lifelong pastime, and the texts that shaped his identity Bowie pictured with American writer William S. Burroughs, whose ‘cut-up method’ was adopted during the writing of...
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Weekly Round-Up (5 Sept 2016)
Curating some of the best recent links across literature, philosophy, and the arts This is the second in a new weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that...
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Q&A | Brian Eno: Oblique Music
To mark the release of Brian Eno: Oblique Music, a new collection of essays celebrating the musician’s life and work, I talk to the editors about their shared obsession You previously collaborated on a...
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50th Anniversary: Ornette Coleman’s The Empty Foxhole
Revisiting the jazz innovator’s much overlooked minor classic Ornette Coleman with his saxophone during a rehearsal for The Empty Foxhole, September 1966. Photograph: Francis Wolff. Ornette Coleman‘s...
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Weekly Round-Up (12 Sept 2016)
Curating some of the best recent links across literature, philosophy, and the arts This is the third in a new weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that...
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