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In this week's Wall Street Journal, I interviewed Padma Lakshmi, host of TV's Top Chef. I've always been curious about her Indian heritage, and I finally had a chance to ask her about it for the Mansion section's "House Call" column. I found Padma to be gracious, polite and refreshingly open. To read my "House Call" with Padma, go here. [Photo above of Padma Lakshmi at the Park restaurant in Manhattan by Lucy Schaeffer for The Wall Street Journal]
Also in the WSJ, my preview of Silence, the On Kawara retrospective that opens at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Feb. 6. In the mid-1960s, Kawara helped pioneer conceptualism, the art movement that disposed of formal painting and sculpting and used installations and projects to convey ideas and concepts. For example, Kawara's "I Got Up" series included thousands of tourist post cards that he mailed off to friends and people he met in his travels over a 10-year period. On the backs, the words "I Got Up At" are meticulously rubber-stamped along with the time he slipped out of bed that day. The concept is the art—the mapping of time, in this case, and sharing it with everyone who came in contact with the card. You're moved by the work in a different way and forced to think. Go here.
Lastly, I interviewed memoirist Kelly Corrigan (Glitter and Glue) on her favorite song—Shawn Colvin's Shotgun Down the Avalanche. When Kelly graduated from college in 1992, she decided to buy a ticket to Australia in an effort to become "interesting." Mission accomplished. Go here.
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Carol Kaye was one of the guitarists and bass players in the so-called Wrecking Crew, a band of Los Angeles studio musicians who recorded routinely on many of the hit records of the 1960s. Here are two video clips. Her comments on jazz in the first one are particularly interesting:
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Glenn Campbell also was a member of the Wrecking Crew. Here, in a clip from Session Men, a 2004 documentary, director Gil Baker attempts to play Wichita Lineman and then asks Glen Campbell to show him how it's done. They don't come much cooler than Campbell. Here's how it all played out...
Doug Ramsey of Rifftides has a lovely post on Dick Vartanian, a San Francisco trumpeter who at age 90 just published his memoir. Go here.
Art Pepper. In the wake of my post on Art Pepper's post-prison free-jazz experiments in the 1960s, saxophonist Bill Kirchner sent along an email. Here's part of his note:
"On YouTube, I found the first of only two albums by Pepper's San Quentin colleague Earl Anderza, a good Parker/McLean player"...
Used with permission by Marc Myers
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