Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 4hGood night, Bluesky George Hirose Closing Time, Ueno, Tokyo, 2017 072
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 7hMy review of a new album of music for recorder & basso continuo by Robert Valentine, a composer from Leicester. several-instruments.blogspot.com/2026/10/baro... 050
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 12hI'm not sure that it is. Horvat is doing some interesting processing to these shots. Not sure if he used Photoshop, but Horvat was an early adopter of digital photography. At least some of these animal shots started with photos he took at the Zoological Gardens in 1993. 010
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13hCelebrate the Karl Richter Centennial 🎂💯 📷 Jeremy Fletcher, London, 1973 “Musical truth for Richter is about the intense and direct projection of the text as he reads it.” - Jonathan Freeman-Attwood www.youtube.com/watch?v=13NF... 010
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13hShoutout to David Levine. I've already posted three of his caricatures today; here's a fourth, of Italo Calvino. 172
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 16hIt must have been Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Day at the thrift shop this week. I found two LPs of women composers, plus two discs from Columbia’s Black Composers Series. So pleased to add this wonderful music to my collection. 011
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hC. P. Snow by Arnold Newman London, 1966 "Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska – sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within." - Francis King Ouch! 010
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hBert Stern Sir Charles and Lady Snow (aka C. P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson) Vogue, 1961 010
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hC. P. Snow by Nicolas Clerihew Bentley pen and ink, published 1964 "Although not to the Establishment born, he adapted to it after his fashion; and it, in turn, adopted him after its fashion." - Alden Whitman 122
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hRemembering C. P. Snow on his birthday 🎂 📷 Paul Joyce, 1977 "When you think of the long & gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, & far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." 1117
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hHolland House was badly damaged during the Blitz, but the Dutch Garden remains. One can imagine walking through the background of Tissot's painting today. I have fond memories of walking here with Dixie 💔 📷 Richard Thomas, Wikimedia Commons, 2006 020
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hJames Tissot's The Letter, c. 1878 National Gallery of Canada Tissot often used real locations as settings for his paintings. The Letter is set in the Dutch Garden at Holland House, near Kensington Palace. 130
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hJames Tissot October, 1877 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal "Tissot presents her youthful charm in such a surprisingly intimate close-up composition for a monumental painting – over 7 feet tall and 3 ½ feet wide – that it overwhelms the viewer with a sense of vitality." - Lucy Paquette 172
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hJames Tissot A wonderful portrait by Edgar Degas, 1867–68 "In Paris he found success and social connections. He was trained by former students of Ingres along with Degas, who became a close friend, and met Whistler while copying an Ingres at the Musée du Luxembourg." - Bridget Alsdorf 141
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hJames Tissot Ramsgate A spectacular late drawing (around the turn of the century) in the Musée des beaux-arts in Nantes 131
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hJames Tissot A Civic Procession Descending Ludgate Hill, London, 1879 Guildhall Art Gallery How marvellous! 150
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hCoffee with James Tissot ☕️ Morning, 1886 Metropolitan Museum of Art "There is something of the human soul in his work and that is why he is great, immense, infinite…" - Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo 150
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17hRemembering James Tissot on his birthday 🎂 Self-portrait, c. 1865 De Young Museum John Russell calls this self-portrait "debonair but slightly shifty". 2219
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Good night, Bluesky, & pleasant dreams William Steig New Yorker November 1, 1969 0112
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026On Pharoah Sanders' birthday, I'm listening to his 1969 album Jewels of Thought, with a great Chuck Stewart photo on the cover. Leon Thomas, vocals Lonnie Liston Smith, piano Cecil McBee & Richard Davis, bass Idris Muhammad & Roy Haynes, drums www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBzQ... 040
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026John Coltrane with Pharoah Sanders 📷 Chuck Stewart, 1966 "I loved being around him because I don’t talk that much, either. It was just good vibes between us both. We were just very quiet." - JC www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gio8... 182
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Pharoah Sanders by Christian Weber, 2020 What do you listen to these days? I haven’t been listening to anybody. I listen to things that maybe some guys don’t. I listen to the waves of the water. Train coming down. Or I listen to an airplane taking off. newyorker.com/culture/the-... 151
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Remembering Pharoah Sanders on his birthday 🎂 📷 Tom Copi, 1970 "The whole musical persona of Pharoah Sanders is of a consciousness in conscious search of a higher consciousness." - Amiri Baraka www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii63... 1235
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Here's the Pommery Champagne ad as it appeared in magazines. 030
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Frank Horvat "Martha Argerich: Divine mais pas Diva..." 1982, SONY MAGAZINE, France 073
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Listening to Korngold & Zemlinsky played by the splendidly named Stefan Zweig Trio, who "seek to show their affinity to the longstanding Viennese musical tradition as well as to the characteristic & deeply emotional work of Stefan Zweig." The cover is by Anja Hoppe. album.link/y/OLAK5uy_l7... 041
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Good night, Bluesky, & pleasant dreams! William Steig New Yorker October 31st, 1959 1266
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Frank Horvat Wolf-fox, from Horvat's Bestiary, 1994 This is a Maned Wolf, native to South America. 141
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Another Herman Leonard photo of Ray Brown on the cover of the 1958 album This Is Ray Brown, from Verve. With Osie Johnson on drums, Jerome Richardson on flute; Herb Ellis on guitar & Oscar Peterson on piano & organ. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 020
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026One of the greatest musical partnerships in jazz is Oscar Peterson & Ray Brown. They worked in trios over many years together, along with guitarists Barney Kessel & Ray Ellis, & then drummer Ed Thigpen. A great photo by K. Abe, from sometime in the 1970s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G28y... 120
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Celebrate the Ray Brown Centennial 🎂💯 📷 Herman Leonard, 1948 "His notes are shapely -- fat and round and well-defined -- and his rhythm is so propelling that on up-tempo pieces his eighth-notes are always blowing wind into the music." - Ben Ratliff www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yvs... 2155
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026We were talking the other day about Strangers on a Train; I said Walker & Granger swapping roles wouldn't work at all. But here's a shot of Robert Walker with a tennis racket. He would have been fine as Guy, but Hitch would've had to work hard with Granger to make us believe his Bruno. 030
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Robert Walker as Johannes Brahms eyes the pretty neck of Katharine Hepburn (Clara Schumann), as Paul Henreid (Robert Schumann) looks on, in Clarence Brown's Song of Love, 1947. Four years later, his turn as Bruno Antony in Strangers on a Train. 260
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Remembering Robert Walker on his birthday 🎂 With Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train 📷 Durward Graybill, 1951 Walker is wonderful as one of the cinema's great charming bad guys. Here exchanging small talk - and murders - with Granger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChBS... 1141
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The Genius of Art Tatum, 1954 A great David Stone Martin cover illustration & three Phil Stern photos. “Yesterdays” www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0QD... 030
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Good night, Bluesky George Hirose Incline, Quebec City, 2006 From Canada (Night series) 0132
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Another great shot by one of the best on-set still photographers, Raymond Voinquel. Yves Montand in Les Portes de la Nuit. 040
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Raymond Voinquel Yves Montand & Nathalie Nattier in Marcel Carné’s Les Portes de la Nuit, 1946 180
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Frank Horvat Sumatran rhinoceros, from Horvat's Bestiary, 1994 130
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Good night, Bluesky George Hirose Full Moon and Window Provincetown, Mass., 2005 0161
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Tom Thomson Autumn, Algonquin Park, 1916 Art Gallery of Ontario 0192
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Frank Horvat 1984, New York, father and son in the subway From his series New York Up & Down 0124
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Frank Horvat 1984, New York, women in a cafeteria From his series New York Up & Down 1123
Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Frank Horvat 1984, New York, balloons in the subway From his series New York Up & Down 181