Why is bass/ tuba player Chink Martin holding a gun?
Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Red Norvo, Slim Gaillard, Adrian Rollini, Lester Young, Big Jay McNeely, Bunny Berrigan, Harry James, Bill Haley, Spade Cooley, Bob Wills, Hank Penny, Boyd Bennett, Ben Webster, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Ray Noble, Lew Stone, Nat Gonella, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Big Joe Turner, Louis Armstrong, Abe Schwartz, Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grapelli, Ray Collins Hot Club, The Jive Aces, Indigo Swing, Royal Crown Revue, Billie Holiday, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford, Lucky Millinder, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Wynonie Harris, Paul Whiteman, Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys, Bing Crosby, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Lee Wiley, The Doors and Bob Dylan (Thanks to Tom and Frankie), The Du Droppers, Frankie Lymon, Bennie Moten, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, Buena Vista Social Club, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Charlie Ventura, Tiny Grimes, Tiny Bradshaw, Louis Jordan, Billy Lee Riley, Sonny Burgess, Zeb Turner, Louis Prima, Flip Philips, Vic Berton, Will Bradley, The Carter Family, Tito Puente, Xavier Cugat, Joe Loss, Freddy Gardner, Ken “Snakehips†Johnson and his West Indian Dance Orchestra, Red Nichols, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Chick Webb, Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwein and many, many more….
Rififi, The Third Man, Odd Man Out, Our Man In Havana, Touch of Evil, On Dangerous Ground, Detective Story, Brighton Rock, The Wild One, Rear Window, The Killing, Killer’s Kiss, Dark Passage, M, The Cabinet of Dr Callagari, The Three Penny Opera, New York, New York, Strike, Oldboy, The 39 Steps, The Lodger, Kiss Me Deadly, Downfall, Little Odessa, Dr Mabuse, The Testament of Dr Mabuse, Shoot the Pianist, Bout De Sourie (Breathless), On The Waterfront, Guys and Dolls, Dead Men’s Shoes, Taxi Driver, Casino, Raging Bull, The Longest Day, Citizen Kane, To Have and to Have Not, The Harder They Fall, The Big Sleep, Stray Dog, Goodfellas, The Godfather 1 & 2, and many, many more…..
The Simpsons, Family Guy, Father Ted, The Sopranos, Brasseye, Black Books, The Day Today, Dad’s Army, Dragnet.
Anything by Kafka, Camus, James Ellroy, Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler, Graham Green, Dashiel Hammet and anything about Fascism or Communism.
Gene Krupa, Orson Welles, Marlon Brando, Eddie Nichols, Franz Kafka, Slim Gaillard, Bud Freeman, Bing Crosby, Chas “Tiny†Winters, Bix Beiderbecke, Ray Collins, Billy Jack Wills, Harry Carney, Django Reinhardt, Tom Waits, Nat Gonella, Adrian Rollini and probably many, many, many more….