jazz Archives - Desperate Living

A vital and varied collection of salacious, sinister and silly trad-jazz tunes from the legendary raconteur.

A stiff-lipped melodrama in which the famed musician becomes chummy with a small boy – it was a more innocent time in 1965.

Our crime movie month continues with a look at Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s unique Polish interpretation of the Hitchcockian rail thriller.

Sex, crime and double-crosses galore in the classic 1994 neo-noir.

The industrial jazz-noir from the drummer of Gallon Drunk and Big Sexy Noise.

the jazz noir of Las Vegas’ premier lounge lizard.

The incredible and stylish 1920s art nouveau magazine covers of Brazil’s José Carlos de Brito e Cunha.