Dick Long

Achab, capitaine d'un baleinier, n'a pas oublié sa première rencontre avec Moby Dick. Son corps en porte les traces, son esprit aussi d'ailleurs. Il n'a qu'une idée, retrouver la baleine blanche. Cet acharnement passionné va mettre en péril son équipage. Réalisée par John Huston sur un scénario de l'écrivain Ray Bradbury, on y voit Gregory Peck dans le rôle de l'inquiétant capitaine Achab, et Orson Welles inoubliable dans le second rôle de Mapple. Cinq années de préparation furent nécessaire avant de porter ce chef-d'œuvre à l'écran. This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick.

Not since the days of the teenaged Tubby Hayes had the UK jazz scene witnessed a young musician with so frighteningly advanced a talent as Dick Morrissey. By 1961, aged twenty, he had recorded his début album It’s Morrissey, Man! for Fontana and he soon found himself a popular draw in London’s club land. Recordings for radio broadcast ensured the band’s message reached a wider audience. Taped for the series “Jazz For Moderns", the previously unreleased sessions heard on this new album are especially valuable.