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Who was George Crater?


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Interesting post which takes me back a lot of years.

I remember reading some of his stuff in Downbeat and maybe Jazz Review back in the 60s.  Some of it was pretty funny.   I thought Crater was pseudonym but never thought much about it.  Now I know.

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13 hours ago, BillF said:

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A favorite album with me and my jazz loving friends c.1960.

Ed Sherman had clearly listened to Lenny Bruce, another favorite of ours.

I have the LP too, but hardly ever listen. I guess that it would be a good one to play for jazz loving friends, as you say. To me, Ed Sherman comes off as a jazz-influenced minor league Lenny Bruce. I assume that George Crater was a takeoff on Judge Crater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater

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2 hours ago, paul secor said:

I have the LP too, but hardly ever listen. I guess that it would be a good one to play for jazz loving friends, as you say. To me, Ed Sherman comes off as a jazz-influenced minor league Lenny Bruce. I assume that George Crater was a takeoff on Judge Crater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater

I hadn't heard of Judge Crater. A fascinating read!

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2 hours ago, BillF said:

I hadn't heard of Judge Crater. A fascinating read!

I included the link because I thought that most overseas members wouldn't be familiar with his legend - as well as most U.S. members under the age of 50 or so.

21 hours ago, Hardbopjazz said:

I've never heard of him before. And what exactly is a jazz humorist? I sure wish I was at this concert. The best seats were 5 dollars. I've guess this had to be from the early 1960's.

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By the way, that was quite a New Year's Eve bill.

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