Teasing the Korean Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 (edited) MSNBC has a reporter named Vaughn Hilliard. Doesn't that sound like a guy in Ellington's band? I can just hear Duke's voice on the Newport '56 album: "Ray Nance...Russell Procope...Vaughn Hilliard..." Edited August 21, 2021 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said: "Ray Nance...Russell Procope...Vaughn Hiliard..." It does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Dale Turner? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 4 minutes ago, BillF said: Dale Turner? I dunno, that name may sound more like a co-star on 77 Sunset Strip or Hawaiian Eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 4 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said: I dunno, that name may sound more like a co-star on 77 Sunset Strip or Hawaiian Eye. Film director Bernard Tavernier must have thought it sounded like a jazz guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Midnight_(film) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 3 minutes ago, BillF said: Film director Bernard Tavernier must have thought it sounded like a jazz guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Midnight_(film) Well, you got me there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 (edited) Casey Kasem (I picture him on vibes) Yogi Berra (a little known bass player, but he frequently gigged with Buzzy Drootin back in the day and it was tough to top the rhythm team of Buzzy and Yogi) Edited August 21, 2021 by duaneiac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Ted Mack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Okay -- we all know everybody's thinking it, so I'm just going to go ahead and put it out there: Marsalis (kidding, kidding, we kid because we love) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Chet Huntley Chester A. Arthur Blu Moon Odom Catfish Hunter Reggie Jackson Lester Holt (actually does play bass!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Kirby Puckett (this Toledo based trombonist is perhaps best known for having played -- but never recorded -- with the Kenton band in 1953/4) Jerry Mahoney (a popular clarinetist whose boyish good looks helped land him the spot as the leader of the house band of the popular mob-controlled Hollywood nightspot, El Cuspidor, in the late 1930s) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Curly Howard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 Topper Headon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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duaneiac Posted August 21, 2021 Report Share Posted August 21, 2021 (edited) Marjorie Taylor Greene (the famous "Hotsy Totsy Gal From Harlem" -- title of her famous 1938 hit -- who some called the "female Art Tatum", which was not as appreciated as one might think since it was a comment on her physical resemblance to the piano legend and not her own musical abilities on her beloved sarrussophone) Lou Grant (this Hammond B-3 master spent most of his career in his hometown of Dallas, but his music has gained a cult following thanks to his funky 1966 hit, "Chitlins and Chop Suey") Thurston Howell III (this trombonist's career was cut tragically short by a freak car accident -- even though people had warned him not to get in that car with that freak -- but not before he recorded his magnum opus, Howl By Howell, his musical presentation of the Allen Ginsberg classic) Edited August 22, 2021 by duaneiac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Buddy Sorrell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Garrett Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Oil Can Boyd Cool Papa Bell Shoeless Joe Jackson Three Finger Brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 (edited) Some circa 1970 sportsmen: Leron Lee Scipio Spinks Warren Jabali Joe Pepitone Carmen Fanzone - he was a jazz guy! Cliff Pondexter (a little later) Edited August 22, 2021 by T.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Mack Davis Theo Huxtable Buddy Hackett Gene Scott Leon Panetta Walter Johnson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Most critics consider pianist Wilt Chamberlain's "classic" trio to be the 1965-67 group with bassist Jimmy Connors and drummer Cleavon Little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Little Ricky Ricardo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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duaneiac Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Trumpeter Spuds Mackenzie was part of Chicago's famed "Austin High Gang", but he unfortunately died at the age of 22 in a freak boating accident -- even though people warned him not to go boating with that freak. Percussionist Luis Tiant went from being a member of Tito Puente's band to fronting his own popular Latin jazz group before he unfortunately died at the age of 28 in a freak training accident -- even though people warned him not to train that freak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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