Take 2 min. to Help a Student & Monterey Jazz Festival

[Guest]

Hey jazz fans! I am a business student who is trying to help the Monterey Jazz Festival for a class project. Please help me out by answering the following question:

What memorabilia/souvenirs/gifts would you want to buy at the Monterey Jazz Festival or from the festival’s website, www.montereyjazzfestival.org?

You can see what the Monterey Jazz Festival already offers (and what it is missing) at www.montereyjazzfestival.org, but be creative and tell me what YOU would want (i.e. clothing, music, accessories, instruments). Tell me what YOU think is the perfect jazz souvenir/gift.

THANK YOU for your help!!!!

-Adam W.

MBA, Monterey Institute of International Studies

amw46byu @ msn.com

[JSngry]

Eartha Kitt naked and horny 30-40 years ago.

I'd pay good money for that souvenir.

Other than that, the album of previously unreleased festival performances from a few years ago was pretty nifty. Got any more?

Edited March 1, 2006 by JSngry

[Dmitry]

What memorabilia/souvenirs/gifts would you want to buy at the Monterey Jazz Festival or from the festival’s website, www.montereyjazzfestival.org?

I see they're selling the exact replica of the butcher knife that was used in slashing Clint Eastwood's character in Play Misty For Me.

That's pretty cool!

[Guest Chaney]

I'd like a recording -- mixing board and not recorded from the crowd -- of:

JULY 4, 1965 NEWPORT

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

It is 20 years since Sinatra toured with a band. Then,

the band was Tommy Dorsey's, and the style was smooth

and sweet; squealing teen-agers swooned in the aisles. Since

then, there has been hot jazz, cool jazz, and most lately, rock

'n' roll. Frankie felt kind of out of it all. He even turned to character

acting.

So last week Frankie went back to the hustings. His first target

was the jazz fans[rock 'n' rollers are clearly beyond his or anyone

else's ken], and his schedule includes appearances at Forest Hills,

Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit. His choice for drop was that citadel

of jazz purists, the Newport Jazz Festival. The assault was conduct-

ed in the new manner to which Sinatra has become accustomed.

7:51 p.m. :The baby-blue heliocopter chopped through the warm, clear

sky. Beards wagged and stretch pants stretched. Is it or isn't it? It was.

Without a smile or a wave, Frank briskly walked 75 ft. into a special

trailer.

8:30: The Oscar Peterson Trio played superbly for 30 minutes, but

the audience watched the trailer.

9:05: The Count Basie Band played superbly for 30 minutes, but the

audience watched the trailer.

9:35: "Here he is," said Basie, "the chairman of the board." The audience

moaned. Out stepped Frank, lyric book in hand, looking a little bald. "Jump,"

said Frank, shoulders hunched, left hand flicking rhythm, right hand flicking

mike. Saved by the lyric book when he forgot words, Frank sang a set of old

favorites such as "Get Me To The Church on Time," "Street of Dreams" and

"I've Got You Under My Skin." He spoke only once to Basie, "Cook, cook,

cook, cook, baby, cook."

10:02: Frank drank from a cup of tea on stage: "It's not what you think it

is. It's tea." He made a joke about Basie's Negro band: "I'd like to thank

the N.A.A.C.P. for this chess set they gave me."

Everybody laughed.

10:33; Frank waved a last goodbye, stepped back into the chopper and

disappeared. He could afford to. He had made it. He had captured 14,000

skeptical jazz fans and made them Sinatra fans. "It makes you believe in

God," said a guy in the audience.

Time

July 16, 1965

Edited March 1, 2006 by Chaney