JSngry Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Oh yeah, about Chevy Chase - anybody see one of the earlier episodes of SNL where, at the end I think, the cast members were each singing a chorus of blues, and Chevy scatted "Billie's Bounce'? Seems like I saw him do the same thing once in tandem with his ex, Blythe Danner (who LOOKS like she'd make a GREAT jazz fan if you know what I mean... ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 (edited) I remember hearing that Gary Larsen (Far Side) is a guitarist and Jim Hall fan- he did a cover for one of Hall's recordings. I thought I heard that he told Hall he'd do it for either one million dollars or one guitar lesson. Also, remember that ad in DB or JT that showed Scofield hanging out and playing w/Alan Arkin? Edited August 26, 2003 by Free For All Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maren Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Bill Cosby In 1967 the little radio station in my little hometown in central Wisconsin played his 'Little Old Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright)' WAY more than Stevie Wonder/Supremes versions -- come to think of it, music-on-hinterlands-radio-stations may be yet another arena where Bill Cosby spearheaded integration... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny E Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Ossie Davis Bill Clinton - he digs Peter Brotzman Allen Ginsberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 French 3-star chef Pierre Gagnaire (one of the current top five chefs in the world) is very much into jazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 French 3-star chef Pierre Gagnaire (one of the current top five chefs in the world) is very much into jazz. How many stars are possible? I mean, if 10 stars are possible, how great can he be? And is he number five of five? I mean if he's like number two or three, then maybe, but number FIVE? Has he been on Iron Chef? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Gagnaire is among the two dozen chefs in Europe that have a three-star rating in the Guide Michelin, the most severe - and usually accurate - guide to restaurants. And Gagnaire is among the most inventive chefs around. His restaurant is not very far from where I work. Wish I could go there for lunch. But a meal at his place is very, very expensive. An interview with Gagnaire was published in the French review 'Jazz Magazine'. If you read French read on and Bon Appetit!: http://www.jazzmagazine.com/Interviews/Dau...e/pgagnaire.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 OK brownie, I'm a believer. And thanks for the Freddie Webster info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 I remember hearing that Gary Larsen (Far Side) is a guitarist and Jim Hall fan- he did a cover for one of Hall's recordings. I thought I heard that he told Hall he'd do it for either one million dollars or one guitar lesson. Also, remember that ad in DB or JT that showed Scofield hanging out and playing w/Alan Arkin? Gary Larson is a neighbor of Bill Frisell's also. They are apparently buddies, and Bill ended up doing the music for the short-lived "Tales from the Far Side" tv show. Some of the music is on his album "Quartet". Here is the cover that Larson did for Jim Hall's "Something Special" album: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Thought the Brits among us would have added writer Kingsley Amis and historian-philosopher Eric Hobshawm? Didn't Hobshawm write a book about jazz? We all need more jazz philosophy! Speaking of philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre liked jazz. So did Walter Benjamin. But Theodor Adorno hated it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Thought the Brits among us would have added ... historian-philosopher Eric Hobshawm? Didn't Hobshawm write a book about jazz?... The Jazz Scene, originally published under the pseudonym of Francis Newton (the trumpeter Frankie Newton had communist leanings). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERIGAN Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 (edited) you know, I read in some mag last year the Shakira was a jazz fan!!! Had gone to see somebody at some small club in California ....no , I don't remember who, where I read it, or what club...but I really do have a photographic memory, honest! In case you don't know who she is.... Edited August 27, 2003 by BERIGAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzypaul Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Christina Aguilera sings Etta Jones tunes in concert...that's gotta count for something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 (edited) Berigan, hell yeah!!! In my dreams she has always been a jazz fan, we've been to shows together and everything. Edited August 27, 2003 by catesta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Christina Aguilera sings Etta Jones tunes in concert...that's gotta count for something... Oh, I'm sure it does. God has a long memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Weil Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Thought the Brits among us would have added writer Kingsley Amis and historian-philosopher Eric Hobshawm? Didn't Hobshawm write a book about jazz? We all need more jazz philosophy! Speaking of philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre liked jazz. So did Walter Benjamin. But Theodor Adorno hated it. You're right! Hobsbawn did write a book about Jazz. Philip gave the name. To go with Sartre, there's a bit in _American Journey_ where Camus goes to a Jazz club and enjoys it. Ahh, Jazz and philosophy. The closest we've got is Albert Murray who seems to have rewritten Adorno's view of Jazz as though it were a good thing (in my opinion). I've got a copy of the correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin and I seem to remember Benjamin going along with Adorno's view of Jazz, so you're going to have to convince me he actually liked it. Still, I think we could do with some really good Jazz philosophers. Course, once you do that, the old Anglo-American distrust of intellectuals is going to wake up. On the other hand, I once saw Ian Dury at an Old and New Dreams concert. Simon Weil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Dury was a big fan of Coltrane and Kirk (check out that 'Rhythm Stick single). I have a copy of 'Four Lives in the Bebop Business' by AB Spellman with a jacket design by him done in his art school days B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Thought the Brits among us would have added writer Kingsley Amis In one of Amis's biographies he talks about visiting Birdland around 1958 with Miles and Coltrane on the stand and hating it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmitry Posted August 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Thought the Brits among us would have added writer Kingsley Amis In one of Amis's biographies he talks about visiting Birdland around 1958 with Miles and Coltrane on the stand and hating it He was a moldy fig. Just like Larkin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 I've got a copy of the correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin and I seem to remember Benjamin going along with Adorno's view of Jazz, so you're going to have to convince me he actually liked it. Simon, I was under the impression that Walter Benjamin's views on jazz were more tolerant than Adorno's. Will have to have a read of their correspondance. I'll take being wrong with philosophy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Weil Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 sidewinder, that's interesting about Dury. He certainly seemed at home wandering about before the gig, in his element. He was kind of a charismatic presence, a star, there. brownie, we could do with more people being philosophical around here! Simon Weil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 Another Larsen CD cover. The jazz club is called "The Stuffed Cat." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 bump.... I had ESPN on this morning while getting ready for work. Pete Gammons was interviewing Barry Zito, and somehow got on the subject of what was on his Ipod. Zito replied that among other artists, he had Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. Then while checking Zito's bio on Wikipedia, I found this interesting comment: His father composed and arranged music for Nat King Cole for 15 years, and did a lot of arrangements for the Buffalo Symphony, and his mother is a classically trained musician who also sang with Nat King Cole's band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Larsen Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 Supposedly Zito is a pretty decent guitar player. I think he has gigged a little bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 (edited) Good to see this thread re-appear again, Erik. No-one has mentioned 'Sex and the City' star Kim Cattrall yet. She selected Coltrane's 'My Favourite Things' as one of her desert island disks for the BBC some time back. Edited March 19, 2007 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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