jazz- crowd banter !

[donald byrd 4 EVA]

please share your memories of when you first screamed "go man go!" at a jazz concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wardell gray 4 EVA

PET SOUNDS EATS BALZ

[MoGrubb]

Count Basie, circa 1960. Never did any "go man goes" but a bunch of "Whoops!"

[Spontooneous]

There was that time I yelled, "Blow that gas pipe, Flip!" It was really all reet.

[robviti]

at a particularly lame newport jazz festival many years ago, my brother and i suffered through a chick corea set with his girlfriend gayle moran maiming some standard tune. this prompted my usually sedate brother to yell, "sing the blues, white girl." you had to be there.

[Hot Ptah]

At a Sam Rivers club date at Milwaukee's Jazz Gallery around 1980, a group of us, who were excited to be able to see Sam to begin with, consumed some number of beers before the gig started (a standard number of beers for Wisconsin, which would be at the high end anywhere else). We then reacted to Sam's solos with loud whoops of delight. Literally, four or five of us screamed out, in high pitched voices, "WHOOOOH! WHOOOOOOOH!" The club was quite small and we were no more than 20 feet away from the stage. Sam let us know that this was not cool by whooping back, with excellent mimicry of what we were doing. So we stopped.

I saw the Ellington Orchestra, directed by Mercer Ellington, in the late 1970s at the Oscar Meyer Theater in the Civic Center complex in Madison, Wisconsin. We expected a solid, mildly enjoyable show. It was a ghost band, after all. But then Mercer said, "and now, we have the pleasure of presenting to you a true jazz Hall of Famer. Ladies and gentlemen, Cootie Williams!" This was very unexpected. I must admit that I yelled out "COOTIE! COOTIE!" in a voice that could accurately be described as thunderous.

Edited July 12, 2007 by Hot Ptah

[Hot Ptah]

at a particularly lame newport jazz festival many years ago, my brother and i suffered through a chick corea set with his girlfriend gayle moran maiming some standard tune. this prompted my usually sedate brother to yell, "sing the blues, white girl." you had to be there.

I went to a Chick Corea/Gary Burton duet concert in Ann Arbor in 1979. After several excellent songs, Gayle Moran came out as a special guest artist and "sang" with them. Having suffered through that, I laughed out loud at your post.

[DTMX]

I yelled "Free Bird" at a Philip Glass world premiere in Atlanta.

They didn't play it.

[medjuck]

I attended an Archie Shepp concert around the time of Mamma Too

Tight and at a lull in one of the large ensemble's free blowing simultaneous improvisation numbers someone yelled out "one more time" as they left in a huff.

[Shawn]

Taj Mahal - During a break between songs Taj was talking to the crowd when a guy in the balcony yelled "Down with Whitey"...Taj shot him a look of death and preceded to rip the guy a new one. "Why would you want to say some ignorant shit like that, it's cats like you that are the problem...", etc.

The guy slinked out of the venue quietly...

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers did a gig at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff (WTF!!!! - how did they get here?) They were terrible. It was Pucho with a pickup band - lots of London accents. I said, quite loudly, after about three numbers, "Pucho and the English Soul Brothers", as I walked out.

MG

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i saw Pucho and his latin soul bros like 4 or 5 yrs ago and it was like the tightest shit ive ever witnessed. i walked in with questions and came out with answers- pucho fuckin ripped it

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

i saw Pucho and his latin soul bros like 4 or 5 yrs ago and it was like the tightest shit ive ever witnessed. i walked in with questions and came out with answers- pucho fuckin ripped it

Good! Wish I'd seen his regular band.

MG