jazz appreciation class ... real answers

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Too funny!

http://www.fyicomminc.com/jazzmen/jazzclass.htm

[BeBop]

Too funny!

http://www.fyicomminc.com/jazzmen/jazzclass.htm

Thanks, slide

[AllenLowe]

good stuff - reminds me of that time at the Clinton inauguration when one of the MTV babes, having seen TS Monk, asked someone (quite seriously): "Who is The Loneliest Monk?

[Dan Gould]

good stuff - reminds me of that time at the Clinton inauguration when one of the MTV babes, having seen TS Monk, asked someone (quite seriously): "Who is The Loneliest Monk?

Actually I believe the story was that as a candidate, Clinton did an MTV interview and having been told that his favorite musician was Thelonious Monk, the interviewer was said to have screamed at her assistant, "find out who The Loneliest Monk is!"

BTW, that interviewer was Kennedy, far from a babe and also known to be a Republican, so that must explain it.

Anyway ... very funny stuff, and sometimes unexpectedly perceptive:

"Jazz is more profound when it doesn't help pay the bills."

[slide_advantage_redoux]

"I wished Don Cherry would put his trumpet back in his pocket."

lol

[papsrus]

I've recovered now. Was touch and go there toward the end of the list.

[AllenLowe]

"how come Slide Hampton plays the valve trombone?"

[Dave James]

Dizzy Cellespic.

[Big Beat Steve]

Dizzy Cellespic.

Considering how long serious jazz mags such as the French JAZZ HOT insisted on writing about one Dizzy GILLEPSIE for YEARS after 1946 it is not hard to see how such mixups occur.

"The loneliest Monk" is a classic, of course, but several others from that list do have all the potential of becoming both unwittingly wise statements and running gags for years to come.

[Neal Pomea]

"My favorite jazz has a bluesy, Mexican feel to it." The Spanish tinge?

[DukeCity]

I taught a jazz appreciation class for a couple of years at DePaul U in Chicago. One of the best concert reports I got was from a student who went to the Jazz Showcase to hear "Stanley Turntable"!

[JSngry]

The DJ?

Seriously - has anybody taken note that the person who posted this list was Famodou Don Moye?

Edited November 30, 2010 by JSngry

[Hot Ptah]

The DJ?

Seriously - has anybody taken note that the person who posted this list was Famodou Don Moye?

I did not notice this! Thanks.