Jazz Cartoon (Book)

[BeBop]

Does anyone else have this book? I found it amusing.

Not recommended for the prudish (no offense).

[BillF]

Reminds me of that great animated movie Chico and Rita.

[AllenLowe]

every woman in that first picture has the exact same build.

[Tom Storer]

Don't know it, but it looks like fun. Philippe Koechlin, now deceased, was the founder of "Rock et Folk," which is a kind of French Rolling Stone.

[BeBop]

Thanks for the info, insights and comments. I think damn hard before buying anything - since anything I buy has to be shipped to storage stored (rent!). But this caught my eye in a Brussels bookstore and, well, I couldn't resist. Those images are pretty close to what fills the book.

[JSngry]

Edited September 11, 2012 by JSngry

[brownie]

Excellent book!

Philippe Koechlin was the clear-headed bright-eyed editor of Jazz Hot in the '60s and remained there until he created the highly successful Rock & Folk in 1966.

I was a proud participant in his jazz adventures and contributed several articles to Jazz Hot under his tenure (also a couple of articles in Rock & Folk in its early days).

[jazzbo]

That was my first thought when I saw the book cover as well.

[cih]

This is a bit off-topic, but as an antidote to the homogeneity of the characters in the drawing above - a few years ago this book was distributed FREE to all five-year old children in the UK:

it's the story of a giant gorilla who is lonely (because everyone's afraid of him).. until he gets an old piano and starts playing jazz alone in his room. The musicians in the neighbourhood hear him and invite him to jam at the 'Blue Note' and he joins their band, and.. sniff.. he makes loads of friends!

[JSngry]

And he's an ape!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This is a bit off-topic, but as an antidote to the homogeneity of the characters in the drawing above - a few years ago this book was distributed FREE to all five-year old children in the UK:

it's the story of a giant gorilla who is lonely (because everyone's afraid of him).. until he gets an old piano and starts playing jazz alone in his room. The musicians in the neighbourhood hear him and invite him to jam at the 'Blue Note' and he joins their band, and.. sniff.. he makes loads of friends!

This made me think of 'Melincourt' by Thomas Love Peacock, which deals with the adventures of an orang-utang who, because of the rotten boroughs system, becomes a Member of Parliament - Sir Oran Haut-ton - after rescuing the heroine from kidnappers (or something, 'tis 20 odd years since I read it).

MG

[BillF]

This is a bit off-topic, but as an antidote to the homogeneity of the characters in the drawing above - a few years ago this book was distributed FREE to all five-year old children in the UK:

it's the story of a giant gorilla who is lonely (because everyone's afraid of him).. until he gets an old piano and starts playing jazz alone in his room. The musicians in the neighbourhood hear him and invite him to jam at the 'Blue Note' and he joins their band, and.. sniff.. he makes loads of friends!

This made me think of 'Melincourt' by Thomas Love Peacock, which deals with the adventures of an orang-utang who, because of the rotten boroughs system, becomes a Member of Parliament - Sir Oran Haut-ton - after rescuing the heroine from kidnappers (or something, 'tis 20 odd years since I read it).

MG

I think we've got a few of those in government at the moment.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This is a bit off-topic, but as an antidote to the homogeneity of the characters in the drawing above - a few years ago this book was distributed FREE to all five-year old children in the UK:

it's the story of a giant gorilla who is lonely (because everyone's afraid of him).. until he gets an old piano and starts playing jazz alone in his room. The musicians in the neighbourhood hear him and invite him to jam at the 'Blue Note' and he joins their band, and.. sniff.. he makes loads of friends!

This made me think of 'Melincourt' by Thomas Love Peacock, which deals with the adventures of an orang-utang who, because of the rotten boroughs system, becomes a Member of Parliament - Sir Oran Haut-ton - after rescuing the heroine from kidnappers (or something, 'tis 20 odd years since I read it).

MG

I think we've got a few of those in government at the moment.

Same as in 1817. And at all times since.

MG