Sonny Rollins Guest appearance with The Simpsons

[brownie]

Sonny Rollins will make a guest appearance (at least as a hologram) in one of the next episode of The Simpsons (it should air next Spring)

Sonny Rollins The Simpsons

Edited October 12, 2012 by brownie

[flat5]

Neat. Would like to hear the phone call asking him to play the gig.

[JSngry]

I'd have like to have been in the studio when he laid down his tracks for Tattoo You.

[johnlitweiler]

Is it possible to find and view the episode of The Simpsons that included Ornette Coleman? I think it included him praising Lisa's saxophone playing?

[flat5]

Ornette reference here:

http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/articles/300episodes

14th season. "Barting Over" - which deploys gags and pop-culture references (Ornette Coleman, Arthur Miller, Michael Jackson's infamous baby-dangling escapade, pro-skater Tony Hawk, Blink 182, Samurai Jack and Bart's old Butterfinger commercials all figure briefly in tonight's plot) at a furious rate on par with The Simpsons' acknowledged, mid-'90s peak - continues a creative resurgence in the show that has been apparent since Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello and Lenny "Don't you have a crotch to stuff?" Kravitz allowed themselves to be mercilessly ridiculed in the season premiere.

and

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rec.music.bluenote/bdbS--xn5TI

So I think it's this episode:

The Simpsons S14E11 - Barting Over

https://www.google.nl/search?q=The+Simpsons+that+included+Ornette+Coleman&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&sclient=psy-ab&q=Barting+Over+you-tube&oq=Barting+Over+you-tube&gs_l=serp.3..0i13i30.1469.4136.2.4967.8.6.0.2.2.0.169.482.5j1.6.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.Xjt2BQP_Ic4&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=37d9b85c62bcd681&bpcl=35277026&biw=1024&bih=577

Edited October 13, 2012 by flat5

[Hardbopjazz]

The Simpsons 24th season has a slew of guest stars already prepared for upcoming episodes, but today the show has added jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins to the cast for a guest appearance. The man is a legend, having played with the late, great Thelonious Monk, among other, and who has several compositions that have become jazz standards. With Lisa’s interest in music—and specifically the saxaphone—you’d think this guest addition couldn’t go better for the character. Unfortunately, with a nod to Tupac’s performance at Coachella this year, that does not seem to be the case.

Rollins is set to play himself in The Simpsons, however, he will play a very unreal version of himself. TV Line is reporting the man will appear as a hologram in an episode called “Whiskey Business.” Seeing the hologram as an unfair gimmick, Lisa will take to the cause, fighting the record label that produced such ridiculousness. If this were real life, Dr. Dre would probably not be amused to have to deal with Lisa’s passionate letter-writing campaign.

Instead, it’s an episode of The Simpsons, and Dr. Dre seems to be out on this one, although I can’t wait to see what a Jazz man can do in hologram form. We’ll have a while to wait, however, to see Rollins in his guest stint. The episode won’t premiere until sometime this spring. I guess we'll have to sit around and hope that the proposed Elvis hologram will pop up to tide us over in the interim.

Edited October 17, 2012 by Hardbopjazz