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Jack Sheldon's 'Jazz Odyssey' Exclusive Engagement
TRYING TO GET GOOD the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Exclusive Engagement Opens May 30th Compelling and Highly Entertaining of the Consummate Musician, Irrepressible Comedian, and Ultimate Jazz Survivor, Jack Sheldon. Leonard Maltin-Entertainment Tonight Trying to Get Good exposes Hollywood's best kept secret - when the stars come out to play, it's ...
West Coast Trumpeter/Vocalist Jack Sheldon Profiled at AAJ
Jack Sheldon, a beacon for some sixty years on the West Coast jazz scene, is having a very good year. At 77, the celebrated trumpet player, vocalist, bandleader and TV personality, is the subject of a new documentary film, while his jazz career continues to accelerate. He was there when the so-called West Coast Jazz--a cooled-down ...
Jack Sheldon: Still Going Strong
by Larry Taylor
For Jack Sheldon, a beacon for some sixty years on the West Coast jazz scene, 2008 is turning out to be a very good year. At 76, the celebrated trumpet player, vocalist, bandleader and TV personality, is the subject of a new documentary film, while his jazz career continues to accelerate.He was there when ...
Jack Sheldon and the California Cool Quartet: It's What I Do
by C. Michael Bailey
If West Coast jazz has a tone, it is dry ice cool. Trumpeter, vocalist and actor Jack Sheldon, the entertainment triple threat, played a big part in forging this tone in the period following Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool (Blue Note, 1949). That recording was the shot over the bow of bebop that gave rise ...
Freaky Friday: The Jazz Opera
By Jack Sheldon
Label: Butterfly Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Freaky Friday; Bodega Bay; Dragon is His Name; Dr. Deep; Forgive Me Waltz; Inez; Persia; Wait and See; Atomic Bomb; Freaky Friday.
Jack Sheldon & Jack Marshall: Freaky Friday: The Jazz Opera
by Jim Santella
Humor and jazz from the early 1960s give this short opera plenty of sex appeal. The music that Jack Sheldon created, and the dialogue that he wrote with Jack Marshall, comes from an era when beach movies were popular and Elvis was giving the big-screen heartthrob performances that would last forever.Howard Roberts' guitar, Sheldon's ...
Jack Sheldon in New Orleans
by Jim Santella
Jack Sheldon Jack Sheldon in New Orleans Kultur 2005 At a live 1984 performance in Lulu White's Mahogany Hall on Bourbon Street, Jack Sheldon and his all-star ensemble perform a program of straight-ahead jazz pieces that finds them sizzling as if there's no tomorrow. Sheldon's voice was then ...
Jack Sheldon Quintet at the Lighthouse
by Jim Santella
The Lighthouse Hermosa Beach, California June 19, 2005 Father's Day brought out a leisure-loving audience of dedicated jazz fans for Jack Sheldon's warm performance at the historic Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach for Sunday brunch. It makes no difference whether you're young or old, modern or traditional, East Coast or West Coast, or ...
