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Jack Sheldon's 'Jazz Odyssey' Exclusive Engagement

May 20, 2008

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 ...

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News: Website

West Coast Trumpeter/Vocalist Jack Sheldon Profiled at AAJ

April 22, 2008

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 ...

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Article: Profile

Jack Sheldon: Still Going Strong

by Larry Taylor
April 22, 2008

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Jack Sheldon and the California Cool Quartet: It's What I Do

Read "It's What I Do" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 19, 2008

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 ...

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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.

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Listen Up

By Jack Sheldon

Label: Strand Records
Released: 2006

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The Cool World Of Jack Sheldon

By Jack Sheldon

Label: Strand Records
Released: 2006

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Article: Album Review

Jack Sheldon & Jack Marshall: Freaky Friday: The Jazz Opera

Read "Freaky Friday: The Jazz Opera" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
February 4, 2006

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 ...

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Let Me Off Uptown

By Cheryl Bentyne

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Let Me Off Uptown; Pick Yourself Up; Honeysuckle Rose; Skylark; Let

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Article: Film Review

Jack Sheldon in New Orleans

by Jim Santella
September 24, 2005

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 ...