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The Jack Sheldon Orchestra Shelly Manne's "My Fair Lady"

Jack Sheldon and his Orchestra perform Shelly Manne's My Fair Lady" Sunday May 25th with special guest Tierney Sutton The stage door" is swinging off its hinges this week (May 22-25) as Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute presents another of their semi-annual extravaganzas at the LAX Four Points Sheraton Hotel. The ...
Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon May 30th

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 Laugh-filled Tony Gieske-Hollywood Reporter An inspiration to all of us who try to get better at ...
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 ...