Jack Sheldon

[AndrewMeronek]

Does anyone know much about Jack Sheldon? He is something of an underrated hidden gem.

[tbdana]

Everyone in L.A. knew and loved the great Jack Sheldon. Wonderful guy, very centered, naturally funny and talented. Played with just about everyone. Got famous doing the Merv Griffin show where he was so personable and funny that he became Merv's "Ed McMahon" on the show. Died a few years ago.

That video feels eerily familiar. I think I might have actually been in the audience, or seen that exact set.

[officermayo]

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK!

[AndrewMeronek]

That video feels eerily familiar. I think I might have actually been in the audience, or seen that exact set.

From the video description:

Jack Sheldon appeared as a special guest with the Capp/Pierce Juggernaut at the Santa Ana College Jazz Festival in 1989.

Host/Executive Producer: Ben Glover

Saxes: Jackie Kelso, Ann Patterson, Bob Cooper, Ricky Woodard, Bill Green
Trumpets: Rick Baptist, Snooky Young, Conte Candoli, Bill Berry
Trombones: Alan Kaplan, Jimmy Cleveland, Buster Cooper
Piano: Nat Pierce
Guitar: Jerry Holton
Bass: Chuck Berghofer
Drums: Frank Capp

[Soulbrass]

Conjunction Junction…great song!!!

[djhendy]

This is great to get to know more about Jack.

[dougm]

I really enjoy the Tom Kubis Big Band albums featuring Jack Sheldon. Especially the Kubis Big Band Christmas albums Jack is on. There is also an album by the Jack Sheldon Big Band on the Queen Mary (I think). Andy Martin is featured.

[baBposaune]

The Jack Sheldon diet. "I'll have a salad...and a cow." Funny guy.

[AndrewMeronek]

This is great to get to know more about Jack.

Yeah, this is wonderful!

[AndrewMeronek]

Huh, sometimes the Youtube algorithm leads to some nice things. Sometimes.

[dershem]

Jack was his own man. Great trumpeter (played with Kenton and many others), comic, Actor ("Run Buddy Run" was his TV series), and all around lunatic.

[andersonmark56]

Yes, great player and very funny guy. I've been listening for years, and worked with him in San Francisco with the Full Faith & Credit Big Band. He was both musically fantastic and hilarious - his interaction with the audience was great!. His solo on Tom Waits' version of "Somewhere" on the album Blue Valentine is breathtaking - he sounds a lot like Uan Rasey (the theme from the movie "Chinatown")

[AndrewMeronek]

. . . and worked with him in San Francisco with the Full Faith & Credit Big Band.

Please do tell!

[andersonmark56]

It was a concert set up by the bandleader at some waterfront place (it was nice, but I can't remember the name, it was in the '90's). It was sold out, I think, and he was really on a roll - his monologues between tunes was based around his visits to Jimmie Walker's houseboat in Sausalito, which were hysterical, and he sounded like a million bucks!

[bus2]

In the first video of the thread, start watching the bass player at around 9:05. Tell me he isn't opening a vial and doing a bump of coke?!! (I'm not educated in drug usage, but what else could he be doing?)

[Posaunus]

In the first video of the thread, start watching the bass player at around 9:05. Tell me he isn't opening a vial and doing a bump of coke?!! (I'm not educated in drug usage, but what else could he be doing?)

Nasal medication?

[bus2]

I know, right? I always make sure to take my medication on the bandstand. Frantically yet discreetly searching for a different return pocket is part of the gig.

[AndrewMeronek]

I finally watched the film that "The Long Goodbye" (above) came from.

It is highly rated but my reaction: meh. Yes, there elements to it that were well-done. Good acting, well-crafted dialogue, good music. But overall it doesn't hold up for me. The more I think about the movie, the less I like it.

The film is for the most part (with a few exceptions) a POV of the main character Phillip Marlowe.
This main character is a pretty unlikeable smart***, and at the end because he turns vigilante by killing his friend instead of turning him over to Mexican police, a murderer. He seems to get along with a local gangster (Augustine) better than local police, and doesn't tip the police to assaults or money laundering done by said gangster.

There is also a weird fixation with a harem of semi-naked girls in his adjacent apartment, complete with camera zooms. Because this movie is a POV of Marlowe who is shown to be fairly indifferent to the girls, meaning that the camera zooms are meant only for the benefit of the movie audience. That's creepy.

[JohnL]

It is highly rated but my reaction: meh. Yes, there elements to it that were well-done. Good acting, well-crafted dialogue, good music. But overall it doesn't hold up for me. The more I think about the movie, the less I like it.

It's not a particularly strong adaptation, IMHO. IIRC, I got maybe a third of the way through before I gave up.