[Dixielandjazz] Jack Sheldon

[david richoux]

This is so much of Jack - and in the season:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFaVTyp9RhE

Dave Richoux

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
> Jack Sheldon Is a Pleasing Part of L.A. Soundtrack
> by Doug McIntyre
> Los Angeles Daily News, November 30, 2011
> Vin Scully turned 84 on Tuesday. It's impossible to imagine a summer in Los Angeles
> without the soothing sound of Scully somewhere in the background. Dodger players
> might come and go, owners buy or sell, but Scully rolls on like the mighty Mississippi.
> He's Ol' Man Baseball. Ol' Man Summer in the Southland.
> But today we celebrate another icon, not as instantly recognizable perhaps but as
> much a part of the sound of Los Angeles as Scully himself.
> Happy 80th birthday, Jack Sheldon!
> Jack Sheldon is known to one generation as Merv Griffin's funny trumpet-playing sidekick.
> To another generation he's the signature voice of "School House Rock!" He's "Bill"
> from "I'm Just a Bill" and everybody's favorite station-master on "Conjunction Junction."
> An earlier generation may remember his roles on "Dragnet" or maybe his own CBS series,
> "Run Buddy, Run" or perhaps his nightclub years with Lenny Bruce.
> But Sheldon is also an important artist of deep and lasting significance.
> Universally recognized by musicians the world over as one of the great trumpet virtuosos,
> his beautiful and distinctive bebop sound has scored hundreds of movie soundtracks,
> including the Academy Award-winning theme to "The Sandpiper" -- "The Shadow of Your
> Smile."
> Additionally, Jack's horn accompanied many of the biggest names in recording history:
> Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett,
> Lena Horn, Bette Midler, Tom Waits, Anita O'Day, the Four Freshmen, Sammy Davis Jr.
> and so many others.
> As an instrumentalist he has soloed with Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman,
> Stan Getz and played with his idols Harry James and Dizzy Gillespie.
> He's appeared on the world's biggest stages, from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood
> Bowl and he's played some of the world's smallest stages as well -- dinky nightclubs
> with three drunks for an audience and a clanking ice machine for a rhythm section.
> It was all good.
> He plays the same, for a mob of 10,000, gawking tourists at Venice Beach, or a sick
> friend he'd go to comfort at the Motion Picture Home. The music is the only thing
> that matters.
> Jack has lived in our city for 65 of his 80 years and loves L.A. without Randy Newman's
> irony or sarcasm. He literally grew up on Hollywood Boulevard. His mother, Jen Loven,
> ran her famous swim school near Western Avenue. Jack Sheldon helped create the West
> Coast Sound of jazz and has sweetened the lives of millions with his great gifts.
> Wouldn't it be sweet if L.A. finally honored him with a star on the Walk of Fame?
>
>
> --Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
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