Jack Sheldon

[Quasimado]

Anybody seen this new film? Funny man, and he can play.

Q

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

chuck nessa i need your help with the following analogy:

Jack Sheldon is the [analogy] of West Coast Jazz

[robviti]

chuck nessa i need your help with the following analogy:

Jack Sheldon is the [analogy] of West Coast Jazz

if i may:

Jack Sheldon is the ham sammich of West Coast Jazz.

[RDK]

Jack Sheldon is the survivor of West Coast Jazz.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i was thinking more along the lines as jack sheldon is the tiny tim of west coast jazz....

[JSngry]

Jack Sheldon is the Jack Sheldon of West Coast JAzz:

[Larry Kart]

Jack Sheldon is the Jack Sheldon of West Coast JAzz:

Love it when someone can tell a joke right. Economy/timing, bingo.

[Bright Moments]

i dig jack sheldon!!!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

yea, but jack sheldon.... conte candoli.... no contest- right??

[Late]

Jack Sheldon is the "I'm Just A Bill" of West Coast Jazz.

His epitaph: "I practiced. Chetty didn't."

[flat5]

"but jack sheldon.... conte candoli.... no contest- right?"

Right. It is not a contest. They are/were both fine trumpet players and jazz players with something to say.

I love Jack's playing in the 50s-60s.

Tiny Tim indeed. Perhaps you could listen to his work with Curtis Counce and Art Pepper.

[Teasing the Korean]

Merv.

[robviti]

Merv.

that's where i first saw/heard jack sheldon. check out this classic clip! what timing!

[Dave James]

No, he was no Conte Candoli, but he could hold his own. If Condoli was Wilt Chamberlain, Sheldon would be Willis Reed. He did a fair number of guest roles for Jack Webb in the late '60's reincarnation of Dragnet. Webb, of course, was a big jazz fan, so I imagine that's how their paths crossed. There's an interesting album available on eMusic called Live at Don Mupo's Gold Nugget, that shows all the sides of Sheldon in one serving. Campy tunes, audience interaction, good playing, the whole nine yards. I return to this frequently on my iPod. He always struck me as a guy who really liked to have a good time.

Up over and out.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

you know who he kind of reminds me of, Ned Beatty. i love that crazy mf/ if he's on the credits of a movie, you know its gonna be a good movie

[sheldonm]

I met/photographed Jack Sheldon a while back and sharing the same name with Jack, I told him my mother indicated she had a fling with a trumper player from the West Coast some time ago (she didn't) and wondered if he would be willing to submit to a blood test. He got a big laugh out of it and said "you never know".

Here is a photo I made of Jact at that time! Wonderful guy and great movie as well. Saw it at a film festival....tragic in many ways but the guy is a survivor. Got to speak with the folks that made the flick as well...very cool!

m~

[RDK]

Haven't seen Jack in many years, though he still plays several regular gigs around town each week. He was, however, the first jazz cat I saw/heard when I first moved to L.A. many moons ago. He used to have a regular gig at the Money Tree in Toluca Lake, and with no cover charge and me without a job I must have seen him once a week for two or three months straight. Can't beat the man for telling stories. Yeah, and his trumpet playing's not bad either.

[sheldonm]

Haven't seen Jack in many years, though he still plays several regular gigs around town each week. He was, however, the first jazz cat I saw/heard when I first moved to L.A. many moons ago. He used to have a regular gig at the Money Tree in Toluca Lake, and with no cover charge and me without a job I must have seen him once a week for two or three months straight. Can't beat the man for telling stories. Yeah, and his trumpet playing's not bad either.

I'll be out in LA (actually Newport Beach) in October; hope to catch up with him again!

m~