Cyril Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 (edited) Blue Mitchell Junior Cook Booker Little Don Cherry Edited July 6, 2012 by Cyril Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 So what is a "great" jazz name (given that real names and nicknames are happily mixed here)? Maybe the below fictitious line-up that appeared in the Swedish jazz magazine ORKESTER JOURNALEN in 1957 in a columnist's somewhat sarcastic comment on those endlessly, often aimlessly rambling "blowing" sessions that abounded on LP at those times? Joe Atom Bomb Blowingboy (his brother) Moe Blowingboy Jackie Machine-Gun Cincinnati Chicken-Feather Donaldson Okmulgee Huckleford (b) Artie Messenger (dr) Quote
JSngry Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 KaT'etta Aton (can anybody tell me whatever happened to her?) Quote
.:.impossible Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 Dodo Marmarosa Bix (forget if he's been listed) Sal Mosca These have probably been listed already. Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 (edited) Humphrey Lyttleton (sounds like a 19thC Secretary of State for The Colonies) Wally Fawkes (sounds like an even more incompetent pyromaniac regicide). Edited July 6, 2012 by A Lark Ascending Quote
paul secor Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 A couple of people have mentioned blues names. If you want to go there: Bumble Bee Slim Smokey Hogg Daddy Stovepipe Miss Peaches Jewel Long Peppermint Harris King Ivory Lee Zu Zu Bollin Lazy Slim Jim Harmonica Fats Bo Diddley Cripple Clarence Lofton Cousin Leroy Smiling Smokey Lynn Long Tall Lester Lightnin' Leon (Billy Lee Riley recording as a blues singer) Flash Terry Stick Horse Hammond and a couple thousand others. Quote
BillF Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 All this is making me forget there are jazz musicians with names like: John Smith Bill Evans Ted Brown Sam Jones Joe Newman Andrew Hill Alan Barnes Pete Johnson Joe Williams Jimmy Jones etc Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 Alto Reed - not nec'ly a great hornman, but a truly great name for one Quote
robertoart Posted July 6, 2012 Author Report Posted July 6, 2012 (edited) Snoozer Quinn Jemeel Moondoc All this is making me forget there are jazz musicians with names like: John Smith Bill Evans Ted Brown Sam Jones Joe Newman Andrew Hill Alan Barnes Pete Johnson Joe Williams Jimmy Jones etc You read my mind. I posted a few pages back - George Adams with this exact thing in mind Edited July 6, 2012 by freelancer Quote
PHILLYQ Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 On the radio Dick Buckley once mentioned that the trombonists Abe Lincoln and George Washington not only knew each other, they once rode in a car together when a Los Angeles cop stopped them. They should have gone to NYC, they could have gone over the George Washington Bridge and through the Lincoln Tunnel. Quote
Don Brown Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 Jelly Roll Morton Baby Dodds Robert Nighthawk Cripple Clarence Lofton Blind Lemon Jefferson Mutt Carey Lockjaw Davis Maurice Kalaparusha McIntyre Little Willie Smith Baby Lawrence Sweets Edison Lucky Thompson Lucky Millinder Fats Waller Fats Domino Snake Hips Tucker Sweet Mama Stringbean Eric Dolphy Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 (edited) Leon "Big Spider" Beck "Elephants" Jerold Edited July 6, 2012 by Chuck Nessa Quote
Larry Kart Posted July 6, 2012 Report Posted July 6, 2012 Guy Viveros Bubba Brooks Anyone (or almost anyone, in case there's a dud I'm forgetting) with the title "Sir" Also, isn't Earl Swope a great name for a trombonist? Especially one who played like Earl Swope Quote
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