Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra Plays Looney Tunes at Pearl's
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The last date listed for Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra was Friday March 7, 2008 / 10:00pm.
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Robert
This was perhaps the most fun I've ever had at a jazz club. I will definitely see this again the next time they're in town.Written on Mar 10 2008
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Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Orchestra returns to Pearl's by popular demand.
Chances are, if you've watched Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the Roadrunner TV cartoons, you've heard Raymond Scott's fun-house music like "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," "Powerhouse," and "War Dance for Wooden Indians." In recent years, this antic music, which wasn't written for cartoons but adapted for them in the 1940s by Warner Bros. music director Carl Stalling and other arrangers, has cropped up on animated shows like "Ren & Stimpy" and "The Simpsons."
Veteran Bay Area saxophonist and clarinetist Jeff Sanford has spent years tracking down charts of Scott's intricately arranged music and organizing a 13-piece band to play it. Stanford loves the wild energy and shifting colors of this music, which, like Gershwin's and Monk's, pulses with the rushing rhythms and blaring horns of modern city life.
Sanford, a multi-reedman who plays everything from bar mitzvah gigs to swing dances, big band music and bebop, was inspired to take up Scott after hearing clarinetist Don Byron's 1996 "Bug Music" recording. In addition to early Ellington and the genre-crossing music of John Kirby, the disc featured a half dozen Scott numbers, including "Siberian Sleighride" and "Powerhouse."
Scott was big on radio and records in the late '30s and '40s. He also appeared in movies (Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson tap-danced to his "The Toy Trumpet" in "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm). He became CBS's music director, wrote Broadway and ballet scores, and was the bandleader of "Your Hit Parade," first on CBS radio, then on NBC TV in 1950. In the '50s, he began writing and recording commercial jingles, often using electronic music played on instruments of his own making, and wrote music for such films as Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry."