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Cartoon Jazz Orchestra - The Jeff Sanford Orchestra plays Looney Tunes
Back by popular demand! The Jeff Sanford Orchestra plays Raymond Scott! Scott was the composer whose madcap 1930s music -- a dizzying comic mix of classical music, Ellington, jungle jazz and Jewish Klezmer, among other things -- was a prime ingredient of the soundtracks for the classic Warner Bros. Looney Tune and Merrie Melodies cartoons millions of us grew up with. Chances are, if you remember watching the 'crafty wabbit,' Daffy Duck, and the Roadrunner, you were weaned on Scott's fun-house music like "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," "Powerhouse," "War Dance for Wooden Indians" -- without knowing it. Veteran Bay Area saxophonist and clarinetist Jeff Sanford fell under the late composer's spell as a kid in Queens, watching Saturday morning cartoons. 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. "This music has the same verve and power as when [Scott] wrote it," says Sanford. "nobody's writing music like this. It's very cool." We couldnâÂÂt agree more! Whether youâÂÂre a novice or part of the huge fan base this show is acquiring, you wonâÂÂt want to miss this highly entertaining performance.
The Jeff Sanford Orchestra plays Raymond Scott
Scott was the composer whose madcap 1930s music -- a dizzying comic mix of classical music, Ellington jungle jazz and Jewish klezmer, among other things -- was a prime ingredient on the soundtracks to a slew of classic Warner Bros. Looney Tune and Merrie Melodies cartoons.
Millions of us who grew up watching the crafty wabbit, Daffy Duck and the Roadrunner were weaned on Scott's fun-house music -- patches of "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," "Powerhouse," "War Dance for Wooden Indians" -- without knowing it. 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 fell under the late composer's spell as a kid in Queens, watching Saturday morning cartoons. Sanford has spent the past couple of years tracking down charts of Scott's intricately arranged music and organizing a 13-piece band to play it.
"It's fun stuff. We get to the end of a piece and everybody just cracks up," says Sanford, 53. 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." The latter, Scot
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256 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, CA 94133
United States
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