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December 4, 2011 by Laurel Massé

Cool school

This is wonderful on many levels. It's a great story about jazz and the culture of jazz, a story about being, and trying to be, cool, and, most wonderfully, a story that can teach you how to tell a story.

 

The Manhattan Transfer opened for Mr. Cosby at the Las Vegas Hilton in – oh, what was it? – 1975? Maybe. It was an amazing experience, and not just because of Cosby. James Moody was in the house orchestra! Which was very cool.

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3 Responses to Cool school

  1. Alan Glasscock says:
    December 4, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    I love this! I also love how someone as high-profile as Cosby has surely turned-on lots of “newbies” to the jazz idiom. Imagine having someone like Joe Williams on his TV show back in the ’80s when jazz was not the hippest genre around (in some people’s opinions)!

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  2. Garry Berman says:
    December 25, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    What a hilarious clip! I’ve already put it on my Facebook page to share with my friends. Thanks, Laurel!

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  3. Garry Berman says:
    December 25, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    What a hilarious clip! I’ve already put it on my Facebook page to share with my friends. Thanks, Laurel!

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