At an airport in Frankfurt airport security asked famous jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman to prove it was a real instrument.
https://twitter.com/Joshua_Redman/status/619144413369909248
Hilarious! I can’t find any recordings of Joshua playing that classic bebop song, but here’s a Charlie Parker recording:
Finally
What would you play in such a situation?
Well, I could make some kind of judgement if it wasn’t blocked in USA!
This should play in the USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_TCBsvMuk
Thanks, I like a lot of jazz and that’s pretty good for 1947.
Thanks, I updated the video!
You’re most welcome, RT! Groove on…
Thanks for this awesome blog, Matt!
*) It’s Frankfurt btw.
‘fort’ would mean away or gone. Like ‘weg’.
Frankfort is a city in Kentucky.
Nm, he gives the airport code. Frankfort is still an accepted spelling of both German towns in English though.
Kentucky as in “KFC”?
Thanks for your note Jay.
I’ve read that Redman was on the way to the North Sea Jazz Festial, so it must have been FRA / Germany. Nevertheless ‘furt’ is southern slang and ‘fort’ is kinda northern.
And tbh: picking on that typo was just a little hint for Matt to maybe look a bit more into that german direction? I mean his name has german roots and he is quite smArt with words.
Hey, Matt. This is the Joshua Redman interview that I mentioned to you at WordCamp Chicago 2013. It really blew my mind–particularly the part about practicing. Shortcuts: on writing, 8:47; write every day, 12:00; on practicing (“Lucky to get 30 min. per day; two-three hrs. is a marathon.”), 12:56; on transcribing, 17:08. Cheers…to 10 great years!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiXKRDYwv9g
A single post can trigger a lot of thoughts. I’ll be playing over this for the next seven days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_CskOhskbc Thanks for the motivation!
This is some strange irony. :-O