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