Jeff Sanford’s Cartoon Jazz Orchestra
By thatch • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Jazz, Music
I don’t know about you but I am pretty sure that the first jazz I heard was in the old Looney Tunes cartoons that I watched after school. No big surprise there, everyone did. And it appears that today’s artist, Jeff Sanford obviously had a similar childood and still has a great affection for the cartoons
The Cartoon Jazz project was launched in 2003 at the Stanford Jazz Festival with the revival of charts from the great American composer, Raymond Scott ( and when you read Scott’s background it gives me a new insight into some of my stranger musical tastes). Jeff Sanford tracked down many charts of the famous composer, written for 13-piece bands in public archives and private collector libraries. Members of his band have since been contributing new arrangements of Scott’s music as well as other jazz pieces which have been used in cartoons.
Raymond Scott never intended to write for cartoons. His frantic rhythms were emulating the fast and energetic sounds of the New York City lifestyle. Carl Stalling, then music director for Warner Brothers and an avid admirer of Scott’s music, used many of Scott’s themes in the scores overlaying the cartoon movies of our childhood friends Bug’s Bunny and Porky Pig.
thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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