Jack Sheldon
Along with Lester Young in the '30s, Dizzy Gillespie in the '40s, and Zoot Sims in the '50s, Jack Sheldon is one of the Original Lions of the West Coast Sound. Jack's a premier improviser, is one of only a handful of trumpet players throughout jazz history who has developed his own distinctive signature sound. It's an inimitable sound that comes from his heart and soul, what Miles Davis called a voice.
As an integral part of the West Coast Scene of the 1950s, he played an important role in developing that era's bebop- inspired sound. His solid connection to that vibrant period in West coast Jazz surfaces with each impeccable solo.
Sheldon's collaborative list is indeed long and impressive: Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Curtis Counce, Shelly Manne, Art Pepper, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Mel Torme, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr., Rosemary Clooney, Diane Schuur and many other greats.
Nominated five times for the Playboy International Artist Of The Year Award, Jack Sheldon continues to dazzle audiences with his prodigious chops and unerring sense of swing. Sheldon has been featured on innumerable soundtracks. It was his sensuous trumpet solo that immortalized Johnny Mandel's The Shadow of Your Smile from the Taylor-Burton film The Sandpiper. Today, his lyrical trumpet continues to garner the spotlight on soundtracks like Object of Beauty, The Super, White Men Can'tJump, For The Boys, Mr. Saturday Night, and his trumpet work is heard like a character in the Francis Ford Coppla film One From The Heart.
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...one of the world's great trumpet players —David J. Spatz, Atlantic City News
spontaneous, unpredictable, often outrageous wit Stuart Troup, New York Times
Jack Sheldon's trumpet, gleamed and glittered. Every note plump as a ripe, sweet, grape —Tony Gieske, Hollywood Reporter
a born entertainer —John Contarino, Atlantic City Magazine
unerring sense of swing —Zan Stewart, Los Angeles Times
his big, fat, trumpet sound is gorgeous —Bob Comden, LA Jazz Scene
...Hollywood's finest talent...bravura and style —Bill Sanderson, Jazz Trumpet Journal
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