Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR Jazz trumpeter and singer Jack Sheldon has died. He was a fixture on the Merv Griffin ...
And yet the two men were, in fact, close friends. Sheldon, who was two years younger, idolized Baker, though he was careful not to emulate the slightly older trumpeter’s lifestyle. In the late 1960s ...
Marshall's father, jazz guitarist and Hollywood composer Jack Marshall, played on the Baker/Sheldon sessions and owned the out-of-town studio where it was recorded, but he died before a deal to ...
Larry talks with legendary musician Jack Sheldon and with Doug McIntyre, co-writer, producer and director with wife Penny Peyser, of the film "Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon." ...