Jazz Connections Game

Fairly simple rules:

From the musician in the previous post, you must establish a connection to another musician, not previously mentioned in the thread, by way of one of these routes:

  1. plays the same instrument (specify instrument)
  2. has performed the same tune on another recording (specify tune and recording)
  3. has recorded in the same combo or band (specify recording and identify band or combo)
  4. was born in the same state (specify state)

No Repeated Names of Musicians or Tunes
Repeats acceptable for Bands, Combos, States, Instruments, Recordings

Player #1 – Pat Metheny, guitar, Missouri

Player #2 - Gary Burton, vibraharp, Indiana (Pat Metheny played in Gary Burton Quartet)

Player #3: Astor Piazzolla, accordian, recorded album “The New Tango” with Gary Burton.

Player #4 - Art Van Damme, accordian

Well, you’ve steered this into barely navigable waters already, Zeldar :smiley:

I will try to correct the course thusly:

Art Van Damme played “These Foolish Things” on Once Over Lightly (1957). Lester Young played “These Foolish Things” on Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1952).

So there we have it: Lester Young / tenor sax / Oscar Peterson / piano / “These Foolish Things”.

Player #5 - Lionel Hampton, performed The Lady is a Tramp on Sentimental Journey

Art Van Damme did it on Once Over Lightlly

Excellent save, masonite, and if you’ll back up to what I had to work with, maybe you can see how narrow my choices were. I was leery of Van Damme, since his jazzness might be in question, as “space age pop” is more the bag he’s in.

But you done good rescue work.

Thanks!

Sorry masonite I’ll try again.

Sonny Rollins plays the tenor sax as does Lester the Prez

Player #7 – John Coltrane, tenor

Player #8 - Pharoah Sanders, tenor

Sorry Zeldar, you were in a tight spot there! I was just afraid we’d be talking about accordians all night. Not that there’d be anything wrong with that, of course…

Player #9 – Stan Getz, tenor

Surely not all night! Can you name four others?

BTW, ever hear of Tommy Gumina? I have an album of him with Buddy DeFranco where he plays an accordiorgan (not sure how it’s spelled) but sounds like it ought to as a hybrid. Decent sounding album, but that instrument is probably not for this game! :slight_smile:

Player #10- Coleman Hawkins, tenor

Player #11 - Zoot Sims, tenor

Player #12: Charles Mingus (Zoot Sims played in his “Epitaph” project)

Player #13: Howard Johnson, tuba. Played on Mingus’ album With Orchestra.

Player #14 Allan P. Jaffe, tuba. Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Player #15: Don Butterfield, tuba.

Player # 16 – Clark Terry, trumpet

(Don Butterfield played tuba in the Clark Terry Quintet on at least the recording “Top & Bottom Brass: Clark Terry Quintet”)