{"id":5286,"date":"2013-12-09T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T01:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2013-12-09T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T01:21:41","slug":"jack-sheldon-hes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/12\/jack-sheldon-hes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Sheldon: He&#8217;s Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sheldon-Playin-It-Straight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sheldon-Playin-It-Straight.jpg\" alt=\"Sheldon Playin&#039; It Straight\" width=\"175\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5287\" \/><\/a>The cover photo of the out-of-print 1981 album to the left appears to show Jack Sheldon playing his trumpet left-handed. Whether someone reversed the picture by mistake or as an ironic turn on the album title is beside the point. It turned out to be prophetic. <\/p>\n<p>Left-handed is the only way Sheldon can play now. His ability to do so is a testament to his courage in fighting his way back following a stroke that deprived him of the use of his right arm. He was forced to retool or stop playing. Nor has he let misfortune dissuade him from the singing that brought him as much fame as his trumpet and his comedy. Doug McIntyre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Los Angeles Daily News<\/em> story about the 82-year-old Sheldon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comeback makes it plain that the stroke left the trumpeter-singer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comic wit undamaged. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After 60 years on stage Sheldon vanished behind the gates of his Hollywood Hills home. Rumors of Jack sightings occasionally circulated though the jazz world, with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jazz Times\u00e2\u20ac\u009d magazine erroneously reporting Sheldon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m only slightly dead,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sheldon said when told of his demise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of McIntyre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/arts-and-entertainment\/20131203\/jack-sheldons-return-hits-all-the-right-notes\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><p>Here is the title track from <em>Playin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 It Straight<\/em>, Sheldon doing just that with Alan Broadbent, piano; Pete Christlieb, baritone saxophone; Tommy Newsom, alto sax; Mundell Lowe, guitar; Joel DiBartolo, bass and Ed Shaugnessy, drums. The piece was included in a compilation album at the dawn of the CD era in the early 1980s.  <\/p>\n<p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mn-8E4IRlgQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>While we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at it, in case you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve forgotten how good Sheldon was at 25, here he is with bassist Curtis Counce\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Quintet in 1956. Harold Land is the tenor saxophonist, Carl Perkins the pianist, Frank Butler the drummer. Land\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s composition is the title track from the first of the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s several albums for the Contemporary label. Concord, the custodian of the Contemporary catalog, seems to have let the CD go out of print, but the album is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vol-1-Landslide-Curtis-Group-Counce\/dp\/B000000YSC\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">available as an MP3 download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CaRCY77AxGw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Best wishes to Jack Sheldon as he recovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cover photo of the out-of-print 1981 album to the left appears to show Jack Sheldon playing his trumpet left-handed. Whether someone reversed the picture by mistake or as an ironic turn on the album title is beside the point. It turned out to be prophetic. Left-handed is the only way Sheldon can play now. 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