Did you know...
...that Lester Bowie wrote the Cosby Show's theme song for Season 8? I didn't until today. I saw a videotape of Bill Cosby talking about Louis Armstrong and Lester Bowie for a special introduction he recorded for a tribute to Louis Armstrong that Lester Bowie did shortly before his death in 1999, here in Chicago. In fact, I think it was his last show.
I'm going to try and get it digitized to post it, because seeing Bill Cosby talk about Lester Bowie is priceless.
More of substance tomorrow....
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Well, Cosby wasn't as friendly to all members of the AACM -- from this report:
"[Anthony Braxon] told how Bill Cosby, one of the gatekeepers [of the neo-con jazz agenda], had emailed his agent to ask him to participate as a session musician in a band Cosby had organized for the Playboy Jazz Festival. He described how bitter he was towards Cosby's use of his name in his TV show. He said that on the show, the son Teo [sic], was looking for drugs and the pusher was named Anthony Braxton. He (like anyone else) took great offense to this."
It's true: that Cosby Show episode was called "Theo And The Joint", the 17th episode of the first season.
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Submitted by Jason Guthartz on Wed, 04/25/2007 - 10:52am.Well that is lame. Interesting that he could dig on Bowie and the Art Ensemble but dis Mr. Braxton.
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Submitted by Daniel Melnick on Wed, 04/25/2007 - 1:37pm.