Reviews

Voice of America - October 6, 2008

Orchestra Specializes in Cartoon Jazz

-by Adam Phillips

From the 1930's through the 1950s, Big Band jazz was an immensely popular form of American music. Swinging ensembles of horns, drums, strings and keyboards played music that was not only great to dance to. It also worked as the musical accompaniment for most of the animated shorts of the era – a time often described as the Golden Age of American cartoons. But those merry melodies were more than mere kid stuff, as VOA's Adam Phillips reports.

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J. - The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California -

That’s not all, folks!

Bay Area sax player revives the tunes we used to hear with the toons

- by Dan Pine

Most big bands’ set lists include tunes like “Take the ‘A’ Train” and “Sing, Sing, Sing.” Jeff Sanford’s jazz band does the Flintstones theme and “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo.”

That’s because Sanford prefers toon tunes. The Redwood City resident is the founder of Cartoon Jazz Orchestra, a Bay Area ensemble that performs the merry melodies heard in America’s animated classics, from Bugs to Bart.

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San Francisco Chronicle - January 4, 2004

A jazz band inspired by Looney Tunes

- by Jesse Hamlin

"Millions of us who grew up watching the crafty wabbit, Daffy Duck and the Roadrunner were weaned on Scott's fun-house music -- patches of "Dinner Music for a Pack of

Hungry Cannibals," "Powerhouse," "War Dance for Wooden Indians" -- without knowing it. "

"(...) the wild energy and shifting colors of this music, which, like Gershwin's and Monk's, pulses with the

rushing rhythms and blaring horns of modern city life."

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