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Brian Smithson
in the current movie "White Men Can't Jump"? He was one of the Venice Beach
Boys, or so I think they were called. Were any of the others notable?
I didn't recognize the names or voices.
For that matter, are there other unexpected treats in other movies out
there? You know, like Miles Davis as one of the parking lot attendants
in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? (just kidding :-)
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>there? You know, like Miles Davis as one of the parking lot attendants
>in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? (just kidding :-)
How about Miles, Dave Sanbourn and Paul Schaffer playing "We Three Kings"
in "Scrooged".
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Marc Sabatella
> For that matter, are there other unexpected treats in other movies out
> there? You know, like Miles Davis as one of the parking lot attendants
> in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? (just kidding :-)
Actually, that reminds me, when attending a World Series game at Candlestick a
few years ago (actually, I never got to see the game - it was the infamous
Earthquake game), there were a whole bunch of people out directing traffic
through the parking lot. All were young/middle-aged black men wearing white
lab coats. The one who directed our car had glasses and a goatee. My friend
and I joked that it was a Lester Bowie lookalike contest.
But to answer your question:
Dexter Gordon, in addition to starring in "Round Midnight", had a role as one
of Robin Williams' patients in "Awakenings".
Branford Marsalis was Billy Crystal's neighbor in "Throw Mama From The Train".
Miles, of course, stars in the recently released "Dingo", plus he had a Honda
commercial a few years ago. I vaguely recall him playing a drug lord or some
other equivalent bad guy on Miami Vice.
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Gidi Avrahami
>Branford Marsalis was Billy Crystal's neighbor in "Throw Mama From The Train".
Branford also plays one of Larry Fishbourne's buddies in Spike Lee's
SCHOOL DAZE. He just walks around with a small sax and acts stupid.
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Joe Hellerstein
> Miles, of course, stars in the recently released "Dingo", plus he had a Honda
> commercial a few years ago. I vaguely recall him playing a drug lord or some
> other equivalent bad guy on Miami Vice.
>
I've definitely heard a story of Miles doing toothpaste commercials in
Japan, where he's more widely recognized than here. True?
Joe Hellerstein
william.j.hery
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS and MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON. In MOSCOW... there is a
scene where Robin Williams shows someone in his apartment a record album,
and its recognizable as COLEMAN HAWKINS AT THE VILLAGE GATE (~1962, with
Tommy Flanagan and Major Holly), which was long out os print at the
time the film was made (it's now out on CD). The music in the
background is really the music form the album!
In HANNAH, htere is a scene with Woody and a woman (Mia Farrow??) having
an argument accross opposite sides of a record rack in what looks like
the uptown NYC Tower Records. Woody is pretending to browse through
the records, and picks up a Randy Weston album on PAUSA called simply
Randy Weston; the album wsa in cut out bins when the movie came out,
so it might have been in print when it was filmed and just a random
pick by Woody.
The cameo that I'd like to see but never made it to the screen is Mingus
in Bob Hope's ROAD TO ZANZIBAR. At the ti4me the film was made, Mingus
was liveing in LA and was hired to be part of a group of African warriors
(complete with paint). He was filmed, but that section wound up being cut.
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Jeff Beer
>For a couple of "twice removed" cameos by jazz musicians, try Woody Allen's
>HANNAH AND HER SISTERS and MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON. In MOSCOW... there is a
>scene where Robin Williams shows someone in his apartment a record album,
>and its recognizable as COLEMAN HAWKINS AT THE VILLAGE GATE (~1962, with
>Tommy Flanagan and Major Holly), which was long out os print at the
>time the film was made (it's now out on CD). The music in the
>background is really the music form the album!
I heard somewhere when they stuck their head in a club, the band had
drummer Cindy Blackman on camera.
Somebody told me Elvin Jones made some cameos. Didn't Dex do that a
bit? Then there also was a line in some movie by Tommy Dorsey, saying
"let's go hear Art Tatum and hear some _REAL_ music"
Jeff
Brian Smithson
>[...] Then there also was a line in some movie by Tommy Dorsey, saying
>"let's go hear Art Tatum and hear some _REAL_ music"
I think that was an actor playing Tommy Dorsey in "The Fabulous Dorseys".
However, it was the *real* Art Tatum playing. It's quite a treat --
worth sitting through an otherwise sappy movie. It's been a while since
I saw the movie, but I think that there were other cameos worth seeing.
It seems like it was part of a mini-genre of movies from the period --
The Glenn Miller Story, The Benny Goodman Story, et al -- all rather
stylized renditions of those people's lives, but I think that they are
full of interesting cameos.