Jazz Anecdotes Essay

We had an assignment for the semester about reading the book called "Jazz Anecdotes".

This book was written by a jazz musician called Bill Crown; in which him recollect many stories from some of the first jazz musicians. In the book he relates the humor and the different kind of characters in the world of jazz musicians. The book is full of histories that jazz musicians have past on to one another. The whole book is loaded with comical and priceless jokes, pranks, biographies, nicknames, things that happened on the road and unforgettable things that happened while they were playing in the clubs or doing a "gig".

The first thing that I liked the most was in page eighteen, when Beaver Harris Made an appearance in Tokyo in live television. When I start to read the first chapter of the book it was very funny, all the thing that this musicians went through, all the experiences and the memories. Some of the reasons of why I think that this scene is the one that I enjoy the most is because musicians were constantly having a good time, and their sense of humor was amazing. Also that when he said the comment about Hiroshima, they could gone to jail for that, but they just took it like if it wasn't something really bad, he didn't matter that it was live television, he just went with it. Another thing that you can see is that these musicians were people that got your back no matter what you did. One thing that got me on the floor laughing was the comment that Archie said "we come in peace....'. What was he thinking; he was also from the US. These guys just didn't care of what people might say of them. The second thing that I like the most was in page

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