Sesame Workshop: Ken Diego, director Andrew Moriarty, writer Paul Rudolph, music director, vocals Matt Vogel: puppet captain, Big Bird, Count von Count, Mr. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Wynton Marsalis, music director, trumpet Ryan Kisor, trumpet Kenny Rampton, trumpet Marcus Printup, trumpet Vincent Gardner, trombone Chris Crenshaw, trombone Elliot Mason, trombone Sherman Irby, alto saxophone Ted Nash, alto saxophone Victor Goines, tenor saxophone Janelle Reichman, tenor saxophone Paul Nedzela, baritone saxophone Dan Nimmer, piano Carlos Henriquez, bass Jason Marsalis, drums. Like the rest of this show, it carries a core truth: "You could be serious and have your musical skill set impeccable," as Fiedler aptly puts it, "and still have it be fun."
As its name suggests, the group takes a freewheeling approach to songs from the show - as we'll hear in a recording from The Jazz Gallery in New York. The in-demand trombonist Joe Fiedler, an associate musical director for Sesame Street, started a band a few years back called Open Sesame, with peers like Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Jeff Lederer on saxophone. We'll hear from Raposo's fellow songwriter Chris Cerf, and Hoots the Owl ( ahem, that would be Chris Thomas Hayes,) who sings Cerf's tune "Put Down the Duckie." Marsalis will share his thoughts about Big Bird and Elmo too.īut it doesn't stop there. On this episode of Jazz Night in America, we'll feature music from that show while exploring the jazz undercurrent in Sesame Street's history, which goes back to its first musical director, the late Joe Raposo. It was also a joyous acknowledgment of the role music has played on the show, with those familiar characters and their talented puppeteers dashing about the stage, as they sang custom new arrangements of "Doin' the Pigeon" and "Elmo's Song." Bert and Ernie.Ī Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration - the title of that boisterous concert, a new album and PBS broadcast special - was a 50th-anniversary party for Sesame Street, the beloved educational television series.
Then there were the guest artists, whom everybody knew on a first-name basis: Big Bird, Elmo, Rosita, Oscar, Abby. For one thing, every grown-up in the audience seemed to be accompanied by an excited child or two.
It wasn't your typical crowd in the Rose Theater one afternoon last fall, for a sold-out concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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