Most of the time, I have no idea why he's playing what he's playing, and it's useless to try to associate the guest with the walk-on music. Sometimes, it'll have a relationship (direct or indirect), but there have been many shows where everyone gets the same music.
Moving on from there, I don't know who books the musical acts, but they generally have two things in common: They're loud and they're terrible, --Dave Sikula On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 1:57:58 PM UTC-7, PGage wrote: > > The Monk insight has been very helpful for me overall in thinking about > this I music on the show (if not about this specific instance). It suggests > that, while he occasionally plays guests on with music related to them, > more often he is working off of some other theme - maybe often related to > jazz. We know that when Aretha died he used her music for all of one show, > and he recently used all Prince music on occasion of a release of new music > from his estate. I like Jazz in general and Monk in particular, but unless > it is from well known tracks I would not recognize many references. > > Perhaps the Murder, She Wrote theme was the closest tv reference to > something related to whatever musical theme he was using that night? > > <Pause for quick Wikipedia check). The Murder theme was written by British > composer John Addison who died in 1998. He did a lot of film and TV scores, > and some classical compositions. Maybe Batiste studied some of this things > in grad school. I vaguely recognize the story the Wikis tell that Addison > had been a British solider involved in Operation Market Garden, and then > wrote the score to the film “A Bridge Too Far” about the ill-fated > operation. > > > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 12:22 PM 'brugdr' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Batiste was on Fresh Air this past Wednesday, and parts of that show are >> in the weekend Best Of episode. >> >> >> https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2018/09/26/651815801/fresh-air-for-sept-26-2018-musician-jon-batiste >> >> The Late Show specific material starts around the 30 minute mark and runs >> about 10 minutes. Turns out both Terry Gross and Batiste love Monk. >> Regrettably, aside from that we don't get much resolution on the topic at >> hand. >> >> David >> >> >> -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
