Just a note that, on Monday's show, Colbert did a plug for his book "Whose Boat Is This Boat?" (the proceeds to which go to hurricane victims). Batiste commented on it by singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," which he then played for Jake Tapper's walk-out.
--Dave Sikula On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 2:58:52 PM UTC-7, Dave Sikula wrote: > > 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 < >> tvor...@googlegroups.com> 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
