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Genio e sregolatezza: spesso i musicisti jazz si sono riconosciuti in questo assioma. L'eccentricità appartiene da sempre al patrimonio espressivo dei grandi di ogni forma artistica, basti pensare a Thelonious Monk, Salvador Dali, Glenn Gould, Eric Satie, J.D. Salinger e potrei continuare a lungo.

Anche Louis Armstrong era un personaggio bizzarro: dopo aver fatto la pubblicità per un noto lassativo stampò i suoi biglietti da visita con una foto che lo ritraeva seduto sul water, calzoni abbassati e scritta inequivocabile: "Satchmo says put it all behind you."

All About Jazz prova a tracciare un elenco di bizzarrie di noti jazzman e anche di altrettante jazzladies. Ne riporto l'incipt e come sempre rimando la lettura integrale al link a piè pagina:

Benny Goodman. When he was 15, Goodman was arrested for stealing women's panties from washing lines in neighbors' back gardens. The habit persisted throughout the clarinetist's adult life. On tour, Goodman would disappear when the band bus halted for a meal break, and come back with paper bags stuffed with undergarments. By the time a tour ended, half the space in the bus' storage compartment was filled by Goodman's pilfered panties. In an odd twist, he would present the eight most form fitting examples to his wife as Hanukkah gifts.

John Coltrane. Albert Ayler is well known for his love of leather suits (green ones, particularly). Less well known is fellow saxophonist Coltrane's obsession with lederhosen. Coltrane bought his first pair on tour in Germany in 1963 and is believed to have acquired over 300 pairs by the time of his death four years later. He regularly threw barbecues at his upstate New York home where he and pianist Alice Coltrane would model their latest purchases to music provided by a local oompah band. Pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones both quit Coltrane's "classic quartet" when Coltrane insisted they wore lederhosen on stage

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