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I have come to the conclusion that, apart from talent, to be a successful jazz or funk musician you need to have a really cool name/nickname.

For example:

William 'Bootsy' Collins, Rodney 'Skeet' Curtis, Robert 'Kool' Bell, Thelonius Monk, Pharaoh Sanders, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Joseph 'Zigaboo' Modeliste, Jaco Pastorius, Tal Wilkenfeld, Ornette Coleman, James 'Blood' Ulmer, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Chuck Mangione, Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Francis Rocco Prestia, Oscar Cartaya, Abe Laboriel, Jack DeJohnette, Tito Puente, Stanley Turrentine, Hugh Masekela, Chick Corea.

Not a duffer amongst them. I rest my case.

Posted

Thing is, just about all those names in the OP originate from the US.
They have such cool place names too that work when added to peoples names, for instance with Blues players, e.g., 'Mississippi' John Hurt, 'Memphis' Slim, etc.
I guess 'Scunthorpe' Bert Higginbottom doesn't quite have the same ring to it! :)

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[quote name='Pete Academy' post='579415' date='Aug 24 2009, 07:15 PM']What I'm getting at is, if your parents christen you [b]Thelonius Monk[/b], do you automatically aspire to be a jazz musician?[/quote]

As long as they don't christen you "Harry Monk" you can be whatever you wanna be.

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Blues name generator.

[url="http://www.outliermusic.com/jokes_bluesname.htm"]http://www.outliermusic.com/jokes_bluesname.htm[/url]

Apparently I'm [i]Blind Fingers Jones.[/i]

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[quote name='MacDaddy' post='579585' date='Aug 24 2009, 09:33 PM']Blues name generator.

[url="http://www.outliermusic.com/jokes_bluesname.htm"]http://www.outliermusic.com/jokes_bluesname.htm[/url]

Apparently I'm [i]Blind Fingers Jones.[/i][/quote]

Mine is [i]Boney Bones Dupree[/i]
:)

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[quote name='MacDaddy' post='579585' date='Aug 24 2009, 09:33 PM']Blues name generator.

[url="http://www.outliermusic.com/jokes_bluesname.htm"]http://www.outliermusic.com/jokes_bluesname.htm[/url]

Apparently I'm [i]Blind Fingers Jones.[/i][/quote]
Yo, 'Blind [i]Sugar[/i] Jones' here! :)

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[quote name='JackLondon' post='579591' date='Aug 24 2009, 09:41 PM']Mine is [i]Boney Bones Dupree[/i]
:)[/quote]

I'm Curley "bad-boy" Bailey

I wish, I'm a spam.

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[quote name='leschirons' post='579662' date='Aug 24 2009, 10:47 PM']I've just put in the intitials of the name it first gave me and now I'm "Crippled Money McGee" Jeez, this could go on for ever.[/quote]
Yeh, that works even better.
Now I'm Muddy BadBoy Washington.

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[quote name='Stingray5' post='579607' date='Aug 24 2009, 09:55 PM']Yo, 'Blind [i]Sugar[/i] Jones' here! :)[/quote]


We must be related

Regards
Jailhouse Sugar hopkins

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