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
On Friday, September 28, 2018, 9:39:48 AM EDT, PGage
<[email protected]> wrote:
Well, yes - that is my default assumption.
I have just been trying to bend over backwards to see if I am missing
something. As I have noted here a couple of times, his use of play-on music has
been puzzling to me. It often (more accurately, sometimes) seems neither a
reference to the guest, nor just an independent musical choice, but in some odd
and often discordant way “guest adjacent”. The most obvious explanation is that
a young guy who spent his youth becoming a world class musician and hanging out
win cool places rather than watching TV and mainlining pop culture makes
occasional mistakes (after all, apparently if Bob Newhart was a guest and I was
the musical director I would play him on with the theme from Murder She Wrote)
but maybe it is some kind of modern New Orleans Jazz way of playing the music
you don’t expect, or something.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:40 AM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote:
Another possibility: Somebody thinks Candice Bergen starred in "Murder, She
Wrote."
Sometimes a screwup is just a screwup.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 2:23 AM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
FWIW, I was in the 'Newhart' boat on my initial listen.
The best I can find for a connection are two pretty obscure items:
* A Murphy Brown episode called "Burger, She Wrote" around the theft of a
burger restaurant mascot* Candice Bergen and Angela Lansbury starred on
Broadway in a 2012 production of The Best Man.
David
On Thursday, September 27, 2018, 11:17:07 PM EDT, Diner
<[email protected]> wrote:
It was the theme to "Murder, She Wrote."And no, I couldn't
figure out the connection either.
On Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 10:36:44 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote:Last night’s
show was a good example of the questions I have about Batiste (I do notice I
had been spelling and saying his name incorrectly).
I am pretty sure he played on Candice Bergen with the theme from Newhart. This
raised the question, is there a sly or subtle connection (I checked to see if
maybe she was born or went to school in Vermont, but no) or was it possible
they somehow confused the shows. Or, as frankly seems his approach much of the
time, did they just choose a random TV sitcom them to play in her honor? I want
to think there is a cryptic, smart or hip explanation for things like this, but
not sure what it is.
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