Shorty Petterstein
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, we'd like you to meet Shorty Petterstein, who is one of the up and coming jazz, uh, French trump- trumpeters, do they call 'em Oscar?" "No, man, I blow, um, French horn, man. I blow French horn, man." "Would you get a little, just a, a little closer to the microphone?" "French horn man." --"Interview with Shorty Petterstein" (1955) by Henry Jacobs "Well, you know, if a cat wants to blow and he wants to blow, and uh then he’s got to have a scene where he can blow."--"Interview with Shorty Petterstein" (1955) by Henry Jacobs |
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Shorty Petterstein is a fictional character created by Henry Jacobs, perhaps based on the real life musicians Wayne Shorter and Oscar Peterson. He is a caricature of a hipster jazz musician who made his debut on "Interview with Shorty Petterstein" (1955) which was featured on 2 Interviews Of Our Time (1955). Petterstein is also featured on The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (1958) .
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