Shorty Petterstein
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"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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