Lou Grant 509 Jazz

[@maidenmarian1]

This is marvelous. The music is prime!

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

That was a sweet sound .... I wish I could find a good jazz joint these days .... I was a rock kid but I mellowed into jazz lately

[@markjohnston8631]

This is one of my favorite episodes of this great series - mostly for the music, which is awesome, but also because it offers some great background on some of the characters. I love knowing that Charlie was an old jazz fan.

[@montemichelbleu]

so great to be revisiting one the best tv shows ever.

[@jennifermullis9265]

Totally!

[@tankstoner8496]

Robert Walden was in a Doo-Wop group Bobby & The Chord-A-Roys when he was 17 in 1960

[@cedricliggins7528]

What a treat to see Joe Williams.

[@EstrafaDC]

And Louie Bellson and Ray Brown!!!

[@EstrafaDC]

Makes me wonder if the writer of this episode, Rogers Turrentine, was any relation to Stanley Turrentine!

[@michellepost5232]

I watched some of these eps when new. It was a good fast paced show. I always liked Ed Asner. You tube must be offering up several old shows suddenly, on account of the virus. I don't recall seeing these eps before on You Tube. It is like these shows come and go...watch them while you can because they might vanish. Just like Alice and Designing Women seemed to.

[@lordmusea]

Is that Ray Brown on bass!??!?! And Joe Williams singing?!?! Best week of the year!!

[@anny1613]

The joint owner is Charlie the bartender from The Jeffersons 🙂

[@robertmartinez4174]

To The Younger people, look at what life was like before The Cellular Phone.

[@robribant6716]

The reporter with the red sweater in the hotel room was the towns sheriff on Newhart. He was great on that show.

[@thomash.schwed3662]

That actor, Todd Susman, was also one of the regular announcers on "M*A*S*H", in which we actually see him in one episode as Pvt. Danny Baker, for whom Hawkeye and Trapper arranged a nose surgery by Hawkeye's friend, played by Stuart Margolin. Needless to say, that establishes a Gene Reynolds connection.

[@marystrenke3050]

I'd watch Jed all day long, always interesting characters.

[@dr.johnpaladinshow9747]

31:00 Note that he is playing the show theme song. Just the basic melody line. One can really hear it starting at 31:25 Now that's how jazz works. Clever & Cool man.

[@arttrombley7385]

"Hey !, thas like Jew and Me mang, We always Hassle but We get the food out ". Puerto Rican guys are so funny. :-)

[@MrMenefrego1]

I guess the drummer with the ridiculous toupee represents the great Buddy Rich?

[@osusannaro12]

Louie Belson. Look him up!

[@gwenniegirl50]

@@osusannaro12Also husband of Pearl Bailey

[@cathykinn4516]

The ubiquitous but never seen Rosenthal! Like Maris in Frasier! Jed is a bit.. irritating. Is it the character or the actor. Both seem full of themselves. Poor Mrs P, thinking she had a scoop, must have been frustrating at times being a Publisher & yet never being in the thick of things, investigating. And then just when she thinks she has a juicy piece of info she hears she has been 'pipped to the post'. The Jazz story - what a Great word that is, perfectly describes the music, who cane up with it? - illustrates how being in a band is like a marriage.

[@dalereynolds7638]

"Rosenthal doesn't work well with groups." "Why do we keep Rosenthal around?" ha ha. There is no Rosenthal. Interesting gimmick - an imaginary character -- in a comedy drama series.

[@thomash.schwed3662]

I can't help but think that the "Rosenthal" character was part of Gene Reynolds' influence, a reference to Tuttle on "M*A*S*H". That character was written as Hawkeye's imaginary friend, and yet was listed in the closing credits of that episode.