https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/25/1
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Infamous moments in jazz
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Aug. 11 1957: Tito Puente loses the beat Nov. 3, 1963: Ella Fitzgerald hits a flat note Sept 9, 1948: Dizzy Gilespie can’t find B July 14, 1974: Oscar Peterson forgets the chords to “Heart and Soul.”
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Does someone else do the colouring? I struggle to believe that jazz fan Gary Larson would make the three black musicians white, and I don’t get the impression that it is malicious
I don’t have dates for any of these :/
It was rare in black-and-white comics to make someone dark-skinned because dark patches in general tended not to ‘read’ well in that medium. (This is the same reason Hobbes eventually lost the pads on his front paws.) And if I recall this comic was first in newspapers in black and white.
So I suspect that whoever colored it just didn’t know his jazz history.
The jazz aficionado in me sneers at the fact that Larson fucked up the title. It’s Body and Soul, bud!
Body and soul is indeed a jazz standard but heart and soul is a far more common song that every 8 year old learns. You are now subscribed to joke explainer
