Trying To Get Good the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon / a Penny Peyser - Doug McIntyre film / 2008 Bialystock & Bloom Inc./February Films / DVD Video 

Playtime is 1 Hrs. 29 Mins.

"COMPELLING AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING" -Leonard Maltin ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT

Featuring: Chris Botti, Billy Crystal, Clint Eastwood, Dave Frishberg, Merv Griffin, Johnny Mandel, Tierney Sutton and many more! With classic songs from SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK. Plus Bonus Features!

"Gorgeously lyrical, painfully sad and hysterically funny." -Brick Wahl, LA Weekly

Who is Jack Sheldon? You may remember him as Merv Griffin's trumpet-wielding sidekick, or the indelible voice on School House Rock, but musicians know him as a jazz giant. Trying to Get Good features historic footage with Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton and Jack's close friendship with Chet Baker, Lenny Bruce among many others. On-camera interviews and never before seen original footage of Jack in concert exposes Hollywood's best kept Secret... when the stars come out to play, it's Jack Sheldon who plays for them. Trying to Get Good takes a look deep inside the eternally dissatisfied soul of an artist who's not only just rying to get good" on the trumpet, but in his life as well.

"Laugh-filled!" - Tony Geiske, The Hollywood Reporter

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