Cartoon Jazz

Raymond Scott fit in cartoons from the 30s and 40s as well.

Anyway, Don Byron's album "Bug Music" fits the bill.

Thank you. Good recommendation, I see 'bug music' is some sort of covers album. The afformentioned 'powerhouse' and some other raymond scott tunes get covered.

When I think 30's and 40's cartoon soundtrack, most of the time big bands and swing comes to mind, specially Django Reinhardt. I will gladly eat any recommendations you have for this as well :)

boswell sisters?

I had to laugh at the thread title, because my wife tends to refer to any 1930s jazz as "cartoon music."

Django is a good call. And there's always Duke Ellington.

Carl Stalling's music was soundtrack for the Warner Bros. cartoons. Don't know if that counts...

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Thank you, been checking the recommendations and theyre great.

(1935) Billy Costello - I'm Popeye, the Sailor Man
(1930) Helen Kane - Dangerous Nan McGrew
(1934) Jimmy Durante - Inka Dinka Doo
(1943) Gene Autry - In Old Capistrano
(1927) Waring's Pennsylvanians - I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For ICE CREAM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Kane

Thanks pappawheelie a bit too literal on the cartoon take but I love these songs, Helen Kane freaks me out though.

Helen Kane's cutsie pie routine can get wearying. I recently saw a rare early sound feature starring Kane called Pointed Heels. Her two (I believe) songs were fine and the film itself was terrific for how it tested the limits of sync sound technology in an almost macho way. But ugh, Kane delivered all her dialogue in that Betty Boop voice as well and you just had to be thankful she played in a comic secondary role rather than a lead.

Probably a lot of Sun Ra would work for cartoons of that era.Ornette Coleman, Mingus, The Klezmatics too. Not exactly jazz, but a lot of modes etc that 60s 70s and later jazz uses: right now I'm listening to a band from Tel Aviv, Boom Pam. They mix several kinds of Israeli music, incl a showstopper from a Hasidic musical comedy, lots of surf music, incl Dick Dale themes (he's Lebanese, and says a lot of his ideas come from Middle East); Greek, Turkish, Baltic dance music, but what kills are the guitars, though the drummer's great too (seems to play tymphani sometimes) and the tuba player, who usually does the bass, but is versatile, plus guest vocalists etc--wild and tight! The album (their second, got the first around here somewhere) is titles Puerto Rican Nights, why not. Their site:
http://www.boompam.org

Lots of Perez Prado fits, but try Perdido, or April in Portugal, or Mambo a la Kenton. Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras. Also Louis Jordan -- too obvious?

I was trying to stick to music of the 60s, 70s and compatible later stuff, but if earlier, why not Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys, or other prime western swing, which a first-time listener tagged as "Bugs Bunny music"(compliment)