Jazz musician jams with animals

David Rothenberg is a jazz clarinetist who jams with animals, specifically birds and whales. He's also a philosophy professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and wrote two books on his efforts to make music with birds and whales: Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Birdsong and Thousand Mile Songs: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound. BB pal Oril Cotel interviewed Rothenberg for Sierra Club Radio. The episode also features bits of his animal audio collaborations. David Rothenberg on Sierra Club Radio

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

Tarliman

Paul Winter did this back in the late 70s – early 80s, jamming with wolves and hawks and such. See his album “Common Ground” (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Common_Ground_%28Paul_Winter_album%29), released in 1978.
- Anonymous
  
  The Paul Winter jam with the wolves is great!
Anonymous

Why does he wants to have sax with animals???
doggo

Hippie.
Anonymous

Making “jam” with animals? DONT KILL MORE ANIMALS!!! Peace for the new world.
publanski

I used to jam with our African Grey parrot back when I was in college. Every time I started playing guitar, Andrew would start “singing” along. He would make screeches and howls and whistles that were obviously meant to complement the music. Only someone programmed to believe that animals don’t have this ability could listen to the recordings and deny that he was singing along with what I was playing. His timing was great.
Khoa

err. he may be a jazz clarinetist…but what’s pictured is him playing a soprano saxophone…
David Pescovitz

yep
rawdiant

Sax with animals is wrong.
Mistico

Reminded me of Rashaan Roland Kirk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enjkGjRxjkU
butfirst

Heh, when I read that headline the first thing I thought of was Dog Malfunction – Jazz Version.
Brainspore

David Rothenberg is a jazz clarinetist who jams with animals, specifically birds…

I thought Charlie Parker died in the ’50s?
David Pescovitz

Swapped the photo for one with him playing the clarinet!