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Shorty Petterstein
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Shorty Petterstein was an alter ego of Henry Jacobs, used for the 1958 album "The Wide, Weird World of Shorty Petterstein". Henry Sandy Jacobs (October 9, 1924 – September 25, 2015) was an American sound artist and humorist. Jacobs was born in Chicago, Illinois. After a tour in the Air Corps —during which time he acquired some broadcast experience— he graduation from the University of Chicago, he then moved to Mexico City. There, around 1950, he appeared on Mexican radio station XEW and fledgling television station XHTV. In 1952, Jacobs returned to Chicago and began experimenting with reel to reel tape recorders, taking particular advantage of the ease with which they made it possible to manipulate sound directly. Ambient, everyday sound, and especially the structural variety of apparently spontaneous sounds, interested him; at one point he ventured to Haiti to make street recordings. While attending graduate courses at the University of Illinois, he also produced a regular program on the campus radio station (WILL) entitled Music and Folklore, which is believed by some to be one of the first presentations of "world music" to an American audience. Jacobs often brought experts in certain ethnic musics onto the show to provide background information. When no experts were available, he would not infrequently fake it - most notably in the case of "Sholem Stein", a putative Hebrew musicologist who claimed that calypso music had deep Rabbinical meanings. These were largely impro
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Wide Weird World - More Interviews of Our Time
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The Best Of The Beat Generation
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Ultimate Beatnik Collection, Vol. 3
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Ultimate Beatnik Collection, Vol. 2
The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein
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Beat Generation Jazz
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The Lonely Beat
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The Wide, Weird, World of Shorty Petterstein
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the wide, weird world of shorty petterstein
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Trashcan Records, Vol. 31: Jazz Dramatic
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The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein (More Interviews of Our Time)
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Trashcan Records Vol.31