The Sound of Bleeding Gums/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- When Lisa talks about Bleeding Gums Murphy's first recording, she tells the Blue-haired lawyer that he played alongside Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse. The picture Lisa shows is actually a real photograph taken by William P. Gottlieb in 1947, which featured four prominent jazzists, namely Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill.
- Lisa has a Kenny G music book, Songs for the Uninspired.
- As seen in posters at Monk Murphy's house, Bleeding Gums Murphy played at Monterey Jazz Festival and Umbria Jazz Festival, two important jazz festivals, with the latter being held in Italy. In that poster, Murphy is playing next to the Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia, Umbria.
- Pictures on the wall at The Jazz Hole include McCoy Tyner, who played with John Coltrane, Gerald Wilson, who Lisa calls "the west coast Duke Ellington", and Sarah Vaughan.
- Treasured Artists Publishing sold Bleeding Gums Murphy's rights to Nike, Lay's potato chips, Turkish oligarchs, and Evil Corp.
- The giant hologram of Bleeding Gums Murphy is shown performing at Piazza San Marco in Venice.
- Bleeding Gums Murphy tells Lisa that he's always magically here for her, like Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance and Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy. He then plays the theme song for Driving Miss Daisy.
- In Lisa's imagination, Bleeding Gums Murphy crashes into the characters from Green Book.
- The Sky's the Limit is a reference to No Limits, a charity for deaf children who were thanked in the credits for the episode.
- Monk Murphy is directing a production of Richard III.
- Bleeding Gums Murphy performs "Monk's New Tune", originally by Michael Franks from the album Dragonfly Summer.
- The song played at the end is "Happy Talk" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.
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