Maybe Budd wasn't supposed to play when he taught at Queens College, but he played with Jay McShann in 1984 in Kansas City. The Westin Crown Center hotel had a very shortlived jazz club in its lobby, the Signboard Lounge, which booked name acts who would play every night for a week or two, until the policy was quickly discontinued. The night that we saw McShann there, the crowd was less than 25 people. Budd died in the middle of the engagement, having played his last gig there.