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Yeah, I got some custom musicians earplugs too within my first year in the KC Symphony Chorus (custom earmolds, with inserts for 15db and 25db reduction, and of course you didn’t have to use the same inserts in both ears at the same time). My mom was an audiologist, and taught audiology at the masters-degree level — and she insisted I get a pair. And I’ve been wearing them to rock concerts for over 25 years. They weren’t cheap, but they were worth every penny.

I sang in the Kansas City Symphony for most of 10 years, often in the front row of the baritones — less than 6 feet from the bells of the French Horn section.

That sounds like a Mitch Hedberg joke. I mean, it is a Mitch Hedberg joke, but it sounds like one too.

Disc 1 and Disc 3 have the roughest sound on the set. It mostly only gets better after that (though I think Disc 2 sounds pretty good).

That’s a certifiable Andy Rooneyism right there.

It must have been his second appearance, which ends pretty abruptly — he never gets the chance to reply to her closing, so I think they really did a hard chop-edit to the thing. Appears he was on twice, and I may try and give these a listen at some point… https://freshairarchive.org/guests/howard-hesseman

Trust, but verify — gotcha.

Or how about Judi Singh, for that matter. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.591966 https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2021/02/19/judi-singh-a-black-south-asian-musician-from-1950s-70s-edmonton/ http://citizenfreak.com/titles/300644-singh-judy-a-time-for-love https://www.discogs.com/artist/4265027-Judy-Singh Unless I’m mistaken, she’s the one and the same who wrote and sings on this…

We could get curious about Katrina Krimsky, while we’re at it… https://www.discogs.com/release/5836689-Katrina-Krimsky-Katrina-Krimsky

Yeah, I remember Sandy getting top billing too — which I’m not saying he didn’t deserve. Just that all of them deserved it, in a way. Such a great cast. What I loved about Hesseman in KRP was how big and small his character was, all at the same time. He was at the center of so much, but always at the periphery too. He was both larger than life, AND the most “practically fade-into-the-wallpaper” character ever. He was everything and nothing. Very zen.

WKRP was an absolute classic — and Hesseman was almost the lead among many in a very, very strong cast. But the great thing was that nobody in that cast dominated. They were all equals, to my way of looking at it. Closest parallel might be Barney Miller, though Hal Linden might have be just a skosh greater in prominence. But the great thing about Hesseman was how he was both the biggest character, but also the most laidback/quietest character, all at the same time. The writing surely had a lot to do with that too, but so did Howard’s well calibrated portrayal.

For easier, quick comparison…

It’s also on Vol 1 of the Woody/Louis-Hayes “On Tour” 2016 Highnote. https://www.discogs.com/release/19683304-Woody-Shaw-Louis-Hayes-The-Tour-Volume-One Isn’t it interesting how utterly unrecognizable Joyce’s version is?? I doubt I would have figured it out myself. The entire tune’s all there, but it sure is something else, I’ll say that.

No sampling tricks. Somebody we all love recorded this song, and had it in their book for at least a couple years (evidence the two live recordings I also have). If you heard the version we all know, you’d instantly recognize it. But it’s totally the same song. Joyce’s version isn’t all that different, but it under-emphasizes aspects of the tune that might trigger recognition. (Or the version we all know punches them up, is a better way of saying it.)

You (Jim), of all people, have heard this song (somewhere else). I guarantee it, 100%. I have 3 versions of this song on CD — and the autographs of two musicians who were part of the lineups of said recordings. You probably own one or two copies yourself, Jim. At least one.

Nobody anybody’s ever heard of, but fwiw, her initials are PS.

Joyce - “Sunbath”

Still hoping something of this band somehow surfaces… April? 1969: Woody Shaw-t; Tyrone Washington-ts; George Cables-p; Scotty Holt-b – Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University, NYC (February 24, 1969) [db 3/20/69 p.15] – Loeb Student Center, New York University, NYC (March 3, 1969) [db 3/20/69 p.15] – Fillmore East, NYC (March 9, 1969) [db 3/20/69 pp.14, 52] Black Bottom, Montreal, Canada (April? 1969) [Coda 6/69 p.34] Café La Boheme (early April-early May 1969) [Voice] [this is questionable considering the below activity]

Interesting! Did you play-with/know Bob Kenmotsu back in the 80’s any too? (Or any of the other players from this Shintaro Quintet album, for that matter?) And David, speaking on Don Moore, have you (or has anyone?) ever heard the rest of that short probably 30-minute set by Joe/Bobby/Elvin/Don-Moore? Beyond just this one track. Somewhere around here I posted all the details (only 3 tunes, iirc, but the titles are known). But does the entire performance circulate at all?

Ah, well, hey — then the Bill Barron can’t be too far behind!

https://modernmarketingjapan.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-ls-and-rs-of-japanese-and-eric.html?m=1

The liners indicate that this album was recorded in a low-budget studio that otherwise recorded mostly punk rock bands. That the piano was very much in tune was probably a small miracle! (I'm guessing it was an upright piano, but it doesn't particularly sound like it -- and I'd be curious what others here think.) Everyone played in the same room, probably with a fairly straightforward, minimal mic-setup too — resulting in a very "live" sounding studio date. The band rehearsed for one day (seeing the tunes for the first time), and then recorded over two days -- with no overdubs or editing (if the liners are to be believed). It's a real shame this group didn't record again. This is a 5-star album, in my book.

Yeah. I’m the same way about My Shining Hour — it either seems a bit more Evans-ish to me, or at least less Zeitlin-esque. Nothing entirely wrong with it, but (to my way of thinking), it doesn’t sparkle the way all the Zeitlin Columbia studio dates do. I’ve got an LP copy I found cheap, until I could get it on CD (hopefully expanded) — but when I finally heard it, it wasn’t all that motivated to bother to find it on CD.

https://fakebands.com/wiki/index.php?title=Buck_Hammer What other jazz fakes have there been?