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"Crater" also released a spoken word comedy album with a lot of jazz references, ''Out Of My Head'' (1960, Riverside RLP 841). | "Crater" also released a spoken word comedy album with a lot of jazz references, ''Out Of My Head'' (1960, Riverside RLP 841). | ||
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| + | A ''Billboard'' article of [https://books.google.com/books?id=5x4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22Zig+Priff%22&source=bl&ots=7hmBcDYPhk&sig=01eXtB0EtCbZQzyCNOrdoRLK2LQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPteXqtv7aAhUDZd8KHf_QAAsQ6AEwAXoECAAQLg#v=onepage&q=%22Zig%20Priff%22&f=false Jan. 25, 1960], notes "UA has signed the Zoot Finster Octet to a long exclusive pact. A change in the group's line-up now has Zig Priff on trumpet. Ana-tasia Lefcourt, jazz and blues singer, has also been added." | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 12:06, 11 May 2018
Fictional jazz band from the "Out of My Head" humor column (1959-1965?) in Downbeat magazine, written by Ed Sherman under the pseudonym George Crater.
Lineup:
- Zoot Finster, tenor saxophone
- Miles Cosnat, trumpet
- Gimp Lymphly, gorkaphone
- Humphrey Nurturewurst, trombone
- Milt Orp, marimba
- Strimp Grech, cello;
- Rudell Benge, guitar
- Sticks Berklee, drums
"Crater" also released a spoken word comedy album with a lot of jazz references, Out Of My Head (1960, Riverside RLP 841).
A Billboard article of Jan. 25, 1960, notes "UA has signed the Zoot Finster Octet to a long exclusive pact. A change in the group's line-up now has Zig Priff on trumpet. Ana-tasia Lefcourt, jazz and blues singer, has also been added."
See also
