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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).
  
 
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Revision as of 08:32, 11 May 2018

Fictional jazz band from the "Out of My Head" humor column (1959-196?) 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).

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