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A sideman \u2014 a guy who just shows up<\/strong><\/span> for the gig and toots \u2014 has it easy, because if the gig is a flop, the onus is entirely on the bandleader.\u00a0 Sidemen are invisible.<\/p>\n One party planner said to me, “Your musicians are eating all the hors d’oeuvres.\u00a0 Why aren’t they playing [the cocktail hour].”\u00a0 (They each had two hors d’oeuvres,\u00a0 and they were playing.)<\/p>\n That’s the sort of kvetching I get from the party planner. \u00a0I told her we needed to get fed a lot earlier. We anticipated eating at 10 p.m., so we needed a couple hors d’oeuvres.\u00a0 (We eat dinner at 6 p.m. in Ohio. Used to be 5:30 p.m. in Jack Paar’s day.)<\/p>\n My guys were very keen<\/strong><\/span> on the phyllo dough spinach triangles and egg rolls.\u00a0 So was I.\u00a0 Kind of hard to play the clarinet with a mouthful of phyllo dough and spinach.\u00a0 Doable though.\u00a0 It’s just the first few notes that don’t come out. You need at least a couple hors d’oeuvres to make it through the night.<\/p>\n —-<\/p>\n TOMORROW:<\/span><\/p>\n HORA-PAIN INSURANCE<\/span> . . . We\u2019ve seen a couple hora-induced broken ankles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A sideman \u2014 a guy who just shows up for the gig and toots \u2014 has it easy, because if the gig is a flop, the onus is entirely on the bandleader.\u00a0 Sidemen are invisible. One party planner said to me, “Your musicians are eating all the hors d’oeuvres.\u00a0 Why aren’t they playing [the cocktail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}