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  Jan: my first memory of you Judy is playing in sessions; you were with Tommy Tycho right? What were those years like for you? Were they predominantly you playing, doing a lot of session work and doing your own gigs as well? Judy: I spent something like eight years pretty well non-stop in the Television Studios and the amount of actual night time playing say jazz work I used to have average 1 2 nights a week.  That was all though. Most of my work, was studio work and I didn’t go near a club until I was expecting my daughter and I had my first foray into the clubs with Barry Crocker.  (Interruption of sexy voice French waiter and friend of Judy’s on tape) Jan: So those years were really like you were into that studio thing.  Judy: Great learning, great learning years, because I'd never ever done anything like that, that was the first time in my life and then when I was expecting Lisette. I was playing and went with Barry Crocker, I was his MD musical director aro...

Sung by Louella Jolly.  (Feat: Henry Jolly) https://open.spotify.com/track/0UWF6RwjuBFlcWHI76gNUj?si=c8e27f8ed4584482 https://youtu.be/6Qq1BtVyFAU?si=g3nHTx2qtKDVWePW ℗ Louella Jolly Released on: 2025-07-09 Featured Artist: Henry Jolly Lead Guitar: Henry Jolly Lead Vocals: Louella Jolly Sound Engineer: Henry Jolly Composer: Louella Jolly; Janice Slater; Cyna Slater https://music.apple.com/au/album/our-star-feat-henry-jolly-single/1823983251 Thanks everyone for listening!  https://amrap.org.au/artist/louella-jolly-1

Julie:  I want to begin this interview on the Holland Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, 1971. What were you doing at that time? Julie:  I was working with the Mike Holly band at the Empire Ballroom in London Janice:  Tell me about the repertoire you did with the Mike Holly Band?  Julie:  We did all covers!  I remember doing Tears of a Clown and Rescue Me and my Sweet Lord! Oh the memories!  It was a regular Saturday afternoon at the Empire Ballroom. Janice: We go back before London to Sydney, Australia where we were both doing gigs with Tony Gaha''s The In People' at Chequer's Nite Club .   Can you expand on that for me?  How that gig came about for you? Julie:  My agent got me a gig opening for Oliver at Chequers and also with Sammy Davis Jnr and sharing the opening with you and also with Billy Preston. I also worked with Barry Crocker on variety shows.  Also did the Don Lane Tonight Show as well as Graham Kennedy Show in Melbour...

  Indie. Dream pop. Shoegaze. Vocals. Cyna Slater. Music composition & artwork. D. k. A. Spencer. From the original music,  on.soundcloud.com/MsTESiuipe3vNzMT9  CRUEL LOVE, (Harry & Cyna Slater. Lyrics: Russell L Slater, Janice Slater True Love’s on Its Way. (Feat: Coco & Haze https://on.soundcloud.com/b8ii1p6Ek9ZSBSGR6

  Jan:  What about development of craft? Judy:  Do you mean that whole business of combining awareness of technique, awareness of phrasing, awareness of...the musical ways to move throughout a progression, rather than the clever ways, the overall architecture of the piece.  To me that's a very important ingredient. I think it's vital to be aware of and have your students become aware of the importance of looking at the overall structure rather than going along beat by beat, bar by bar, till you get to the end. To try and develop a way of looking at a piece in its entirety, so that when you're improvising for instance, you can retain what you've already played, it's as 'though you've recorded it.  You've got you've got your little tape recorder in the back of your head and you can retain a memory of what you've played, what you're playing now and where you're going to so that you're building from what you've started with and you br...