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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...

 Introduction:  I interviewed Judy; in perhaps late 1979.  There is a Part One of this interview but I've yet to locate it.  I was studying Jazz theory with visiting USA Jazz musicians; via the courtesy of Jeanette & Greg Quigley who had organized Jamie Aebersold to teach in Australia. I've the feeling that it was around this time that I managed to sit down and have a chat with Judy with my trusted tape recorder.  As this interview will show; Judy displays a brilliant; quirky, humorous and insightful take on her idiom along with the generalities of life in the Antipodes.  I've decided to try to stick to the original transcription with as few edits as possible. Along with that as it's a very long interview which I'm having to retype I'm going to break it up into segments. I know for those who are familiar with Judy's work you'll enjoy hearing her responses to my questions and for those new to her that you'll check out her gorgeous music.   Chee...