Originally Posted By: Keith from Oz
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Bob,
What's a "Club date gig"?

What my bro-in-law and the others around here call it is one person gets the gig, and then calls other musicians he knows to fill the rest of the band slots.

They work from a decent sized pool of musicians that all know the same thousand or so songs and they are mostly jazz standards and 'society music' songs (whatever that is).

When my BIL is leader (gets the gig) he chooses the musicians for the kind of music the contractor wants, and who he knows will do well.

I don't have any idea why they call it 'club date'.

I do know that they all do it well, probably not enough to fool other musicians, but enough for the audience.

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