Jazz Hats

The Real Book is the standard fake book of jazz tunes, a well-known object in the scene. Jazz musicians also keep a running stock of jokes about themselves, from the rock guitarist who plays three chords for a thousand people against the jazz guitarist who plays a thousand chords for three, to the gig that pays in pizza. Saxophonist Adrian Cunningham has pointed out that the scene's own saying about wrong notes is really about covering mistakes: play one twice and the audience assumes you meant it. SFJAZZ sells an official embroidered dad hat, so jazz headwear is an established category. These jazz hats are in-group musician humor. The badges are JAZZ and JAZZ CAT. The sentence designs cover clapping on 2 and 4, a room of four guys and a bartender, chords that are all sevenths, TWO FIVE ONE as an arched badge, a chart that gets read and then ignored, a 32-bar solo that ran 96, and the Real Book as scripture. Saxophones Are Getting Louder owns the smooth-jazz doom meme and Theatre Kid owns jazz hands; this collection is the working band's side of the stage. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the gig, or give one to the jazz-band dad or the teacher who runs the rehearsal.