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Jerry Hey played Calicchio for a long time starting with Seawind (the Hawaii band that brought him to Los Angeles. ) and all thru his extensive Los Angeles studio career. He met Gary Grant in Hawaii (Gary had blown a small part of his lip off playing lead with Woody. Almost overnight, his range dropped an octave and he was doing shows in Hawaii to re-build his embouchure.
Jerry Hey and Gary Grant have been the “one, two punch “for commercial recording here in Los Angeles for the last 20 years. Those 2 plus Chuck Findley were definitely the “Go To “guys for that “Commercial-POP Horn Section sound ".
Only recently have they started to play Bach's (They were given Sterling Silver Bell Bach’s by Selmer, but they actually play Mt. Vernon’s)
In the Calicchio Records - Jerry Hey has 4 Calicchio's. His latest was a 1s/2 made in 1974.
Charlie Davis was. before his Bach endorsement, was a big Calicchio guy.
On Buddy's band he actually played a Chicago Benge with a 13a4a, but when he went to Vegas in 1975, he switched to Calicchio and stayed on it when he came to Los Angeles in 1982, He played his Calicchio 1s/2 with a Reeves 43s / #2 bb (or 692) or his Purviance 10 (given to him by Johnny Audino) up thru the early 90's.
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