Baldness

[garybaldy]

Opinions on baldness and wearing hats on the bandstand.
Does anyone here wear a hat on the bandstand specifically to cover up any baldness or do you wear one to look cool?
May be just to keep one's head warm or when exposed to the sun.
I have no hair on my head but tend not to wear a hat except in the sun.

[Average Joe]

The Jazz Hat/pork pie is a very tired look. Otoh bald guys like myself (I shave the sad remnants off) sometimes need to keep warm. I go with a cap, either baseball or sixpence

[Doublea A]

Opinions on baldness and wearing hats on the bandstand.
Does anyone here wear a hat on the bandstand specifically to cover up any baldness or do you wear one to look cool?
May be just to keep one's head warm or when exposed to the sun.
I have no hair on my head but tend not to wear a hat except in the sun.

I wear a hat always (except when inappropriate).

AA


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[Jimmy blue note]

This is jazz. If your audience is hip, they're more interested in the solo than the head.

[garybaldy]

This is jazz. If your audience is hip, they're more interested in the solo than the head.

Yes true. I'm more interested in a players point of view.
I tend to think - if players are wearing hats they must be bald.
I don't think I have issues with my own baldness even though I would like to still have a good head of hair.

[Christian Miller]

John Scofield’s advice - ‘let it shine!’

(According to Jordan Klemons)

Alternatively you can invest in one of Pat Finnerty’s “bald as s***’ caps.

I say this as someone approaching a follicular rubicon of my own.

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[grahambop]

wear a wig, like Metheny.

[Doublea A]

wear a wig, like Metheny.

I’d rather wear a hat.


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[ragman1]

I'm pretty hairless but never succumbed to a hat. But I used to know a lot of alternative-type folkies (really hot players) who wore them because of the look. Together with tight waistcoats, boots, etc. They were some of the loveliest people too. None of them were bald, of course, they were far too young.

I have a story one of them told me. They were playing in the street and an old lady asked if they'd like to play at a party. Delighted, they said, then she added 'And don't forget to wear your quaint Dickensian costumes'. Except those were their ordinary clothes.

Hilarious. They weren't offended at all, they loved it :-)

[Stringswinger]

wear a wig, like Metheny.

Or Dimeola.

I prefer a hat.

[gvurrdon]

Our rehearsal venue is a bit chilly in winter so I've worn a woolen hat for those. Otherwise, not. If I could find a style of hat that didn't feel silly to wear (not found one yet) then I would be tempted on other occasions.

[garybaldy]

wear a wig, like Metheny.

I think you have to keep up the pretence from the start. It's too late for me to do that now!

[AllanAllen]

The Jazz Hat/pork pie is a very tired look. Otoh bald guys like myself (I shave the sad remnants off) sometimes need to keep warm. I go with a cap, either baseball or sixpence

Wearing a baseball cap at a jazz gig is just clueless-ly inappropriate attire.

[Average Joe]

Wearing a baseball cap at a jazz gig is just clueless-ly inappropriate attire.

Depends on the venue and the gig, but yes, there are times and places where it's out. Hence the sixpence

Unless it's cold enough to need the hat, I prefer to go without. So that's most of the time

[ruger9]

Wear a skullcap like Greg Koch

[lammie200]

I still have all my head hair. I am getting close to zero with leg hair though. I guess that I shouldn't hit the stage in shorts.

[garybaldy]

I still have all my head hair. I am getting close to zero with leg hair though. I guess that I shouldn't hit the stage in shorts.

I never wear shorts on stage. The girls go wild!

[pawlowski6132]

Neither metheny no dimeola wear wigs

[Hep To The Jive]

I'm not bald, but I have a mohawk style, and I prefer to wear a hat to cover it up for jazz or function gigs. I need to hide my true punk anarchist indentity to get booked.

[SetPhasersToSwing]

Wearing a baseball cap at a jazz gig is just clueless-ly inappropriate attire.

I guess that makes me clueless and inappropriate.



Sometimes I do...



Sometimes I don't...

[ragman1]

Pah!

[grahambop]

Neither metheny no dimeola wear wigs

[AllanAllen]

I guess that makes me clueless and inappropriate.



Sometimes I do...



Sometimes I don't...

An outdoor gig in front of a giant inflatable boombox is an unexpected exception to my statement.

[Ukena]

Personally, I don't find pork pie hats on the bandstand lame. But then, I live in NYC, where people of all sorts of professions will occasionally wear pork pie hats.

For an indoor gig, wearing a hat on the bandstand is a personal statement. So make it personal.

[Christian Miller]

Get a pirate hat


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