IF I COULD BE WITH YOU
JOHN SINCLAIR & ED MOSS
With The Society Jazz Orchestra

Recorded in Concert at the Hyatt Regency Hotel,
Cincinnati, Ohio January 15, 1994

By John Sinclair

It was a cold, bitter, snow-bound Wednesday afternoon in January when I got off the plane from the sunny Southland to prepare for a concert with Ed Moss and his eight-piece Society Jazz Orchestra at the Cincinnati Hyatt Regency that Saturday night. The Queen City was frozen damn near solid, and Steve Gebhardt was doing a lot of slipping and sliding on the ride across the Ohio River bridge and up and down the hills of Cincinnati on our way to meet with the enigmatic Mr. Edward Moss.

It would get even colder—down to 5, and then 13, below zero—and even snowier, with eight inches more on Monday, before I got out of town and headed back to the relative warmth of New Orleans. But for four days, from Wednesday through Saturday, I had one of the warmest and most satisfying musical experiences I've ever enjoyed as a performer, and t