– and toured with him as a member of his band. She sang with him too, on his popular songMama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long. “Kathy brought a high level of musicianship to whatever she was doing,” Mr. Cockburn told The Globe and Mail, “and, although her vocals never got as much attention as her playing, she could really sing.”
Her musical talent earned her a scholarship to the University of Central Oklahoma, where she majored in flute and voice. During her third year, she joined with the Oklahoma City Symphony, playing third flute and piccolo. She also found work as a torch singer with a dance band. At university, she met a brilliant student named Ted Moses, a saxophonist-pianist who could improvise jazz and compose woodwind quintets.
Although Ms. Moses also played in her husband’s quintet, marital strains were beginning to show. Recalls Ms. Galloway, who first met Kathryn while taking lessons from Ted at the couple’s house: “She was mad at Ted for something and came into the room where I was having my lesson and vacuumed around our feet, making it impossible for us to hear each other.” She added with a laugh: “I was impressed by her tactics.
While filling clubs playing with her quartet, Ms. Moses also started headlining jazz festivals at Ontario Place and still managed to squeeze in jingle work, playing with the Toronto Chamber Players and as second flute in the National Ballet Orchestra. By 1979, she had recorded her second album,, which included received positive reviews including a favourable mention in Billboard magazine, which praised her singing and “top drawer flute and soprano sax.
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