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Billy Bob Thornton Billy Boy Red Garland

Like all of yours, it's a mis-spelling - of Nick Griffin. Today's man!

Nick Griffiths (Celtic Nazi) Griff & Lock Lady Luck

I saw Dizzy three times. First, at the St George's Hall, Bradford in 1959 with the quintet that recorded Have Trumpet, Will Excite!, i.e. Junior Mance, Les Spann, Sam Jones and Lex Humphries. Second, with the Giants of Jazz (Sonny Stitt, Kai Winding, Monk, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey) at the Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London in 1971. Finally, with his United Nations Orchestra featuring Arturo Sandoval, Claudio Roditi and Steve Turre in Manchester in (I think) 1991.

Clarke Boland Big Band, Paris Jazz Concert (Laserlight)

Complete Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols (Spotify) Moved to listen to these after reading the chapter on Nichols in A B Spellman's Four Lives in the Bebop Business.

Enver Hoxha Bob Enevoldsen Bob Brookmeyer

Have seen Roditi twice: at the Wigan Jazz Festival with a wonderful quintet co-led by Paquito D'Rivera and in Manchester with the Gillespie United Nations Orchestra. There was banter between him and Diz, who kept mispronouncing his name Rodichi.

The Man on the Clapham Omnibus The Man in the Iron Mask The Man Who Never Was

Bucky Pizzarelli Magherita Sarfatti Fatty Arbuckle

President's Poodle Pinocchio Billy Liar

Brother Jack McDuff Colonel Plum The Prunes

Gary Mapp Charles Atlas Hercules

Johnny St Cyr Saint Joan The Saint

Ornette Coleman Quartet, This Is Our Music (London Atlantic) Reading about Ornette in A B Spellman's Four Lives in the Bebop Business has inspired me to get out this 60s vinyl.

Hot Lips Dippermouth Mavis Cheek

Yes, no sign of Caiman. Their place as cheapest seller seems to have been taken by two other US outfits, All Your Music and MovieMars-US.

Attila Zoller Genghis Khan Genesis P Orridge

Ralph Rainger (composer of "Thanks for the Memory") Lone Ranger Sloane Ranger

Noel Annan George Galloway Mark Carlisle

Joni Mitchell Mitchell McLaughlin John McLaughlin

Babbitt Babs Gonzales Speedy Gonzales

Sir Eyre Coote Mr Teasy Weasy Charlie Barnet

Vaughn Monroe Alice Munro Alice Coltrane

Roland Rat The Catcher in the Rye Von Trapp children