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Keef Georgia O'Keefe Estes Kefauver

Ack Emma Pip Emma Emma

Know what you mean! I go there as a tourist. Manchester's insipid in comparison. (Need some scousers on the board!)

I suppose you mean a great sense of distance from you to here. Yes, I agree. There's also an an astonishing contrast of terrain/environment within very few miles. My Greater Manchester senior citizen's free travel pass takes me in 30 minutes by electric train from Manchester's teeming city centre to Hadfield (where League of Gentlemen was filmed!!) on the edge of wild Pennine country.

The Owl of the Remove Frank Richards Johnny Richards

Ted Hughes country!

Holy cow! Maybe should not have let the cat out of the bag on that... I have quite a few framed posters (mostly transit/train related) but also a framed poster of Stuart Davis' Super Table (from right around the time the Terra Art Museum went out of business and they were giving them away for free. * I don't have anything that is strictly jazz-related on the walls. I also have a few original paintings, mostly abstract. I'll try to get some of them posted. * They were giving away unframed posters for free, just to be clear. I always like Stuart Davis's work. He's probably a lot better known in the U.S. than over here. There's an exhibition currently at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester of American prints: Hopper to Pollock. A surprising number have jazz themes.

Great! I can see Medjuck in the middle of that!

Boy George His Girl Friday Lass O'Gowrie

This label "Piano Men" reminds me how Duke would announce "Rockin' in Rhythm" by saying "This one features our piano boy".

Augustus Egg Francis Bacon Chappie D'Amato

St Cakes Jenny Eclair Muffin the Mule

Mel Lewis Orchestra, 20 Years at the Village Vanguard (Atlantic) Beautiful stuff!

MG Maggie Gee Matthew Gee

This is sound advice and I agree. I'm also interested, though, in jazz biographies which are great reads in themselves, even transcending the jazz context. For example, I've seen Art Pepper's Straight Life recommended in a non-jazz context as a compelling biography. I think the Morton book had something of that status, too, though it's decades since I read it.

David's radio shows inspired me to get a CBBB live album, so I've just bought their Tnp Oct 29th 1969. Will let you know my views when it arrives.

Clearly, a vast number of jazz biographies have been written, but which ones really stick in your mind - which do you consider unmissable? This would be a useful guide to me as to what to seek out next. My own list would have to include Art Pepper's Straight Life, Hampton Hawes's Raise Up Off Me and, possibly, Ross Russell's Bird Lives!. Also, in my youth I was very impressed by Alan Lomax's Mister Jelly Roll.

Thanks, Jazzbo, for reviving this thread from before my time with the board. Although I saw the Clarke Boland Big Band play at Manchester's Free Trade Hall (in 1978 or 79?) and went to a Kenny Clarke drum clinic the following day, it's only this year that I've got round to buying any of their records. I now have All Smiles, More Smiles, All Blues and Sax No End, the last two now combined on Two Originals. Of these, I think my favorite is Sax No End, which Peter Friedman draws attention to back in the thread. Am now listening to David Brent Johnson's 2005 shows on the CBBB: thanks for the link! Better late than never!

Akiyoshi/Tabackin Select, Disc 3

The Human Fly Batman Bradman

John Drinkwater Jack Teagarden Tony Kofi

Illinois Jacquet Indiana Jones Virginia Woolf

Quotation of the week!!!

Minnie Driver Clippie Hill John Antrobus

Kilroy Mr Chad Shad Collins