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Vividly remember that era, that music and those names!

Jim Dine Randy Brecker Lunchtime O'Booze

Dandy Nichols Herbie Nichols Herbie Mann

Nobby Stiles Dick Van Dyke Les Paul

Booker T Wright Brothers William Penn

John le Carré, The Looking Glass War

Akiyoshi/Tabackin Select, Disc 2

Elizabeth Slinger Chuck Mangione Liz Hurley

Cannon and Ball Stumpy Monroe Christian Bale

Red Kelly Freddie Redd Reds Under the Bed

Sigmund Freud Alexander Calder Sir William Coldstream

Pepper Adams Red Hot Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers

Robin Banks Dillinger Jacques Mesrine

Irene Handl The Doors Sidney Keyes

Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum Jeremy Beadle

The Mel Lewis Orchestra, 20 Years at the Village Vanguard (Atlantic) Rarely buy vinyl these days, but spotted this at Manchester's Vinyl Exchange for £6 in as-new condition. Cheapest online seems to be about £30. As for the music, you can never fault this band, as far as I'm concerned. And I'd never heard of this album before!

Akiyoshi/Tabackin Mosaic Select, disc 1

King of the Castle Dirty Rascal Filthy McNasty

Some winners there, Tom! I particularly treasure the two Pepper albums.

Duke Count Earl

I still recall when I was sixth former managing to con a Monk fan into thinking I had a new Monk record by playing the opening bars of the second movement of Bartok's piano sonata! Ha! But could you con a Bartok fan into believing that a solo Monk performance is a little known Bartok piece? Probably, with a carefully selected couple of bars from Thelonious Himself, say.

Thomas Fats Waller Thin Lizzy Mince Fratelli

John Cobb The Stone Roses Griselda Pollock

I still recall when I was sixth former managing to con a Monk fan into thinking I had a new Monk record by playing the opening bars of the second movement of Bartok's piano sonata!

Benny Goodman Eve Marie Saint Cannon and Nat