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Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Christopher Logue (poet) with the Tony Kinsey Quintet I remember that one!

Dobell's Asman's Ray's

The Chuckle Brothers Chuckles the Clown Charles Mingus

Minnie Driver Morris Minor ( who?) Ursa Major (ditto)

Foggy Clegg Compo Dennis Compton Willie Dennis Willie the Weeper

I read somewhere recently that jazz-loving Conservative politician Kenneth Clarke broke the "rules" for Desert Island Discs by failing to include any classical pieces. In fact, complained the critic, he limited his choice solely to tenor saxophonists! I heard the programme and remember him enthusing about Adams and Pullen, whom I think he'd heard at Ronnie's.

Saw him play in Manchester in the nineties. He had Billy Harper and veteran trombonist Benny Powell in the band.

"Before Broadway: George Benson in the 1960s" on Night Lights from WFIU My, he could play! I'd forgotten!

Carl Perkins Perkin Warbeck Dave Brubeck

Bob Crosby and the Bob Cats Alfred Lion Tiger Woods

D K Dyson Sooty and Sweep Basil Brush

Nice to see the local culture being appreciated in faraway places!

I had Freeman in there, John, but will take the opportunity to add Jimmy Rowles to my list. Others that have occurred to me are Tadd Dameron and Eddie Costa.

Swiss Toni (try wikipedia) Rita Chevrolet Lolo Ferrari

Brian Blades Vlad the Impaler Chevrolet Impala

Allen Eager Eager Beaver Fanny Ardant

Hope you like it! I bought it recently after hearing it for the first time on a free music site, last.fm IIRC. I think it may have been your recommendation that inspired me to buy it. And I do like it a lot! Thanks. The young Hubbard, as always, is brilliant, isn't he? And the undiscovered trombonist Willie Wilson certainly should have been heard more.

I was planning to buy the Cohn, Newman and Green Select, but now find it's on back order and expected in 2010.

Mel B Sting Rochdale Hornets

Nat Adderley and the Big Sax Section, That's Right! (OJC/Riverside)

Sir Mortimer Wheeler Kenny Wheeler Three Wheeler

Mack the Knife Cecil Sharp Morgan Edge

Nathaniel Hawthorne Earl May Blossom Dearie

Bud Powell Bill Evans Monk, Horace Silver, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner, Hampton Hawes, Victor Feldman, Al Haig, Russ Freeman, Carl Perkins Count Basie, Jimmy Yancey, Pinetop Smith, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson

Nice! Will be listening!