BillF

Bought from them recently online. Why can't Britain still support a shop like that? I'll say it this way: why can´t Madrid support a shop like that? This means the British equivalent would have to be in Manchester. Good!

Wynton was probably at his best in the Davis rhythm section with Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. IMHO they never sounded better than on Davis's At the Blackhawk albums. I also like them backing Art Pepper on his Together Again.

Charlie Brown Charlie Musselwhite Charlie Green

Easter Bunny Judy Holliday Gerry Mulligan

Wise words, paps! Not for nothing did Whitney Balliett call his book on jazz The Sound of Surprise.

I always think of Lenny Bruce's line, "Russ Freeman stole all my key men." I think it was from his Dracula sketch.

Jim Dine Pudd'nhead Wilson Michael Brecker

Spiro Agnew Inspiral Carpets Cootie and his Rug Cutters

Snoopy Peanuts Angela Brazil

Even the greatest stuff palls with overexposure. For me, the greatest recordings ever are by Parker on Savoy and Dial, the Herman Four Brothers herd and the Miles Davis nonet, but as I've been listening to them for half a century, the magic isn't there anymore. The answer for me has been to move on to other stuff which I never listened to in the old days; e.g. the Tristano school and West Coast cool.

Bought from them recently online. Why can't Britain still support a shop like that?

Jack Shepherd Piers Plowman The Tiller Girls

I thought it made you go blind.

With you on that, Richard! Supposed to be an eighties novel, but I only read it a couple of years ago and thought it was great! Also liked Wolfe's A Man in Full and I Am Charlotte Simmons.

Lord Rockingham's Eleven Kenny Baker's Dozen Jimmy Rowles

Henderson Chambers Stanley Jordan Pol Pot

Great album. Wayne's debut with the Jazz Messengers if memory serves. Memory serves right.

Art Blakey, Africaine (Blue Note)

Velvet Underground Satin Doll Dolly Parton

Donna Lee Donna Karan Donna Kebab God (hand of) Mohammed Buddah Budo Venus de Milo Jeru

The Jo Jones Special (Vanguard/Pye)

A great favorite of mine - basically a school-of-Bud Powell player with Silverish overtones plus a characteristically West Coast staccato attack. And he could cook, too! Of his work on "Popo" on The Artistry of Pepper (Pacific Jazz) liner note writer Todd Selbert remarks: "Dig Freeman chewing up the keyboard and swinging his fanny off on the first take."

Mini Me Pee Wee Marquette Wee Georgie Wood

Rocco Forte Barbara Castle L Sprague de Camp

Just finished reading M J Hyland's three novels - How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down and This Is How - because she's a friend of my daughter's.