BillF

Listening now. Great to hear tracks not included in my Capitol Undercurrent Blues album. Love the movie clip with Benny in that moustache!

Happy Birthday, Bill!

Robertson Hare Sidney Lumet B Quest

"Pecker" means "courage" in Britain and has no penile connotations.

Little Jazz Small Faces Big Maybelle

Margaret Hilda Thatcher Witches of Eastwick Kenny Hagood

The first copy of Brilliant Corners I owned was on the British London American label where a single image of Monk, taken from the multiple-image Riverside version, was superimposed on a colour photo of a nightime city street corner, with blurred taillights and traffic lights. It suffered the same fate as G S Russell's album - stolen (clearly, there WAS a "dramatic upsurge in Thelonious's acceptance by the jazz public") and I replaced it with the familiar multi-image Riverside version.

Mulligan Meets Monk (OJC/Riverside)

Cleo Henry Pharoah Sanders Little Niles

Almost a spin-off from the recent BBC 4 program, 1959: The Year That Changed Jazz! Perhaps the fourth musician in the program, Ornette, was not thought to be marketable!

Kazuo Ishiguro's new book, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Very slight stuff as literature, but possibly of interest to board members as it concerns the working lives of musicians. (I've never heard that the author was a working musician, mind you.) Still, not many novels or short story collections contain references to Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown, Joe Pass, Ben Webster, etc!

The Seekers The Searchers Hunter Davies

Jimmy Yancey Francy Boland Nancy Wilson

Ladies of the Evening Night Crawlers Diet of Worms Sicko Sacco Vanzetti

Miss Vicki Vicki Lawrence Baby Laurence Lawrence Welk Charlie Musselwhite George Crabbe

Woody Herman, Rhapsody in Wood (First Heard) 1948-49 airshots, some with saxophone section of Getz, Sims, Cohn and Chaloff.

Mr Right Joe Turner Red Cross

Sir Hyde Parker General MacArthur Maxim Gorky

L Sprague de Camp Butch Warren Steve McQueen

Joe Egg Yoko Ono Bobby White

Bob Florence Limited Edition, Eternal Licks and Grooves (last.fm)

Stan Laurel Kate Bush Robertson Hare

Red Norvo Red Riding Hood Frankie Capp

The Clown (Mingus) The King (Basie) The Rajah (Morgan)

Captain John Handy Colonel Bogey Commander Crabb