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Little Miss Sunshine Al Fairweather Martin Bright

Now listening, David. I think the songbook format is a great basis for shows. Have you done a John Coltrane songbook? Everything from Shepp to big bands ...

Leroy Vinnegar Art Pepper Simon Mayo

had that one in my hand too on saturday... but got the booker ervin savoy album and "magic carpet" by swiss guitarist tomas sauter What price were they asking? Got mine for £3.50 (used, but looks new.)

Ali Baba Barbar Hey Barbar Rebop

Stitt Plays Bird (Atlantic) Lovely, loose swinging rhythm section of John Lewis, Jim Hall, Richard Davis and Connie Kay.

Sun Ra Tennessee Ernie Ford Leon Thomas

Very interesting man, Johnson. I once read Boswell's Life of Johnson. I had it as a bedside book and it took me two years to get through! A single paragraph used to have the same effect as a blow to the head with a blunt instrument. A wonderful sleep inducer! I have loved Johnson ever since picking up a collection of his letters at a book sale years ago. By chance, I opened the book to the page containing his famous letter to Lord Chesterfield - a masterful dismissal of someone much higher than Johnson on the social scale. I love Johnson, warts and all, and enjoyed Meyers' Samuel Johnson: The Struggle very much. It sent me back to Boswell's biography, which I'm reading for the second, and probably last time. I find it fascinating for the most part, but it puts in mind on Johnson's line about Paradise Lost: "No man ever wished it longer." Yes, length was the problem - 1,200 pages in the 2 vol edition I read. Much closer to "a good read" were Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and his London Journal.

Colonel Tetley Gary Titley Jug

Kid Thomas Baby Face Willette Organ Morgan

Karl Berger Joachim Kuhn Manfred Schoof Manfred Mann Lonely Woman Billy Child

Flora Purim Flora McDonald Burger Jones

I remember noticing his piano work on Tijuana Moods. IIRC, it reminded me of the way Bill Evans played on East Coasting.

Faye Dunaway The Fairy Fellow Bloke Modisane

Juicy Lucy Loose Tubes Christopher Plummer

Watt Tyler Wen Jibao Sir Geoffrey Howe

Long John Baldry Hairy McClary Lady Barnet

Doodles Weaver Stoogehand Beetlebaum

Thomas Crapper Lorraine Crapp (Crepuscule with) Nellie

Vita Sackville West Ryvita Half Man Half Biscuit

Marge Simpson Ned Flanders Edna Krabapple Karen Sharp Donna Tartt Flat Foot Floosie

Now reading J G Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company. Surpassed by its immediate predecessors, Crash, Concrete Island and High Rise, but still pretty good!

Very interesting man, Johnson. I once read Boswell's Life of Johnson. I had it as a bedside book and it took me two years to get through! A single paragraph used to have the same effect as a blow to the head with a blunt instrument. A wonderful sleep inducer!

Kirsty Wark Mr Walker Frederick March

Eddie Stobart Kathy Stobart Gary Bartz