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No, it was the mention of the word "American" that caused jeers from the Leeds Marxists. How out of touch can you get in a jazz audience!

In the 60s I saw the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet (alt, pno, bs, dms) in a Leeds club. The usual jazz audience was swelled by a number of students from the very left-leaning Leeds University of the day, who were clearly there for the politics, not the music. When a number was announced "by the American pianist, Bill Evans", the group was booed! More palatable was listening to a "conversation" at the keyboard between the pianist and my late piano-playing friend Paul Woodrow in which the only shared vocabulary was the names "Wynton Kelly" and "McCoy Tyner". International co-operation at its best with jazz as the key!

You don't have to live in Shanghai to know it's too early to talk of "post pandemic".

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I saw Billie Holiday live on British television in the Spring of 1959 when I was 19. I was in Manchester. I guess she was in London. Another I saw (1957) who's been gone a very long time (1964) was Jack Teagarden.

Sounds like me, Peter. On my phone (my current listening source) Mark Sherman is rubbing shoulders with Professor Longhair and the Jazz Couriers.

I certainly can't tell what key music is in, Gheorghe, but there may still be hope for me. This morning I heard a single note from the piano in the next room and I thought "That's a C". When I went in I found that my 4-year-old granddaughter had placed a small toy figure on the C key 2 octaves below middle C!

Many of my favourites: "Celia", "I'll Keep Loving You", "So Sorry Please", "Strictly Confidential", "Oblivion" and some by LaVerne. Now playing: Jones/Lewis, Potpourri

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Nice to see a younger player chosen. I see her a lot on YouTube, though her style might be a little too postbop for my decidedly conservative tastes. Now playing: