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Cruella de Vil Justin de Villeneuve David Newton

Gene Ammons, The Happy Blues (OJC/Prestige)

My Attorney Bernie A Cheever Loophole Sue, Grabbit and Runne

Rudy Vallee Teddy Hill The Dales

Knacker of the Yard Jack Slipper Mr Kipper

Raymond Burr Peter Falk Telly Savales Ariel Caliban Cannonball

George Joyner Chippie Hill Raymond Carver

At a gig I went to a couple of years ago by the New Jazz Couriers, their leader, drummer Martin Drew (formerly of the Oscar Peterson Trio), recalled how Basie's drummer Sonny Payne threw sticks in the air while playing and sometimes failed to catch them on the way down! I remember him throwing sticks when I saw the "Atomic" Basie band in the autumn of 1958, but on that occasion he never dropped them!

Nice!

Tommy Atkins Grunt G I Joe

Mr Walker Roadrunner The Rambler

Happy Birthday, Niko!

Julius Hemphill Julius Sneezer Tony Kofi

Marjorie Daw Richard Dawkins Dave Dawber

John Thomas Lady Jane Mellors

Lol Coxhill The Country Wife The Hairdresser's Husband

42/- was £2.10 at a time when a student paid £3.50 for a week's accommodation with meals and could live comfortably for a ten-week term on a grant of £60. Pretty pricey for a record!

The Big Yin Big Maybelle Ding Dong Daddy

Rocky Rock Hudson Steady Eddie

John Beer George G Ale Karl Lagerfeld

Lakshmi Mittal Colin Steele Ironside

I started buying jazz records in 1957, a time when older formats (78s, 10" LPs and 7"EPs) hadn't yet disappeared, but the new format of the 12" LP was coming in. The Vogue and Esquire items were 10" LPs or EPs. Some US recordings were reissued on British labels in 12" format; e.g. Monk's Brilliant Corners from Riverside on the London American label. No US imports appeared until about 1962, when the jazz press (Jazz Journal, Melody Maker) did a great deal of marketing of the arrival of selected Blue Note and Riverside 12" LPs. Stanley Turrentine's Look Out! was one of the first and they were very expensive. My copy of Monk's Music, bought in the later 60s, is still marked 42/-. Pity MG isn't posting anymore as he once calculated the cost of an imported US album at that time as a significant percentage of the average weekly wage!! I remember a fast-talking guy who'd managed to get a pile of Blue Note Jimmy Smith albums on credit being actively pursued by a record store manager!

Bob Florence, State of the Art (spotify)

Nessie Ogopogo Godzilla

Julian Adderley Hermione Baddeley Bo Diddley