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The only Wallace Roney in my collection is on the Re-Birth of the Cool session, where I think he does fine. Gerry Mulligan is quoted in the notes as saying: "He really understands something about Miles' melodic sense. He did some astounding melodic things on this album."

Wendell Marshall Marshall Stearns Clara Bow

"David Young: a Quiet Strength" on Night Lights from WFIU. Fascinating stuff!

Abbott and Costello Nervo and Knox Gilbert and George

Pineapple Poll Pinetop Smith Piney Brown

Lee Morgan Organ Morgan John Hammond

W. C. Fields Debussy, Claude Claude Rains Rainman Duke of Wellington Jesse Boot

Must give "Hog Callin' Blues" a spin!

I had Parker Dial on French Vogue. Their logo of a hunched Jimmy Yancey-style pianist didn't quite go with the cool sounds emerging from the speaker!

It's always a gamble buying vinyl in charity shops, etc. I have an Affinity album of Stan Levey and Red Mitchell sessions called West Coast Rhythm, which almost breaks my heart. It's just my sort of stuff and I've never come across the tracks anywhere else, but it's absolutely unplayable. (It cost me £4.)

H G Wells short stories.

Don Cherry, Complete Communion (Blue Note)

Many of the Pacific Jazz sessions were issued in the UK on Vogue. Initially on 10" put later on the 12" format (with a lime coloured label). They are usualy pretty nice pressings (assuming they haven't been trashed by use of a heavy cartridge/record changer). Still got a few of those Vogue and Esquire 10" LPs, not to mention EPs!

El Cid Sid Vicious Filthy McNasty

Junior Cook Lord Kitchener Elizabeth Fry

Coltrane, Ole (Atlantic)

John Coltrane, Ballads (Impulse)

Harold McNair Bogey Gaynair Joe Harriott

Lanny Morgan Quartet (last.fm)

Sleepy Stein Lazy Susan Kenny Napper

Barney Kessel, To Swing or Not To Swing (OJC/Contemporary)

Ivor Crewe Stokely Carmichael Michael Weiss

Coltrane's blues, "Equinox" from Coltrane's Sound. The young McCoy is wonderful, too.

Jan Hammer Timmy Mallett Julius Streicher

The story of my youth!