BillF

Several of those Ronnie Scott recordings floating around: Ronnie Scott with Sonny Stitt, The Night has a Thousand Eyes, from 1964 - three mega-long tracks! Benny Golson, Three Little Words, with house rhythm section, flawed single mic recording, good Golson on standards Peter King Quintet, Speed Trap, with Gerard Presencer - more recent this: I was there! and more if I can find them... Thanks! I'm making a list!

Meade Lux Lewis Wallace Beery Roger Ailes Tony Aless Lewis Carroll Noel Edmonds

Listening to this myself...a favourite Ellington piece, especially the clarinet! Did you notice, Bev, that JRR is getting the "treatment" again next week? Postponed till 9pm! I suspect the New York Met! I think it's the radio equivalent of what went on in French art galleries in the late 19th century, when the work of Manet, etc was "skied", i.e. hung so high that no one could see it, while now-long-forgotten academicians occupied the eye-level space. The contempt of the Oxbridge BBC-ites for anything that is not classical knows no limits, Bill. Until they set aside a channel for non-classical non-pop music I'm afraid this will continue. Just found out that they've lopped 15 mins off it as well! But at least your can hear a repeat of an excellent Jazz Library programme on Peter Ind at 4 on the same day. In my student days in Leeds in the 60s, Peter was involved in the pioneering jazz course at Leeds College of Music and induced his mentor, Lennie Tristano, to make a rare trip to the UK to appear at the Harrogate Arts Festival. Peter took a group of us along to hear Lennie and got us into a radio interview in which Lennie sent up the very square BBC interviewer something dreadful!

Thanks for the info. I must get round to some of those - in time! (Iwas astounded by the sheer volume of Sonny Rollins albums available!)

Mr McGregor Peter Rabbit Johnny Hodges

Beaker People Jug Jeroboam

Sonny Rollins, Our Man in Jazz

Manic Street Preachers Catatonia Super Furry Animals

Sonny Meets Hawk

Listening to this myself...a favourite Ellington piece, especially the clarinet! Did you notice, Bev, that JRR is getting the "treatment" again next week? Postponed till 9pm! I suspect the New York Met! I think it's the radio equivalent of what went on in French art galleries in the late 19th century, when the work of Manet, etc was "skied", i.e. hung so high that no one could see it, while now-long-forgotten academicians occupied the eye-level space.

Jazz Record Requests From BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Ellington, "Ad Lib on Nippon"

Very keen on that one. Beautiful compositions. Very balanced, integrated group. Just lacks the fire of The Route by Pepper and Baker IMHO.

Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (Verve)

Robbins (' Nest) Delaunay ('s Dilemma) (An Oscar for) Treadwell

Ornette Coleman at the Golden Circle, Vol 1

Good example of the uses of Spotify. I was reading today's Jazzwax post by Marc Myers on the little-known (at least to me!) arranger, George Handy, when it occurred to me to check him out on Spotify. Instantly I had the Boyd Raeburn orchestra playing Handy's intriguingly-titled "Boyd Meets Stravinsky" and "Tonsillectomy".

Not me! From the list I've only read 1984, Madame Bovary and parts of the Bible and Ulysses.

George Coleman, Blues Inside Out Recorded at Ronnie Scott's in 1997 with Peter King, Julian Joseph, Dave Green and Mark Taylor. If only those American visitors of my youth had had British backing groups like this one!

Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol 1 1929-1964 Some great stories here! Thanks for the recommendation, Bruce!

Otto Klemperer Gustav Klimt Klook

Curly Russell Jane Russell Mae West

Ken Kesey Ryan Kisor Ryan's Daughter

Jimmy Yancey, Vol 1 (1939-40)

Dead Eye Dick Tricky Dickie Dick Katz

Hey man, where you been? Tommy Steele Fred Iron Horace Silver