BillF

Try to make for nearby Birmingham. I'm sure resources will be better there. Any Brummie jazzers on the board who can give details?

Sister Carrie Sister Salvation Brother Soul

Ruud Gullit Gulley Jimson John Bratby

Fanny Ardant Hot Lips Houlihan Oran Page

The Yardbirds The Pretty Things The Kinks

It's been done already! On Rich in London Buddy tells the Ronnie Scott's audience that Lawrence Welk once announced Ellington's classic as "Take a Train"

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS. Now playing: Ray Brown Trio, "Whirlybird" from Live at Scullers.

Keystone Cops Canned Heat John Constable

Side 1 of my vinyl copy of Art Pepper+Eleven, Modern Jazz Classics is incorrectly labeled "Barney Kessel, Let's Cook! Side 1". It would be nice to think that errors like this hugely add to a record's value, as with some postage stamps, but I suppose they don't!

Count Dracula Philly Joe Jones Lennie Bruce

Grissim, Wendal, Tito and Carne. Are there any others?

Christopher Fry Edward Boyle Junior Cook

Ringo Starr Sun Ra Rev Sun Myung Moon

Not much doubt about the canonized status of 50 years ago! The current Nightlights show, called "!959: Jazz's Vintage Year", reminds us that this was the year of Miles's Kind of Blue, Brubeck's Time Out, Coltrane's Giant Steps, Ornette's The Shape of Jazz to Come, Mingus's Mingus Ah Um and Bill Evans's Portrait in Jazz!

Sergeant Pepper Posh Spice Basil Fawlty

Dick Lines Jack Train Ian Carr Mike Carr Big John Patton General Patton Major Major Colonel Bogey General Store

Poul Anderson, Time Patrol.

Dick Lines Jack Train Ian Carr

John Hardee Bill Hardman Dave Tough

Perhaps it's the New Year that got me thinking of the future. We're still listening to jazz of 50 years ago (though we're very much a minority), but what will there be in 2059? A few professors poring over 20th century music, like medieval music today? Or will revival bands still be trying to get the Blue Note sound? Or will the jazz tradition have continued to evolve, producing a music which would bewilder us? What do you think?

Heavy D (& the Boyz) Brand New Heavies Freddie Waits Robert Service Samuel Butler Curtis Porter

Jackie McLean Henry Thynne Everton Weekes

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 at 5-6pm GMT.

Cow Cow Davenport Kenny Davern Davey Tough

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3. Alyn Shipton plays records by Michael Brecker. Includes recorded interview with Brecker.