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Great article, but who was that "Johnny Scott" who was a big name in British jazz?

Bit of impulse buying at Vinyl Exchange in Manchester: two used CDs for £10 - Coleman Hawkins with Eddie Davis, Night Hawk and Dexter Gordon, Sophisticated Giant. Going to be a big tenors evening!

From Phil Schaap's liner note to the Verve CD of Stan Getz and J J Johnson at the Opera House: "About half the music issued as 'Jazz at the Opera House' was performed elsewhere".

"The Arrival of Victor Feldman" on Night Lights from WFIU. Can strongly recommend this one! (The last minute of the show will tell you why! )

Blues on WGBH with Brendan Hogan.

Very Gitler indeed! He always was fond of "Horace mines a vein of Silver", etc!

This is now definitely published (at least in the UK) as I checked with the publisher today. It's out there and in the racks, Roger ! I'm starting to wish I'd just ordered the damn thing from Amazon. Well, you'd be saving £££££s for a start!

Like that one, too! Recently read PKD's Flow My Tears. Seemed like Chandler transposed into the future!

Philip K Dick, Beyond Lies the Wub (Volume One of the Collected Short Stories)

Maceo Parker Knocky Parker Eckie Thump

Whitby, Scarborough and Brid have some of the best fish & chips in the UK. Not forgetting Harry Ramsdens original place up on the outskirts of Bradford. Never saw fish and chips in the US but they were around in Canada - with whitefish subbing for the cod. I prefer the cod. Back you on Whitby and Harry Ramsden's original place (plaice?), but marketisation of the brand has had some dreadful results!

Parody in jazz: Johnny Dankworth's "Experiments With Mice" which parodies Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, etc.

Miles Behind?

Around half that price from Amazon UK with free postage. £24.19 from amazon.uk with free postage. Aphrohead (via amazon) still the cheapest option at £17.70 plus £2.75 shipping. Increased in price then, I checked and mine was £19.50 (free post)! Still £24.19. Hope amazon isn't operating a north/south divide!

Around half that price from Amazon UK with free postage. £24.19 from amazon.uk with free postage. Aphrohead (via amazon) still the cheapest option at £17.70 plus £2.75 shipping.

Currently being offered new by aphrohead books via amazon.uk for £17.70 plus £2.75 shipping.

Wardell Gray Myrna Loy Twiggy

Stockhausen Dennis Stock Herman Leonard

Love that one, aloc! With Roy,Diz, Illinois and Flip as mere sidemen!

Isaac Stern Brothers Grimm L S Lowry

how is it? i don't usually buy lovano albums either but this one caught my interest... (forgot the details but isn't some guy who once had freddie webster and tadd dameron (as well as lovano's dad or dameron's brother... completely forgot the details) in his cleveland band doing the arrangements...? I strongly recommend it. If you like Dameron bands and have an ear for latter-day tenor, you can't go wrong. The highly authentic history of arranger Willie "Face" Smith is related in Michael Cuscuna's liner note.

Joe Lovano Nonet, 52nd Street Themes (Blue Note) Not like me to buy an album recorded in 2000 by one of today's jazz "stars", but an old bebopper like me couldn't resist this superbly managed tribute to the forties' music of Dameron, Bird, Miles and Monk! And how did I get on to it? Hearing a track on Jazz with Eric in the Evening on KGBH. I hear distinct echoes of Archie Shepp in Lovano's tenor and recall that Shepp has also made forays into bop territory. Cook and Morton list Looking at Bird with NHOP, but I have distant recollections of a very Birdish Shepp album with Horace Parlan. I think they covered Parker tunes. Can anyone help me identify which album that might have been?

Black & Decker Bosch Breughel

Jane Eyre Roy Ayres Gusty Spence

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS. Now playing: Charlie Parker, "Ornithology" from Washington DC 1948.