BillF

God, I booked the tickets for the Weston search party!!!

Gerry Mulligan Quartet, What Is There to Say? (Philips)

I've got that LP somewhere - I'll dig it out. I remember Humph once describing one of those arrangements as 'a veritable Fair-Isle sweater'. Very apt ! Yes, some delights there; e.g. the saxophone section in the 1957 band which includes Lee Konitz, Hal McKusick, Zoot Sims and (surprise!) Charlie Rouse!

Tadd Dameron, Dameronia (Prestige)

Elmo Hope Faith Hill Mercy Lewis

Kid Ory's Creole Band Dec 1 and 2 1954, Hollywood Ory (tbn), Alvin Alcorn (tpt), George Probert (clt), Don Ewell (pno), Ed Garland (bs), Minor Hall (dms), Barney Kessel (gtr).

Gerry Mulligan, The Arranger (CBS) Gene Krupa Orchestra 1946-47 Elliot Lawrence Orchestra 1949 Gerry Mulligan Orchestra 1957

The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol 1 (Blue Note)

Miss Moneypenny Bill Cash Stirling Moss

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3. Now playing: "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" from Warren Vache, Easy Going.

Trouble is, I never quite got into the room!

I saw Al Haig once in the seventies - can't say I heard him though! He was on at a Manchester club called The Band on the Wall and I arrived to find the place packed to the doors. At the other side of a sea of people a completely inaudible Haig could just be seen at the piano! Nice he could still draw an audience of that size, I suppose!

Mr McGregor Peter Rabbit Johnny Hodges

Interesting! Someone I know only as the composer of "Maybe Next Year" on Art Pepper's Smack Up.

At least the people on your chart have salaries. In Britain a lot of teaching in universities and colleges is now done by people who, despite having high academic qualifications, have no salary and are only paid for each hour taught - usually about £20 per hour. Just one of the lesser-known results of Thatcherism!

Ozzy Osbourne John Osborne Mary Osborne

Arctic Monkeys Edward Gibbon J Fred Muggs

Ben Tucker George Tucker Henry Tucker Green

Roger Vadim Roger de Coverley Shorty Rogers

Mulligan/Mandel, Jazz Combo from "I Want to Live" (Affinity). (Mulligan, Farmer, Rosolino, Shank, Jolly, Mitchell and Manne)

Ben Dover Mr Rochester Stacey Kent

Sadik Hakim Joe Albany Gene DiNovi

Just William William I will.i.am

Mandy Rice Davies Pastor Manders Stu Williamson

...and verily, it was said, that if there be jazz, there must be critics...