BillF

Tubby Hayes Will Hay Jack Straw

I'll certainly back the recommendation for Hawes's book.

Incidentally, just how long can the classical stranglehold of BBC Radio 3 - often bemoaned on this board - go on? Here the Royal Northern College of Music, long a classical-or-nothing bastion, has a new principal who digs contemporary Norwegian jazz. As I go past on the bus I can now see vibes and drum kits through the windows of the practice rooms. The winds of change!

Bring it on ! It's so obvious - yet no-one in this damn country has got the balls to do it. Instead I guess we get another 30 years of Wogan, Jonathan Ross etc. Not to mention endless food and cookery, makeover shows and those damn programmes following round trawlermen, lifeguards, traffic cops etc etc. What next? Toliet attendants? Our broadcasting is capable of being world class but has dumbed down to a significant degree. Thank goodness for the little gems that remain; e.g. Alyn Shipton talking to Junior Mance on Saturday at 4pm about his best records.

Billy Bauer Arnold Fishkin Jeff Morton (Tristano sidemen)

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS. Now playing: "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" from Sonny Clark Trio.

Now, that I would listen to! With you there!

Harry L Evans Bill Evans Evan Evans (father, son and grandson)

Groans from another disgruntled UK jazzer!

Mr Walker Road Runner Hopalong Cassidy

Polly Peachum Thwackum Square

Wishbone Ash Boney M Big P

Dill Jones Wilfred Pickles C T Onions

Aldo Moro George Morrow Tamara Lempicka

Easy Wikipedia search says 1967. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Cabaret_Card Fascinating Wikipedia article, especially when it links Billy Higgins' availability for so many Blue Note recording sessions to the loss of his cabaret card!

In Leeds there's a Monk Bridge Road. No signs of you know who, though

The Brothers Grimm Ernest Harsch Bill Hardman

Isaac Stern Rod Hull Keeley Smith

Popeye Olive Oyl Nancy Dell'Olio

Phil Seamen Bobby Orr Bill Eyden (British modern jazz drummers c.1960)

Art Farmer Joan Plowright Jack Shepherd

Erle Stanley Gardner Ring Lardner Ringo Starr

Philip K Dick, Ubik

Name Three People? Joan Rivers Peter Brook Robert Burns

That was a hell of a set, maybe better than any Blue Note jam session with Smith -- one of the best examples I can recall of Chuck's sense of how to assemble just the right guys. I thought the drummer was Mickey Roker, but clearly I'm wrong there. Early Hardman had a certain stiffness (as in the title of that Jazz Messengers tune "Stanley's Stiff Chickens") and thinness of tone that was, if you dug him, inseparable from what made him so good. In effect, he really didn't have that many licks, if any, though it sounded as though he might; he was just trying to keep the line moving forward at all costs -- just a very serious honest player. Later on, as he became a better player of the instrument, he just got better and better overall. I am a fan of the Messengers that featured Hardman, McLean, Dockery and De Brest and have most of their recordings. Bill's work is exactly as Larry describes under "early Hardman", and there was a fierceness in his playing which was entirely in keeping with the character of this group as a whole.