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Gerry Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz (HMV/Verve)

Barry Fantoni Antonio Hart Hart Crane

Sonny Greenwich Ralph Sutton Dannie Richmond

I have Vols 3 and 5 and Zounds. Members with scruples about piracy won't be pleased to hear I also have a 20-track Giants of Jazz CD called Lennie Niehaus Quintet & Octet + Stan Kenton and his Orchestra. At £5 in 1997 (= v. cheap), I couldn't resist!

Yes, wise words! People who speak Italian as a second language are virtually non-existent, compared with the position of English. I spent three years learning Italian, but rapidly forgot it , as I never came across it here. An Italian who learned English would have an entirely different experience, even though remaining in his own country.

Frank Rosolino, Frankly Speaking (Affinity/Capitol)

Scot La Faro Irving Welsh John Ireland

Harry Parry Foxy Knoxy Bizzie Lizzie

Nathan Davis Miles Davis Barry Miles

Buhaina Max Klook

Jimmy Carter Ron Carter Larry Kart

I saw him in concert at St George's Hall, Bradford in 1957 with Jack Teagarden, Max Kaminsky, Peanuts Hucko, Cozy Cole and Jack Lesberg. All I now remember over the passage of time is Hines's clowning; he played a run that went higher and higher until he hit the wood of the piano and writhed with fake pain!

John Haigh Peter Sutcliffe Jack the Ripper

Tory Boy David Cameron George Osborne

That's a wonderful Evans album. Well worth going to Manchester for!

Larance Marable Fate Marable Lucky Thompson

Gerald Ford Henry Ford Ford Prefect

Still think that would-be stripper should have stuck to playing bop tenor

well i didn't say "am i blue" is a better record than "blue train"... i just said to me blue train doesn't quite live up to what you read about it, haven't played it in a while though... concerning idle moments, i do hear a certain "laid-back perfection" in it which i guess is related to what people rave about, i like it but i reach for am i blue more often (my favorite grant green blue note is feelin' the spirit btw) But without Blue Trane we wouldn't have had jazz for BARACK OBAMA.

Andre Citroen Denis Lemon William of Orange

Gerald Wilson Sir Gerald Nabarro Fats Navarro

Denis Lemon J H Plumb Donald Pears

Jazz From Studio Four from WGBH presented by Stevebop. Now playing: Sonny Rollins at the Village Vanguard.

Martin Esslin Jonathan Swift Steve Swallow

Johnny Appleseed Gabriel Oak Lesley Ash