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Zipper Red Buttons Red Garland

Bud Freeman Liberty Valance Val Doonican

Archie Shepp Jack Shepherd Calista Flockhart

Fido Rufus Bonzo

Keith Moon Sun Ra Freddie Mercury

Neil Hefti Memphis Slim Fatty Arbuckle

Not to detract from his music, let me recall that Ronnie had a wicked sense of humor. Here are a couple of examples: On his early life: "I was born in a room over a Jewish pub in the East End of London. It was called the Kosher Horses. We were very poor. My father was always unemployed - he was a shepherd. We were so poor, they had to buy my clothes at the Army & Navy Stores. Imagine me going to school during the Second World War wearing a Japanese admiral's uniform." On small towns: "I played a gig once at Tamworth. They have one set of traffic lights - at the crossroads in the middle of town. They change once a week - at 1pm on Wednesdays. Everyone comes out to watch." (Apologies to those who read this when I posted it before. I thought Ronnie was worth an encore!)

Root Doctor Little Rootie Tootie Tootie Heath

Sorry not to be able to help. I heard Ronnie play many times, but in common with many British jazz fans of my time, limited my buying to American albums. Shame!! I can say this: he was an accomplished tenorman in the bop idiom in a style which perhaps owed something to Hank Mobley. He is said to have held his own against Sonny Stitt (at the Scott club) and Johnny Griffin (in the Clarke/Boland orchestra).

Dr John Dr Feelgood Dr Jazz

John Updike Phil Upchurch Robert Downey Jr

Ram Ramirez U2 (geddit?) Charles Lamb

Bibi Andersson Didi Pierce Gigi Gryce

Buddy Bolden (another early hornblower) Walter Bolden (who played with) Horatio Silver

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3. Now playing: Lee Konitz and Michel Petrucciani, "I Hear a Rhapsody" from Toot Sweet.

Jazz Line-Up from BBC Radio 3. Now playing: 80th birthday interview with Peter Ind.

Ada.

Wow!

Grocer Heath Vivienne Merchant Ray Draper

Half Man Half Biscuit Half Man Half Cookie Teddy Bunn

Delia Smith Cordelia Cordwainer Smith

O, no.

Glad you redressed the North/South balance with that one, sidewinder

Amelia Peabody Mr Turnip Colley Cibber

Charlie Parker at Storyville (Blue Note)