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"Jazz Impressions of Paris" on Night Lights from WFIU.

At the Wigan Jazz Festival again this afternoon, this time for the Greg Abate/Phil DeGreg Quartet: two very welcome American visitors

Van Dyck George V Your Father's Moustache

Tuesday Weld Man Friday Montag

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS Now playing: Gerry Mulligan / Paul Desmond Quartet, "Lover".

They are all on my list (see post #45). Al Cohn was a very busy arranger in the 50's, contributing great charts to the book of Terry Gibbs' Dream Band and the Birdland Dream Band of Maynard Ferguson, the same is true for Manny Albam. Ernie Wilkins wrote memorable charts for Count Basie, Harry James and Clark Terry as well as for his own orchestras and the Almost Big Band. They certainly should have been on my list!

Buck Clayton Clayton Hamilton Hamilton Academicals

Emile Zola Gustave Flaubert Honore de Balzac

"Azul Serape" - Victor Feldman's finest moment

This afternoon at the Wigan Jazz Festival I saw veteran British tenorman and clarinettist Vic Ash with a quintet which included ex-Ronnie Scott pianist John Critchinson and former Oscar Peterson drummer Martin Drew. In the audience was an admiring Simon Spillett, a good forty years Vic's junior, who was persuaded to sit in for three numbers in the second set. So we had two generations of British tenor playing, Vic drawing directly on Bird and Pres and Simon on the same two, but mediated through the influence of Tubby Hayes. A great session!

Drummond Bass Alfie Bass David Kossoff

Totally agree ! Very fine 2LP set, will dig it out. This is one I don't have. I ordered it from Newbury, through amazon--it's only $6.99. What is the title in reference to? Something Brazilian--Bossa? Blakey's nickname was Buhania, which is close--he's not on this album, though, is he? I guess it refers to the music of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

Peanuts Angela Brazil Colonel Bogey

Le Marquis de Sade Fats Sadi Max Mosley

My list would include: Tadd Dameron Gil Fuller Tiny Kahn Neil Hefti Bill Holman Shorty Rogers Gerry Mulligan Marty Paich Bob Florence Jimmy Heath Gigi Gryce Thad Jones Gil Evans

Muggsy Spanier's Ragtime Band cut some sides around my birthday, and Charlie Christian was recording with Benny Goodman. It was a busy time for boogie pianists in the recording studios, too.

Chas Dickens Slim Pickens Chicken Licken

Little Big Man Tiny Khan Biggie Smalls

You won't regret it

Yes, great stuff! Took me right back! I was always seeing those guys play: Tubby, Jimmy Deuchar, Ronnie Ross, Alan Ganley ...

Lady Day Bobby Knight Alonzo Mourning Derek Greaves Robert Graves Eugene Tooms

Susannah York Jimmy Nottingham Eddie Durham

Kansas Fields Houston Person Philly Joe Jones

Moloch Satan Mammon

Dreadful title, surpassed only by Victor Feldman's Mallets Aforethought