BillF

Now door chimes are something else. Lionel Hampton had some that played the melody of "Flying Home".

Paris Hilton Hilton Ruiz Pablo Picasso

Claude Williamson (featured in "Claude Reigns") Sonny Boy Williamson II King William II

Friar Tuck Chicken Little Foghorn Leghorn Kenneth Horne Sandra Blow Hootie and the Blowfish

Tootie Little Rootie Tootie Cootie

Gerald Nabarro Gerald Kaufman Andy Kaufmann Tony Clifton Clifton Chenier Rockin' Dopsie

Diaz Corot Daubigny

Gordon Freeman Bugs Bunny Adrienne Vittadini Tadd Dameron Buggsy Malone Bud Freeman

Al Levitt Bucky Pizzarelli Joe Gordon

Joseph Conrad John Galsworthy Gal in Calico

Conrad Black Richard Desmond Robert Maxwell

Teddy Hill Rocky Mervyn Peake

NDO (Northern Dance Orchestra) Victor Sylvester Victor Borge

Ally MacGraw McGraw Hill Andrew Hill

... and the rest of Stockport, I expect This Davenport has jazz associations, as well as the Iowa one. I saw Shorty Rogers at the Davenport Theater in the mid-eighties leading NYJO (British National Youth Jazz Orchestra). He wrote a marvelous composition for them called "Davenport" which has probably never been recorded.

Super Furry Animals Catatonia Manic Street Preachers (Welsh indie groups)

Edward Lucie-Smith Herbert Read Norbert Lynton

Well, I'm very fond of that roarin' hard bop session $28 (£14) is not an unusual price here, but it probably sounds a lot worse on your side of the pond

It took a long time for Blue Note LPs to become available in the UK. Unlike Riverside, some of whose stuff - like Brilliant Corners - was released on London American, BN never appeared (to my knowledge) on a British label. So when the first few, suitably promoted in the British jazz press, appeared, it was a big event. I remember Stanley Turrentine's Look Out! being among them, and I think Sonny Clark's Leapin' and Lopin' came soon after, but I don't remember my first BN purchase! I'm not even sure of the date of these first releases - was it as late as 1962? (Perhaps MG can help.)

Jacob Kramer Joash Woodrow David Bomberg (British Jewish artists)

Gene Ammons Albert Ammons Meade Lux Lewis

Kim Philby Donald McLean Guy Burgess (British Cold war spies)

Phil the Greek Betty Windsor Big Ears

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS Now playing: Trio Da Paz & Joe Locke, "All the Things You Are" from Live at Jazzbaltica

Daniel Defoe Willem Dafoe Kaiser Wilhelm