BillF

Wonderful collection! I saw quite a few of the original broadcasts. IIRC the Garner show began as nothing special, but the place was jumping when it was time to stop!

Danger Man Patrick McGoohan The Goons

Squiggy Laverne Shirley Shirley Scott Eddie Lockjaw Davis Bleeding Gums Murphy

How many Euros are in your pocket? Good point

Derek Bailey or Allan Holdsworth. Wait a second...those guys are English. Do they count as European? Well, we're certainly not in Asia, Africa or America here! And my passport has "European Union" and "United Kingdom" on it.

At my age I realise that that could be a matter of the listener's generation.

Newt Gingrich Hoppy T Frog Sidewinder Lizard Breath Berke Breathed Bill the Cat Billy the Kid King Billy Billy Boy

I'll put in for Tubby Hayes.

Newt Gingrich Hoppy T Frog Sidewinder

Despite my soft spot for Victor Feldman, I think I'd have to go along with the Django judgement. Let's not mention Andre Hodeir, Leonard Feather, etc ....

... the fact aside that Sax was not a jazz musician, an excellent choice! Who was it who said, "Adolphe Sax gave the saxophone a name, but Lester Young gave it a sound"?

Monk Blue Monk Blue Nun

MoMA MAMA Bob Florence

A classic

Santa Claus St Nicholaus Nicholaus Pevsner Baldy Pevsner Sid and Doris Bonkers Brigadier Buffy Cohen (all of Neasden F C in Private Eye)

Max Mosely Mad Max Max Headroom Robert Bridges Otis Spann Piers Morgan

Captain Pugwash Master Bates Seaman Staines Phil Seamen Bryan Ferry Lady Docker Sam Dockery Art Blakey Blake Jackie McLean Bill Hardman Spanky de Brest

Captain Pugwash Master Bates Seaman Staines Phil Seamen Bryan Ferry Lady Docker

Jazz, ethics and politics come together in a book by Penny M Von Eschen called Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, which tells the story of the State Department-sponsored jazz tours of the 1950s. It's fascinating to read how musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman responded quite differently to the US government's policy of using them to promote national interests abroad; e.g. by falsely depicting the US as a racially harmonious society.

Nell Hamm Clov

Cy Laurie (pun works for Brits, anyway) Truck Parham Ian Carr Yes it does Rudy Van Gelder Vin Gordon Von Freeman Johnny Griffin Alfred Lion Angela Eagle(griffin=lion+eagle)

Yes, and I could listen on and on to that one

Dick Van Arsdale Tom Van Arsdale Los Van Van Cy Laurie (pun works for Brits, anyway) Truck Parham Ian Carr

Santa Monica Santa Ana Van Nuys

Red Holland? - Red Holloway perhaps? Never saw Sonny live but I recall that he toured over here quite a bit - especially in the 60s and 70s. Yes, Red Holloway. The winning team in action again - me for memories - you for accuracy Yeah, just happen to remember the reports in the UK jazz press of the time. They did gigs at places like the Bull's Head in Barnes, I recall. Too bad I didn't check them out, as the opportunity was probably there. I saw them at 100 Oxford Street (once called Mack's IIRC). The gig was produced by the redoutable Ernie Garside who I knew from Manchester days, but who refused to let me in at student rate. (I was doing part-time postgraduate study at a relatively advanced age.) You can't win 'em all