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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

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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

Although Sonny features on many of my records from the 40s and 50s, I have only two of his leader dates: Sonny Stitt and the Top Brass (Atlantic) and Only the Blues (Verve). (The second is particularly good.) I saw him play twice: the first time in London in 1971 with the Giants of Jazz tour that also featured Diz, Monk, Blakey, Kai Winding and Al McKibbon, the second co-leading a quintet with tenorist Red Holland in a London club not long before his death in 1982.

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Tonight at 9 pm GMT: Quincy Jones: the Many Lives of Quincy, Pt 1 on BBC 4 television. At 10:30 pm: Roy Haynes guides Alyn Shipton through his recordings in Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3.

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Spike Heatley's still very much active, I think. Sorry! I didn't check that one!

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Often heard them live, but never on record. What date was that? April 1963 date with Spike Heatley and the late Allan Ganley. A very good one too, well recorded. Amazingly, this vinyl is mint, I think it got left in a cupboard for about 40 years. Sadly, all those guys have now passed on, Ganley quite recently. I remember Le Sage for his cool, forward-combed hair-do and totally impassive stage manner - as well, of course, as his fine vibes and piano playing.

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Often heard them live, but never on record. What date was that?

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