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Donna Tartt Donna Lee Lee Konitz

Can that really be the veteran New Orleans clarinettist dedicating an album to the king of bop? I think there must be another George Lewis I have't heard of. If not, there's probably a record called Bunk Johnson Meets Dizzy

Of course, this isn't a list for members of this board. In fact, it describes itself as "more a guide for the uninitiated than a source of quarrelling for the collector". A collection of records like this is suitable for a library requiring a high-quality, historically balanced selection for access to a general, non-specialist public. No way does it resemble the individual collection of anyone who knows and loves the music, though many of its items will coincide with collectors' choices.

The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even Bear Stearns Phil Urso

Bobby Shew Chu Berry Duc de Berri

Now listening. Interesting music which I'm pleased to hear for the first time - as so often with Night Lights.

Malcom McDowell Malcolm X Joseph K

Archimedes Archie Shepp Artie Shaw

Bart Simpson O J Simpson Mrs Simpson

H G Wells Dickie Wells Dickie Bird

Walt Yoder Chubby Jackson The Three Nudniks

Nat King Cole Queen Charlotte Emily Bronte

Leon the Pig Farmer James Hogg Porcy

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS.

The Gerry Mulligan Songbook, Vol 1 (World Pacific Japanese pressing) Sax section of Mulligan, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Lee Konitz and Allen Eager with rhythm section of Freddie Greene, Henry Grimes and Dave Bailey in 1957. My idea of a good record!

A great artist. I really like his screen prints from the 1960s. Any jazz connections, as with his fellow New York artist, Larry Rivers?

Johnny Griffin Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis "Bleeding Gums" Murphy

Chick Murray David Murray Mori Poll

Chet Baker Quartet with Russ Freeman on Pacific Jazz 55453. Plays beautifully on that one! I'll also take a look through Deep in a Dream: the Long Night of Chet Baker, one of the most readable pieces of jazz literature.

Dingle Foot Wade Legge Ron Knee

Noble Sissle Albert Sisley Claude Monet EDIT: Beat me to it, Richard!

Damn; late again... Foster Brooks Johnny Rivers Bay Buchanan John Buchan Booker Ervin Irving Fazola

Lil Armstrong Lil Darling Neal Hefti

Yes, I'm probably too sensitive about this issue. I'm most happy with drummers like Mel Lewis, about whom someone said they could set their watch by him!

David Hazeltine Stan Hasselgard Buddy DeFranco