BillF

A great favorite , tho' I have it on Columbia CDs. Yep, I had the double LP, CBS italian pressing, since I was fifteen, I sold it when I got the Mosaic. You must have been a child prodigy! I didn't start buying jazz records till I was seventeen. Mind you, there was some good stuff coming out in 1957! Well, when I was fifteen the most hip stuff was THE CLASH!, that I loved and still love. My daughter digs them. A generation difference there!

Chet Baker Harold "Shorty" Baker Shorty Rogers

A great favorite , tho' I have it on Columbia CDs. Yep, I had the double LP, CBS italian pressing, since I was fifteen, I sold it when I got the Mosaic. You must have been a child prodigy! I didn't start buying jazz records till I was seventeen. Mind you, there was some good stuff coming out in 1957!

That looks worth looking into! A. K. seems largely to have passed me by. All I can find in my collection is his "Dizzy's Blues" by the 1956 Gillespie band, which has a tremendous bop arrangement credited to him. Come to think of it, there are quite a few of Dizzy's men listed in the above personnel.

The theme of "Diggin' for Diz" keeps going round in my head. It's a Stan Levey reprise on This Time the Drum's on Me of George Handy's "Diggin' Diz", recorded by Diz and Bird in 1946 with Stan on drums. Those "Lover" changes are irresistible!

A great favorite , tho' I have it on Columbia CDs.

You made good use of your time!

Lucky Thompson Sonny Fortune Buddy Rich

Oliver Nelson Nelson Boyd Boyd Raeburn

Martial Solal Wendell Marshall Oliver Wendell Holmes

Constant Lambert Dave Lambert Annie Ross

Straw Dogs Justin Hoffman Justin Thyme

Now listening to the show. There's so much in Brubeck's music - as opposed to Desmond's - that is distant from jazz sensibility as I recognize it. Pleased David mentions Brubeck's mass popularity at the time of these recordings. I think my distaste for Brubeck and his appeal goes back to a jazz package I saw at the St.George's Hall, Bradford in 1959 comprising the Brubeck Quartet, the Gillespie group with Junior Mance and Les Spann that recorded Have Trumpet, Will Excite! and a Buck Clayton band with Emmett Berry, Dicky Wells, Buddy Tate and Earl Warren in the front line. Others attending the concert repeatedly tried to convince me after the event of the worthlessness of the non-Brubeck groups. I doubt if any of those people are still listening to jazz! Oh, and they also liked the MJQ, by the way!

Hank Cinq Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn

IMHO, the best album of this sort is not the AofW, but Stan Getz, Big Band Bossa Nova: arranged and conducted by Gary McFarland (Verve). Stan plays his ass off on this one, which was recorded in 1962 with superb arrangements by McFarland and brilliantly executed by New York session men who include Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer and Jim Hall. I've had my vinyl copy for about forty years and it still sounds fresh to the ear!

Many thanks for that. I'll pass it on to Adrian.

Has anyone a current address, email address or phone number for British jazz writer, broadcaster and pianist, Brian Priestley? I had a phone call at the weekend from Adrian Lee who, like me, was at Leeds University with Brian in the early sixties and wishes to contact Brian. Spring cleaning at Adrian's house has unearthed a box containing reel-to-reel tapes of a student band with Brian on piano, recorded at the Esquire Club, Leeds in 1962 and playing hard bop favorites of the era. Not quite like finding the Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall tapes, but clearly of interest to those involved! Adrian is trying to contact Brian through the BBC, but I wondered if someone on the board might have his address. PM me if you can help. Thanks.

Reggie Kray Ronnie Kray The Boys From Brazil Ronnie Biggs Big Joe Turner John Constable

It's interesting that many of us outside the UK tend to think of the Beeb as the gold standard of radio, whether it's news or music. The old "grass is always greener" cliche perhaps applies here. We tend to ignore the fact that you pointed out that the actual percentage of jazz is pretty low, as is the CBC's jazz percentage. I do think that the quality of what they produce is higher on average than the U.S. however. Yes, the Internet has changed everything. Now our little station in Bellevue, Washington can have listeners in Ohio, Alaska or Ireland... Letter in today's Guardian newspaper: "Radio has moved with the times in many ways. The main exception is Radio 3, which might as well still be called the Third Programme. While there are a few plays and a modicum of jazz and world music, its almost undiluted output of classical music is intellectually outdated - and I say this as someone whose CD collection is mainly classical. There is a place for classical music but it should not be allowed to obstruct other equally serious forms. Radio 3 could broaden its appeal and become truly superior, instead of merely moribund. Arthur Gould Loughborough,Leicestershire" Thank goodness for the sounds coming from across the pond!

Chris Barber Ottilie Patterson Don Patterson

Bebop Spoken Here From KBCS. Just how does Bernie Goldberg manage to pick great records from this era that I've never heard before? 'Cos I've heard a lot!

Cosey Fanny Tutti (British performance artist) Genesis P-Orridge (her partner) Dick Oatts (alto)

Panama Francis Francis of Assisi Bob Florence

A fine album - which I used to own. It was in terrible condition, having been bought as a cheap used copy, so I replaced it with the CD, which is far from satisfactory, as it pairs these New York big band tracks with West Coast alto and tenor groups under the nominal direction of Quincy Jones. The two make an ill-matched album. Do you mean QJ's GO WEST? I've got both, and I agree: great music. Yes, looking at the liner notes to my Impulse CD, I read that tracks 7-12 were originally issued as part of Go West, Man. All good music - the This Is How I Feel tracks exemplary - but not suited to being issued as one single CD. Misleading, too, as the cover of of the CD merely reprints the front of the This Is How I Feel LP, which I remember was on Canadian Sackville in my case.

Thanks!