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Don't know about Darryl Hall, but have twice seen Reiter, an Austrian who seems to be go-to drummer for Alexander when touring in Europe.

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It's the late Strayhorn compositions, like "Upper Manhattan Medical Group" and "Intimacy of the Blues" that most appeal to me.

Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro is a great fan of the Great American Songbook and used "Never Let Me Go" as a book title. As for me, I love the changes of "All the Things You Are", "Body and Soul" and "Cherokee".

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Yes, nice one. They're both in great form here:

Soul Sister George Herbert the Turbot

Don't recall that one, but when I was "seven-ten" it was 1947-50, slap bang in the middle of the bebop era, even here in the sleepy old UK. Hit tunes coming out of the radio included the highly boppish "Open the Door Richard" (quoted by Dizzy on Slim Gaillard's "Slim's Jam") and "The Woody Woodpecker's Song", which sounded like it was made from Bird licks, not to mention Nellie Lutcher's groovin' "Hurry on Down to My House"!

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Jimmy Cobb Howard McGhee

Following the latest post in the Charlie Watts thread ... Albert Ammons or Meade Lux Lewis?