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I saw Holman only once - in the 90s at the Wigan Jazz Festival with the orchestra that made the Monk album. It was particularly nice to see some veterans of West Coast Jazz of the 50s - not just Holman himself, but also Bill Perkins and Bob Enevoldsen.

When I hear that track I recall that during one of Roland Kirk's seasons at Ronnie Scott's in the 60s he spend a lot of time in Dobell's Jazz Record shop, leaning on the counter and demanding to hear one Fats Waller record after another.

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And I saw the Muddy Waters band in 1969 at the unlikely setting of the Batley Variety Club as part of a triple package with a gospel group (Stars of Faith?) and the Horace Silver Quintet with the Brecker brothers and Billy Cobham. Liked the Silver group so much I travelled 200 miles to London to see them again at Scott's later that week.

I saw him in the 1960s accompanied by the youthful Yardbirds in a very small club in Leeds with a tiny audience and a few couples on the dance floor.

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Sir Keith Joseph Addison Farmer Giles Goat Boy George Washington Irving Berlin

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A cupla good uns there!

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All this talk of Oliver Nelson ...

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Back to this one after many years. First heard it around its release in 1962. It was very popular and sold a lot of copies (for a jazz album). Had a broad-based appeal, pleasing not just boppers, but also fans of blues and soul. Until yesterday I'd never heard the additional tracks. (This often happens with me. CD reissues with extra tracks of classic jazz albums that I know only on vinyl from the old days often pass me by.)

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Nice response, Gheorghe. I, too, was too young for this JATP session, as I didn't start listening till I was 17 in 1957. But, anyway, the British Musicians Union had a ban on visiting Americans at the time, though I seem to have heard that JATP got into Essex (?) in about '53 at an American airbase (?). (Someone will know about this.) The nearest Kenton got to the UK in '53 was Ireland and I've spoken to slightly older fans who made the journey. But at least I was early enough to see Jimmy Rushing and Hines with Teagarden (all in '57). That album is a gas!