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Rose Quickly Sheila Fell Dick Diver

A word like vaccination cries out for a short form like jab. Can you suggest a monosyllabic alternative? Occurs to me that jab, used all the time here, may not have the same currency in the US. Am I right? P.S. Reading back over previous posts, I see that "shot" is more in favour in the lands to the west, even if my spelling of favour isn't.

I've been catching up on YouTube. Nice to see how they've developed from the early sessions with technical glitches and just the trio to guests who now include jazz luminaries like Grant Stewart. And all in Emmet's living room!

Following a tip off on the neighbourhood WhatsApp yesterday, my daughter and husband (33 & 34) went to a mobile vaccinating unit that was in the district and prepared to treat over-30s and got their jabs, albeit of Astra Zeneca. Husband had a bad night afterwards with mini Covid symptoms, but both OK now.

I recall a girl student of mine in the late 1960s saying, "You like jazz, don't you? Have you heard of a musician called Pony Poindexter? I met him on my holiday in Spain."

Jazz Messengers Lionel Messi Bill Tidy

Yes. Pretty sensational!

Stormy Daniels Hurricane Higgins Gusty Spence

Now in its 51st week Live from Emmet's Place is really getting established. This week Joe Magnarelli and Jerry Weldon help the trio burn things up!

I took my daughter with me. She was then 10 and is now 40. Might she end up the last person to have seen Dizzy live? (Poor old Diz departed this world the following year.) I recently took a look at the London concert which is all on YouTube. I couldn't see them that well from my seat in the stalls in Manchester! Stars of the show for me were Roditi and Sandoval whom I saw close up in nearby Wigan in those years. Sensational trumpeters!

Blue Daniel Alfred Lion Dirty Den

Saw them in Manchester.

Danny Bank Bill Cash Stephen Spender

The Sidewinder The Gigolo The Rumproller

Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Arsène Lupin

Colonel Miaow Fred Katz Bill Doggett

Jared Gold Pat Bianchi Sam Yahel

Sir Eyre Coote Barnett Newman Sean Combs

Hereward the Wake Michael Finnegan Whiskas

Stanley's Stiff Chickens Cranky Spanky Sweet Sakeena

Alan Hare Baldy Pevsner Charlie Barnet