BillF

I understand it was currency at one time in the Messengers, too.

Narcissus Rose Selavy Flora Purim

Pete Cater Alma Mater C U Later

Yes, that's the Harriott band I remember. When I was a student at Manchester University several of my former schoolmates were at London University where Shake Keane was studying. His course was the heavily Shakespearean English Literature, hence the name.

Diggory Venn The Dirty Digger Tiller Girls

Augustus Caesar Julius Sneezer Tony Kofi

Rap Brown Kerry Packer The Line Backer

Oscar Peterson Oscar Pettiford Shorty Petterstein

Karen Sharp Argonne Dense Thornton Sir Jonathan Gasser

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What A great idea! I'll give it a listen!

The Platters Doug Sides L P Hartley

Mark Stryker Big Ben Tiny Grimes

Mack the Knife Brian Blade Cutty Cutshall

There are now so many books on jazz that compiling such a list would be a virtually impossible task. Almost unbelievably, there was a time when I used to say, more or less accurately, that I'd read every book that had ever been written about jazz, but that is now 60 years ago. Today's picture, where there are multiple biographies of major artists was then unimaginable.

So, three categories: 1 What your favorites were back in the 80s. 2 What your favorites are among the discs made in the 80s. 3 Which discs from the 80s are among your all-time favorites. Perhaps this should have been spelled out when the thread was started. All my answers are from category 2. And here's another:

Kenny Napper Cat Stevens Mog Edwards