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I recall Alan Barnes saying that as a student at Leeds College of Music he made the trip to Scott's to hear the master. Perhaps that's why many years later he named an album The Art Trip.

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British musician. I saw him in Southport a few years ago with the group on this album, but minus Vincent Herring, who didn't show.

Interesting! The British satirical magazine Private Eye always referred to newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell as "the Bouncing Czech". Maxwell, of Czech origin, was later revealed to have been raiding his employees' pension fund to prop up his failing business. His daughter Ghislaine isn't making too good a name for herself nowadays, either.

As this thread is developing into something of a soliloquy, I'll just add that the Barnet disc above includes a sensational treatment of Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are" by Maynard Ferguson that so enraged Kern's widow that she threatened to sue!

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https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-capitol-big-band-sessions-mw0000042401 Wow!

Yes, hopefully. In my diary it says for Nov 15: Greg Abate, The Railway, Stockport. The Railway closes from today under Tier 3 regulations.