BillF

Nice to see those guys back, tho I won't be turning out. Too bloody scared! I've gone online for everything - jazz, movies, Spanish lessons, shopping - and will probably stay that way.

In this country are there still any jazz clubs outside London? I don't know of any. There are venues for regular jazz sessions and these are likely to be very heavily hit on account of the typical age of patrons and their understandable caution about venturing out at the moment. After all, we recently had a kind of older-than-you competition on this forum with ages of 78, 80 and 83 being brandished.

Yes John, that's the band I saw. Hope you like it. I did!

Thanks John. I had a nice chat with Osian at the home of my friend Malcolm who hosts gigs and we compared notes on our early origins. (Sadly I'm now resigned to accepting those face-to-face sessions as a thing of the past ) Osian is a tenorman much to my taste, and I think yours. He can be heard to advantage on a number of albums he's made with Steve Fishwick, this probably being the most well known:

That's a lovely album, John. A few years ago in Southport, UK I saw Basile, Patton and Karn in a sextet that included tenorman Osian Roberts who, like me, was born in Cardiff. I see that this album has a track called "The Cardiff Giant". As I'm listening on Spotify and don't have access to liner notes, I'm wondering if this is dedicated to Osian. Is it?

A real collector would have all of them, don't you think?

Agree with your assessment of the trilogy. The first book is as good as EW got IMHO.

My 3-year-old granddaughter who lives with me just went past the room where I was playing a great Emily Remler trio YouTube clip. My wife reports she said "I like Grandpa's funny music!"

I saw Phil and his European Swinging Machine at Ronnie's. I wasn't particularly impressed. Perhaps it was an off night. I was, however, impressed to learn that the woman with the kids on the front row was Charlie Parker's widow. I have since read her autobiography but, as a youngster, I didn't have the facts at my fingertips as I do now.

With Bob Berg and Billy Hart

Your selection, Bresna of the excellent Michael Weiss disc reminded me of this one, as I'd seen a fine clip of Michael playing with Walt. I dig Michael's choice of tenormen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jswJ4shUuCs