BillF

I see what you mean - I didn't see any two-year-olds in the audience, though I did take my daughter aged 10 to see the Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra in 1991.

Is this any help? https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200016608

Certainly it's from a later time. I saw the Monk quartet on that tour in April 1961. Perhaps you did too, Gheorghe?

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Yes, its a great one. The Machito orch, Howard and Brew are great, of course, but I'm still listening on the vocal tracks, as I've been learning Spanish for two years, and they're a real challenge!

John Cassavetes' "Shadows" with music by Charles Mingus. The film of Jack Gelber's play "The Connection" with music by the Freddie Redd Quartet with Jackie McLean. The Swedish film "Sven Klang's Combo" about a doomed jazz musician who resembles Lars Gullin.

I'm eagerly awaiting the Attlee biopic,"Clem: the Movie".

Well, it's all history now. My daughter did a module ten years ago as part of a History degree called "From Elvis to Nixon". I guess it happens in every generation. In 1959, while he and I were keenly watching the transfer of power in Cuba from Batista to Castro, a student friend was dismayed to find that his student flatmate (now an Emeritus Professor of Physics) had never heard of the Spanish Civil War.

Know what you mean. At my Spanish class on Thursday I gave an account of the film in Spanish. The teacher, a university-educated Spanish guy in his forties, astounded me by asking who had won the Vietnam War.

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