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Pree Parker Kim Parker Baird Parker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeqh-PlNpxI

Buck Clayton James Clay Tommy Potter

Ian Carr Boy Racers Uncle Skid

Jack "The Hat" McVitie Peek Freans Half Man Half Biscuit

Was in London today and had a briefest look at a couple of the old haunts. Since I was last in Foyle's, Ray's Jazz has parted company with the café and moved downstairs into much reduced premises. At least the jazz book section was nearby, enabling me to check out in Golson's biography the "Clifford-meets-Louis" story currently under discussion in another thread. At £33 you'll appreciate that I didn't buy Reckless Records is still there in Berwick Street, but with a very shrunken jazz section, something called "Jazz Fusion" now being uppermost

That photo takes me back. The first Bird I ever owned - in 1958!

The Bachelor Masters of the Universe Doctor Dolittle

Spiro Agnew Inspiral Carpets Matt Home

Earl Grey Jack Teagarden The Mad Hatter

Yes, the "two musics" never stayed entirely apart. I seem to recall Louis' bassist, Arvell Shaw quoting "Ornithology" during a solo with the All Stars. Now, was that on "Basin Street Blues"? Perhaps someone will remember ...

The Kid Childe Harold John Bratby

Nat Turner The Spinners Whirling Dervishes

Released April 2017

Does that suggest he wasn't altogether "capable" at the time? He wasn't 100% "capable" when I saw him.