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Bruce Barth with Arnie Somogyi (bs) and Stephen Keogh (dms) at Malcolm Frazer's house. Great session! Bruce far more of a swinging pianist than he sounds on record.

Albie Sachs Bags Sammy Box

The Little Dutch Boy Joe Fingers Carr Tom Thumb

John Doe Bill Cash Acker Bilk

Norma Major Minor Hall Ken Colyer

Dirk Bogarde Humphrey Bogart Lex Humphries

Phil Jupitus Eddie Marsan Eddie Merckx

Strike a light!

Ruth the Gleaner Mrs Mop Hale Bopp

Elementary school was the old name for a primary school - a school for children from the age of 4 or 5 till 11. At this stage children progress to secondary school till at least the age of 16. In my youth (1950's) secondary schools were either secondary modern schools or grammar schools, the second entered only by competitive academic examination. These have largely died out since my youth, but the present Conservative government is looking on them with renewed favour.

Well, I've just finished Ravelstein which was going fine until the end, when it moved in a direction that was out of character with the novel to that point. As usual with Bellow, though, plenty of food for thought in this one.

John Pearce Nat Pierce Piers Plowman

Graham Greene Monte Blue Monty's Double

Scarlett Johansson King Crimson Vi Redd

Barclay James Harvest Peetie Wheatstraw Will Hay

Wilfred Wooller Les Tricoteuses Nitin Sawhney

The Spice Girls The Space Girls Rocket Ronnie

Paddy Power The Mighty Quinn Fanny Ardant

Pratt & Whitney Edmund Burke John Birks Gillespie

Frank Pick Sir Cloudesley Shovel Kate Spade

Frank Herbert Bobby Sands The Desert Rats

Wee Dot Blott on the Landscape The Ink Spots

Ah, yes, I recall tracks from the "Kim"/"Laird Baird"/"Cosmic Rays" session. Not too keen on what boyo got up to with his Mum though!

Julius Hemphill Grassella Oliphant Dopey