BillF

Perhaps jazz bios attempt the impossible in trying to bring a minority interest to a mass audience. Agree this one is far from memorable.

Emile Zola Zola Budd Billy Budd

New York singer/pianist Daryl Sherman at Malcolm Frazer's house last night. Very much in Blossom Dearie vein. Entertaining.

Moonraker Bob Fleming Moll Flanders

I don't think they do. I saw Eric Alexander roped in to draw raffle tickets in Leeds. He seemed very unfamiliar with this strange British rite.

Fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary on Edward Snowden.

Henry Boozier Wallace Beery John Drinkwater

Paul Fussell Jane Russell Darcey Bussell

Nanook of the North Nookie Bear Dick Oatts

Classic Iranian film. Must have been a dozen years since I first saw it, but it remained vivid in my mind.

Simple Simon The Pieman Meatloaf

The Boys in the Band Band on the Wall Max Wall

Glad he's drawing in a good audience. He deserves it!

Odean Pope Milton Nascimento Seamus Blake

Dizzy Gillespie Ozzy Osbourne Issy Bonn

Will have to see it when it's released here on March 10th.

Liz Lochhead Chuck Nessa Monster Raving Loonies

Zero Mostel O Henry Nils Bang

Jobsworth Job's Comforter Joe Comfort

Good jazz biography, stylistically divided between transcribed verbatim recollections by Stan and author's narrative. The latter are in a flamboyant style which recalls Mark Myers' writing in JazzWax. Is this today's jazz writing style? Curiously there are links with my other current reading, the novels of Saul Bellow. Stan speaks the language of Augie March, which I suppose isn't surprising as both were mid-20th century, Jewish urban Americans who moved from low life to social respectability..

Christy Brown Clifford Brown Old Mother Hubbard

Shorty Petterstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uo1miqVbfE Lighthouse All Stars Grace Darling