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Rolly Bundock Doc Cheatham Steve Swindells

Ella Sarah Billie

Earl Miner Cole Porter Shaft

Tripp Eisen Reuben McFall John Langdon Down

Erich von Stroheim The Strawbs Berry Gordy

Cherokees Cher Cherie Blair

Betty Windsor Barbara Castle Rocco Forte

The Alexandria Quartet was very fashionable reading in the 60s. As far as I recall, I found them a bit superficial - at least when compared with the other unquestioned classics I was reading at the time.

The Dirty Digger The Sun King Son House

Many thanks, Paul!

Jarmusch's latest. A gentle tale with interesting factual connections with Paterson, NJ and poet William Carlos Williams. Different and well worth seeing.

Baldy Pevsner Mein Herr John Locke

Chuck Flores Percy Thrower Liz Hurley

Little Green Men Little Bo Peep Little Richard

This is a good one!

Dr Strabismus of Utrecht Rene Utreger Janet Reger

The Harmful Little Armful Tox Drohar Tex Beneke

Yes, Rob (and wife) flew over from Holland yesterday. There was a strong Bill Evans feel to the gig. Some Evans-associated numbers were chosen and Arnie quickly fell into a freewheeling LaFaro mode. They'd never played together before, but there are the makings of a real partnership there And now for today: this afternoon to Wigan Jazz Club to hear the Brandon Allen Sextet with Mark Nightingale et al. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfdx7_RzlX8

I concede I might feel differently about Middlemarch now. My failure to finish it was over 50 years ago.

Rob Van Bavel (pno) & Arnie Somogyi (bs) at Malcolm Frazer's house in Cheadle this evening.

Eric Dolphy Navy SEALs The Wailers

Yes, a very good album which Spotify brought to my ears some time ago. Time for another listen!

Lord Jim Earl May Mr Knight https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=john coltrane mr knight

In my case the university reading lists were often unrealistically long - and were condemned as such by academics in another university where I subsequently did a postgraduate degree - so missed texts were understandable and normal. More interesting are the ones I set out to read, but which defeated my efforts to finish them. There were only two: Middlemarch and Sir Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian. Surprisingly, I had no trouble at all in reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall, although only a limited number of volumes were set.