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Aviators Ava Gardner Robert Plant

I'll be at his Christmas show with David Newton and local rhythm section at Malcolm Frazer's house in Cheadle on 16th December. Re "funniest man", the aging Barnes was heard to say to the very promising 20-something-year-old trumpeter next to him in the octet, "There's 50 more years to go, you know."

To Cheadle to hear an octet called Boplicity who played charts by Mulligan, Rogers, Pell, Niehaus, etc with surprising accuracy and managed to swing like mad. Guest artist - you guessed! Alan Barnes - who says he's now cleaning his saxophone with £10 notes as they're no longer worth anything.

Gerald Ratner https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/aug/22/gerald-ratner-jewellery-total-crap-1992-archive Krapp ('s Last Tape)

J Edgar Hoover Hieronymus Bosch The Spinners

Pamela Hansford Johnson Amelia Earhart Persse-Oreilly Earwigger

Matt Home Son House Casanova

Leslie Charteris Gemma Arterton Artie Shaw

Joe Mr Piano Henderson Henderson the Rain King Ian Rankin

Speaking entirely personally of course, I think these deserve a mention:

Gilad Atzmon and Alan Barnes at Band on the Wall last night.

OK, let's have a few:

Ena Sharples Oona King

Easy Rawlins Richard Dawkins Ellis Larkins

As it's "of all time", we should have stuff from before the album era, or we'd be excluding all-time material by Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Lester, Parker and others you might care to mention.

Eartha Kitt Kitty O'Shea Pussy Riot

Fats Sadi Jimmy Gloomy Les Miserables

Yes, a good 'un!

Friar Tuck Chips Channon Kofi Annan

Grant Stewart Ralph Bowen Cory Weeds

Teds Mods Rockers

Bloody Mary Bleeding Gums Murphy Lockjaw Davis

Ginney Robinson Simone Martini Tom Collins