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Suez? Hungary? Look Back in Anger? Rock Around the Clock?

The sound of Lester was always there in Jug, and it's really noticeable some years before his best known recordings. Listen to his solo near the end of "The Great Lie" with Woody Herman in 1949: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NRjO2EQU14

I feel much the same way about books like Simon Spillett's - admittedly brilliant - biography of Tubby Hayes. Simon is the acknowledged expert - justifiably I think - on Tubby Hayes, but he never heard him play, while I, just an ordinary Joe Soap in the jazz world, heard him play many, many times.But I will grant Simon this - he did seem interested in my recollections of his idol.

Schlock Holmes Shylock Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel

Love this cover! The music's great, too.

Olive Oyl Leroy Vinnegar Simon Mayo

Absolute crap IMHO, but then I'm not the person to ask about anything to do with the horror genre. Have to admit though it's very skilfully put together, as you would expect from a master director like this.

Sounds fascinating! I'd heard about the boxing and photography - as well as the drumming, of course.

I first heard it at the age of 19 in 1959, two years after it was recorded. In those days it took at least that time for US recordings to appear here. I was already well into the work of each of the leaders, and thought it a very strange pairing - still do, I suppose. But some very beautiful music there, all the same. In recent years I've been fascinated to hear the alternative takes that appeared on the CD and which, of course, weren't there on the original Riverside LP.

Track 1 "Sheik of Araby Boogie". Now who would that be by? Axel Zwingenberger? Well, it's not Albert Ammons! Track 21 "There Will Never Be Another You". Gene Ammons? Track 23 Jay McShann?

Very late to the party, but enjoy!

Continuing my review of the best of Penelope Fitzgerald ...

Good. Well-considered review of the problems of a woman of a certain age. A great antidote to the Almodovar melodramas I've been watching recently.

Rebel Wthout A Cause Jason Rebello Maria Bello

Party Pooper Varty Haroutunian Aart van de Vaart

Tony Scott and the Three Dicks Otto Dix

Deep Throat Ruud Gullit Rude Boys

Might return to that sometime, not least because I've been learning Spanish for six months!

Yes, admittedly I didn't get on with this one: but this was still within my limits:

In the age of Spotify my CD buying has dwindled to gems formerly available on Spotify, but now disappeared from their selections. In that category are these which should be arriving anytime now: P.S. Amazon has returned my payment on the first of these. It's looking as if Spotify drops items when they're no longer available on CD. But the Barcelonans are still there with this:

Danny Polo So Solid Crew Evelyn Necker

Michael Caine Sugar Ray Robinson Beethoven

Ponce de Leon The Scarlet Pimpernel King Crimson