BillF

A longtime favorite. Love it!

Not a week and not even a track, but I can't resist the bit of this clip where Barry Harris tells Dutch music students about the changes they need for "the old time slow blues": (7:30 to 9:15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU387hqXIFA

Casting my memory back to those far-off days of the sixties, I recall that everyone was surprised when the out-of-fashion Hines (this was the era of Coltrane) won an award for a solo piano album. Anyone know what the album and award were? I can't remember.

Stuart Maconie Roger Beaujolais Bebop Nouveau

Artie Shaw Artie Fischel The Fakir

Jackie McLean The Connection Link Hogthrob

Gorgeous Gussie Gorgeous George Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

Dick Charlesworth's City Gents W C Handy Augustus John

The Peddler Argentinian documentary about a rural filmmaker. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636454/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

John Huston Sonny Dallas Austin Powers

O K Yoni http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Private_Eye Rabbi Yoni Rappaport Rapper Big Pooh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pooh

Emily Wick Robert Burns Alan Barnes

Joe Harriott Harriet Beecher Stowe Leopold Stokowski

I agree that it's a novel from another age with that age's attitudes and values - and yet an age in which I was already quite a seasoned reader, so for me reading/rereading this stuff is something of a personal journey.

Still continuing with Bellow. One I never read back then. Just finished this Penguin edition.

Big P P Diddy Biddy Mulligan the Pride of the Coombe

"Milestones #1" from this. Love all four tunes from the 1947 session with Bird on tenor!

Putter Smith Booker T Ed Balls

Drummond Bass The Big Noise from Winnetka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFBdViZHzk Bob Crosby

The Bouncing Czech Maximilian Schell

Arctic Monkeys Pola Roberts The Hudson Bay Company

Never got round to that one. First Circle remains strong in my memory. The horrors of Stalin's Russia hold a dreadful fascination for me, so I can't resist Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev and, much more recently, Julian Barnes's The Noise of Time.

Singletons Loners Londoners