BillF

Yes, I returned to it not long ago and it was good.

Re-read this for the first time in almost 50 years. Profound - a major work - though I'm saying nothing original in noting this.

Andreas Wank Blind Blake Specs Wright

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Clips of Rossano and Liam now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1X83Xudes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2R9m1fiCVM

Ondine Jim Dine Randy Brecker

The Colossus of Rhodes Cecil Payne Conrad Aiken

Zoot Horn Rollo Epic Sax Guy Honk Mostly

That was such a good Pres session!

Well, Bradshaw got it right again! - "mid-list potboiler". What intelligence, ingenuity and wit it had came straight from Le Carré's book. As soon as it came on the screen I was appalled by the colour palette - or whatever you call it in movies - and throughout the film a yellow brown tinge was never far away. Bradshaw also homed in on this, but in slightly different terms: "Director Susanna White favours a generic spy-movie look: those chilly blue filters surely need resting now."

Marianne Faithful Loyola Relyles

Coco Chanel Chan Canasta Rummy

For once I agree with Bradshaw: "a flawed drama".

Always a great 'un! One of the first Blue Notes to hit these shores in '62. I remember Stanley Turrentine's Look Out! was also in that first bunch!

Going to see this one on its release tomorrow. Will let you know ...

Simon & Garfunkel Garfield Dick Katz

So sorry to hear that. Joe Temperley was one of the first jazz musicians I heard play - with Humphrey Lyttelton's band at Leeds Town Hall in 1957 when I was 17. Along with Jimmy Skidmore and a youthful Tony Coe, he was part of a wonderful saxophone section which Humph added to his band - to the dismay of the traddies and delight of those who dug something more mainstream. In later shows at the same venue I saw the band touring with Jimmy Rushing and then Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The beginnings of my jazz education!

Honkers and Bar Walkers Toot Toot Tootsie Airto

Robin Hood Hal Crook Crockford's

The Sandman Sandy Manne

Frequent urgent need for cash a feature of his lifestyle?

Kai Winding Oliver Twist Screwtape

Tiny Grimes Brothers Grimm Isaac Stern

Clips of Rossano playing in markedly contrasting styles at that gig now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u02vdZGUmw

Spike Robinson Spike Jonze Glynis Johns