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Meanwhile I've remembered (with the assistance of Google) that the musician whose cat was called Rollins was Bob Downes and that the composition was "Here We Go Rollins".

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The answer of course, Sidewinder, is get up and get your posting done at 4 a.m. Shake a leg!

Is he a shep dog?

Novel based on biographies that explores the inner life of composer Shostakovich across several decades.

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More crazy behaviour from the board. Time it was fixed!

I remember a British jazzer had a cat - and probably a composition - called Rollins (I recall the cat's name but not his), so why not Mobley for your dog?

Yes, I wouldn't have got onto it if I hadn't read Marc Myers that morning.

Yes, the passing of a key individual can be the reason for the disappearance of a festival, etc. Rossano Sportiello told me that this was why the Norwich Jazz Party - at which he was a regular - lapsed. Of course, the same thing is happening, bit by bit, to the jazz audience - at least the audience for classic jazz. Once it was young guys, now it's guys with walking frames and hearing aids, next it's no one :-(

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Ah, so that's what the"Hammond Zone" is all about - Vanguard records, etc :-) Yes, that's the documentary I've linked in Post 1 above.

The Wigan Jazz Festival was decimated the moment the Tories got into power in 2010 and slashed local authority budgets. Formerly international, it's now become largely local, even if Georgie Fame did come from Wigan! Can't see me going this year: http://www.wiganjazzclub.co.uk/WIJF.htm

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Roy Eldridge and Eric Dolphy together(!) and both on blistering form on "Body and Soul" from this:

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