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BillF

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  1. The third Donna Tartt novel I've read - and very good.
  2. The Vice Pres Vic Ash Elmo Hope
  3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Freddie Whiting Leon Greening
  4. Jonathan Swift Fast Eddie Flash Harry
  5. Pete Candoli Pete the Cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC3c_KsN2Vs Maggie the Cat
  6. Ruby Wax Polish People's Party Ronald Shiner
  7. Dick Katz Kids Company
  8. Interesting show, including some lesser known (at least by me) Vee Jay jazz albums.
  9. Robert Northern Arctic Monkeys The Hairy Ape
  10. A band I used to hear in my youth. Nostalgia in full flow! Time I gave the album another listen.
  11. Saw this fine Anglo-American hard bop sextet at Southport today. L to r: Frank Basile, Osian Roberts, Steve Fishwick, Jeb Patton, Matt Fishwick, Peter Kam.
  12. Ivy Benson Livy Ovid
  13. Killer Ray Appleton Lemmy Kilmister Blind Lemon Jefferson
  14. Nanook of the North Pola Roberts Bear Grylls
  15. Eric Linklater Peter Cheyney Simon Rattle
  16. Dave Tough Brutus Brothers Grimm
  17. Well received by cinema audiences generally. The problem seems to be if you know anything about drumming, jazz, music - things like that.
  18. Ethelred the Unready Kenny Napper Dozy
  19. Was it not ever thus? Movies about jazz have nearly always been made for mass audiences and not for jazz fans. I was reminded of this recently when I tried - unsuccessfully - to watch for a second time the recent jazz drumming saga, Whiplash.
  20. In this interview which Dmitry posted Cheadle says he doesn't go for chronology and is happy to have Kinda Blue in 1969, etc, etc. Phew! https://youtu.be/bTKFotWCPaE
  21. Second only to Raging Bull. Not much sign of The Man Walking on Eggshells in those clips.
  22. Lord Jim Count Jim Moriarty Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
  23. Wee Georgie Wood Theresa May Conrad Will
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