BillF

Many, many familiar faces there - they also find their way to my part of the world. But I don't know why you mention young players, as the average age would be at least in the forties on my reckoning. However, that's a couple of decades younger than the audience for these people in my experience!

Kenny Dorham The Doors Diana Dors

And don't forget the huge popularity of instrumental electronica in the 1990s and early 2000s. Yes, though I am not sure how much of that charted aside from something like US3 Cantaloop (which if I recall accurately, many here loathe). Looking through these various posts and key threads, with a semi-detached eye, there really is just so much snobbery it is pretty sickening. Any artist that is under 50 that gets halfway popular is almost immediately knocked off the pedestal. I have indulged from time to time, though try to stay out of it, mostly since my emotional attachment to jazz is probably half of what it was 10 to 15 years ago. But yes, in terms of its overall cultural relevance, I do think jazz is now dead. Sure, there are some legacy projects (perhaps more in Europe where there is some public funding keeping this stuff going) and a few cities where jazz seems truly alive, but not for the majority of people who couldn't care less. "But yes, in terms of its overall cultural relevance, I do think jazz is now dead." Neatly put, and perhaps controversial, but accurate.

Buddy Rich Poor Butterfly Red Admiral

How very true!

I'm certainly breaking Paul's rules by taking a third bite of the cherry, but if I'd thought more carefully at the outset, I probably would have picked this one. Bird's playing on some tracks is sensational:

And 1960 - a time often referred to as the jazz boom.

Spike Milligan Buck Mulligan Chet Baker

Finn Peters Prunella Scales Paul Gill

Fodens Motor Works Band Brian Rix Norman St John Stevas

It's a great album! Perhaps it's underrated.

Some sensational stuff on this one! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Is_Free

The Rt Rev Chris Cocksworth Putte Wickman Weenie Campbell

Puff the Magic Dragon Siggy Flicker Lew Tabackin

Disc 6

Lily Savage Ray Noble Cherokee

Giant Despair Jimmy Gloomy The Sad Young Men

At the Royal Roost 1948-49, available on this:

Emma Peel William of Orange Gladys Knight

The logo and typography are the same as the French Guilde du Jazz of that era. I first heard the Parker Dials on that label (dreadful sound quality, later greatly improved on the British Spotlite label.) Spotlight SPJ-CD 4-101 - P 1993 - total playing time 248:57 Never got as far as the CDs: have had 5 Spotlite Parker LPs since the 70s.

Now playing:

Grocer Heath Carter Patterson Postman Cheval

The logo and typography are the same as the French Guilde du Jazz of that era. I first heard the Parker Dials on that label (dreadful sound quality, later greatly improved on the British Spotlite label.)