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Camper Van Beethoven Chuck Berry Liz Hurley

You could try this:

Guardian obituary: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/21/ward-swingle

Rock Hudson Andy Bey Company Matsuo

Doc Cheetham Steve Swindell Ward Swingle

Probably the then current bossa nova craze would have suited them, too ...

Correction: memory now tells me that those fourth sections were labelled Jacques Loussier, who was another French purveyor of swingin' Bach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Loussier

One of the biggest volume contrasts that could be heard in jazz was between shout choruses by the Basie band and the Count's minimalist piano passages.

Otis Redding The Reddleman Diggory Venn

This stuff was once so popular that I can remember record stores with the jazz area divided into four sections: Trad, Modern, Progressive (i.e. Kenton, etc) and Jazz Sebastian Bach!

Short stories by Fitzgerald. A bit of an anticlimax after the novels, I thought.

Dick Trickle The Running Man Herne Hill Harriers

Got my ticket. looking forward to seeing Cowell, McBee and Tolliver all for the first time. See you there Bev? Some very old colleagues there! I saw Cowell and Tolliver - together with Odean Pope and Jymie Merritt - in a Max Roach Quintet in Manchester in the late 60s.

To put this in a jazz context, I was going to quote the extremes of Charlie Christian or Scott LaFaro (25) and Eubie Blake (100), when I found out to my disappointment on Wikipedia that Eubie was in fact a mere 96 :-(

Dubya Mr X Y B Wet (raincoat manufacturer)

Buster Gonad Gone Girl

First meeting between Bruce Adams and Gilad Atzmon at Wilmslow last night. Those two heavy hitters got on well!

Benny Hill Shere Hite Peek Freans

Ruud Gullit Rude Mechanicals Nick Bottom

Cool Hand Luke Chili Palmer Eskimo Nell

Edmund Curll Graham Platt Bob Scobey

Etta Bunn Munch Manship Steve Swallow

http://www.jazzinsouthport.co.uk/festival/jazz-on-a-winters-weekend-2015/programme/

Don Pullen Heironymus Merkin

Lully La Lollo Loplop