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Muggsy Spanier Les Spann Robert Bridges

I'd certainly be along to that if it were within reach. That Léger pic whets my appetite! Here a link to Lauder's collection: http://www.metmuseum.org/research/leonard-lauder-research-center/cubist-collection/the-collection What a treasure house! Thanks for the link.

Maria von Trapp Brian Spring Jonathan Bate

I'd certainly be along to that if it were within reach. That Léger pic whets my appetite!

Jah Wobble Jar Jar Binks Binkie Beaumont

Moonies Moomins Ho Chi Minh

Mithras Paul Temple Kirk Lightsey

Yes, strongly recommended. Rather surprisingly, I'm reminded of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday - slightly sentimental treatment of a group of outsiders living apart from from polite society, but united by strong communal bonds among themselves. After reading four of Fitzgerald's novels, I'm detecting a curious pattern concerning her characters. Often a main character emerges only some way into the book to whom the reader attaches his sympathies without being certain to what extent the novel is meant to be the story of this person - something I don't find with other novelists.

Dag Hammarskjold Dagwood Bumstead Bum Bright

The Tea Party Simone Dinnerstein Randy Brecker

Theseus Perseus Zeus

Lionel Hampton Wick Fowler Kim Richmond

Nigel Molesworth Brother Nigel the Chinless Wonder Little Brother Montgomery

The Kleeneze Man Scrubbers The Polish Ambassador

Beth Ditto Colonel Blotto Colonel Bogey

The Les Spann is a very nice album and not too well known. I first came across Spann on "Side by Side"which was the first Ellington album I ever heard. I still have a soft spot for it. I don't find Spannn especially individual but Gemini is fine session which was recorded pretty well , even if my Jazzland pressing isn't too hot. I like it also; It is nicely recorded and this copy appears little played; I was lucky to find it at Academy Records in New York a couple of months ago--and a bargain at $12. Now listening:

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Lord Copper Bronzino Eleanor Bron

Is that Latin or Greek? Never did know what it meant? Latin adjectives can have a masculine, feminine or neuter form, to suit the noun they're paired with. Thus, bonus the adjective meaning "good" could be bonus, bona or bonum, which can be abbreviated to bonus-a-um. By the way, there is no truth in the story that Quintus Groovius Saxo was the world's first hard bopper.

Yes, that was in the days when they could name an album Mingus-Ah-Um. Miles Gloriosus isn't an album title, by the way :-)

Latin A level and 1st year university subsidiary subject Greek O level

Croesus Buddy Rich Standard and Poor

Derry Irvine Brian Ferry Kevin and Perry

Solomon Grundy Bill Grundy The Sex Pistols

Some of these life achievement one-liners are great. British football idol George Best said when bankrupt: "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I squandered."