BillF

Sometimes I feel this way However do what you can to hear Evan Parker live on the straight horn As full a sound as one could imagine I've no problem with Parker , he's great

Philip Glass Ray Gelato Chappie d'Amato

Kay Nein Hans Kennel Syd Barker

Set in the BBC at the outset of World War II. Concise as always and well up to standard.

Orson Kart Shaft Rein De Graaff

Well, you've got to be pretty old to remember it! In 1963 I was in the second year of a three-year degree course in English at Leeds University. The reading list was massive and I spent most afternoons in the city's reference library, exiting at about 5 p.m. when the newspapers hit the streets with the latest Profumo affair headlines. I still remember seeing "Stephen Ward Dead" on a news vendor's billboard. Come to think of it, it was just three months before the JFK assassination, which of course I remember, too.

Lily Savage Sid Vicious The Brute

Brian Rix Will Hay Christian Bale

No, but judging by the track provided in the "Jazz Profiles" article it's well up to standard!

Leon Trotsky Eddie Cantor George Gallup

Barney Bigard Bessie Bighead Egomaniac

Bugs Bunny Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker J Fred Muggs

Stepford Wives Steptoe and Son Sons and Lovers

The Animals The Beast of Bolsover

La Roux Roxy Music Patricia Roc

Payment made.

Yes indeed, this would make a good movie, or maybe better yet, a perfect BBC-type multi-part series (and if you bend the events of the novel a little, a multi-year series, "Vicar of Dibley" style. In Mrs. Gamart, it has the perfect villain). On re-reading, it struck me how indebted Fitzgerald is to Muriel Spark: same slim narrative, same incisive characters, same implicit feminism. The big difference, to me, is that Spark is all steak knives and sharp edges, while Fitzgerald is all butter knives and round edges. Spark's heroines go for the glittering prizes, while Fitzgerald's learn resignation (albeit after a brief skirmish). At the end of the story, Florence "valued kindness above everything." Spark's women valued victory; they are more in line with Mr, Brundage's "Courage!" These are just differences, not necessarily superiorities on either side. Perhaps the Spark/Fitzgerald heroine differences spring from the differing personalities of their authors. Patently Spark did NOT value kindness above everything. I look forward with interest to reading Fitzgerald's biography; at the moment all I have to go on is her photo, which suggests a kindly woman:

Some I know and like; some to be investigated. Agreed. I've heard and like all 3 you posted in # 12 above. Here's three more I like from 2014. A wonderful straight ahead player. My "discovery" of the year. (Woodville) This one has way more "fire in the belly" than most JJ/Kai recordings which I generally find over arranged and too gentlemanly. This one makes you sit up and take notice. Sharp Nine David Hazeltine playing his piano idol's compositions plus "Over the Rainbow". An inspired date.

Dennis the Menace Kurt Vile Johnny Rotten

Hulking Stan Rovers The Incredible Hulk The Incredible String Band

What a fine novel this is! With its East Anglian landscape setting and distinctive characters would have made a good film. P.S. Just checked IMDb and it says "In development"! Great minds think alike!

Fess Parker Eric Buttock Chris Cheek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjH4arIn-80

You ask how many have read it. I have, simply because it was required reading on my English degree course in the 60s. I now recall very little of it, other than that I reached the end without a struggle - which I can't say of either Middlemarch or The Heart of Midlothian!

Lord Lucan The Vanishing Corporal Sergeant Pepper