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Gore Vidal Vidal Sassoon A Foxhunting Man

I've started to look out for jazz quotes because of this. Who's this then? "A sax is like a pair of shoes. If you get a pair that are comfortable, you can learn how to do any kind of dance in them."

Mr Waldo Mog Edwards Myfanwy Price

I saw both those guys a very long time ago. Joe Temperley was in the first jazz band I saw - in 1957 at the age of 17 - led by the grand old man of British jazz, Humphrey Lyttelton. Lyttelton had rebelled against the current British fashion for trad/dixieland and had added a three-man sax section with Tony Coe on alto, Jimmy Skidmore on tenor and Temperley on baritone. Two years later, not long after the recording of The Atomic Mr Basie, I sat on the front row of the Free Trade Hall, Manchester right in front of the Basie sax section of Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Lockjaw Davis(?), Frank Foster and Charlie Fowlkes. Charlie was a heavily built guy who looked like he was bursting out of his pants! The music was fantastic!

Jethro Tull Maggie Tulliver Charles Tolliver

Keeping away from Google, the only ones I know are 5 across: Art Blakey and 18 down: Cannonball.

8 across: Joe Venuti 24 across: Fats Waller

Bob Monkhouse The boys of St Custard's

Sixteen Men Swinging Albert Pierrepoint H'Angus the Monkey

To turn to today, I often hear this pair and will do so again on 27th January: Here's their album:

Did we get this far without Lars Gullin being mentioned?

You've gotta mention Serge Chaloff - and of today's people, Gary Smulyan.

Jimmy Skidmore Minnie Driver Ian Carr

I've just read a Kenton biography in which Bill Holman is referred to constantly as Willis, besides which there's a Bob Florence composition dedicated to Holman called "Willis". (Going to the movies now - will return to the crossword later.)

OK, group effort it is. Here's my contribution: Across 1 Sun Ra 12 Melba Moore 20 Sonny Clark 22 Max Roach Down 1 Steve Swallow 3 Jelly Roll Morton 6 Yusef Lateef 7 Donald Byrd 19 Bill Holman

I also have that very nice album on vinyl.

Joyeux Anniversaire!

Inspector Morse Wee Dot Julian Dash

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/27/tescos-penis-themed-buttermilk-and-other-design-fails

Shouldn't that be Out of Focus?

Simon Spillett Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer

Eric Alexander and Jim Rotondi

The Lincoln Lawyer My Attorney Bernie Judge Dredd

Newk Trane Pres

Sounds fairly interesting, though I can guarantee I don't have time to read 44 novels! Maybe I'd have time for the best 5 or 6 read in conjunction with Barbara Pym, who mines a very similar vein. Holiday seems to be accepted as his best, so choose this one. The Barbara Pym connection didn't occur to me, but yes I see it, though my wife says she dislikes Middleton's masculine standpoint, which you certainly couldn't say of Pym