BillF

This should whet your appetite, John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0xzTTlX_a4

Lightning Hopkins Dennis Hopper Brian Spring

Wow! Should be a good evening of music, Bill. Look forward to a report. Well yes, certainly a good evening! Atzmon is a very powerful player - his physique, extrovert approach, showmanship and volume reminded me of Cannonball (yes, I saw him too!) You wouldn't have noticed this in a recording studio, but in the smallish room in Wilmslow (audience of 60) with no mics Alan was clearly out-blown when both were on alto, something that never happens when he's paired with Greg Abate. After the first number Alan retreated to a ballad and brought out his baritone, only to have Gilad say it looked "like an Israeli weapon". Gilad also came up to expectations by inserting quotes from Fiddler on the Roof into "All the Things You Are" and on "My Funny Valentine" his clarinet had a decided klezmer sound, his coda leading into a klezmer rhythm which was eventually picked up by Alan and even by local pianist Vinnie Parker!

Looking forward to what is billed as an "Anglo-Israeli Alto Summit" tonight - Alan Barnes and Gilad Atzmon.

Morris Dancers A Lark Ascending Beverley Nichols

Bartleby Jean-Pierre Melville Le Samourai

Tiger Woods Willie "The Lion" Smith The Big Cat

Some wonderful music on that one!

The Constant Gardener The Dirty Digger Cory Weeds

Graham Stringer Laura Wood Roper Joseph Wood Krutch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wood_Krutch

Man Ray Sting Stig of the Dump

Manichaean keeps coming up - perhaps because I can never grasp what it means. :-(

Fast Eddy Eddy Stone Lighthouse All Stars

sub rosa Had seen it before, but didn't know the meaning (= in confidence.)

Arvell Shaw Barrett Deems Billy Kyle

Walter de la Mare The Fol De Rols Henry Royce

Hugh Dunnett Prime Suspect Killer Joe

Courtney Love Bert Courtley Robert Holmes à Court

Phil the Greek Timon of Athens Old Father Time

Organ Grinder Jimmy Smith Organ Morgan

Cousin Mary Sister Sadie Juicy Lucy

Professor Longhair Anna Cropper Corporal Trim

Peaches Geldof Felix Wankel

Your Uncle The Man from UNCLE The Man from Laramie

Michelin Man Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edmund Rubbra