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Fi Glover Bill Cash Stephen Spender

Gabriel Angel Eyes The Trumpet Volunteer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXxMvu8Bl_w

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, an exhibition by Jeremy Deller at Manchester Art Gallery Deller's individual exploration of the Industrial Revolution and its heritage, with emphasis on worker exploitation past and present: http://www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/exhibitions/index.php?itemID=108

Zsa Zsa Gabor Naum Gabo Gabby Hayes

Julio Geordio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSXzRWlL7Z0 Julio Romano Romano Mussolini ("Too bad about your Dad, man!" - Chet Baker)

Janet Yellan Bob Cryer Willie the Weeper

C C Rider Marine Le Pen The Ink Spots

Idi Amin Dada Cabaret Voltaire Hugo Ball

Frank Pick Puck Titania

Pollux Joseph Stones Marco Pierre White

Saw them at Ronnie's in the 60s. Chan Richardson/Woods was on the front row.

Booker Ervin Swervin' Mervyn Uncle Skid

Agreed. It's time we had a section for threads relating to jazz via streaming/downloading. How about it Moderators?

John Thaw Larry Rivers Willo Flood

Dead Kennedys Wilfred De'ath John Dyer

I even like The Hardbop Grandpop. Not to mention Jazz Has a Sense of Humor.

Mort Sahl Mart Rogers The Manchester Man

Bible John http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_John Cereal Killer John Barleycorn

Skip James Hop 'o My Thumb Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jupiter Ammon Eddie Mars Amos Bar

Philip Larkin? Jim Godbolt? For me - I guess Chick Corea comes in to this category. After the first ECM Return To Forever LP. Having said that, I've enjoyed him live in the times I've seen him over the years but the CDs/LPs have left me a bit cold.. Also Blue Mitchell after 'Boss Horn' (although 'Mapenzi' was a return to form). Re Blue Mitchell, Stablemates of 1977 is a good one, though an inspired Victor Feldman is an added attraction.

Philip Larkin? Jim Godbolt? Actually he was a technician at my school when I was in the sixth form in 1958. He clearly had been a jazz fan in his youth but hadn't been listening for about 15 years. I and my friends were playing the latest Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder - which this guy recognized as Ellington, though saying he'd changed enormously. When we said our favourite was Charlie Parker, he said, "I know him - he plays with Jay McShann." In retrospect it was fascinating to hear the views of fans from the pre-bop era on the jazz that we youngsters played. A friend's father whose tastes were firmly lodged in the thirties couldn't abide Dizzy Gillespie's tone and said it sounded "like a cat being strangled in a bucket".

Homer Simpson Odysseus Bill Oddy

It's a good album. I came across this one recently, too: I presume this is all on the Mosaic set? No idea.

It's a good album. I came across this one recently, too: