BillF

Happy Birthday, Jim!

Bob Knob Irene Handl Walter Gropius

Trigger Alpert Jon Pertwee Ai Wei Wei

The Foot Soldier Bud Shank Pony Poindexter

Bogey Lord Snotty & His Pals Frank Pick

This is probably the best of Murdoch's first eight novels which I've been reading in recent months. Fascinated to know what personal experience went into them, I've now got hold of a Murdoch biography.

Professor Branestawm Eric Hobsbawm Herbert Frogspawn

Head Man Numero Uno

Mark Nightingale Humphry Berkeley

William Mallord Turner John Constable The Police

David Essex The Sex Pistols Marie-France Pisier

George Foreman Hugo Boss Head Honcho

Spitting Image Hawk Tito Gobbi

Granted there wasn't really anything from Jim in the greasy/funky/dirty direction - I understand where you're coming from. Absence of that element from Bill Evans' playing was initially a barrier for me - but only initially. I remember a musician friend trying to convince me by arguing that this wasn't essential in a jazz performance.

Paul Boateng Alexei Sayle Marine Le Pen

I only have one 2013 album, which is excellent:

And the great 1959, 1961 and 1963-1965 recordings with Paul Desmond on Warner Bros. and RCA, and his Pacific Jazz dates, Jazz Guitar and Good Friday Blues - The Modest Jazz Trio. Forgot Desmond. Have edited post. He not only recorded with Desmond in the period you mentioned, but also after 1962. I know. I've got the discs! Marc Myers' JazzWax post this morning reminds me that I should have put Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Brookmeyer (thanks also, Ubu) and John Lewis in that list, too. http://www.jazzwax.com/ I mentioned "contrasting contexts", but the really big shock came when he appeared on Rollins' The Bridge. At the time I knew him as the Chico Hamilton quintet's guitarist and in those days we foolishly believed that "East is East and West is West and never the twain ...."

Freeman Hardy & Willis Liberty Hall Son House

And the great 1959, 1961 and 1963-1965 recordings with Paul Desmond on Warner Bros. and RCA, and his Pacific Jazz dates, Jazz Guitar and Good Friday Blues - The Modest Jazz Trio. Forgot Desmond. Have edited post. He not only recorded with Desmond in the period you mentioned, but also after 1962. I know. I've got the discs! Marc Myers' JazzWax post this morning reminds me that I should have put Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Brookmeyer (thanks also, Ubu) and John Lewis in that list, too. http://www.jazzwax.com/

And the great 1959, 1961 and 1963-1965 recordings with Paul Desmond on Warner Bros. and RCA, and his Pacific Jazz dates, Jazz Guitar and Good Friday Blues - The Modest Jazz Trio. Forgot Desmond. Have edited post. He not only recorded with Desmond in the period you mentioned, but also after 1962. I know. I've got the discs!

And the great 1959, 1961 and 1963-1965 recordings with Paul Desmond on Warner Bros. and RCA, and his Pacific Jazz dates, Jazz Guitar and Good Friday Blues - The Modest Jazz Trio. Forgot Desmond. Have edited post.

He played so well in so many contrasting contexts - with Hampton Hawes, Chico Hamilton, Art Farmer, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans, Paul Desmond - just to mention the 1955-62 period.

Don Rendell Randall Jarrell Lord Randall

Diz Disley Walt Disney John Birks Gillespie