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Hank Cinq Bottom Anchorman

Screaming Lord Sutch Howling Wolf Yella

Well, made it to The Hepworth and very good indeed. Apart from the new Dana Schutz show, excellent collection of 20th century British painting and sculpture and some fine Tissots.

Bob Berg Flo

Rider Haggard Paleface Hyacinth Bucket

The Firebird Robert Burns Arthur Brown

Fleur Adcock Emily Wick Cressida Dick

Drunken Duncan Tipsy Hedren Boosey and Hawkes

Lord Snooty Sooty and Sweep Swee' Pea

Mal Odruss Hugh Smellie George Tosh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Smellie

Alyn Shipton Harold Shipman Marine Le Pen

But we've still had to listen to hours of coverage by the Londoncentric media!

Dirty Harry Wishee Washee Widow Twankey

Rameses II Ram Ramirez U2

Sis Our Kid Oor Wullie

A few random thoughts: It's regrettable that jazz has been taken over by academia in this way. This sort of writing - endemic in many academic areas nowadays - is quite alien to the spirit of the music and, quite frankly, insults it. An artist friend of mine, whom I won't name, produces writing of this sort about his own work. When I visited his art show and liked the work - finding it even entertaining - I told him I'd feared the worst after reading the incomprehensible gobbledegook he'd written about it. He laughed and said he only wrote that stuff to send people up and tie them in knots. Perhaps the best policy, then, is to ignore the academic writing and enjoy the Coltrane disc. I'm very happy, though, about academia's taking up of jazz in another way - the practical courses which now abound in learning and playing the music. These are keeping the music alive and generations of musicians - as far back of Jimmy Giuffre - are now the products of such courses. Teaching on these courses is also a valuable source of livelihood for musicians, particularly in providing pensions when the continual touring and playing become too much to sustain.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/27/verve-records-jazz-norman-granz

Looks like a repeat of the '87 event - south devastated, north spared. Clearly God is not a Tory.

I don't like Brubeck's piano, particularly on the Oberlin album, which I think is a defensible position. Less defensible, according to received opinion, is the fact that there are no Tatum albums in my collection.

George Macbeth Joe Macbeth Lady Macbeth

Maxim Gorky Korky the Cat Dandy Nichols

Chewbacca Nobel Laureates Noble Sissle

You are in a room with Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler and Kenny G. You have a gun, but only two bullets. What do you do? Shoot Kenny G twice ... just to make sure. What do you call a beautiful woman on a trombonist's arm? A tattoo.

Christopher Plummer The Dagenham Girl Pipers Taps Miller