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Buster Gonad Maude Gonne The Departed

Thomas Kyd Zack Nipper Pincher Martin

Clementine The Orange Order Max Jaffa

I bought it at the time together with others riding high on the Rogers boom - also saw Shorty with NYJO. More the 80s tho' IIRC.

Sister Sadie The Sad Young Men Les Miserables

Charlee Parker Dizzly Gillespie Brud Powell

Amazons Little Niles The Vulgar Boatman

Nice location. Where is it?

For what it's worth, here's one listener's experience. Since I signed up for Spotify about 6 months ago, there has been a serious decline in my jazz radio listening. I used to listen to radio primarily to hear new sounds - jazz I hadn't heard before. Things discovered in this way often led to album purchases - or should I say, album acquisition? On Spotify there is enough unheard stuff to keep me discovering new sounds till the end of my days and I listen so much on it that I have little time left for jazz radio. Album acquisition has also been largely replaced by the adding of good new discoveries to my Spotify playlists. These, however, may not be entirely reliable - often tracks are omitted from albums and tracks can disappear after a few months, so there's still hope for CDs!

Saul Bass Richard Basehart Richard the Lionheart The 500 royals (more like it!) Prince Charming King Pleasure

Nikolay Kuznetsov (Red Admiral) Commodore Records The French Lieutenant's Woman

Alfred E Neuman Gary Oldman Gerontion

Trilby Svengali Gil Evans

Tampa Red Tam O'Shanter Chuck Beret

Happy Birthday!

Maudie Littlehampton Wickes B&Q

Saw the film that was made from this. It wasn't bad, but I imagine the novel is superior. I've only just found out that there was a film. I've put it on my rental list with Lovefilm. As the beauty of the book lies largely in its verbal felicities, I won't be able to draw direct comparisons between novel and film. I'll watch the film for its own sake. I'm putting the novel on my to-read list. Good reading! Just watched the film, which I found disappointing. Sentimentality, in which the musical score plays a major part, has replaced the incisive social satire of the novel.

Pete Fountain Manneken Pis Ai Wei Wei

Plas Johnson Plastic Ono Band Arty Fishel and the Promised Band

The Double Six of Paris Twelve Angry Men JSngry

WAGs Mark Stryker The Kicker

Not the album cover I was expecting!

Glad it went well, John!