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Jacobs, Wander & Moss Carl Rove The Traveller

There's obviously a trend ... http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/01/prince-william-bbc-apologises-penis

Is it the melody of 'All The Things You Are' that pleases the ear or the chord sequence? It's the chord sequence that pleases me. Chop the melody statements off and the magic's still there.

Pharoah Sanders Scott LaFaro Guy Lafitte

The Wailers Jean-Pierre Melville China Miéville

Even outside jazz I suspect a lot of what we think of as great melodies have their impact because of the harmonies. I've been a sucker for a good or unexpected chord change since I first started listening consciously to music (and probably before then). Example - at the end of the 1st movement of Vaughan Williams 6th Symphony this glowing, soaring melody appears that turns you to mush. Yet it's been thrown around the orchestra for the whole of the movement without anything like that effect - it's the way it's harmonised at the end that sees it suddenly emerge as a gorgeous melody. I use the word "changes" in the jazz sense to mean chord sequence.

I've listened to so much jazz that I think in terms of beautiful changes, rather than melodies, so I'm nominating "Cherokee", "All the Things You Are" and "Body and Soul".

Paquito D'Rivera Easter Bunnies Hugh Hefner

Rusty Bryant Brian Rust Rex Harris

Gabby Hayes Tubby Hayes Phineas Fogg

Charmian Innes T Rex Ubu Roi

Rossano Sportiello The Games Mistress Cynthia Payne

Charlie Ventura (Bop for) The People Hoi Polloi

Sal Mosca The Fly By Knights King Arthur Scargill

The Ambassadors Diana Dors The Doors

Jack Dee Dee Wells Wells Fargo

The Faerie Queene Julian Clary Hairy McLary

Solar Arkestra Noah Beery Boosey & Hawkes

Ryan Gosling Alger Hiss Jeanne Gies

Mabel Farr Michael Faraday Sparky

Pleased to have missed the hail, Richard. But we've had some very heavy downpours here today and yesterday.

Danger Man Fyfe Dangerfield The Recorder of Manchester John Gay L Sprague de Camp Butch Miles

Paperback Writer Walter Page Jo Jones

Artists Jane and Louise Wilson based their work on Chernobyl today: http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/jane-and-louise-wilson/