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Humphrey Lyttleton, too, with 'Bad penny blues' - a while before, though, in '56 I think. Yes, bought on 78 in '56 along with those Bill Hayleys.

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I'm in agreement with Monk. I've never heard a piano successfully bowed. Wouldn't buy the album.

Sad to hear, though I did prefer Ronnie.

I'm in agreement with Monk. I've never heard a piano successfully bowed.

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Good grief! I was at Roundhay Grammar from 1955 to 1958! I lived in Street Lane, at the bottom, just by Roundhay Park. MG Those were the years I was in the 6th form - I managed to clock up 3 years there! I wouldn't have known you as you were only a sprog in those days. I lived off Oakwood Lane and had a one mile walk to school. If memory serves, Oakwood Lane was the turning off Street Lane, going down to the school. Our place was opposite the top of Oakwood Lane. I probably knew you, Bill, because you'd have been a prefect and thus to be avoided MG You've forgotten your Leeds geography, MG! Oakwood Lane leads off from Roundhay Road at the bottom end of the Soldiers' Field. Remember the Oakwood clock tower? You're right, of course. The road I was thinking of, now I've looked at the Google map, is Old Park Road. Not sure about the clock tower; was there a cheap cinema (ie fleapit) down by there? MG Yes, I thought you meant Old Park Road, where the school entrance was. Still off the mark with Oakwood, though. No fleapit, but to help you get your bearings, you can just see to the immediate left of the clock tower in the photo a hint of the red roof and white wall of a house at the bottom end of Old Park Road. You lived at the top end of OPR; the school entrance was in the middle. Oh, that's the way we went on cross country runs into the bottom of the park and up through it. Of course, once out of the park, the route ran past our place and I used to stop off for a cuppa MG Glad you used to stop off for a cuppa. You were better placed than us reluctant runners who used to hang out in The Castle in Roundhay Park: We used to hang about there while the keen runners went all the way to distant Shadwell and back and we would then fall in behind them for the final stretch home. One day we mistimed this and came in unconvincingly early. The teacher (called Dobson, BTW) asked me if I'd been all the way to Shadwell. When I replied "Of course", he asked me to name the pub at Shadwell ,which I couldn't, never having been there. Asked why I couldn' t name it, I said I'd run past too fast. Dobson concluded by saying it was too late to reform me (now 18 and in the 3rd year 6th form), and asked me not to get the younger kids on the same game. Definitely not prefect material!

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I'm afraid my knowledge of the area is more than 40 years out of date. But I did go to another part of Leeds last March - Seven Arts in Harrogate Road - to hear Eric Alexander in a Dave O'Higgins quintet. It takes something very special to get me across the Pennines nowadays!

Good grief! I was at Roundhay Grammar from 1955 to 1958! I lived in Street Lane, at the bottom, just by Roundhay Park. MG Those were the years I was in the 6th form - I managed to clock up 3 years there! I wouldn't have known you as you were only a sprog in those days. I lived off Oakwood Lane and had a one mile walk to school. If memory serves, Oakwood Lane was the turning off Street Lane, going down to the school. Our place was opposite the top of Oakwood Lane. I probably knew you, Bill, because you'd have been a prefect and thus to be avoided MG You've forgotten your Leeds geography, MG! Oakwood Lane leads off from Roundhay Road at the bottom end of the Soldiers' Field. Remember the Oakwood clock tower? You're right, of course. The road I was thinking of, now I've looked at the Google map, is Old Park Road. Not sure about the clock tower; was there a cheap cinema (ie fleapit) down by there? MG Yes, I thought you meant Old Park Road, where the school entrance was. Still off the mark with Oakwood, though. No fleapit, but to help you get your bearings, you can just see to the immediate left of the clock tower in the photo a hint of the red roof and white wall of a house at the bottom end of Old Park Road. You lived at the top end of OPR; the school entrance was in the middle.

Agreed. I'm a great fan of the Wes/Rhyne dates. Their rendering of "Round Midnight" is sublime.

Oh yes, very early recollections are good. My earliest memory is singing along with my mother to 'Open the door, Richard', which must have been early 1947, so I'd have been three and a bit. There were about a hundred and fifty versions of the song recorded in 1947, so I don't know which version it was MG Good grief! I was at Roundhay Grammar from 1955 to 1958! I lived in Street Lane, at the bottom, just by Roundhay Park. MG Those were the years I was in the 6th form - I managed to clock up 3 years there! I wouldn't have known you as you were only a sprog in those days. I lived off Oakwood Lane and had a one mile walk to school. If memory serves, Oakwood Lane was the turning off Street Lane, going down to the school. Our place was opposite the top of Oakwood Lane. I probably knew you, Bill, because you'd have been a prefect and thus to be avoided MG You've forgotten your Leeds geography, MG! Oakwood Lane leads off from Roundhay Road at the bottom end of the Soldiers' Field. Remember the Oakwood clock tower? No. I was never a prefect. I was too much into deviant activities like jazz (as it it was seen in those days) for that. Under the heading of Conduct/Manners, my final school report read, "Abrupt, but rarely offensive". Perhaps I was into cool.

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The second, perhaps. The first looks like a passport photo shot. Anyone who has a guitar in his passport photo is smug.

Good grief! I was at Roundhay Grammar from 1955 to 1958! I lived in Street Lane, at the bottom, just by Roundhay Park. MG Those were the years I was in the 6th form - I managed to clock up 3 years there! I wouldn't have known you as you were only a sprog in those days. I lived off Oakwood Lane and had a one mile walk to school.

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Have just skimmed through these pages and can find no mention of recordings (as opposed to reissues) undertaken by Hep. To set the record straight, here's an excellent album I bought recently which was recorded in Edinburgh by Hep eight years ago by visiting American musicians:

Just so long as the book carries an apology for those bowed bass solos!

Some interesting stuff there, M G! There's even a chance we were at school together! I lived in Leeds from 1952 till I went to university in Manchester in 1958. Lots of people from my school, Roundhay School, went to the Judean Club. I think it was somewhere near Street Lane, though as a goy I never got near the place. Sorry to say it was Bill Haley that first got my attention. I bought all his stuff on 78s in 1956 when I was sixteen. I vividly remember Tom Hark's "Penny Whistle Jive" though.

Ah yes! I remember those 22/6 Realms! Still got 5 Charlie Parker Savoys on Realm from those days.