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Rimbaud Rambo Rambling Syd Rumpo

Happy Birthday! :party:

Gerry Mulligan Spike Milligan Count Jim Moriarty

Mention of Peter Ind reminds me that he made an album with fellow bassist, the late Bernie Cash. I was invited along one evening in the sixties to hear them play in the Leeds home of pianist Brian Layton. It was great to hear music like that in the confines of a small room in a suburban house!

Steve Coogan Alan Partridge Paul Calf

Seem to recall two basses on this one. This suggests track 3 only: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Brass

Hy Hazell Hello Kitty Kitty O'Shea

Yes, lovely album!

Adam Ant William Hill Adrian Mole

Buttons Cinderella The Ugly Sisters

Hunter S Thompson The Catcher in the Rye John Stalker

The Barber of Seville William of Orange Sir Robert Peel

Abbey Lincoln Daniel Day-Lewis Meade Lux Lewis

Professor Henry Higgins Eliza Doolittle Lazy Ade Monsbourgh

Howard McGhee Butter Jackson J C Spreadborough http://www.spreadboroughs.co.uk/

Ronnie Cuber Pablo Picasso Erno Rubik

Chuck Close The Doors

Lew Grade The Graduate Mrs Robinson

Anything you might add to The Guardian review? Well, I haven't read the novel. Looks like another one from that uneasy territory where biography and fiction intermingle.

Just read this review of a novel based on the lives of Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro: http://www.guardian....-martell-review

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz: Ahmad Jamal trios

They give you less cheek than kids. You're winning!

I didn't think I was going to enjoy 'Capital' after a few chapters - not keen on books where the tale almost starts again chapter after a chapter as new characters appear. But I'm gripped now. Really want to see Roger and Amanda get their come-uppance! I don't think you'll be disappointed!

J Edgar Hoover D K Dyson Basil Brush

The Two Ronnies The Three Stooges The Four Freshmen