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Boy George (didn't know my father) George (at Asda) http://direct.asda.com/george/clothing/10,default,sc.html?cm_mmc=geor-ppc-_-ggle-br-_-non-gender-_-asda_george George and Dragon

Darling Dorling Kindersley Wunderkind

Derry Irvine Booker Ervin Art Buchwald

Jan Leeming Mrs de Winter Howard Spring

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz: Lambert, Hendricks and Ross

Love the Juggernaut!

Happy Birthday! :party:

JRR

Happy Birthday, Victor! :party:

Miss Spelling Mr Write Mrs Malaprop

Sun Ra Jim Beam Killer Ray Appleton

Willie Cook Cat Anderson Ray Nance

This one appeals too: As do classic Blue Note covers:

Jean Shrimpton Rip Van Winkle Scampi DeBrest

Trilby Helmut Newton Bill Hood

Just watched the Last Shop Standing DVD, on a complimentary copy from Graham Jones of Proper Music lent to me by an ex-jazz guitarist neighbour who has known Graham since his youth. The film was very good on the decline of record shops, less convincing in its final optimistic section. Great to see Spillers in Cardiff, made famous on this board through MG's posts and King Bee Records of Manchester, which I only visited after Richard Davenport wrote about it here. Virtually no mention of jazz, of course, with the exception of the Brummie record store owner who seemed fascinated by Slim Gaillard imitating a chicken on record. Is Acorn Records of Yeovil featured on the film Bill? Many a good record bought there 'back in the day', although their speciality was more on the prog rock side of things. They've always kept a nice jazz selection going too - courtesy of 'Proper'. Yes, there was coverage of Yeovil. I know personally that many of the stores mentioned had jazz sections, but the word "jazz" was uttered only once in the 50 minute film. As the last part was about how to keep the physical product alive, the evidence of this board alone suggests jazz should have been looked into.

Hmmm... not sure I could single out a performance per se. Certainly, something about the length of Sonny's phrases, the way they move with respect to "bar lines" (I'm not really equipped for this kind of musical analysis; just trying to describe what I hear) "feels" Tristano-like to me. The tune itself, harmonically, is rather Powell-like, but I think this performance from Sonny' trio record for Time shows evidence of the Lennie influence... FWIW, Clark also names Tristano as a pianist he admires in the notes to COOL STRUTTIN'. I'm surprising myself by detecting something of Tristano here, but I would never have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out!

Just watched the Last Shop Standing DVD, on a complimentary copy from Graham Jones of Proper Music lent to me by an ex-jazz guitarist neighbour who has known Graham since his youth. The film was very good on the decline of record shops, less convincing in its final optimistic section. Great to see Spillers in Cardiff, made famous on this board through MG's posts and King Bee Records of Manchester, which I only visited after Richard Davenport wrote about it here. Virtually no mention of jazz, of course, with the exception of the Brummie record store owner who seemed fascinated by Slim Gaillard imitating a chicken on record.

One for All Zero Mostel O Henry

In my first year of jazz listening (1957) I was confined to traditional/New Orleans jazz and blues piano. I remember hearing a recording of the contemporary Lionel Hampton orchestra and thinking "I don't understand this"! I soon came up to speed, though, but then came newcomers on the scene whom I didn't get at all at first: Coltrane, Ornette, Bill Evans. It goes without saying that those three now account for dozens of discs in my collection.

Matt Damon Ruggles Biggles

Tom Gunn Neville Shute Trigger Alpert