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JRR on Brubeck

Certainly Dobell's had booths! I remember being chased out of one as a callow 17-year-old in 1957 for taking too long to decide whether to buy a Meade Lux Lewis or Pinetop Smith 78! And the graffiti in those booths were worth reading, too. I remember "Roland Kirk has two mouths" and, as an alternative to "Harold Land, fastest tenor in the West", there was "Norah Bloggins (or some such), greatest white entertainer" with London suburban phone number.

Yes, I seem to remember seats for two. I guess that soon backfired on them!

Batman George Bowling François Bayle

Harold Shipman Dr Crippen Dr Death

Released here today and I've seen it. Really good entertainment movie.

Frankie and Johnny Bonnie and Clyde Porgy and Bess

Dhruva Chatterjee Stella Torkington Mr Speaker

Interesting photo! Recognize Doug Dobell and that guy with the beard and aggressive glasses who used to keep up an articulate cymbal beat on the edge of the counter with his ball pen.

Shampoo Charlie Alan Hare Harry Krishna

Ah yes. The undisputed leader of the playing-piano-while-standing-up school!

Firm of London solicitors, weren't they? Anyway, cheer up. " Appetite for CDs remains - and will be fed," we are told: http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2013-01-15&val=924407&cat=service

No one. It's called death of the high street.

Diamond Lil Donald Trump Alexandre Farto

MacVoutie Lyle "Spud" Murphy Buddy Tate

Pepper Adams too.

Crosse and Blackwell Huntley and Palmer Benson and Hedges

Slam Stewart and the Jazz Tones Darby Crash Bumps Meyers

First and last visits to HMV shops: First: to the magnificent and (at that time) mind-boggling "browsery" in Oxford Street at the age of 17 in 1957. (The papers were full of the launch of the sputnik carrying the dog Laika.) Was listening to trad jazz and boogie woogie piano on 78s. See MG's post for pictures of HMV at the time. Last (probably): to Fopp this morning, intending to buy Bill Birch's limited edition Jazz in Manchester, which the store had been carrying. Was told Mr Birch had removed the remaining copies "to sell at a jazz festival". Clearly doesn't want to lose them in the impending mayhem.

The Madwoman in the Attic Phil the Greek Swiss Toni