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Track 4 "You for Me" (Haymes) Hayes (tnr), Horace Parlan (pno), George Duvivier (bs), Dave Bailey (dms) Recorded NYC, Oct 3 1961

Ry Cooder Meat Loaf The Earl of Sandwich Teddy Bunn E Claire Whitmore King Pleasure and The Biscuit Boys

Avedis Zildjian Ian Botham Hamm

Track 3 "I Can't Get Started" (Duke, Gershwin) Eldridge (tpt), John Lewis (pno), Percy Heath (bs), Connie Kay (dms) Recorded Oct 9 1957 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles

Track 2 "Just Friends" (Klenner, Lewis, arr. Holman) Holman (leader, arr, tnr), Lanny Morgan, Bob Militello (alts), Bob Cooper, Dick Mitchell (tnrs), Bob Efford (bar), Carl Sanders, Frank Szabo, Don Rader, Bob Summer (tpts), Jack Redmond, Bob Enevoldsen, Rick Culver, Pete Beltran (tbns), Rich Eames (pno), Bruce Lett (bs), Jeff Hamilton (dms) Recorded Hollywood, Nov-Dec 1987 Saw this outfit at the Wigan Jazz Festival

Track 1 "Line D" (Moore) Moore (tnr), Benny Green (pno), Peter Washington (bs), Kenny Washington (dms) Recorded 1990 Great tenor playing from British-born (not many people know that!) Moore, who seems now to have disappeared from the scene. Kenny Washington on drums, another favourite of mine.

Walter Bishop Paul Desmond King Tut

Excellent article on Eddie Bert by Marc Myers today: http://www.jazzwax.com/

Big P Wee Georgie Wood Ai Wei Wei

The Brandon Allen Sextet at Wigan Jazz Club this afternoon, with Mark Nightingale, Nigel Hitchcock, Ross Stanley, Sam Burgess and Matt Holm. Also the Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra.

My favourite! Dexter at this stage still retaining something of his Bird-influenced style heard on his mid-50s albums, plus the brilliant young Freddie Hubbard and the very swingin' rhythm team of Parlan, Tucker and Harewood.

JRR The Champion Jack track, recorded in 1967 when he was living in Halifax (U.K.), took me right back. Ed Dipple and I went along to hear him at Manchester University Students' Union. He played and sang solo in a small room to about 30 people, providing percussion with the rings on his fingers on the piano! But it was a good piano for blues, as I knew from my own fumbling efforts. Evening ended with him signing Ed's Dupree album which he pronounced a good one, made in Germany. Those were the days!

Bama Warwick Warwick Deeping Deep Throat

Madame Bovary Ovary Lodge Cabot Lodge

Connie Kay Jay and Kai J J Cale

As you note below, you're not the first to hear Brubeck here, but this is pretty different piano from his, as soon will be revealed.

Lanny Morgan Anji Hunter Eddie Fisher

Peter Lorre Jay Corre Norrie Paramor

"Indiana Avenue: Black Boulevard of Jazz" on Night Lights from WFIU. Great music and fascinating history!

J Alfred Prufrock J Arthur Rank The Huancas

Ruggles Biggles Worrals

Herman's Hermits Buster Crabb Pincher Martin