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Next month's gig at the same venue is the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra. Know anything about them?

That pairing's on top form here:

Ben Crosland Quintet featuring Steve Waterman at Wigan Jazz Club this afternoon. My first live gig since the start of the pandemic!

Yes, to Wynton (this Wynton)

Long live the music of Fats!

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I don't remember Harold as a flautist. He was usually on alto, as I recall. But the Jamaican altoist I best remember was Joe Harriott with whom I had interesting conversations in Leeds and Manchester. He told me he'd never seen Bird live - "Jus' the records, man"- but that he had seen Bud Powell - in Paris at the Blue Note.