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This lightning would do just as well:

"Turn Out the Stars V. III: More Jazz Elegies" on Night Lights from WFIU. Some excellent selections here!

Lois Lane Harry Street Cecil Rhodes

Too much from the trad revival this week, I thought. Perhaps Geoffrey Smith, available online tomorrow, will be a corrective, as his theme this week is Roy Haynes.

Premier class Powell tracks! I have them on this: Wow--that's cool. When is that release from? I've had it since the early 1960s. It has your 8 tracks, plus 4 less impressive tracks from a later session: "Embraceable You", "My Heart Stood Still", "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" and "Burt Covers Bud".

Lord Hailsham Lord Snooty Oiky Clegg The Cloggies Johnny Morris Austin Chamberlain

Skinny Minny Boney Maroney Boney M Marty Napoleon Leon the Pig Farmer Douglas Hogg

Premier class Powell tracks! I have them on this:

I read somewhere that they changed the wording on level crossing warning signs in Yorkshire after a motorist drove into the path of a train on reading "Do not move while red light shows"

Ah, thank you for that. I was thinking that maybe it was a Wales thing. Or a Thales wing ...

Claude Thornhill Gil Evans Skinnay Ennis

Al Porcino Pigling Bland Roy Bland

Here's a typical Mancunian (i.e. from Manchester) one - sounding of the final 'g' as in "running gup the stairs".

Thelonious Monk Polonius Hamlet

"Fillum" is typical of Geordie speech. I'll bet your lecturer came from somewhere within striking distance of Newcastle on Tyne.

Those Esquire EPs are pretty neat John - I have a couple of them (a couple of the McLean's and a Coltrane). Other than the MJQs, they can be pretty rare ! I have this one: plus EP 75 Thelonious Monk Trio. No picture available - as you say, pretty rare!

Good one. That bugs me too. Doesn't bug me. I put the t in there. Many dictionaries note that the original pronouciation included a t and that while the silent t is more standard, the other is also an acceptable variant, and indeed the t is making a strong comeback. Often is also regional. That's another one my Scottish father used to say.

After reading Robin D G Kelley's great Monk biography, decided to add yet another Monk to my collection.

Happy Birthday!

Sixteen Men Swinging Albert Pierrepoint Pierrot le Fou