BillF

Thanks, Steve! Will be listening.

Never heard the Basie band swingin' more than on "Swingin' at Newport" and that's sayin' somethin'!

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Chippie Hill Richard Carpenter George Joyner

The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street Dr. Henry Levine Lena Horne Hercules Grytpype-Thynne Slim Harpo Chico Freeman

Like my favourite Alan Barnes quip: "This is a Horace Silver tune called 'Yeah' (said in a hipster whisper). You can't imagine a British musician calling a tune anything as assertive as 'Yeah! More likely to be called 'Perhaps'" Bird was there first.

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Astonishing line-up!

Ah, so that's where I heard it!

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The Brubecks. Did Al Cohn and Joe Cohn play together? I think I heard that there was a recording of both Albert and Gene Ammons. Over here there's Stan and Clark Tracey and John and Alec Dankworth. Don't know if the Skidmores ever played tenors together professionally. This one could run and run, but sticking strictly to duos would narrow it down.

OK I get the point. Let's switch to Alan Barnes: Told in North Manchester a couple of weeks ago on the Titanic centenary: "All the musicians who went down playing on the Titanic got paid right up to the last moment. They all got the same amount, except one guy who got more. He had a Dizzy Gillespie trumpet." Told in Wigan: "A chap said he couldn't get through when phoning the Incontinence Help Centre. Asked where he was ringing, he replied 'Everywhere from the waist down.'" Told in Leeds: "The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

HAL 9000 Arthur C Clarke Stanley Clarke

Glad to know there was once something live in Morecambe: Mind you, the view out to sea is lovely: No wonder Ronnie made jokes about small towns he played in: "I played a gig once in Tamworth. They have one set of traffic lights - at the crossroads in the middle of town. They change once a week - at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays. Everyone comes out to watch." "Last night they nuked Stockton-on-Tees. It caused £3 worth of damage."

Excellent album which has certainly stood the test of time. Bought it after seeing the Evans orch in Feb '78.

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The late Joe Palin was house pianist at Club 43 in Manchester in the 60s and in this role he got to accompany Ben Webster, Hank Mobley, Johnny Griffin, Dexter Gordon, Leo Wright and Carmell Jones, just to mention the ones that I saw!

This could be a good one Bill. Both Garnett and Greening are pretty vigorous players. Yes, it was very good indeed. The rhythm team were such a straight ahead swingin' machine that my wife said the horns were superfluous. I think she had something there.

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I always think the music of the Gerry Mulligan Sextet of 1955-56 doesn't get as much recognition as it deserves and, compared with the Quartet with Chet Baker and the Concert Jazz Band, is somewhat ignored. I'd even go so far as saying these tracks are important in the history of jazz as a whole, providing another version of a collectively improvising group to compare with those of Jelly Roll Morton and Charles Mingus. I have this album but this collection is probably the one to get nowadays:

OK, well forgyve yuo1

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Lovely album! I've had it on a 10" Esquire British version of the Prestige album since the 60s. Those 4 tracks make a perfect disc! Yes, Tadd's star was long in decline and his sessions tended to be issued under the names of Clifford or Fats - or not at all if under his name - but now I'm hopeful as there are lots of covers of his stuff by today's musicians - the first to come to mind are Hod O'Brien in the U.S. and Steve Waterman over here.

Yes, a great album, which I have had on Prestige vinyl since the 60s:

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