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Dr Feelgood Andrew Lansley Ooo Matron Night Nurse Florence Nightingale Mark Nightingale

Elmo Emo Philips Wilson Philips Wilson Pickett Slim Pickens Dr Strangelove

That would be Honk Mostly.

Bill McHenry John McNeil Jim Lehrer Tom Lehrer Lobachevsky Lobby Ludd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Ludd

Sun Ra Johnny Shines Sol Yaged Solly Zuckerman Robert Zimmerman Dylan Dougal Ermintrude Zebedee

Sun Ra Johnny Shines Sol Yaged

Jane Fellowes Lady Boys Lady Day

Well, there's Butch Warren and Alvin Queen.

"Caravan"

Eve Boswell Masters and Johnson The Master of Ballantrae

Still with Le Carré!

No. Didn't hear about that one. A friend of mine saw S.T. at Ronnie Scott's and said he was old and ailing. Perhaps that was the same tour.

Cleveland Eaton Chewy Steve Swallow

Ginger Baker Half Man Half Cookie

Ringo Starr Ring Lardner Fatty Arbuckle

Archibald Primrose Primrose Everdeen

I saw the Namyslowski quartet in Leeds in the mid-60s when their big influence was the Coltrane quartet, but once again there was an originality in the fusion of Polish folk influences.

Don't be put off by Benny Goodman's leadership, try to get to hear his 1948 septet track, "Stealin' Apples" with Fats and Wardell. Ah! Here it is:

IIRC, Fats isn't in great shape here. Agree, that's why I said "late". But there's a wistfulness, which is also heard on the Lanphere session, that's very appealing.

A good deal of the late Fats here, with a Fats/Hawkins quintet featured.

How have I missed that? Sorry you missed it, Sidewinder. The more recent selections were truly impressive. Re Coltrane-influenced British tenormen, Dave O'Higgins has received recent praise for his performance alongside Eric Alexander, but those Skidmore tracks, plus hearing him a couple of years ago with the Tubby Hayes Legacy Big Band, leave me thinking he's The Man in this department!

Look out! When the British currency changed in the 1970s, the customer suffered as prices were invariably rounded up, rather than rounded down.

Jimmy Deuchar (tpt), Slide Hampton (tbn), Johnny Griffin (tnr), Dave Cliff (gtr), Peter Ind (bs) and Al Levitt (dms) at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester 1980s.