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"The music was accomplished, swinging and almost totally uninteresting to me." Now there's a sentence worth pondering!

The Kaiser Chiefs Chief Sitting Bull Paul Horn Tubby the Tuba Scuffy the Tugboat The Little Engine That Could Trane Tyner Elvin

The Kaiser Chiefs Chief Sitting Bull Paul Horn

(The delayed) Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Worth waiting to hear Snooky Young with the Basie band on "Pensive Miss"

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Happy Birthday!

The Fab Five The Five Pennies Al Coin

Less impressed by this Le Carré from 1999.

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Ah, London American! I grew up on those, Tim!

Hank Cinq Henry Tudor Tenpole Tudor Rod Stewart Barbara Windsor Adolphe Saxe-Coburg

The most identifiable composer has to be Monk, I agree. Personally, I can always tell a composition (and arrangement) by Shorty Rogers.

Sandie Shaw Beachcomber Ronald Pickup

Daddy-O Daley Big Daddy Papa Bue

Georgia O'Keefe Georgie Fame The Famous Five Five Go To Dorset The Wurzels The Yetties Big Foot Charlie Parker P C Plod

Georgia O'Keefe Georgie Fame The Famous Five

Billy Bragg Rummy Chan Canasta

Churchill Alexander Orloff Sergei Gerrit Orlov Jim Buffington David Starkey

Whiz Kid Wizard of Oz Ozric Tentacles Oderic of Normandy William The B*stard Bishop Odo Yoko Ono Yes Men Nodding Dogs

Whiz Kid Wizard of Oz Ozric Tentacles

Last time I saw him I think he was part of a McCoy Tyner group with Wallace Roney, Steve Turre and Eric Gravatt on drums. His playing was thoroughly enjoyable. That sounds interesting! When and where was that?

Darby and Joan Ted Joans Spike Jonze

Dave O'Higgins and Eric Alexander with The Kristian Leth Trio at Seven Jazz, Leeds last night. O'Higgins, Alexander (tenors), Andrew McCormack (piano), Arnie Somogyi (bass), Leth (drums) After my disappointment at last week's gig (see #2407), this date set the record straight in no uncertain way. The gig was held in a small theatre with an audience of about 60 and I sat on the front row, more or less in the group and the sound balance was perfect. This group has toured several times in recent years and there's a great rapport and everything functions like a quiet, but efficient machine. The main treat was to hear Alexander live for the first time after hearing so much of him on record and to find that he came completely up to expectations - as I was pleased to tell him! One thing I noticed was the very strong Coltrane influence in his playing, both in his characteristic figures and in his harmonic direction. This may the result of playing with another Trane-oriented tenorman or perhaps his playing is moving in that direction. I'm hearing it now as I play the group's album, The Devil's Interval, which I bought at the gig and had signed by Eric:

Little Jimmy Scott Big Willie Magoon Albert Nobbs