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The Devil You Know Cruella De Vil Brothers Grimm

B Bopstein Sleepy Stein Beautiful Dreamer

I take it you don't include popular hymns, anthems and ballads.

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Great selection this week: Jelly Roll, Etta James, Tyner, Peplowski, Thad & Mel ...

Rebecca Brooks Roy Brooks Yusef Lateef Charles Lloyd Danny Bank Bill Cash

Ah, yes! I'm sure I recall a composition by a British jazzman called "Pipe and Gannex", but I can't trace it. Anyone remember that one? Google just gives me a pub in (appropriately) Prescot!

Norman Fowler Cecil Parkinson Sarah Keays Keystone Cops Knacker of the Yard The Gift Horse

Lovely music! Not so sure about the photo, though - Horace as member of the dirty mac brigade! JohnS told me that Alan Barnes turned up for a gig recently in a Columbo-style raincoat. Perhaps there's a jazz tradition there!

Toots The Maytalls John Mayall Billy Mackell Lionel Hampton Wick Fowler

Colin Stagg Stagger Lee Bambi Blair John Deere Fawn Hall Goldie Hawn Kenneth Horne Toots Mondello

Colin Stagg Stagger Lee

Lil' Malcolm and the House Rockers Lil' Darlin' Alastair Darling

Jordan Jordu Duke

Soweto Kinch Brian Lynch H'Angus the Monkey

Koo Stark Starsky and Hutch Butch Warren

Wingy Manone The Flying Wallendas Soaring Kierkegaard Charlotte Church Abbey Lincoln Shirley Temple

Most of my favorites already mentioned: Anita O'Day, Johnny Hartman, Mose Allison, Jimmy Rushing. I'll just add Annie Ross, John Hendricks and Dave Lambert. I also love Dizzy's vocals.

Georges Braque Joanne Brackeen Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket

Kenny Garrett Quartet/Trio at the Band on the Wall, Manchester last night. This gig got off to a bad start when I received an email two days ago to say that, owing to visa problems, the quartet would appearing without their pianist Benito Gonzales and would be a trio of Kenny, Corcoran Holt on bass and McClenty Douglas on drums. The problem was that Kenny was committed to previewing the quartet's forthcoming album, Seeds from the Underground which, judging from the Amazon samples, made full use of the piano. So, when not playing his horn, Kenny took to the piano during the gig - fairly competently I admit, but it was all a bit like running a race with a three-legged horse. Added to that, Mr Douglas was the loudest drummer I've heard since the days when Blakey and Philly Joe graced my eardrums, so that the leader's tentative keyboard efforts, not to mention the bass, were often drowned out. I left after the first set.

Sir John Barbirolli Rolly Bundock Dixon of Dock Green

Eugene Chadbourne Camper Van Beethoven Chuck Berry

Al Block The Jam Jar Jar Binks

Track 1 Very much in the tradition of the 3-horns Jazz Messengers of the first half of the 1960s, but sounds like it's recorded in the last 20 years. The drummer gets that back beat shuffle so beloved of Blakey and trombone and trumpet carry on the Fuller and Hubbard message. I think we're in the same area here as One for All http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_for_All_(band) though it's not them. I think I hear a saxophone in the ensembles, but if so, why doesn't he solo? Really like this one. Track 3 Mid-1920s beginnings of larger ensembles. Could it be Fletcher Henderson? Emotion-drenched 12 bar blues with some wonderful cornet/trumpet and clarinet work, reminiscent of the styles of King Oliver/Freddie Keppard and Johnny Dodds/Jimmy Noone, respectively. Track 9 John Coltrane's "Equinox" played by Danny Zeitlin (piano) and David Friesen (bass) on Live at Jazz Bakery recorded in L.A. in 1996. Admit to cheating on this one! Recognized "Equinox" and it wasn't too difficult to identify it played by a piano and bass duo. Track 10 A big band featuring a wah-wah plunger mute trombone in the ex-Ellington Quentin Jackson tradition (loved his late stuff with Thad And Mel.) But he died in 1976 and this sounds too contemporary a recording to be him. Great stuff! Track 12 A quartet of clarinet, guitar, bass and drums. The bass technique suggests the 1950s and it all sounds like West Coast cool. Guitar reminds me of Jim Hall. Clarinet isn't Giuffre, so is it Pepper or Collette? Very much my sort of stuff! More later.

Philip Glass The Beaker People Jug and Dodo