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Marshall Zhukov Tito Gorby Gore Vidal Colonel Blood Vidal Sassoon

Kelvin McKenzie Mound City Blue Blowers Mitchell Zuckoff

It was a reaction to the hold on British culture of middle class, middle aged and southern. Instead, the counter culture of the sixties preferred working class, young and northern.

Miss Thing (Basie) Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? Miss Otis Regrets Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard) Ole Miss (W C Handy) Next word: SIR

The Jam Mr Jelly Sister Kate

Glad you like it, and you're right about one of the saxophonists - Sonny Stitt. The other one is not James Spaulding, but that's a great guess - that probably would have been my guess if I was hearing this cold. Is the other sac player Charles McPherson? Bunky Green, goddamn!!!! From Soul in the Night. OBO110X MG No it's not. It's Robin Kenyatta, In the bag, from Deuces wild. Well, I knew I had it. Encore OBO110X MG Welcome back!

Pluto Neptune Phil Jupitus

Where a high price (and I'm increasingly regarding over £10 as high ) is being asked for a CD and a download is available, I'm going for that and burning a CD from it. Cover art is always available from Google Images and my typed "back cover" notes on personnel, titles, recording date, etc (data from a range of sites) are acceptably professional looking as far as I'm concerned.

Steve Swallow Ruud Gullit Rudy Van Gelder

Mine's a real curiosity - 180 Gram Limited Edition Classic LP/Direct Metal Mastering, used for £5!

I detect a hint of romanticism in your post, i.e. jazz musicians can't retire because of their love for the road. Unfortunately, I suspect the reason behind the decision to put off retirement is financial for most musicians. They simply can't afford to stop because they didn't earn a lot and couldn't save enough for their later years. They don't have pensions and many don't have adequate healthcare insurance, if at all. Their rent and other costs are going up at a much higher rate than their pay. Sure, there are cases where it's a "play or die" ethic, but I think for too many jazz musicians it's "play or starve". I'm sure you're right. That's why I'm pleased to see an increasing number of jazz musicians getting teaching posts with universities and colleges, jobs which have pension benefits attached and therefore permit a period of retirement.

David Kepesh The Pesky Serpent Snake Davis

Tinie Tempah Joe Temperley Jimmy Skidmore

Solo Flight (Christian/Goodman) Flight to Jordan (Duke Jordan) In Flight (George Benson) Flight 17 (Horace Tapscott) Flute Flight (Sam Most) Next word: RIDE

Alexander Graham Bell Ring Lardner Fats Navarro

Jennifer Aniston Aristotle Jackie Onassis

A Monk Trio Art Blakey Percy Heath

Shirley Temple Abbey Lincoln John Mosca

John Hallam with the Gerry Tomlinson Trio at Whitefield this afternoon.

Rectified that by buying the CBS album Charlie Christian, Genius of Electric Guitar used from Zoverstocks for 58p!! I shall miss my Guernsey friends when they get closed down in April! Now listening to Shorty Rogers discs and archive interview on Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3.