BillF

And don't forget the British contribution!

This is a great one!

No big band on this one, actually! Nice cover, though.

Straight no chaser?

Loadsamoney Uriah Heep Alden Pyle

Trombone Cholly Holly Golightly Terry Lightfoot Gavin Strang The Brighton Strangler The Yorkshire Ripper

Just finished Jazz Record Requests. Particularly liked the 1940 Charlie Christian/Goodman/Basie track. It's years since I heard those sides. Should be in my collection! Now listening to Something Inside of Me ("bringing you electric and acoustic blues") from WKCR. Now playing: Tampa Red.

Phil the Greek Betty Windsor Big Ears

Idi Amin Dada Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase

Cutting Crew Danny Polo Evelyn Necker

Hugo Z Hackenbush Judy Standish Mrs Upjohn

Slim Harpo Gummo Chico Freeman

D K Dyson Sooty and Sweep Dusty Rhodes

Greg Abate, Bop Lives!

Lord Montagu Michael Pitt-Rivers Peter Wildeblood

Having grown up in an era when jazz and its musicians had pariah status in polite society, I can't get over the fact that academia now finds jazz cool and can't get enough of it. The reading list for my daughter's History degree at Warwick a few years ago included biographies of Duke, Miles and Art Pepper! Bet you didn't have any of those of your History course, Bev! Academia's providing of jobs for jazz musicians on taught music courses - the classical monopoly of my youth having been swept away - is a great thing too!

Dark suits obligatory!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/02/jazz-leaders-lessons-for-business?INTCMP=SRCH

Junior Murvin Hank Marvin Hank Wangford Rank Hovis Barclay Brothers Paul Anka

Go (Dexter Gordon) You Go To My Head Getz Au Go Go Jazz Goes To College (Brubeck) Shorty Goes To Hollywood (Rogers) Next word: WENT

Art Van Damme Blaster Bates Bugge Wesseltoft

No No Nanette Dr No Dr Too-Much

Bob Diamond Zoot Money Ray Sims