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Not unfounded. A quick Norton and AdAware sweep shows just what's arrived.

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Glad you liked some of my recommendations. Keeping in mind your remark about jazz history, here are some more UTRs, all 5* IMHO: J R Monterose (Blue Note) Joe Pass, Joy Spring Victor Feldman, Merry Olde Soul The Four Brothers, Together Again! Supersax, Stone Bird Dick Collins, Horn of Plenty Louie Bellson, Live at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase Ted Brown, Free Spirit Tadd Dameron, The Magic Touch Art Blakey/James Moody, New Sounds I'll second that, John!

Recent Le Carré continues in great form.

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Old Folks Old Croix (Art Pepper) When I Grow Too Old to Dream New Bottle, Old Wine (Gil Evans) Old Friends, New Music (Rob McConnell) Next word: TENOR(S)

One for Bev now: The Big Clean - cleaning products.

Agree with Ubu. Gives us a few laughs! (Anti-wrinkle treatment now on offer.)

BFTs are a good source of info on "under the radar" discs.

Feel you're being targeted individually? How about "Fantastic deals in Manchester"? Now they seem out to give me the organ I've always wanted!

Yes Sir, That's My Baby (Jay and Kay version) You Baby (Nat Adderley) My Baby With the Black Dress On (Jay McShann) Baby Breeze (Chet Baker) Crazy! Baby (Jimmy Smith) Next word: OVER

Mother Carey's Chickens Hen Gates Cock o' the North

Adolf Loos Loose Tubes Christopher Plummer

Harry Beckett Shake Keane Henry Lowther

I think I know what you mean, as eight of your choices are in my collection. So, looking along the shelves at random, I find: Dizzy Reece, Blues in Trinity Introducing the Duke Pearson Big Band Howard Roberts, Good Pickin's James Moody, Wail Moody, Wail Don Fagerquist, Music to Fill a Void Dmitry Baevsky, Down With It Shorty Rogers/André Previn, Collaboration Clark Terry with Monk, In Orbit George Wallington Trios Presenting Red Mitchell

Richard Galliano John Galliano Lemmy Kilmister

How come a discussion of Tubbs' music centres on his diet?

Track 15 Instead of the usual tenor and organ group, here we have organ and two altos. Drums as well, of course, and the organist sounds to be providing the bass line. Organist has a Jimmy Smith sound, but there were so many players like this in the 60s, particularly on Blue Note's books, that I could't hazard a guess as to identity. Altoists nicely contrasted: second soloist very boppish and could be Stitt, the other further "out" in the manner of James Spaulding. Structure seems to be 12 bar blues with an added bridge section. Full of verve and swing - love this one!

Track 13 Quintet of drums, vibes, bass, soprano, tenor. I list drums first as they're very prominent here. Again, I'd call this avant garde. I think this sort of music first saw the light of day in 1964 with Eric Dolphy's Blue Note album, Out To Lunch. The drums and vibes here bring to my mind Tony Williams and Bobby Hutcherson on the Dolphy album. Track 14 A 1930s orchestra with elements of "sweet" as well as "hot" in the mix.

When Lights Are Low (Benny Carter) Where Or When (Ben Webster version) When I Fall in Love (Miles Davis version) When You're Smiling (Erroll Garner version) When Farmer Met Gryce Next word: THEN

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Track 12 Duet for clarinet and piano. 12 bar blues. Piano pretty virtuosic - very much two-handed and bags of technique - owes something to the stride tradition. Clarinet has a sound that we heard a great deal of in this country during the "trad revival". Nice and listenable.

Track 11 Bass clarinet, drums and bass. Avant garde, free form. Eric Dolphy would be the obvious point of reference. Heard a lot of music like this in the late 60s, but have always found it difficult to listen to.

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