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Fannie Mae Sergio Fanni Fanny Blankers-Koen

The Public Enemy Enemy of the People Emmanuel Goldstein

Eva Brick Sharon Stone Chris Rock

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Michael Ryan Stelios Haji-Ioannou Richard Branson

Don't you mean "Bloom", as in "Bloomdido"? Charlie Parker Chan Canasta Rummy

Stefan Wood Roy Wood Silly Wizzard The Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey Mouse Mickey Finn

Track 10 1950s big band. Lots of echoes of Gil Evans here - writing not for separate brass/reed sections, characteristic flute and clarinet use , trumpet soloist sounding like Johnny Coles. If not Evans, then influence of Birth of the Cool undeniable. Baritone reminiscent of Serge Chaloff. Crackles and groove slip suggest this is from your vinyl collection, Jeff. Really like this - have amended my comment in post #3 accordingly.

Track 9 Tune's a standard in the dixieland repertoire which for the life of me I can't put a name to! But this is a big band with arrangements, not a collective improvisation dixieland outfit. Date again about 1940. The only soloist I'd hazard a guess on is Muggsy Spanier on cornet. Love his sound!

Track 8 Big band with featured amplified guitar soloist, c.1940. Very adventurous arrangement with atonal(?) aspects. Did Charlie Christian ever get as "progressive" as this with the Goodman orchestra?

This American group features much improvisation in most of their pieces, but I was very taken with this piece - improvisation or not, jazz or not. This has been identified by Alex as "You Do Me Any Old Way" by Big Bill Broonzy. It does share a verse with Elmore James' song. Any comments on the trumpet player? Not Stan Getz. I included this artist to see if I could get away with it, if that makes sense. He has a distinctive sound which I thought would be instantly recognizable to those familiar with him, but this is a very untypical recording by him. I have to give you this one, Bill - it's not just someone in the J. J. Johnson tradition, it's Johnson himself. Maybe Hardbopjazz can tell us more about this track, which gets to me deeply every time I hear it. Bit of research suggests it's from J J's Quintergy: Live at the Vanguard, recorded in 1988 with Stanley Cowell on piano, Rufus Reid bass and Victor Lewis drums.

Track 7 Muted trombone in the J J Johnson tradition playing "You've Changed" with a piano, bass, drums trio on a live date. Very nice.

Track 6 12 bar blues, vocalist and trumpet featured. Nice relaxed group - I like this. Uncertain of the recording date - perhaps the 30s.

Prince Frog Kermit Kermit Ruffins Buggins Joe Turner

Track 5 Rock-type drumming with accented offbeat, ostinato figure played by horn(s) throughout, arranged passages for other horns, no solos. Anything improvised? Pretty far from jazz as I know it. Vague resemblance to a UK group of some years ago called Loose Tubes.

Timothy Mo Little Mo Kool Moe Dee Dee Dave Dozy Rip Van Winkle Charles Pillow Sleeping Beauty

Timothy Mo Little Mo Kool Moe Dee

Enoch Light Terry Lightfoot Art Tripp

Jack "The Admiral" Nimitz Geraldo's Navy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo%27s_Navy Tom Cruise

Track 4 Sort of New Orleans to Cairo via Mama Too Tight. I won't be rushing to get their latest album!

Well, great minds start alike... Ray Crock John D. McDonald John D. Rockefeller Barney Rubble Wilma Betty Bettie Page Nat Bettis Chief Bey Bay City Rollers Zoot Money's Big Roll Band Swiss Toni

Don Sleet Robert Frost Hoare Belisha

Track 3 Johnny Mandel's "The Shadow of Your Smile" played by a duo of soprano saxophone and unamplified guitar. Shouldn't think it was recorded too many years ago. Not a hint of Coltrane, or Bechet either, in the soprano player; more like those Soprano Summit guys.

T S Eliot Mrs Mopp Gary Mapp

Track 2 Waller/Razaf's "Ain't Misbehavin'", but I don't think it's a Waller recording as his were far more driving and energetic, quite unlike the gentle, almost sleepy, albeit warm, atmosphere of this. Tenor of the Bud Freeman sort, unamplified(?) guitar, stride-type piano which probably owes something to Teddy Wilson. Recording date? - that surface noise suggests 78 RPM, finger sounds on the guitar strings suggest something later than the Waller era.