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Rude Boys Rudy Van Gelder Camper Van Beethoven

My Girl Girl Power Girl of My Dreams

Odean Pope Osian Roberts Steve Fishwick

James Clay Mother Earth Old Father Time

Samuel Johnson James P Johnson Willie The Lion Smith

Harry Street The Street Sweepers The Street Swingers

At a student enrolment session I received a form filled in by a colleague for a student called John Thomas. I suspected a joke but unfortunately it wasn't.

Down in the Village (Tubby Hayes) Village Blues (Coltrane) At the Village Vanguard (Bill Evans) Bantu Village (Blue Mitchell) Village Rhythm (Joe Lovano) Next: TOWN

Da Ma The Kids

Bill Crow Simon Raven Jean Rook

The Southpaw Tricky Sam Nanton Shifty Henry

Dr Evil Assia Wevill Cruella de Vil

Sassy The Man from UNCLE Aunt Hagar

Luke the Wailer Zoot Horn Rollo Bebop Charlie

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3: David Sanborn

Happy Birthday!

Cliff Slaughter Killer Joe Bad Boy Joe

Basil Brush Corporal Trim Andy Cutting

Out to Lunch from WKCR Now playing: Louis Armstrong with the Red Onion Jazz Babies

Reverend Eli Jenkins John Jenkins Charles Jencks

As someone who has a pension from teaching, I've often thought about the difference between me and full-time musicians. So I'm very pleased to see that nowadays an increasing number of jazz musicians on both sides of the Atlantic are able to continue performing while holding academic posts with pension rights.