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"Live From the Netherlands:The Sesjun Radio Shows" on Night Lights from WFIU

Sandy Shaw Isobel Barnet Bernard Herman

"Shaw Sounds Final: Artie Shaw, 1949-54" on Night Lights from WFIU

And another ... Nellie Lutcher, "Hurry On Down To My House" (1948)

David Stone Martin Steve Swallow Arthur Ransome

Here are some hits from my childhood. I'm sure they prepared the way for my later jazz tastes: Louis Jordan, "Open the Door, Richard!" (1946) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHBtzhwGbpc Mel Blanc, "The Woody Woodpecker's Song" (1948)

The Cat (Jimmy Smith) All the Cats Join In (Benny Goodman) Cool Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Ralph Burns) The Cats (Tommy Flanagan) Tom Cat (Lee Morgan) Next word: DOG

Dolphin Dance (Herbie Hancock) The Kerry Dance rs (Traditional) Dance of the Infidels (Bud Powell) I Could Have Dance d All Night Dance Sessions (Count Basie) Next word: NIGHT

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Best dressed chicken in town ...

Cat Anderson Pussy Galore

RE #6: Is the album Hollywood Palladium 1941 or In Hollywood 1940-41 Vol 2, both on the Hep label?

Afternoon in Paris (John Lewis) Lazy Afternoon (Harold Land) Out of the Afternoon (Roy Haynes) Sunday Afternoon Jazz (Phil Woods) From the Hot Afternoon (Paul Desmond) Now we can go with DEAR.

OK Yoni Yoko Ono John Lennon

The Three Stooges Three Blind Mice Johnny Dankworth

Mike Burns (tpt, flgl) and Wally Davies (alt, tnr, sop) with the Gerry Tomlinson Trio at Whitefield, Greater Manchester this afternoon.

Yes, Alan has a very deflationary view of Britishness! At a talk he gave on Basie he remarked that drummer Sonny Payne used to throw the sticks in the air and catch them on the way down. When I interjected "And sometimes drop them" (which I'd seen) Barnesy quipped, "There speaks an Englishman!"

Dixie Deans Roger Dean Pearl & Dean Ad Reinhardt Jimmy Rushing (think "Harvard Blues") Mr Five By Five

Chris Huhne Sancho Panza Don Quixote Windmill Girls Vivian van Damm Phyllis Dixie

Funnily enough on my only visit to New York I saw a concert at Birdland with the likes of Brian Lynch, Tom Harrell and Adam Nussbaum doing a 'tribute' to the early 50s Miles. It was a fantastic concert; what was more it got me investigating that period which is well away from the more celebrated Miles eras. Similarly, Joe Henderson's 'So Near, So Far' went for some (mainly) unusual choices and produced what is my favourite late Henderson album. It's the idea of 'tribute'/'celebration' that seems a bit icky. Re-exploring the music of earlier jazz eras has been part of the process all along and can deliver interesting new variations (Gil Evans' 'New Bottles, Old Wine') much as using tried and tested standards. Maybe its just the straight re-construction of an album or concert that runs the greatest risk of just being a shadow. Possibly nice to attend in a concert, but not something you need to listen to again. You say exploring the music of the past has been part of the process all along, but in certain periods it becomes particularly noteworthy. I'd single out trad revivalism from Muggsy Spanier in 1939 to the Brits in the 50s and today where re-exploration of jazz of the classic period c.1945-65 is central. Incidentally, at last week's gig Greg Abate was selling his Silver tribute album, Horace Is Here. With the great Claudio Roditi on trumpet, it looks very tasty and I'm tempted! I'll probably get it when I see him in Southport in a few weeks time with a quintet that includes Jim Rotundi on trumpet - all worshippers at the shrine of 45-65, by the way!

Couldn't do better!

Who's this BARNEY Ecclestone? Bernie's BIG brother? Bo Derek Ravel Mussorsky Vido Musso Il Duce The Duke

Georgie Fame The Famous Five The Famous Eccles