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"Impulse: The Vocal Sides" on Night Lights from WFIU

Yes, I sat in the cheapest sets which were onstage at the side of the band. Dizzy did his usual gag of saying, "Now I'd like to introduce the members of the band" and took Les Spann up to the piano to shake hands with Junior Mance. Most of the audience of my age (19) were just there to see Brubeck who had something of a mass following at the time, but I'm pleased to say that I was already digging Dizzy and Bird.

Harold Wislon Grocer Heath Mrs Hacksaw

PM sent on 4 Rollins Plays for Bird.

Deep Throat Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein

From Yancey to Coltrane! Sounds like me!

Harris's book must have been really ancient history by the time you got to it! I read it in 1957 at the age of 17 and spent a few months as a "jazz purist". His extraordinary message seemed to be that if a band hadn't got a banjo in it, it was no longer jazz and that Ellington ceased to play jazz when he added saxophones in the late 20s!!! Fortunately, Bird, Diz, Monk and Miles blasted me out of that way of thinking when I was 18. I seem to remember that dear old Rex also asserted that Hawk would have been a great jazz musician if he had played an instrument more suited to jazz, like the clarinet.

Pity they never issued that great Hi-Los/Fischer/Paich session on CD, David! I now realise I was wrong about that. Not only was it released on CD: it also got the Andorran treatment: Fortunately, there's a reasonably priced used copy of the original for me to buy.

Freddie Mercury Eddie Merckx Mad Max

Great disc! I have it on HMV vinyl with a label of this sort: I saw that Gillespie band on tour in 1959 with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and the Buck Clayton All Stars.

Thanks, particularly, for the reminders of The Connection and Jazz in Exile.

Shorts McConnell Nica Sir Herbert Gussett

Rabbit Angstrom Babbit Lorena Bobbitt

The Curtis Amy was a gas! This great vinyl album never made it to CD (except as part of a Mosaic Select) and now sells used on Amazon.com for $99.99!! Pity I never bought it in my youth!

Henry Royce Charles Rolls Jelly Roll Morton Ferdinand the Bull Elmer Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Art Salt Billy Ocean

Love that title!

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Vic Ash Quartet, "Blue Lou"

Henry Royce Charles Rolls Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3: Jo Jones

Alan Ball Johnny Ball Zoe Ball Franny and Zooey Nicholas Cage Francis Ford Coppola

Today at the Wigan Jazz Festival I saw the Geoff Eales Trio with Neil Yates playing the music of Bill Evans and Freddie Hubbard. Very interesting material: two from the Evans/Hubbard Interplay session - the title track and "When You Wish Upon a Star", plus "Turn Out the Stars".

Sweets Candy Dulfer Duffy Jackson

Have a great birthday, Tom!

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