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Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Charles Mingus, "Original Faubus Fables"

Baron Haussmann Sir Alec Douglas-Home Pancho Villa

Albert Speer Lance Percival Javelin Jackson

Jim Godbolt Lightning Hopkins

No one has ever surpassed his stop-time chorus on "Potato Head Blues" by the Hot Seven IMHO.

Bette Midler Med Flory Chuck Flores

Thanks for the tip. Will listen tomorrow!

Everton Weekes Doris Day Mr Knight The Black Queen Little Casino Sam Spade The Dirty Digger Rebekah Brooks The Nudes of the World

Steve Davis Quintet Featuring Larry Willis at Small's on April 2nd 2010 Steve Davis (tbn) Larry Willis (pno) Mike DiRubbo (alt) Dezron Douglas (bs) Joe Farnsworth (dms) http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/index.cfm?eventId=2699

Everton Weekes Doris Day Mr Knight

Pebbles Flintstone Chelsea Clinton Kim Richmond

Cicely Tyson Ursula Back Seat Betty Couch Potato Spud Murphy The Third Eye Cosmic Eye Sun Ra Cosmo Smallpiece Big Willie Magoon Spike Milligan Gerry Mulligan

Cicely Tyson Ursula Back Seat Betty Couch Potato Spud Murphy The Third Eye

Ghost of Christmas Past Ghost of a Chance Ghost of Miles

One of the first jazz records I bought - in 1957! By the time I got to see Lyttelton play he was infuriating the "traddies" by playing superb Kansas City jazz with a saxophone section of Tony Coe, Jimmy Skidmore and Joe Temperley. I saw them on a tour with Jimmy Rushing.

Rick Germanson Group at Small's on June 25th 2010 Rick Germanson (pno) Duane Eubanks (tpt) Eric Alexander (tnr) Gerald Cannon (bs) Joe Farnsworth (dms) http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/index.cfm?eventId=2907

Curly Russell Jane Russell Howard Hughes

You're right! I picked him as he's a frequent visitor to these shores and I'm going to see him play on Monday. Your turn to post a guess-who photo, Marcello.

Craig Wuepper Quartet Featuring Eric Alexander at Small's on October 1 2008

I'm currently watching Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues on a rented DVD and, as a committed jazz listener, feeling pretty uneasy about several aspects of it. This reminded me that a few years ago my local arthouse cinema put on a brief Jazz and Cinema programme, which IIRC consisted of Mo'Better Blues, Jazz On a Summer's Day, Round Midnight and Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown. If I'd been asked to choose a programme, I'm sure it would have been different. I would have kept Jazz on a Summer's Day, but would have found room for Pennebaker's wonderful short about the Dave Lambert Singers, Audition, recently discussed here. That great Swedish movie, Sven Klang's Combo, seems to have disappeared without trace, otherwise I'd have that too. I also recall a great documentary about American expatriate musicians in Europe which featured some magnificent playing by Phil Woods. Anyone recall its title? I've never managed to catch the documentaries about the life and death of Albert Ayler and the famous 1958 Harlem photograph, so these would be on my list, too. I wonder if I'd include any fiction films on jazz themes and whether I'd open my list up to actual filmed performances. If so, the film of the Joe Lovano Octet in a Paris Club and the Gil Evans Orchestra in Lugano would be in there. Then there's the question of whether to include films with notable soundtracks. First that come to mind are Anatomy of Murder with the Ellington orchestra and French cinema's use of Miles, Monk and Art Blakey in the years around 1960. What would you like to see on a Jazz and Cinema programme? (Apologies as always if there's an undiscovered thread covering this. )

Odd angle as I didn't want to make it too easy (for those who know every face in the music ) Does this one help?

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