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Prunella Scales Tom Waits Tardo Hammer

Lawren Harris Tom Thomson Arthur Lismer Group of Seven Gang of Four Three Sisters

Potato Valdez Mr Turnip Billy Root

Robert Robinson David Davies Ivor Stammer

Hey, stop buying all the good CDs from Fopp before the rest of us get chance for a return raid ! Plenty more where that came from!

Anne Sexton Sexton Blake Blake Morrison

Kenny Napper Max Headroom Robert Bridges

J D Salinger Holden Caulfield Happy Cauldwell

Jim Dine Mike Brecker T Rex

"The Randy Weston Songbook" on Night Lights from WFIU

Little Bo Peep Little Boy Blue Little Jack Little Small Faces Tiny Kahn Specs Wright

The Windmill Girls The Tiller Girls Phyllis Dixie

Departing slightly from my theme here, I know, but seeing Allen Eager listed as "A.N. Other" reminds me that later in his life he was given to referring to himself as Allen Reluctant!

Thora Birch Harriet Beecher Stowe Cyrus Chestnut

Thanks for that! What a treasure house! Thanks for that, too!

I recently bought Getz's Early Stan and was amused to read in the liner notes that for contractual reasons one of the album's sessions was originally issued in the name of "Sven Coolsen", Stan having considerable Scandinavian connections at that time. The pseudonyms adopted by jazz musicians have always intrigued me. I suppose the first I came across was Charlie Parker appearing under the name of "Charlie Chan" on the 1953 Miles Davis "Serpent's Tooth" session. My favourite, though, is Johnny Smith's elevation of his common-or-garden name to "Sir Jonathan Gasser" on the Jazz Studio 1 session. Let me know of the ones you like. What's the earliest example of this practice and does it still go on nowadays? Of course, there may have been a thread already on this, but if there has, I couldn't trace it. If so apologies and please provide a link!

Howard Roberts, "Relaxin' at Camarillo" from The Jazz Guitar Album

Harry Houdini Harry the Horse Harry Parry

Fearn Cotton Heinrich Boll Ronnie Ball

Al Jolson Gulley Jimson Hank Janson

Leo the Lion (featuring Dick Hafer, Bill Perkins and Charlie Parker) Leo Parker Melissa Leo