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Happy Birthday, John! Have a nice day!

Happy Birthday!

Have almost all the records in my collection, but as people have remarked, Gelly's comments certainly gave food for thought. Hearing Hank live - as opposed to on Blue Note records - made him realise Hank's quietness. For me it was the sheer beauty of his sound, something that never drew my attention on the records.

Pharoah Sanders Dick Emery (ouch!) Willie Ruff ( " )

Lord Sainsbury John Lewis Milt Jackson

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: George Shearing, "It Could Happen To You" (Missed the Mobley. Will catch it on the i-Player.)

Recent discussion of this one here reminded me that I hadn't really listened to it since its release in the mid-60s. It was time I bought my own copy!

There must be a story behind that!

Robert Falcon Scott Eddie the Eagle Hawk

Thelonious Sphere Monk Mr Cube Stanley Turrentine

Bob Scobey Lu Watters

Don't know about that one, but Woody Herman had a chart where the head was pretty much the solo Lester played on "Pound Cake." "Cousins" by John Coppola. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKIJEzl1CP0 Lovely clip. Thanks!

Thanks for the reminder, John. Will be listening.

Hugo Boss Hugo First Reuben McFall

A real cookin' session from 1985 with Terence Blanchard, Jean Toussaint, Donald Harrison and Lonnie Plaxico. Nicely filmed and recorded, too. Did you see this band at Ronnie's, Sidewinder?

Mrs Mop J Edgar Hoover D K Dyson

Disc please. (PM sent)

Mal Waldron The Bad Plus Badass Buddusky

Hadn't he been one of the Minton's Playhouse innovators, caught on tape, and with a style that lay between swing and bop?

Happy Birthday Vic!

Cannon and Ball Caliban Prospero

The Head of the Fed Ladies from Hades Monica Mint from Madrid

Henri Renaud Jean Renoir Christopher Wren

Saw Shearing only once - in Leeds in the mid-60s. His group shared a double bill with Junior Mance's. I recall that Mance had Bob Cranshaw on bass and Shearing had Red Mitchell.