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Barkis Yapp Hung Fai Wun Hung Lo

Bob Cooper/Bill Holman, Group Activity (Capitol/Affinity)

Re-read a couple of 1950s favorites:

Harry Gold's Pieces of Eight Seven Brides for Seven Brothers The Five Pennies

Joe Fingers Carr Harry Palmer Barry Naylor

Shorty Rogers/Gerry Mulligan, Modern Sounds (Capitol/EMI)

The Madwoman in the Attic Fiddler on the Roof Cowboy Roofers

La Marquise d'O O K

Shorty Rogers, Blues Express (RCA)

Walter Page's Blue Devils Booker Little Marcus Printup

The Kenny Wheeler Big Band is on at Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester the following evening. You know, all this is making me feel old! I last saw Kenny Wheeler in a club in Leeds in 1962 with fellow Canadian Art Ellefson in a quintet of Dankworth-ites that included Eddie Harvey!

Frank Gant John Glover Walter Mitty

I'd make the exception for Chewy.

Shorty Rogers, Portrait of Shorty (RCA)

Have a great one, Sidewinder!

Southport? If it's anything like Blackpool it'll be gale force winds and horizontal rain. At least it is everytime I go there. Sunshine and gentle winds today. And marvellous music, of course!

Nice! What are the tracks?

KKJZ Mostly Bop Now playing: George Wallington Septet, "Igloo"

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Tommy Flanagan Trio, "Giant Steps"

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3: Jimmy Woode

Little Boy Blue Blue Mitchell Blue Daniel

The Singing Detective The Singing Nun The Priests

Confused me there, Bill. The North-West is 'here be dragons' country for me. I constantly get Southport and Stockport mixed up. Couldn't understand why there would be a pier or where they would put it. Perhaps it was like Wigan pier. Yes, confusing! To help you orientate these places on your jazz map, I'll say that I don't know if Wigan ever had a pier, but that it used to have an excellent concert hall called The Mill on the Pier where I saw Arturo Sandoval, the Paquito D'Rivera/Claudio Roditi Quintet and American big bands led by Mel Lewis, Frank Foster, Phil Woods, Bill Holman and Frank Tiberi (in the name of Woody Herman). At the Davenport Theatre, Stockport I saw British big bands led by Shorty Rogers, Louie Bellson and Clark Terry. I've only recently discovered jazz in Southport and, as well as tomorrow's gig, I hope to catch the Kirk Lightsey Trio with Bobby Wellins there in October. Hope that makes things clearer!

Minnie Driver Bram Stoker Herbie Steward