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Art Blakey Joy Pitcher H'Angus the Monkey

Peter and the Wolf Alfred Lion Rory Gallagher

Cubby Broccoli Baden Powell (scouts) Baden Powell (guitar)

Everton Weekes Little Mo Minutemen

Slim Pickens Skinnay Ennis Herb Ellis

John Coltrane, Africa Brass (World Record Club) Bears sticker: Decimal £ s d 1.48p 29/7 Dobell's

The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea Chuck Close Liz Hurley

Chips Channon Michael Fish Charlie Pease

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Buck Clayton Michael Clayton George Clooney

Saw Simon Spillett this afternoon at Whitefield, Manchester playing with a local trio. Simon was his usual affable self and played an interesting repertoire which included Jimmy Deuchar compositions.

Today I met Bill Birch who has written and intends to publish a book called Keeper of the Flame: Modern Jazz in Manchester 1946-1972. The book has a foreword by Don Rendell and "brings to life vivid performances in the city by such legends as Dizzy, Miles, Rollins, Tubby and Ronnie." The book will be published at £25 once a list 200 subscribers has been obtained. If you're interested, email the author at birchiano@talktalk.net. Mr Birch also answered a question once put to me by sidewinder, who asked what became of a dressing room wall signed by famous musicians at Manchester's Free Trade Hall, now that the building is a hotel. Answer: the wall was demolished and all the signatures, including Yehudi Menuhin's, perished, with the exception of Louis Armstrong's, which has been framed and now hangs outside the General Manager's office.

Larry Kart Get Carter Ian McCartney

Ward Pinkett Billy Childs Tony Parenti

Bill Doggett Organ Morgan John Piper

KKJZ Mostly Bop Now playing:

Jack Shepherd Pastor Manders Peter Mandelson

Dick Turpin Jack Sheppard Macheath

I saw him several times in the ranks of the Duke Ellington orchestra. He always seemed totally impassive, never betraying facially a hint of the passion in his playing. The day after an Ellington performance in Leeds in the sixties a friend of mine who fancied himself as hip, but wasn't, spotted the band lunching in the Queen's Hotel. He went up to Hodges and said, "Great concert, Duke!" "Wrong one, man," replied Hodges, pointing at the great man.

And I always thought you were a teenager!