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Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3: Barney Kessel

Niko Big Nick Nicholas Pincher Martin

Well, that stopped me dead in my tracks as I have no albums by any of them as leader! I will have to wait for someone else to take up the baton!

Hilda Dolittle Lazy Susan Sleepy Stein

My first album by Bill Evans (who was on Modern Art) was Portrait in Jazz with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.

Dick Diver Christine Blower Oral Roberts

Big Tuna Jaws Neptune's Daughter The Little Mermaid Ethel Merman Phil Seamen

Rachel Whiteread Marie Stopes Michael Garrick (where's the connection there, one asks..) Sidewinder Jeremy Bentham Walter Benton

Brian Redhead Lord Boyle Alfred North Whitehead

Slick Jones Olive Oyl BP ( = Baden Powell ) Baden Powell (The Brazilian version) Jobim Deodato Rachida Dati Nicholas Sarkozy Carla Bruni

Slick Jones Olive Oyl BP ( = Baden Powell )

Diz and Roy (Verve twofer)

I'm going to go with first KD recording. A hard call, its either this one or the Showboat recording on Time but I am almost certain it was Quiet Kenny. One listen to Blue Spring Shuffle and I was hooked. With Tommy Flanagan, PC and Art Taylor. My first, and only, album under Art Taylor's name is Taylor's Tenors, and it's a great 'un! I used to have Taylor's Tenors' - haven't now and haven't thought of it for years....who was on it, Bill? Charlie Rouse, Frank Foster, Walter Davis and Sam Jones.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Naum Gabo Nahum Tate

I'm going to go with first KD recording. A hard call, its either this one or the Showboat recording on Time but I am almost certain it was Quiet Kenny. One listen to Blue Spring Shuffle and I was hooked. With Tommy Flanagan, PC and Art Taylor. My first, and only, album under Art Taylor's name is Taylor's Tenors, and it's a great 'un!

Absolutely great LP, IMO. Also my first Stitt recording. My first Stitt was Sonny Stitt and the Big Brass, which gives you plenty of scope, as on the sessions were Renauld Jones, Blue Mitchell, Dick Vance, Jimmy Cleveland, Matthew Gee, Willie Ruff, Duke Jordan, Perri Lee, Joe Benjamin, Frank Brown and Philly Joe Jones

Margie Hyams George Shearing Chris Barber Perry Como Tony Curtis Charlie Barnet

Red Buttons Zippy Little Bo Peep

This insistence on "first" is very demanding, as I have to try to remember back to the 1950s to records long since disappeared! That said, my first Rollins was an EP (Extended Play) 45 rpm vinyl disc with "The Way You Look Tonight" on one side and "I Want To Be Happy" on the other. IIRC, Art Blakey and Monk were on this session - the bassist I don't remember!

My first Blakey was Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, bought in 1961 on British version of Atlantic LP

George Coleman Octet, Big George (with Frank Strozier)

Mini Me Minnie Driver David Puttnam

Jan Garbage Gene Gammage Gamages

Shorty Rogers and his Giants/Gerry Mulligan and his Tentette, Modern Sounds (Capitol/EMI)

Legs Diamond Armitage Shanks Simon Pegg