BillF

Harold Granowsky Jeff Morton Arnold Fishkin

Phil Woods Jerry Wald Victor Sylvester

"Jazzing the Cool with Ted Gioia" on Night Lights from WFIU EDIT: Fascinating stuff! Must read Mr Gioia's book.

Barbara Castle Charlotte Church Abbey Lincoln

Milo O'Shea Venus de Milo Miles Davis

For me, that would mean blues artists - Jimmy Reed, Lightning Hopkins, Champion Jack Dupree, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, B B King, etc etc

Considering that I'm very keen on fifties' jazz, Brubeck is a notable omission from my likes. Thirties' jazz is further from my tastes, and I have greatest difficulty with Reinhardt and Grappelli. God may have been in the room when Tatum played, but not for me. (Just realised that last sentence would have an entirely different meaning if you changed the punctuation.)

Indiana Jones David Brent Johnson David Brent

Tony Lumpkin Bet Bouncer Doll Tearsheet

The Rivals Creedence Clearwater Revival The Rev

Ruskin Spear Sir Charles Pole Rod Liddle

Miles Davis (Prestige/RCA) 1972 twofer combining Cookin' and Relaxin'

Jazz cruise?

Ray Draper Billy Taylor Johnny Mercer

Me, too!

Snipcock & Tweed Rabbi Lionel Blue Wayne Shorter

River Phoenix Elsie & Doris Waters Brook Benton

Nah, can't be that; what about Aldiss, Brunner, Ballard....okay, maybe depressing culture. It's the rain, you know.

Boring culture? EDIT: With the exception of Tubby Hayes and Victor Feldman, of course!

R Davenport (where is he?) Mrs Marple Harry Lime

Chicken Licken Tim Henman Gary Cox

Thanks Bill. I should dig into Lunceford a bit more. Listening now to some samples of the one you recommend. Sounds terrific! I see some used copies are available at amazon for a song. There are also some pretty expensive copies. Always wonder about that. One seller prices a disc at $5 and the next guy prices it at $26. Hm. ... Glad that appealed, paps. I have just five big band LPs from the period 1937-42 and all are classics. Apart from the two illustrated, which are still available on CD, there's Ellington's In A Mellotone, with tracks like "Main Stem" and "Cotton Tail" and three Basie albums, which cover the classic sides with Lester ("Taxi War Dance", "Twelfth Street Rag", "Texas Shuffle", etc) and Jimmy Rushing ("Sent for You Yesterday", "Good Morning Blues", etc).

Not a BN date. The Jones/Lewis big band records were made for Solid State. I seem to remember reading in Richard Cook's book on Blue Note Records that this 1970 big band recording was a result of change of ownership/policy at Blue Note. Of course, I may be wrong!

Jay Corrie Kai Winding L Ron Hubbard