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Organ Morgan Dai Bread Evans the Death

Iolanthe Anthony Eden Vanessa Paradis

George Robey The Prime Minister of Mirth David Cameron

"The Last: Final Recordings of Jazz Greats" on Night Lights from WFIU

Clyde Hart Eric Forth Simon Dee

Sir Henry Wood Sir Charles Groves W Arundel Orchard Johnny Appleseed Gary Cox Pippin the Younger

Max Planck Courtney Pine Douglas Fir

Always liked Sillitoe's "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" from the 1950s, but hadn't realised he'd continued to write novels into the 90s until I read a recent obituary.

Shorts McConnell Nica Koenigswarter Jean Goldkette

Saw Simon Spillett with the Vinnie Parker Trio this afternoon. An excellent bop quartet, but playing under adverse conditions - in an acoustically dreadful pub room in Leyland Lancs. during a beer festival! Simon models himself on Tubby Hayes and I used to see Hayes playing in conditions like that in the 60s, but this is carrying the Tubbs re-creation too far!

King Creole Old King Cole Nat King Cole

Art Pepper John Piper Christopher Plummer

e e cummings Hilda Doolittle W D Snodgrass

Little Niles Edward Said Eric Alexandria

Herbie Mann, Jeremy Steig - can't think of any other first instrument jazz flautists. Next I think of Roland Kirk, who revolutionised its sound.

Don't remember the French releasing that one.. Shouldn't it be Pissin' Off? Surely not! The LP would have had to have been called "Goin'" - as in Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' "Pissin' off to the meetin'", to which (coincidentally) I've just been listening (on CD). MG Ah, just got it! Oh, you thought I meant this one MG I now realise you meant Go! My original comment just referred to the fact that it almost seemed obligatory for jazz album titles in those days to include - - - in'

Le Chat Botté The Katzenjammer Kids Pussy Galore

Croesus Midas Rockefeller

Cassius Mark Antony Ray Anthony

Sugar Lips Sweets Swee'Pea

Pithecanthropos Erectus Bill Hardman Patrick Standish

Art Buchwald Walter Page Jimmy Reed

Don't remember the French releasing that one.. Shouldn't it be Pissin' Off? Surely not! The LP would have had to have been called "Goin'" - as in Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' "Pissin' off to the meetin'", to which (coincidentally) I've just been listening (on CD). MG Ah, just got it!

Lee Konitz Anna Needle Ronald Firbank

David Hare Buggins Bilbo Baggins