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Yes, it was great! The band told me that most of their arrangements have been sent to them by the 85-year-old Dave Pell! The venue (a Victorian palm house) wasn't the best, though, either acoustically or climatically (we're having a heatwave).

Wally Fawkes McCoy Tyner Jan Pronk

Pepper Adams Morticia Addams George Adamski

Marley Chingus Marley's Ghost Ghost of Miles

Cal Massey Alex Ferguson Matt Busby

Well, here's something to look into tomorrow afternoon at Sefton Park Palm House, Liverpool: "BBOctet bring the sounds of cool 1950s West Coast jazz. With emphasis on the seminal Dave Pell Octet, and influenced by Shorty Rogers and The Birth of the Cool. Members hail from St Helens and Leigh and are North West in attitude but Californian West coast in ambition. The band will play the numbers you know with a touch more sunshine than you are used to!"

Austin Powers E Power Biggs J Fred Muggs

Charlotte Church Shirley Temple Sal Mosca

John Leech Ad Hire Bill Stickers

Minnie Driver Ed Balls David Puttnam

Karen Horney Randy Brecker Lech Walesa

Reginald Perrin Lea & Perrins H P Lovecraft

Cleggeron Bellerophon Belle de Jour

What are some of the stories in this anthology? Amazon won't tell me a thing. John D Clark, "Minus Planet" (1937) Fritz Leiber, "Yesterday House" (1952) Larry Niven, "Neutron Star" (1966) Lester del Rey, "The Faithful" (1938) Don Wilcox, "The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years" (1940) - that's as far as I've got! Gee, the only one of those I'm familiar with is "Neutron Star." How do you shape up with the rest? (The last is the only one I've come across before.) Edgar Allan Poe, "Cosmic Disaster" (1839) Murray Leinster, "A Logic Named Joe" (1946) Fitz-James O'Brien, "What Was It?" (1859) and "The Diamond Lens" (1858) Richard Matheson, "The Test" (1954) Isaac Asimov, "Reason" (1941) H G Wells, "The Land Ironclads" (1903)

The Iron Lady (I'm getting those horrible flashbacks, too! ) Tommy Steele Lord Copper

Heffalumps Eric Heffer Jimmy Hoffa

Billy Boy Red Garland Posy Simmonds

Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders

What are some of the stories in this anthology? Amazon won't tell me a thing. John D Clark, "Minus Planet" (1937) Fritz Leiber, "Yesterday House" (1952) Larry Niven, "Neutron Star" (1966) Lester del Rey, "The Faithful" (1938) Don Wilcox, "The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years" (1940) - that's as far as I've got!

Puzzled me for a moment. We don't say "tuba" like that over here! Rex Stewart Oedipus Rex Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud

Kingpin Top Cat Numero Uno

"The Fish Horn" - a great blues with Zoot Sims on soprano (not usually my favorite horn) from I Wish I Were Twins

Baby Face Willette Nicole Kidman Freddy Greene

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