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Virginia Woolf Ida Lupino Jamie Foxx

Fatboy Slim Biggie Smalls Little & Large

Humphry House Semiramis Pancho Villa

Yosser Hughes Yasser Arafat The Solar Arkestra

Really enjoyed this one! http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26896

Belle de Jour John Lee Hooker Clare Fischer

Spoon Bobby Plater Lady Forkbender

Newt Gingrich Ginger Rogers Red Mitchell

Shilpa Shetty Lorraine Crapp Spiggy Topes and the Turds

Quote of the week?

Judy Drench Steve Dowsing John Dunkerley

Sebastian Flyte Plain Jayne Airto

(Fresh Sound)

Ringo Starr Ring Lardner Mary Anne McCall

Bob Berg Ice T Pol Pot

David Tudor John Cage Morton Feldman

Hieronymous Bosch Tommy Rot Krapp

Poor Little Rich Girl Buddy Rich Gene Krupa

Big Ears The Prince of Wails Tom Whaley

Absolutely true. If you're truly dedicated to a genre, you do so much listening that even the classics begin to pall. This inevitably leads to the mining of lesser seams where there are fewer gems - but, by now, you're so steeped in the genre and your ears so attuned that you derive perhaps more pleasure from these minor works than you did from the classics in your amateur listening days.

Re European visit/residence of these American musicians, I saw Carmell Jones with a local trio at Club 43 Manchester in about 1968.

Peter O'Toole Herman's Hermits Rip Van Winkle

Spike Wells Diana Rigg John Piper