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Wallace Roney Dabs McSkippin' Vout O Reenie Jack McVoutie

Sonny Stitt/J J Johnson Sextet, We Remember Bird This DVD consists of two sessions for television recorded in Berlin and London in 1964, the second with a live audience. The rest of the group are Howard McGhee, Kenny Clarke, Walter Bishop Jr and Tommy Potter. All are on top form and play a Parker repertoire of "Now's the Time", "Lover Man", "My Little Suede Shoes", etc. Audio quality is good throughout, but visual quality less good on the London session, though there you don't have to put up with the naff Berlin TV studio decor of fake peeling walls inscribed wth "Bird Lives" graffiti! Howard McGhee tears off some burnin' solos, while J J is a bastion of classic monumental calm and Stitt his unwavering dependable self. Bish plays fierce two-handed piano, though I do find his insistent, regular left-hand chording, which sounds like it's been imported from Red Garland, a bit wearing!

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Roy Porter Nobby Totah Schlepper Berry

I've still got my Phillips LP!

Paul Boateng Harold Shipman Marine Le Pen

Spotty Muldoon Jack Spot Bill Potts

Villa Lobos Wolf Mankowitz Foxy Lady

Theresa May Aidan McCann Emmanuel Kant

Abel Gance Eve Boswell Adam Ant

He's on fine form on his All Stars' album Songs for Swingers (1958). (I don't think this one ever made it to CD.)

Rogue Male David Letterman Terence Stamp

Reptet Toad of Toad Hall Colin Froggatt

Boris Gudunov Bad Ass Buddusky David Baddiel

Claude Monet Zoot Money The Big Roll Band

Percy Sledge Jonathan Bate Charlie Rouse

Dick Richards Bill Williams Teddy Edwards

Beauty and the Beast Beastie Boys The Animals

Hilton Ruiz Pablo Picasso Norman Granz

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh, "Fishin' Around" (1949)

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3: Gil Evans

Wyatt Ruther Eric Dolphy Nathan Gershom Gert and Daisy Pansy Potter the Strongman's Daughter Charles Atlas

Woody Herman '58 (Lone Hill)

Halle Hale Berry Nick Berry Pincher Martin Knock Off Nigel Rob Wilton

Albert Steptoe Harry H. Corbett Wilfred Bramble Thornton Wilder Halle Berry Sir John Barbirolli