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Stompy Jones Terence Stamp Frank Rosolino

Midnight Cowboy Pasadena Roof Orchestra Watt Tyler

Rod Hull and Emu Howard Keel Isaac Stern

Mr Cube Pablo Picasso Norman Granz

Steve Race Tom Gunn Al Block

Primate of All Ireland Omer Simeon Bob Monkhouse

Ali MacGraw Ally McBeal Al McKibbon

Barney Mabel Big Maybelle

The Raylettes Little Miss Sunshine Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

"Tricotism" doesn't seem to exist as a word, but it ought to mean the art of knitting. (French "tricoter" = to knit). I like it; sounds better than the unpronounceable "tricrotism".

Clifford Still Nancy Whiskey Tennessee Ernie Ford

Fred Hersch, Songs Without Words (Spotify) Solo piano. Beautiful stuff!

Willie Ruff The Brute Thomas "Slab" Murphy

Edgar Winter Don Sleet Lord Hale

Jimmy Skidmore David Trippier Reuben McFall

Jimmy Porter Nobby Totah Sister Carrie

Veronica Lake Eddie Locke Jemima Puddleduck

Hairy Maclary Lou Donaldson Lou Pride

Sex Kitten B B King Bibi Andersson

Big P Wee Dot Jimmy Riddle

Carl Palmer Jimmy "Fastfingers" Dawkins JAW Evelyn Waugh Martin Guerre Maria Bello

Bill Barber Bob Partington The Last of the Mohicans

Al Gaffer Hugo Boss Top Cat

Gil Evans and Orchestra Live in Lugano A superb DVD: audio and visual quality unsurpassed and the music is great! I've always dug the latter-day Evans orchestras: I saw the Svengali group at Manchester's Free Trade Hall in 1978 and own most of the Sweet Basil recordings. This one was recorded in 1983 and features Randy Brecker, Lew Soloff, Howard Johnson, John Clark, Mike Manieri and Billy Cobham. So good that a band like this has been so excellently preserved in this DVD!

Yeah - I've been in the audience a few times when he came out with that Joe 'Piano' Henderson joke - one of his 'set' gags. If I remember correctly he sometimes followed it up with 'Miles will be in the Club next week' [gasps and awe from punters..] followed by the immortal 'Sir Bernard Miles' Not to mention the promise of an all-star American group featuring Stan Getz and Stuff Smith: "We call it the Getz-Stuff quintet."