BillF

I remember Ronnie on Desert Island Discs many, many years ago praising to the skies a newcomer called Joe Henderson. This was before he started making "Mr Piano" jokes when announcing Henderson tunes.

Triffids Chrysalids Midwich Cuckoos

Just tuned in. Sounds like Lester in a JATP show. (Jazz Record Requests)

Biggles Worrals Darryls

Herzog King Zog King Rollo

Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (American Jazz Classics)

Earl Bostic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcxBLiKpRm0 Gummy Bears Bill Stickers

Victor Brox Bill Badger Prince Harry

The Mulligan the Arranger LP also included the great "All the Things You Are" referred to above by Larry Kart. Taking of Mulligan the arranger, I was looking at the notes for the RVG of the "Birth of the Cool" sessions and realised that Mulligan wrote 3 number (more that anyone else), arranged 6 (more that anyone else) and played on all 12 of the tunes (more that anyone else, except Miles, I think), although in the notes he wrote for one of the early re-issues of the material he gives Miles full credit for "creating" the "Group", I can't help but feel that it's almost as much a Mulligan record as it is Miles's. Some good early Jeru on this one; In this Jazzwax interview, in answer to the question, "Was "Deception" truly arranged by Davis? It sounds a lot like Mulligan", Gunther Schuller replies: "Look, Miles immediately learned from Gil and Gerry. In those days, very often, some other person's name was put on the ttle for one reason or another." http://www.jazzwax.com/2010/01/interview-gunther-schuller-part-2.html

Eric Alexander, Nightlife in Tokyo (Spotify) A great album!

Bernie Privin W C Handy Augustus John

The Fly The Beatles Ladybird

Nosey Parker Schnozzle Durante Groff Conklin

Binkie Beaumont Sid Bonkers Crazy Otto

What memories those names bring back!

Odean Pope Walter Bishop Jr Julian Priester

It often seems like 40 years when he's talking!

Now moved on to the third novel in Asimov's Robot series, The Robots of Dawn.

I really like that one, Sidewinder, though I have it on CD as you might expect.

Louis Prima Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Papa Doc

Rhodri Morgan Frank Morgan Sonny Criss

The Staple Singers Stablemates John Stubblefield

Count Basie, Straight Ahead (Chessmates)

Gerry Mulligan Art Farmer Quartet Live in Rome 1959 Audio quality acceptable; visual quality poor. Bleached-our b&w film not helped by dramatic lighting throwing giant shadows of the musicians on which cameramen dwelt ad nauseam! Overriding impression of this group is of their sensational technical polish. And they certainly were well covered for the time, so that I have now heard several renditions of their repertoire favorites. I have the What Is There to Say? album, plus an Italian bootleg CD on Bandstand of a concert which doesn't seem to be this one. Nice to remember, too, that they were superbly filmed (unlike here) at Newport in Jazz on a Summer's Day.

Dimwit Flathead Robert Moran Robin Thicke