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Maudie Littlehampton Microsoft Little John

Some great music there, David! I was particularly interested to hear the track by Gene Shaw. When you mentioned that he'd played with Mingus, I immediately wondered if this could be Clarence Shaw, who played so beautifully on East Coasting and Tijuana Moods and who I and other listeners half a century ago regarded as thereafter lost to jazz. His first notes on your disc revealed that this was indeed the same guy and I find that his full name was Clarence Eugene Shaw. Interesting! Almost like a lost soul rediscovered!

Paul Anka Vince Cable Fluke

"Chicago Calling: Unsung Heroes of the City's Hardbop Scene" on Night Lights from WFIU

Jeru Tel Jordan

Arty Fishel The Promised Band Israel Crosby

Thomas Eakins Tommy Atkins Kilroy

Saul Bass Peter Ind Coop

Henry Cheese Trappist monks Whispering Bob Harris

The Mulligan the Arranger LP also included the great "All the Things You Are" referred to above by Larry Kart.

Yes, I have and like Jeru. Incidentally, it's obvious to me that the order of tracks listed both on the disc and the liner notes is incorrect; e.g. Track 1 is "Get Out of Town" and not "Capricious" as listed, but as I don't know all of the tunes I've never been able to work out what is the correct listing. Can anyone help?

Bird's "Marmaduke" is another one based on "Honeysuckle Rose".

Big Joe Turner Pete Johnson Michael Roll

"Matchmaker, Matchmaker" from Eric Alexander, The Second Milestone, featuring Alexander and Harold Mabern.

If your tastes run to Mulligan the arranger, there was a great LP of just that title on which the best tracks IMHO were "Disc Jockey Jump" and "How High the Moon" by the Gene Krupa Orchestra of 1946, which included Gerry.

7 Brides 4 7 Brothers Four Brothers Four Mothers

Little Schoolboy The Thirsty Scholar (Manchester pub) Lerner and Lowe

Boris Pickett & the Crypt Kickers Boris Johnson Doris Karloff Carl Orff F Orff U Bargarov

I agree! Mulligan's pairings with Paul Desmond and with Hodges are also excellent. There's also a marvelous session with saxophone stars called The Gerry Mulligan Songbook. But the ultimates for me are the 1952-53 Quartet, the 1956 Sextet and the Concert Jazz Band, which you've already got, Bev. (Don't know the content of the Mosaic, so you may have more than I realise.) Ah,yes! Forgot that one. And the earliest Mulligan-led session I really like is the Dektette of 1951 with "Four Mothers" etc.

Idi Amin Dada Pops Foster Ward Pinkett

Dennis the Menace Lord Snooty and his Pals Boris Johnson

So interesting to read that, Peter! People in the UK who got into jazz at the same time as you were often big band fans: Kenton was their idol and over here it was Ted Heath. They're still out in force if you go to a big band event nowadays. All this was just before my time, as I started listening in 1957 at the age of 17. I remember hearing the Mulligan Quartet and Getz (with Al Haig and Jimmy Raney) by the age of 18. There was a decided time lag over here as slowness of record distribution and a musicians' union ban on American visitors meant we got to hear things a few years later.

Colonel Blood Joe Sample Gore Vidal

Herman's Hermits The Third Herd Calista Flockhart

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Joe Harriott, "Count Twelve" from Movement