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Aunty Rotter Tonton Macoutes Charlie's Other Aunt

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Miles Davis, "Filles de Kilimanjaro"

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3: Big Sid Catlett

Clint Eastwood D H Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Mother

Les Spann Butch Warren Frisby Dyke

Zoot Sims Quartet/Shelly Manne Quartet in Concert Two 1970 L.A. club sessions: Sims with Roger Kellaway, Chuck Berghofer and Larry Bunker at Donte's and Manne with Bob Cooper, Hampton Hawes and Ray Brown at Shelly's Manne-Hole. Sound and visual quality not impeccable, though adequate, but some sensational music!

Sir Ebenezer Moletrouser Shorts McConnell Nica

You jammy get, as we say in England.... Quite!

Sir Reginald Bullying-Manner (Bernard Levin's name for the above) Noel Coward Punch Miller

Wacko Jacko Dr Jackyll Wilfred Hyde-White

Jordi Pujol Danny Barcelona Med Flory

The Dirty Digger Admiral Shovell Chuck Berry

Lord Haw Haw Lord Snooty Lord Adonis

Little Miss Sunshine Johnny Shines Jim Beam

"The Past Recaptured: 2009 Reissues" on Night Lights from WFIU Excellent variety and quality in choice of tracks. Program strongly recommended.

Jazz Street was very important for me, too.

Sonny Stitt/Barry Harris Quartet, Tune Up + Constellation (Gambit)

Mr Bump Thud Jones Reuben McFall

Gemini Adderley Brothers Four Mothers

My only jazz reading last year was to go back to A B Spellman's Four Lives in the Bebop Business and Nat Hentoff's The Jazz Life. Reread after forty-something years, they seemed like interesting documents of their times.

Castor and Pollux Ed Balls Wim Kok

Ann Diamond Jewel and Warriss Ruby Wax

Donald Trump Roy Harte Steve McQueen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/12/jazz-records-cult-of-obscurity

Chan Canasta Billy Bragg Patience Strong