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Little Miss Sunshine Sunbeam Talbot Ray Charles

Great clips, thanks!

All the best, aloc!

Oral Roberts Hot Lips Page Mavis Cheek

I took my wife to a performance of the Birth of the Cool scores. Afterwards she told her friends, "I had never heard of these pieces when they were announced, but to my surprise I knew every note once they started playing! That's what comes from living with a jazzer!"

Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman Jean-François Millet Carlos "Potato" Valdez

Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson Hal "Cornbread" Singer Frank "Floorshow" Culley Mrs Mop Louis Jordan Palestrina

Dave Pell Octet, Live at Alphonse's (Deezer)

Yes, it's all very confusing. I never saw Ronnie's colleague, Pete King, but heard his fruity cockney voice on the radio. I've seen the other one, who calls himself the full PETER King, several times in his career from the 1960s to the present and he has now developed into one hell of an altoist - Britain's secret, you might say, now we no longer have a Tubby Hayes or Victor Feldman to offer. Here's a curiosity: Peter King playing Bird's alto! My link Thanks for clarifying. Except that Peter did occasionally go by "Pete," at least in the states. Unless there is a third guy out there. Unless I'm confused, I thought there was a third guy out there (another alto player). I had seen that video of Peter King playing Bird's alto before, and I just assumed it was a different person from the Peter King I was somewhat familiar with. Just to clarify, here is a photo of Peter King the alto player, already mentioned here (the guy playing Bird's alto in the above video): The Peter King I was familiar with had lighter (blond) hair which he wore differently (combed forward over the upper forehead)... ...and wore glasses in the only video I had seen of him (which was a performance with Louis Stewart, which is one of the uploaded videos on my Youtube page: (the camera isn't on King until about 4 1/2 minutes in, btw). I also found a link to an undated video which shows that same Peter King (referred to as "Pete" here) in an earlier performance where he isn't wearing glasses: http://www.pogledaj.name/pete-king-1-of-3/video/cudIy4qRJ3Y I'm seeing a facial resemblance between the two, but the hair and the glasses have me confused... All these images are of Peter King the altoist whom I've seen regularly from the sixties to the noughties. Yes, he's dyed his hair black and now combs it back rather than forward. He also talks of some Coltrane influence in his playing now, so perhaps he's modifying both aurally and visually!

Mort Fega Harry Beckett Mongezi Feza Mongo Santamaria Meg and Mog Gato Barbieri

Next up: Lee Konitz, Timespan (Wave LP 14)

Sonny Stitt, New York Jazz (Spotify)

Yes, it's all very confusing. I never saw Ronnie's colleague, Pete King, but heard his fruity cockney voice on the radio. I've seen the other one, who calls himself the full PETER King, several times in his career from the 1960s to the present and he has now developed into one hell of an altoist - Britain's secret, you might say, now we no longer have a Tubby Hayes or Victor Feldman to offer. Here's a curiosity: Peter King playing Bird's alto! My link

Buck House Betty Windsor Phil the Greek

Jack Massarik The Naz Lord Buckley

Nice show! Was pleasantly surprised to hear an unmistakable Harold Land solo on the Shorty Rogers track. I don't recall hearing him in a Shorty Rogers outfit before. Loved the Sascha Feinstein poem too - the "noises off" on that 1954 session have always fascinated me!

Kate Bush Peter Gabriel Heathcliffe Shere Hite Edward Upward Keith Topping

Chu Berry Chuck Rock Eva Brick Eva Braun Evita Bobby Previte

Cher Sonny Bono Bonio Spratt Chewy

Blondie Blondin Blonde on Blonde

"Hep to the Holidays" on Night Lights from WFIU

John Sottile Bobby Shew Chuck Findley

Natty Bumppo Nat Peck Tim Henman

Toby Jug J Fred Muggs The Beaker People

The Gypsy Moose the Mooche Lover Man