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Otis Rush Ella Speed Flash Harry

Jimmy, Percy and Tootie Four Brothers The Jones Boys

Anyway, it's something to get part of this morning's Guardian online from Seattle before retail outlets are open to buy it here! Incidentally, their letters page has been publishing weak jokes for days about the jazz police being on the beat, etc, etc.

Ray Milland The man with X-Ray eyes Malcolm X Hugh Jackman Robert Graff Owen Badger Pipped me! Bill Badger Toad of Toad Hall Moley Erin Brockovich Eric Dolphy Paul Shark

Alex Haley Quincy Jones Cicely Tyson Noble Sissle Cecil B DeMille Jack Millman

Charles Tanqueray Truck Parham Olive Oyl

Daniel Halperin Reggie Perrin Lea & Perrins

You reminded me of this one.

Eric Forth Clyde Hart Blossom Dearie

The one I had as a boy was OO. It was a Hornby Dublo. The one to London is 4' 8 1/2" gauge.

Do you mean the sort I used to run around the floor as a boy or the sort I now travel on to London?

Angelina Jolie Pete Jolly Ron Glum

Herr Hitler Charlie Barnet Curly Russell

Archie Moore Muhammad Ali Battling Siki Sicko Lola Aylings Malody Gardot

Cliff Richard Arthur Scargill Rocky Marciano

Bradford Bulls Paul Horn Cow Cow Davenport

Wilbur & Orville Wright Orville Redenbacher Pops Armstrong Mr Muscle Don Cockell Lawrence Welk Duke 'Take A Train' Ellington Steve Ellington Mercer Ellington Ray Ellington Gladys Fred Nurke

Wilbur & Orville Wright Orville Redenbacher Pops Armstrong Mr Muscle Don Cockell Lawrence Welk

Completely agree with you about that! Bird learning those changes as he goes along is a truly fascinating moment in recorded jazz!

Doubting Thomas Thomas Dolby St Thomas Aquinas Tom 1960 David Letterman Wiley Post

Bessie Smith Chippie Hill Richard Carpenter

The Dukes of Dixieland Phyllis Dixey Little Pixie

Sarkosy Cosey Fanni Tutti Genesis P-Orridge

Rambling Sid Symphony Sid Siddhartha

Of course, I haven't heard them all, but he's on startling form on Apartment Sessions (1950). For years I've had one vol of Historical Recordings on Le Jazz Cool label which is very good and sounds as if it was recorded about 1948. (Somebody will know where to find these tracks today.) Recently I bought Charlie Parker at Storyville (1953) which is well recorded for a live date and presents Bird in coherent and inspired form. Bird with Fats Navarro and Bud Powell at Birdland in 1951 is another great one.