BillF

You guessed right!

You have a treat in store! And you would never guess who's on guitar in a month of Sundays!

I my youth (before I discovered Bird!!) I was very keen on New Orleans jazz of the 1920s and had the sort of modest collection of 12" LPs that people's budgets ran to in those days. It was your first three listed items - the Oliver, Armstong and Morton - but I also had a great album of tracks under the leadership of Kid Ory by the New Orleans Wanderers and New Orleans Bootblacks which inclued IIRC George Mitchell and Johnny Dodds and was very well recorded for the time. Perhaps someone could advise on where these tracks are now available? Staying with Ory, does your remit include the New Orleans revival of the 1940s? If so, I can recommend his Creole band, especially these albums:

James Mason Kirk Douglas Squidward George Crabbe Jean Shrimpton Al Sharpton

The Iron Man The Iron Lady Rusty Kuntz

Inspector Jack Slipper Midnight Cowboy Cinderfella

Gal in Calico Billy Cotton Fred Bear

Big P P Diddy Professor Peabody

21 classic boogie tracks by Ammons, Lewis, Johnson, Yancey and Pinetop Smith are on A Jazz Hour With the Boogie Woogie Giants which is available on Amazon for $17.15.

Chopper Mack The Knife Spoon Larry Poons Lily Pons Lily Savage

Elmer J Fudd Harriet Beecher Stowe Johnny Burch

Stiff Little Fingers Tom Thumb W C Handy

Aphrodite Ramsbottom U2 Mutt 'n Jeff

Lovely little item! Ah, the history of British jazz! (sigh)

Erroll Garner Little Pixie Thad Jones

Lovely album!

Back to reading Eric Ambler, helped by Manchester Public Libraries' purchase of titles recently republished as Penguin Modern Classics. Now on Epitaph for a Spy.

Tal Farlow Billie Holiday Danny Banks

Hitch Rebecca Marnie

Two Ton Tessie O'Shea Two Brains Willetts Two Jags Prescott

The Red Menace The Scarlet Pimpernel King Crimson

Boehm (his clarinet system celebrated in Woody Herman's "Blame Boehm") Boomsie (another Herman title) Bam Brown

Eve Boswell Sir Anthony Eden Stranger in Paradise

Chummy MacGregor Pal Joey Michael Mates

Well, I'm going to see him at The Band on the Wall here in Manchester on Thursday.