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Will Hay Jack Straw Roger B Chaffee

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Ellington/Strayhorn/Hodges, "Blood Count"

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3 Alyn Shipton and Brian Priestley discuss Lionel Hampton's recordings

Romy Schneider Remy Martin Gene Ramey

Basie, On My Way & Shoutin' Again (Verve)

King Curtis Curtis Amy Amy Winehouse

Professor Longhair Marcel Marceau Mme de Pompadour Curly Russell Bucky O'Hare Basil Brush

Charlie Barnet Joe Locke Bob Partington

Good for you, Richard! Keep it that way!

Iris Murdoch The Dirty Digger Admiral Shovell

Oh, when I had done what I could, there was about a minute to go, so I hit the "give up?" button and all the missing names came up. MG Now I see I didn't know Pass, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Clarke or Corea either. Ah well, the 70s was never my era!

Thelonious Himself (Riverside)

In addition, in Britain, George Melly, Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball - though it depends how old the people are. Also Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Wynton Marsalis (probably), Diana Krall, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Dave Brubeck, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Bix, Harry Connick, Lou Rawls, Kenny G, James Brown, Quincy Jones, Nat "King" Cole - and others, too numerous to mention. I wouldn't expect large numbers of any population to know much about these people, including their music, but I'd expect recognition of their names. MG I imagine Wynton Marsalis would be no better known to the British man in the street than George Osborne, say.

Presenting Red Mitchell (OJC/Contemporary) Recorded in 1957 with James Clay, Lorraine Geller and Billy Higgins. Bought this one after reading about it in Robert Gordon's Jazz West Coast and in Marc Myers' Jazzwax blog: http://www.jazzwax.com/2008/02/presenting-red.html

Margaret Thatcher Cowboy Roofer Watt Tyler

Tub of Lard Flora Purim Fats Sadi

Mo Mowlam Little Mo Arthur Mo

The cookin' track was probably "Swingin' at Newport" which is a winner!

People here may have heard of Humphrey Lyttelton, Ronnie Scott, John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, as well as the expected American names. Someone recently commented that, while people know the names of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, they often think they're still alive and playing! I recently told someone about Horace Silver being spotted on the street in Wigan in Greater Manchester during the Wigan International Jazz Festival, only to find out they'd never heard of him!

Tony Blair George Orwell Big Brother

Sven Samantha Colin Sell

Pancho Gonzalez Sancho Panza Man of La Mancha Coco Chanel Chan Canasta Billy Brag

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Beech Professor David Nutt

Crazy Otto Giotto John Gotti

"Donald Byrd: the Hardbop Years" on Night Lights from WFIU