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Yes, same here. Both my kids watch all that, constantly. I think if I got rid of the TV, my son wouldn't notice for days.

Yes! the bit where the horn starts? You know, I listen to Debussy L'apres-midi d'un Faune, and think Round Midnight is about to start!

Me too! I bought a copy in a charity shop and re-read it maybe 2 years ago. I enjoyed it, though I suspect I enjoyed it for different reasons second time around.

Neymar jr Oscar Willian

Bull Durham Sarah Lancashire Joey Essex

Diego Costa Costafine Town Splinter

Danger Mouse Chorlton and the Wheelies Count Duckula

All delivered in person - thanks Bill

Monk - Monk's Dream (CBS reissue)

Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge (Affinity reissue)

Thelonious Monk Nonet - Live in Paris 1967

I didn't see the thread, will have a look now, thanks. Edit to add - that didn't take long!

Yes, that's the version of the band I was thinking of. An excellent album, I imagine that band would have been exciting to hear.

Was Bennie Maupin not in that band Bill?

Billy Hawks - More Heavy Soul (Prestige) He's a new one on me - this was in a collection of LPs I bought last year, never got round to listening to it until now.

Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come. It sticks at the end of one track - haven't heard a record stick in 20+ years!

I grew up on 1990s OJC and Blue Note CDs. The Connoisseurs were particularly exotic, to me at least.

Nice, when was this?

Thanks for the replies. The Burton book does sound interesting, though I'm unsure I can handle having my Joe Henderson bubble burst. I find the older I get, the less I need to know, if you see what I mean?

I'm intrigued now. I had NO idea Joe Henderson had a "difficult" reputation. I'm also interested in sgcim's comments about the Golson autobiography. Could anyone expand?

My discovery of jazz coincided with the launch of "Jazz FM" here in the UK, around 1993/94. The daytime programming was distinctly lacking in jazz, but the evenings were pretty good, especially "Dinner Jazz" (you can imagine what it was like!). After a year or two it rebranded to "JFM", which meant less jazz, then I think it was taken over and rebranded "Smooth FM", which was as bad as it sounded. Still, for a year or two, you could actually hear jazz on the radio. Jazz FM's slightly older cousin "Classic FM" is still going, playing Classical music's greatest hits and adverts for very middle-class folks on rotation. As far as I know, BBC radio still plays "Jazz Record Requests" for an hour a week, the other 167 hours being strictly classical music.

You made me go and dig the LP out!

I used his product for some time in the early 1990s.....