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Mister Rogers Billy Root Julius Fucik (Wrote 'Entry of the Gladiators')

Patience Wheatcroft Erich Korngold Miss Potgold of 1953

Piglet Hamlet Francis Bacon

Monk Hazel Trevor Nunn The Actress and the Bishop

Gallagher & Shean She Who Must Be Obeyed 'Er Indoors

Secondhand Rose Jake the Plumber Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher

It's great news but tragic that the stuff sat around for so long...we could learn so much from it, especially hearing guys away from the pressures of the recording studio.

Clyde Hurley Clyde McPhatter Roy Thinnes

Edgar 'Pudding Head' Battle The Batter Mountain of Chiswick Lord Mons

Thanks Larry - brightened my day!

Going to Ronnie's in the 70s was an expensive proposition for most of us - the admission price was a sizeable chunk of your pay at the time and if you stayed to the end of the last set there was the cost of getting home, as public transport had closed down except for the ghostly 'night buses' that never went anywhere that anyone actually lived. We gladly shelled out for Ben, Zoot, Getz, in particular. Don Byas's gig was ruined by the inappropriate choice of Tony Oxley on drums . Were they insane? Was Tony Crombie awol? Downers: The dreaded after hours sandwich also looms large - you had to buy it to carry on drinking but you'd be crazy to eat the dried curled-up object - oh - and the uncomfortable chairs became excruciating after four hours, which didn't help when the alternating act - the otherwise excellent Tubbs used the penultimate set to show that he could play faster, longer and, ultimately more tediously than whoever it was we'd actually come to see.

Sandy Rocky The Reefer Man

P.L.M, how was 'Jazz in Middelheim'? --> http://www.jazzmiddelheim.be try getting out and about a bit more......

Stack O' lee Ernie Pyle Uriah Heep

The Spirits of Rhythm Louis Primer Stanley Turpentine

And I always thought you were a teenager! wow! :tup:tup I saw him several times in the ranks of the Duke Ellington orchestra. He always seemed totally impassive, never betraying facially a hint of the passion in his playing. The day after an Ellington performance in Leeds in the sixties a friend of mine who fancied himself as hip, but wasn't, spotted the band lunching in the Queen's Hotel. He went up to Hodges and said, "Great concert, Duke!" "Wrong one, man," replied Hodges, pointing at the great man. watching Hodges (in '63) was the best example I've ever seen of someone totally in charge. and seemingly quite disdainful of what was going on around him. His relationship on the stand with Procope appeared glacial.

Mr. Nice Guy Goody Two Shoes Pangloss

I've seen Hodges, Pepper, Cannonball, Bud Shank, Carter, Woods, Earl Warren, Stitt, Charlie Mariano, Desmond, Jackie McLean, Marshall Royal, Konitz, Procope - and Kim Richmond and Don Shelton (who I also like a lot)

Smiling Melvin The Jolly Boys Doctor Giggles

This is why these kinds of threads are so interesting. Listened to some Handy clips and absolutely love 'em. Pukwana is a guy I've never been aware of either, but going by Allmusic sounds like he's definitely worth investigating. Great rundown Jeff. And thanks for turning me onto Boyce Brown as well. I really need to listen more closely to Benny Carter. I wouldn't have characterized his playing as 'detached.' ... 'Polished,' maybe. None of the rough edges I tend to gravitate toward, I suppose. Intrigued about Robinson now also. It's so difficult for me to compare Hodges, say, to Dolphy or Ornette Coleman. Same instrument, completely different vocabulary. -- I love all three for very different reasons. And Braxton for yet altogether different reasons. But in the end, I suppose it's Parker above all else, even though I'm just scratching the surface there and will likely never have an appreciation for his music that a seasoned player might. It's still amazing. Anyways, love reading about the hows, the whys and the wherefores. (And I really must listen more closely to Benny Carter.) Benny's solo on Billie Holiday's Verve recording of 'What's New' is one of the classiest things you'll ever hear, I believe. It's absolutely perfect in every way.....regarding Les Robinson, I always take the sax soli in Artie Shaw's 1939 recording of 'I Surrender Dear' as a benchmark regarding the art of the saxophone section, and how to play lead (and how to play with the lead as well!)

Seymour Glass Crystal Gayle Plastic Man

Most days I'm happy to hear Pete Brown - lead alto never got better than Les Robinson - even more than Hymie and Toots.

Henry Crun Minnie Minnehaha

Joe Soap Dick Sudshalter Dan Lather (the legendary Korean typo)

Johnny Hodges above everyone else. Next would be Bird, Bud Shank, Phil Woods and Benny Carter. I liked Konitz way back but the last couple of decades leave me stone cold. And I feel, notwithstanding his occasional brilliance, Pepper lacks the consistency of the others.