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Anna Balakian Andre Breton Louis Aragon Jimi was cool like a fox baby! John Leonard Leonard Bernstein The Bernstein Bears OCH! Bear Grills George Foreman George Formby

Bo Carter Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine James Brown

Dud Pete Sir Arthur Streeb Greebling

Daniel Craig 007 M

Buddy Moss Buddy Guy Guy Lombardo

I appreciate what you guys mean, but I think it's possible to recommend individual things you particularly like - obviously it's not a scientific approach but, for example, the Laredo Bandera cd has the Jimmie Lee Robinson blues sides on, and some great gospel.. which is not readily available elsewhere (as far as I know) - I guess if someone is faced with a mountain of releases then taking a recommendation or two is just finding a way of narrowing it down!

Lots of separate ‘moments’, but one I remember - kind of in secret as a young teenager (I didn’t know then, and still don’t know anybody else with any interest in blues or jazz) I bought a Cab Calloway cassette after seeing what I guess was the Max Fleischer animation of Minnie the Moocher - it gave me the creeps in a good way. On that cassette was Pickin the Cabbage, and along with Benny Goodman’s Clarinet A La King taped from a jazz show on the radio - so I had two jazz tunes I listened to repeatedly.. much later I got heavily into pre-war blues and perhaps an inevitable jazz interest developed as an undercurrent.

fwiw though, this is a really great collection: BANDERA BLUES AND GOSPEL FROM THE BANDERA, LAREDO AND JERICO ROAD LABELS

The Great Raymondo The Great Suprendo The Great Gatsby

Laugh lines Joan Rivers Muddy Waters

Peanut the Kidnapper Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll

Boris Johnson Boris Karloff Carl Orff

Pinetop Smith Stick McGhee Bud Powell

Jacques Lipchitz Archipenko Archie Bunker

Laszlo Biro Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Louis Moholo

Plato Pluto Goofy

Layla Lola Lulu

John Lennon Paul McCartney Pete Shotton

Manuel Sybil Basil

Black Bottom McPhail Nanny McPhee Mary Poppins

Googie Withers Jimmy Witherspoon Spoonie G

Wynonie Harris Lucky Millinder Fate Marable

John Lewis Harvey Nichols Piggly Wiggly

Sonny Payne Arnold Layne Arizona Dranes

yep - and I miss the sight of a discarded cassette in the gutter, its entrails spilling out all over the road. With digital there's no danger of a passing hedgehog perishing in a cat's cradle of mangled John Peel shows