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Leonard Feather Gene Quill Sean Penn

Man Ray Rain Man Ma Rainey

Gerald Scarfe Poncho Sanchez Sancho Panza

In New Orleans St Charles Hotel 1936 during Little Brother Montgomery’s notable run of 23 tracks laid down in a day, jazz band banjo luminary Guesnon asks if Bro will play behind him on a song he’s written - his first recording, and on vocals only in a great outmoded manner.. not everyones cup of tea but I love it - (the sound quality here is poor)

Louise Brooks Clara Bow Lillian Gish

Matt Glaser Mitt Romney Mutt Carey

ok - this is turning out to be not my kind of fantasy after all - I'm out!!

I assumed we were allowed to pretend to be likeable and interesting? I've already invited The Saturdays

I'm split between: 1. Bessie Smith 2. Charlie Patton 3. Monk 4. Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 5. Keith Moon and: 1-5. The Saturdays

Maybe Amazon can start passing some of it on in tax

from the link on the right of the page re. Cameron's favourite music - here he is in Salford Lads' Club, probably had a pasty shortly afterwards:

Shame he couldn't reopen permanently. Frank Sidebottom's no longer with us of course. Here David Soul helps him perform The Fall's 'Hit The North':

I prefer that episode of 'The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles' where our hero jams with Sidney Bechet and is humiliated on the soprano sax

That Dodds CD has a fantastic line-up - Keppard w Papa C Jackson, Elzadie Robinson, Parham, Jimmie Blythe, Lovie Austin, Blind Blake, King Oliver!!!...

A 'Best of' Document cd with an illustration of Josie Miles instead of Ida Cox. I realised the other day why this might be - in Daphne Duval Harrison's 'Black Pearls Blues' book the chapter on Ida Cox begins on a page opposite the (correctly captioned) photo of Miles.

Right. That's a shame - I thought maybe he was doing all the drumming with one arm while eating a sandwich or something.

There's a moment on that where Sid Catlett is on doing a solo, and the audience starts laughing. Always makes me wonder what they're laughing at - is it something he's doing, or something maybe Dizzy is doing in the background ? (I expect this is a rhetorical question)

Lester Sterling, alto sax, is the only one left (and still tours with them). The band are still going with completely new personnel, though in the past few years they've replaced with big names in Jamaican music like Cedric Im Brooks, Karl Cannonball Bryan, Vin Gordon.. though I think they've all left now too. The minor key stuff in particular I fell in love with as a teenager and I had a few Jamaican jazz records long before any other variety!

Jamaican double bassist Lloyd Brevett, whose band The Skatalites pioneered ska music and paved the way for reggae, has died at the age of 80. The Skatalites formed in 1964 and combined jazz, R&B and mento to create ska and take a Jamaican sound around the world for the first time. BBC A sad end, he had a stroke in March two weeks after his son was shot dead.

Very complicated person I expect (just going by Abbott/Seroff). The fact he was so successfully litigious over his civil rights came as a surprise to me. The imagery around him is such that I am inclined to hide it from view if I'm reading about him at work.. can you recommend any other books?

Thanks for posting that Sam Theard one. What year is that? mid seventies? so four or five decades earlier he's hopping labels with Will Ezell. That's show-biz.

Sam Theard! did you take any photos out there? He did a nice vocal of State Street Blues with Cow Cow Davenport (among other things) that I listen to pretty regularly - not the pinnacle of his talents I'm sure but nevertheless... 'I'll be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You' must be on a recent compilation as I hear it now & then, but I can't remember what one.

Is Jamaican ex-prime minister Edward Seaga the only head of government to have previously set up and run an important record label? Another Jamaican PM - Michael Manley with Bob Marley

Josh White and FDR (though I think this is the wrong Roosevelt, and that might not be Josh White either): Jay McShann with the former mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California:

WC Handy and EH 'Boss' Crump George Galloway and Pete Burns from 'Dead or Alive'? Maybe not