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At The Sage venue on the south bank of the Tyne, next to the Baltic Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Just a selection of what's on offer. Fri 18th March - McCoy Tyner Trio and John Surman Sat 19th March - Evan Parker, Stan Tracey, Matthew Bourne, Barre Philip, Rita Marcotulli, Andy Sheppard Gateshead International Jazz Festival - EST, Stian Carstensen and Iain Ballamy Sun 20th March - Henri Texier Trio & the Strada Sextet The Texier and EST are on my 'to book' list.

Now try Dale Turner.

Yeah I've just spent waaay too long on there, and managed to catch it out with Dicky Greenleaf from The Ripley film. Now the $64000 question is, Did you get your head mashed to a pulp on a rowing boat off the Italian Riviera? No, then are you Barney Rubble?

See if you can beat the computer at Guess Who.

I missed most of it earlier, although I think it may be repeated soon. Looks like a fair bit of authentic footage of the band and their life on the road, much of which was taken by their home-movie buff bass player. Cheers.

Artie Shaw: Quest For Perfection

Longest 'proper' album in my collection is, I think, Soundgarden's Superunknown.

Aimee Mann's Batchelor No. 2/ Lost In Space double set for £8.99 from play.com

Something to do with slim chicks....

Yeah, that's us.

Hey Sidewinder, sure it wasn't this one?

And you Sir, are just a...a...a....Photoshop fiend.

Mark III perhaps. Things were never the same for Escorts after the Mark II, wrong wheel drive thing. Sorry to be a pain in the arse.

That's really weird because upon seeing this thread, the first tune I thought of was the version of My Buddy, played here. Another tune/lyric is 'I Concentrate On You'. Such a loving and focused song if ever there was one. Strangely I haven't heard Ella sing it yet (I'm assuming she does on her Porter 'songbook' album).

Apart from the fact that us Brits have a royal family such as these to start with, the really unfortunate fact is the whole timing of this latest gaff. Just illustrates how stupid, insensitive and out of touch this institution is.

So what stopped them? Duran Duran (shudder)

So what stopped them?

Well, put i this way, when I knew even less about jazz and Speak No Evil was one of the first albums I bought, I remember my wife asking "do you like your new album?". The only thing I could say was how do five bloke know how to play together like this and what gorgeous tunes they were. Although Juju is a storming disc (my brother in-law who is not a jazz fan, heard it when I bought it and said it sounded like someone was 'crying through their sax'. It still doesn't do it quite like the quintet though.

He still reels in the odd politician over here too!

Normally 'Serenade In Blue' but right now it's 'Coffee & TV' by Blur.

Good God, shame I don't have time to respond to this!

She was a total freeloader, much like the rest of our antiquated, inbred upper-classes. Not only that but she was also a bit of a boiler who drove a Range Rover.

wassit say? I can't read it ... HAVE ANOTHER LOOK!

A voucher and 20% off...bargain.

Good luck to ya both. I'll never forget our day... Best wishes.