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Thank you Daniel. I haven't been able to compare it as I don't have a version of the tune. Can't seem to listen at All Music just now. Sure you must be right, if only because it didn't seem familiar.

A video of Bill Evans playing with Marc Johnson and Eliot Zigmund at a small club in Rome is available on-line from easytree but the list of tunes he played is not complete. I have named some of them but three have eluded me so far. I have posted two complete performances and one part (ran out of room) at my website and would be grateful if you would take a listen and see if you can identify all or any of the tunes. You would need a fast connection to download I think. Please post any answers here. Let me know if there are any difficulties with listening to the files. I got them to work but will try again from this post to make sure. Many thanks.

I will use it as a cover picture substitute. I was wondering how to transfer from the video but now you have solved the problem for me.

The list of album cover pictures I'm still looking for is now down to thirty five! I just got a new one and here it is below! At great expense, a bit of eBay madness, but the music is worth it.

Happy Birthday to you, Mike.

I am going to participate but haven't received discs yet (lost in the mail), so add me to the number. Probably not able to comment before next week though.

Thanks, .:.impossible. Looking forward to them.

Am I the only one without? As soon as you send another two, they will turn up.

I waited for the post this morning feeling sure it would arrive but still nothing. Could you mail again please, .:.impossible. Will send PM with details in case not to hand.

As Sidewinder's arrived todayand he is not far from here, maybe give it another couple of days or so? Sure to come soon.

Not in today's mail.

Nothing received here yet. Waiting...

A lot! - you're not kidding! one of my favorites but there are so many. He seems to me to share with Milt the ability to always play so well. I like very much the album "Booker Little" to choose just one more. Pianists - Tommy and Hank at the very pinnacle.

Sending email, ubu.

I take it that is Tristram, SW. Thanks yet again - I will see what I can find out.

Dankworth backing Dame C but with trumpet, vibes, piano, bass, drums. Vibes player not BLS I'm sure. I am trying to get the BLSA "Cadensa" catalogue but it's down. That might help.

Got the answer to the Kinsey personnel I think. Les Condon trumpet, Peter King tenor, Gordon Beck piano (thought I recognised him) and Kenny Napper bass. The same behind Annie Ross and Jaffa Daze as they are from the same date. Didn't realise this at first.

I thought for a moment it would be back to the drawing board. Looking again at Cleo's Oh! Lady be Good, I noticed that during the number they include a brief shot of Ronnie Ross playing baritone. But a careful look at all the people on the stage behind Cleo gives me John Dankworth playing both clarinet and alto with just trumpet, vibes, piano, bass and drums. No sign of a baritone in the sound either so presumably just a mistake. Does anyone know the musicians I haven't got names for - trumpet, vibes, piano, bass and drums? Also, Tony Kinsey Quintet backs Annie Ross but who are the other four? A face has got to be really familiar to me before I can pick it out. Trumpet and tenor are only present at the very end.

Sidewinder - all done, disocgraphy amended to include the new tracks on 14th too and repositioned as I had it under the broadcast date rather than the recording. Thanks again for all the help - what a friendly serpent

I heard the whole session at the BLSA and took personnel details from their records. Personnel: Ian Hamer, Les Condon (trumpets), Jimmy Deuchar (trumpet, mellophonium [5 6]), Keith Christie, Ken Wray (trombones), Ronnie Ross (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone), Tubby Hayes (tenor saxophone, flute [3 5], vibraphone [5]), Peter King, Bobby Wellins (tenor saxophones), Jackie Sharpe (baritone saxophone), Terry Shannon (piano), Freddy Logan (bass), Allan Ganley (drums). So no Stan Roderick. Jimmy Deuchar was featured and stood at the front with Tubby. there were two trumpet players still at the back, next to a vacant chair which was Jimmy's I guess, but I am unable to identify them by sight. No reason to suppose the BLSA details are wrong though. Is that the Barbara Schwarz discography, Sidewinder? I had that a while back but gave it away. I didn't note the Aug 1964 sessions you mention but I suppose details are lost now. Nothing in my discography around that time. Perhaps information will surface one day.

Yes, I noticed the bits you mention, Sidewinder - one of the interviewees (Georgie Fame?) talking about hearing RR from the street but no sign of RR himself there. I am going to see if the Beeb will supply the information - no harm in asking, although I've found in general organisations do not respond as individuals do. Still checking on other details.

Will look in detail later, including Roderick question, but that Tubby appears to be the same session that I heard at the British Library Sound Archive some time ago - I got all the details then except that I could not tell who was playing what instruments. I think I will assume Ronnie Ross on baritone and alto rather than tenor. However, the Directions in Jazz Bill Le Sage seems to be a different session from the one I've got in the RR discography. "Night Talk" and "Times Two and a Half" were broadcast in "It's Jazz" on BBC but in September 1964, whereas the 625 tunes come from June 1964. Timings are different too. So the one last night is a new session to me - all the more reason to hope that the Beeb will either broadcast some more or, even better, whole programmes as you say, Sidewinder.

Yes, two baritones on Killers of W1 but on In the Night, Ronnie Ross is playing alto - it took me some time to find a shot that showed this clearly - plenty of pause button. Don't know about the other tracks on the session that were not shown though. Maybe they will be one day. Don't think you are right about the music being the same as on Tubbs' Tours, Sidewinder. Both the tunes appear but timings are different and as far as I know there is no applause on TT. There is of course scope on the BBC website to make comments, so I would encourage all of those interested in the 60's sessions to make a veritable uproar there so as to persuade the Beeb to keep up the good work.

Thanks, Sidewinder, for switching me on to the Jazz 625 material. Last night's was packed with interesting material and even throws a little more light on the Ronnie Ross discography. I have him down as having played only tenor in the Tubby big band but just from one viewing I now know that he played at least baritone as well. I like the way they give us the whole of the music, uninterrupted by commentary.

Wow, this is happening quickly. I'm in too please. PM sent just.