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New member of this board walsp (Paul) has given me some very interesting background on Ronnie Ross; he knew him in the seventies. The resulting article is now on our websiteronnie ross homepage for those who might be interested in reading it. I'm just hoping I've got Paul's name right!

I haven't even started thinking yet! I reckoned on at least two years but my arithmetic is not strong.

Damn! #1 Cottontail, #14 Tuxedo Junction. Why can't I get these right.

It'll be burnout time if we go too fast. I know some lower down the list, including me, will be looking forward to their turn and thinking that it's too far away. And yet the whole thing must be taken at a leisurely pace or it will become too intense, discussions will be rushed and it will collapse. Nothing lasts forever but let's keep it going for as long as we can. There's all the time in the world after all.

Afraid I couldn't get very much on the bonus disc. I do know that #2 is "Body and Soul" and I know the tune of #5 but can't name it. #6 is I think "Woody'n' You" by Dizzy with perhaps Lalo Schiffrin on piano. That's all I can guess at but I did enjoy it a lot. Thanks a lot, EKE.

PM sent. Thanks.

I'll certainly give it a try. 1. Tune is "The Jeep is Jumping" I think. Just a vague guess at Annie Ross but I don't really know. 2. I know this one. Recognised the tune straight away. It's this #7. 3. Getz with Jimmy Raney and Al Haig? Don't know the tune. 4. Not going to miss this trumpeter yet again - my hero!. Some of my favourite music, and I like the alto player very much too. I played on this often in the army and did a lot of the other too. Paris. Enough said? 5. The title of the tune would reflect to album title but for one letter. Letters enough for the leader too (two). 6. Hallelujah, but that's all I know. 7. Don't know - like it. 8. Know the tune but can't name it, again. Don't like organs. 9. Bessie? 10. No idea. 11. Again stuck for the name of the tune but it's certainly familiar. 12. Not for me - literally, not the name of the tune! 13. I got the sound straight away - the vibrato on the vibes has to be turned off, to give the "mutuality" between piano and vibes. Singer not the one with the laughing face. 14. Is it "Jive at Five"? Never sure about these older tunes - should know. No idea who. Now I'll have a look at other comments, see where I am wrong. Nice one, EKE - enjoyed it.

I'm sorry I can't really contribute to the discussion as I don't have the album, but I have heard one track - Don't go to Strangers - on the radio and liked it. Now you have brought it to mind I will keep an eye open for it. Thanks.

originally released on VeeJay with following cover: (the gigolo and the big feet) and here's yet another (Affinity).

So try this one - duplicated above under another title?

would not that also be "Sonic Boom" ?? what label is it on? Yeah! My mistake - it's the track, not the album title.

Just one more - [The Mercenary] with Fathead and Cedar. No picture - I've only got the LP - don't know if it's on CD.

Something wrong here, Mike? Just a link displayed - did you mean that? Didn't work when I clicked. Did you put the address in the post rather than in the image box?

Thank you, Agustin - two CD's arrived this morning. Looking forward to listening in full - some way there already.

Point taken. And I still like to hear "Mumbles" too.

Added to my favorites - thanks, Pete. Rodney

Wow! - a lot to get my teeth into. I shall be haunting the London libraries soon, having just discovered a site through which all the catalogs can be searched in one go - very convenient. Thanks for all the info, Bruce and Pete. I am glad that Patrick O'Brian was always so complimentary about Americans and their sense of honor, particularly now - although of course anyone who was not English had to be pitied . It's the French who got the stick, naturally, but even then there was Christy Palliere, Duhamel and others. A lot is said in the novels about discrimination too. I remember JA's assertion that English possession of any island being the natural state meeting with SM's disapproving frown. I shall have to take a raincheck on the SF authors you mention, Bruce; apart from Greg Egan they are not familiar to me. I was brought up on Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Clifford D Simak, John Wyndham and so many others. I have read some Egan a while back but prefer the earlier material. I have just picked up a collection of stories by Robert Silverberg but I guess I've read it before, many years ago - The Masks of Time.

Bruce - any particular recommendation? Rodney

"finer moments", but not in his view. The faint inward sigh... I'm looking for all these books now, apart from the recipes, that is. I'm not into cooking!

Hands acroos the sea? I didn't know about the books you mention, Pete - I will try to get them. What is "A Sea of Words" though? It sounds as if it might be just what I've been hoping for - a book that explains all the naughtical terms in detail? I regard myself as salt-blooded even though I get as sick as a dog at the slightest movement on a ship. I habitually tap my biscuits on the plate before I eat them to get the weevils out ! But I still keep coming across many terms that puzzle me, despite having read the articles appended a examined the sail diagrams at the front in detail. What I was driving at about JA playing the violin in a superior way when alone was that SM thought that JA had for years been keeping his playing down to SM's level as a kindness. I doubt if any player that has the spark you mention could hide it for so long. But I suppose the real point is that it is the kindness that's important. Neither did I know about the impending publication of the unfinished novel - thanks for that. I've often thought that someone ought to write a book or books about Tom Pullings, or about JA's earlier life, but it wouldn't work. There's nobody that can write like Patrick O'Brian. I had my good belly laugh today - quote:- "These medicoes are a stiff-necked, independent crew, and you must never cross them just before they dose you." "No, sir," said Jack, "I shall speak to them like a sucking dove." "Pig, Aubrey: sucking pig. Doves don't suck." (the Reverse of the Medal p17)

Nice picture, Mike. But Clark Terry - hmmmmm.......

I am off to the library soon to try to get some James H Schmitz - can't say I recall anything by him at the moment. Just when I want it I can't get the on-line catalog. Another strange thing was O'Brian's penchant for using the same names for different characters. Oakes was the name of a marine sentry and of course Lieutenant Oakes who married Clarissa, for example. Almost as if he couldn't think of any new name but I can't believe that. The novel I read last, "The Far Side of the World", has persons named Hollar, Hollom and Horner at the same time which can be a little confusing. I wonder if he did it as a joke. I find the majority of his name choices very good, but maybe that's because they were real names of people of the time.

Bruce. Your experience is reassuring then - perhaps seeing the movie won't destroy the edifice I have built up - the two can be separated. Did you notice the musical aspects of the novels? The series starts of course with a recital and there are quite a few metions of improvisation too. I can't quite get my head around a reference fairly late in the books of Jack Aubrey playing within Stephen Maturin's hearing but without knowing he is being listened to, and playing much better than was normal when the two of them played together. The supposition is that JA "dumbed-down" his playing to suit the company. I would have thought this virtually impossible, long-term anyway. So we coincide not only on science fiction, but perhaps you are much more widely read than I. That's about it for me - jazz books, good science fiction when I can find it and O'Brian. Rodney

Well, I hope you enjoy it Bentsy and that your wishes are fulfilled. I shall not be watching as my sport is motor racing, including the bikes (Valentino, Biaggi, Gibernau, et al). The trouble is when they clash on TV and soccer gets priority! Even tennis does too, over motor racing. Canadian grand prix tomorrow, as well as MotoGP - a feast. Rodney

I have been reading the Patrick O'Brian "Jack Aubrey" novels since they were first published and am now on my six or seventh time - I've lost count! The thing I like about them is that they guarantee a good belly laugh at least once for each novel and usually more. I visited a site dedicated to the subject but read that the movie "Master and Commander" was thought good even though the character of Stephen Maturin was given little prominence. As the relationship between JA and SM is so fundamental, this seemed nonsense to me. I had in any case already decided not to see the movie as I think it would destroy the pictures I have built up in my mind of the characters. In any case movies are never as good as books in my experience. Patrick O'Brian's death was a real blow. He was said to have been working on the next instalment, in Ireland I think, when he passed away. But in a way he had brought the series to a kind of close with "Blue at the Mizen". Are there any other fans among the membership here? Can anyone refute or confirm my impression of the movie, having seen it? Rodney