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John Hawkesworth Robert Downey F W Woolworth Mr Marks Mr Spencer Mr Morrison

'Lee Morgan Memorial Album' (BN UA Blue Label, stereo). More than passable sound. The one album in my collection which has previously been played on a (now sunk) warship !

Stanley Turpentine Stanley Unwin Mr Stanley (I Presume)

Lucy Lastic Lucille Ball Zoe Ball

Thanks for the heads up !

And use free robots to provide the daycare, so more listening time.

Have the '4 Men With Beards' version of that one. Now spinning - Miles Davis 'Pangaea' (Japanese CBS-Sony, 2LP)

Ron Davies MP L Ron Hubbard Ron Manager

He could easily make a career as a stand-up comedian, based on some of his Swanage stage patter !

It was the one store within 50 miles of me where you had a good chance of picking up a 'Jazz Journal'. Sadly, now long gone (Bournmouth).

All the best !

Anything to suck in the grey Euro/pound. I guess garden centres no longer cut it trade-wise.. Anything to push a few more copies of Kind of Blue too. A 'Columbia Special Products' initiative? The day something like this is broadcast in the UK I'll eat my hat. More likely to be ©rappers on vinyl.

Cameron & Clegg Dubya and Rummie Brown & Balls

Must be because it's 16rpm ! Heck, my copy is better than that !

Sonny Greenwich Sonny Sharrock Eddie Diehl

Thanks !

I like the comment in The Times today where he said that his dad was a real 'coal porter' and not 'the' Cole Porter. Great achievements from such a humble starting point - and having to deal with blindness too.

Gregory Gregory's Girl Gregory's Other Girl

Nice one ! Recently picked up a copy of that twofer.

Greg Abate spends part of each summer in the UK, where, like Alan Barnes, he's very involved in jazz education. I saw them in a very entertaining gig at Wigan in 2009. I forgot to mention this additional aspect of Barnes' activities. He himself is a product of Leeds College Music's Jazz and Light Music course, the first jazz education course in the UK and I saw him doing his bit for today's students last year in Manchester when he led the Royal Northern College of Music's big band through a concert of Basie numbers after a weekend's tutoring. First time I heard of Alan Barnes he was in Tommy Chase's neo-bop group. That must have been around the early 80s. Notice that Greg Abate is in the lineup for Swanage this year. He appears there quite regularly - often in tandem with Barnes.

Really? I think 'Total Eclipse'is very fine but I'd personally put 'Happenings' and 'Oblique' ahead of it in the lineup. Splitting hairs though - all of them great !

"You're only wearing 19 pieces of flash..." I want one of those red staplers to file my TPS Reports !

Art Farmer 'Gentle Eyes' (Mainstream, UK Pye pressing)

Sad news. And when you hear news like this it does feel like the end of an era. I'll try to spin an LP or two from his Mosaic box tonight. They never dish out 'Sirs' to jazz-men lightly over here (rare as hens teeth) but Sir George Shearing's was totally merited.

"Mm- kay..."