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SQUASHED MEAT PIES AND OTHER OBJETS TROUVÉS

I didn’t meet Tubby Hayes until

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Spike WellsApril 3, 2020
BIRKS' EARLY WORKS

Vic Grayson of the Bournemouth Jazz Club

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Spike WellsMarch 21, 2020
IS THE SCENE CLEAN OR McLEAN? OR BOTH?

Guest “muser” altoist PAUL ZEC

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Spike WellsFebruary 27, 2020
BOBBY MAKES LIGHT WORK (OF PRETTY WELL EVERYTHING)

High time we got back to the history of my musical experiences with the wee Glaswegian genius

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Spike WellsFebruary 13, 2020
THE TONY AWARDS

……..not for Broadway theatre but for BRITISH DRUMMERS

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Spike WellsJanuary 31, 2020
THE FASTEST GUN IN THE MIDWEST

I’d like to pay tribute to a diminutive, fiery figure

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Spike WellsJanuary 21, 2020
EARL'S COURT REVISITED

When I ran into fellow drummer Sebastian De Krom

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Spike WellsDecember 30, 2019
FREDDIE FREELOADS IN CHURCH...........

On December 1st, Mark Edwards, Geoff Simkins and I

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Spike WellsDecember 10, 2019
FLANNELLED WAILIN' FOOLS - Part Three "HOWZAT??!"

For many years, George Shearing and his wife

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Spike WellsDecember 3, 2019
FLANNELLED STOMPIN' FOOLS - Part Two

The links between cricket and jazz are not obvious

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Spike WellsNovember 26, 2019
FLANNELLED FOOLS - BRITISH JAZZ CRICKETERS including THE RAVERS part one

MATTHEW WRIGHT jazz devotee, critic, author

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Spike WellsNovember 16, 2019
ROBERT COULL "BOBBY" WELLINS Chapter 5: THE "RARA AVIS"

We are still in the week of Bobby’s 3rd anniversary

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Spike WellsNovember 1, 2019
ROBERT COULL "BOBBY" WELLINS IN OUR HEARTS

Here is the Funeral address

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Spike WellsOctober 25, 2019
KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON - THE REMARKABLE CLARK TERRY STORY

I was at school with

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Spike WellsOctober 15, 2019
THE MOAN IN THE TONE

I know I’m a drummer but

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Spike WellsOctober 3, 2019
A LOVE SUPREME

With apologies to John Coltrane…………….

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Spike WellsSeptember 23, 2019
AMERICA'S ALL-TIME GREATEST PRESIDENT #4

We left our hero at the end of the last episode

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Spike WellsSeptember 9, 2019
AMERICA'S ALL-TIME GREATEST PRESIDENT #3 - WITH BASIE 1937-1940

Looking back over all the Musings

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Spike WellsAugust 28, 2019
BIRD GETS THE WORM (plus an enthusiastic salute from fellow altoist PAUL ZEC)

Paul writes: In the mid-fifties I had embarked on

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Spike WellsAugust 20, 2019
I LOVE A PIANO #3 - "FREEMAN 'ARDY 'N' WILLIS"

Here at last is the next instalment of my love affair

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Spike WellsAugust 12, 2019
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