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John,

DJC Blues can still take me right back to the early 50s, when Joe Blair (drowned in mid Atlantic off MV Wavecrest), Alan Sharp (screenwriter in LA), and I carried our record collection and my portable Phillips turntable (still got it) around Greenock to educate the others. The article says:

<<In the following years, he moved into mainstream swing, stopping short of 'bop' modern jazz but dropping the banjo and adding a fine saxophonist, Bruce Turner, to the horror of diehard enthusiasts for his original New Orleans style; when Turner soloed at one concert in Birmingham traditionalists stood up waving a banner inscribed, 'Go Home Dirty Bopper'.>>



I was at a Lyttleton concert on the old St Andrews Halls, Glasgow, where hairy sweatered gents muttered into their beards at the sight and sound of Bruce Turner. I had neither beard nor hairy sweater, and I liked "bop", so I wasn't bothered by the sax.



Hugh. 
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