This has nothing to do with "Brum history" but is in regard to all the postings about music today, I arrived in the USA in March 1957 in Wallingford Connecticut USA. I kept a diary for a while. One of the reasons I moved to the USA, was to try my luck? in the music game, So my friend and I, of course, visited all the Jazz clubs we could. In my diary, I wrote in April 1957. We walked into BIRDLAND in New York and heard Gigi Gryce, Monk and Oscar Pettiford. But my point is, nothing beats the real thing in person. Another writing a few months later. Went to SanFrancisco to the Blackhawk Jazz club, got to meet MILES DAVIS, when we tried to introduce ourselves, as English Musicians, he said: "Yeh Man" turned away and walked off and smoked a fag, Guess how we felt after that, would you say shattered???? But he was fantastic as usual