bruce talbot

Joanne Whalley Dennis Potter Michael Gambon

The numbingly brain-deadening phone message that begins "Please listen carefully as our menu selection has changed" (it never has) and carries on 'This conversation may be recorded for training purposes ........etc." Yeah, right.

Wilie Ruff Dave Tough Cy Touff

Alice Faye Fay Wray Ken Wray

Ruth Roman Babe Ruth Alice Babs

Ronald Colman Bobby Soots Smokey Robinson

Jimmy Rushing Fats Pichon Mr. Creosote

Cliff Leeman Ray Bauduc Nick Fatool

Bill LeSage Saffron Burrows Yma Sumac

Edgar 'Puddinghead' Battle Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson David 'Fathead' Newman

Mike Doonesbury Duke Zonker

I vote for Al Cohn as the tenor player. (Too bad they only show his hands during the solo). As I recall, Scott was married to the featured singer Dorothy Collins at the time. Took home two healthy paychecks from that show... Too jowly for Al at that time, I think, also looks about 10 or more years too old for him, and it sure doesn't sound like Al -- a kind of proto-Sam the Man Taylor vibe. Maybe Al Klink, who could sound like anyone on cue. Boy, I used to think Dorothy Collins was cute, which is kind of pathetic in retrospect -- going for that scrubbed, nice-girl image and the rabbity slight-overbite. An extension of the teacher's crush, but what are you going to do at age 12 or so? IIRC, the Collins-Scott marriage ending in severe strife. You're right - Al never sounded remotely like this player. Is the soloist actually the taller non-spectacled guy? If it is he looks and sounds a bit like Mickey Folus, who was unlucky enough to sit next to Flip throughout the first herd, and a very good soloist in his own right. The arrangement sounds like Buster Harding.

Bernie Billings H. Ray McKinstry Nick Caiazza (for tenor players only)

Guy de Maupassant Benny Maupin Armistead Maupin

Dangerous Dan McGrew McGruber Jack 'The Hat' McVitie

Maya Angelou Theo Angelopoulos Theodore Sturgeon

Eddie deLange Eric Delaney Elaine Delmar

Pig-meat Markham 'Porky' Cohen Max Bacon

Boss Curley Boss Tweed Boss Pendergast

William Basie Clifford Shank Jean-Baptiste Jacquet

Wooden Joe Nicholas Screamin' Jay Hawkins Rubberlegs Williams

Phillippe Catherine Mose Allison Jack Jenney

Oscar Peterson Maynard Ferguson Gil Evans

Walter Bishop John McVicar Tony Pastor

Oblomov Onan O'Reilly