I Blew it my Way: Bebop, Big Bands and SinatraPreface by Michael Parkinson Vic Ash, saxophonist and clarinettist, worked with the great popular musicians and entertainers. In this book he tells his fascinating stories of show business life, of touring with George Shearing, Shirley MacLaine, Fred Astaire, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Junior, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Liza Minnelli and for more than 20 years with Frank Sinatra. As a first choice saxophonist and clarinettist for the

Fried creates a world of Babylonian flow-charts

who died unexpectedly on 22 October

Each of these stories is touched by Wilson’s affection for male foibles

Felix Leakery on translating Baudelaire

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When Winston receives a telegram informing him of his father’s imminent death

Also here are poems written for particular performances or directly inspired by works of art

” — Adrian Mitchell (the shadow poet laureate)

interview and appreciations

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and communicators with the wider world