And Eddy Laing of course.

I think the thing that emerges from reading about him is that the recordings weren't the real deal, Apparently he just got better and better as the choruses progressed and the risks got greater and the music more inventive. Songs generally going on from twenty minutes to half an hour.

When things got more structured and the arrangements more claustrophobic - that was really the start of his troubles.   Music fashions changed. And whilst people like Miles davis in another generation revered Bix and sought the company of musos who had worked with him - he himself was crossing a long lonely plain in his lifetime.

Cant really pick a favourite - but maybe Royal garden Blues (cos I wrote some words to it). Jazz Me Blues because Humph used to play it a lot on BBC's jazz club when I was a kid. The one I love playing on the guitar is Mississppi Mud - though the words have to changed to make it more PC!