After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Lardner was a close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other writers of the Jazz Age.

" Jazz Me Blues " was also important because it introduced what has been called the " correlated chorus ," a method of improvising that Beiderbecke's Davenport friend Esten Spurrier attributed to both Beiderbecke and Armstrong.

Since he needed new charts every week for the show, his friend John Hammond suggested that he purchase some Jazz charts from Henderson.

Working again with Altman, a family friend, she played a streetwise kidnapper alongside Miranda Richardson in Altman's Jazz Era drama Kansas City ( 1996 ).

He frequently led his own combos and sometimes toured with his friend Gerry Mulligan's sextet, and later with Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band.

* Jazz and Blues star Van Morrison has stayed locally and once took his friend Bob Dylan on a tour of the area.

During the concert, Jazz Nicolas of the Itchyworms and a close friend of the band, also joined the band and played synths, keyboards, and other back-up instruments.

Guest spots include trombonist George Bohanon, who was in one of Chico ’ s classic sixties ensembles ; vocalist Jose James, who studied under Chico at New School University Jazz and Contemporary Music program ; and multi-reedist Jack Kelso, Chico ’ s lifelong friend.

Paolozzi was a great friend of Peter Boizot, the founder of Pizza Express restaurants and jazz rooms ( before it became a plc ) and the Soho Jazz Festival.

During that period, Vera co-produced three Lou Rawls albums with his friend, Michael Cuscuna, for Blue Note Records, including At Last, which reached # 1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart.

Jazz started out as a friend to Orion Pax, before Orion became Optimus Prime.

Instead, it received its premiere as part of Bernstein's Omnibus television show, " The World of Jazz " on October 16, 1955, with Benny Goodman — Leonard's Tanglewood neighbour and friend since the 1940s — as the soloist and to whom the work is now dedicated.

* Jennifer Aniston portrays Rachel Green, a fashion enthusiast and Monica Geller's best friend from high school.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's widely noted motorcycle leap, which was instead done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast Bud Ekins, who resembled McQueen from a distance.

* Ursula Merkle – Kim's hyperactive best friend, a Conrad Birdie enthusiast

* 1937 Swedish producer of coatings for fishing lines Berol is founded by fishing enthusiast Bernström and his friend Olson, a chemist, to make coatings to reinforce cotton fishing lines in Södertälje, and within a few years, Berol, whose name is derived from the first letters of the founders ' last names, is established as a manufacturer of water-proofing agents for shoes, leather jackets and sheepskin.

A friend and enthusiast of the Scottish novelist David Lindsay, Visiak wrote three short macabre novels, The Haunted Island, Medusa and The Shadow, and the autobiography Life's Morning Hour.

Boyd, a race car enthusiast, had successfully built and raced cars along with his friend Lance Reventlow, and had come very close to pursuing race car driving as a career.

The money ran out again and in 1903 Buick was forced to raise more money via a $ 5, 000 loan from a friend and fellow car enthusiast, Benjamin Briscoe.

From Stephen, third son of the 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton, were descended the Scropes of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, the last of whom was William Scrope ( 1772-1852 ), an artist, author and fly-fishing enthusiast, who was an intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott.

She was also a friend of Maxwell Edison, a UFO enthusiast who had encountered the Fifth Doctor several years before.

An enthusiast of the café-concert scene in Portugal, she supported her friend the cross-dresser Guida Scarllaty ( the actor Carlos Ferreira ).

A lifelong baseball enthusiast and New York Giants fan, he first performed Ernest Thayer's then-unknown poem Casey at the Bat to the Giants and Chicago Cubs the day his friend, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tim Keefe had his record 19 game winning streak stopped, August 14, 1888.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.

Private Keefe's World War I letters home to his friend Al were collected in Treat ' Em Rough.

Williams would also go into a partnership with friend Al Cassidy to form the Ted Williams Baseball Camp in Lakeville, Massachusetts.

To take Patton's place as Tracy's sidekick, a new character, Sam Catchem ( based on Gould's old friend, Al Lowenthal ), was introduced.

Dean Stockwell co-starred as Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking sidekick and best friend, who appeared as a hologram that only Sam, animals, young children, and the mentally ill could see and hear.

With no successful results so far, Rear Admiral Al Calavicci ( Dean Stockwell ), Sam's long-time friend and senior officer on the program, is told by the government that they are looking to shut down the funding.

During the two-season run of the program he met longtime friend and later co-star, Al Lewis.

Biegler, who is losing the case, tries to persuade her that Al Paquette ( Murray Hamilton ), a bartender who witnessed the murder, knows that Quill raped Laura but is covering this up, either out of love for Mary or loyalty to his late friend.

When friend and fellow Army Scout Al Sieber learned what Schieffelin was up to, he is quoted as telling him, " The only rock you will find out there will be your own tombstone ".

Many locals claim he moved to Chicago to work with friend Al Capone.

She developed a very close relationship to Rawheya Al Mahdi, daughter of Amin, and became her closest friend.

A longtime family friend of Al and Tipper Gore confirmed on June 1, 2010, that the Gores had sent out an e-mail to family friends announcing that they had made a mutual decision to separate.

Al loathes her for that but when his first-hand experience with war eventually reduces him to tears, she proves to be a sympathetic friend.

He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, and attained the rank of Major ( this was changed to the U. S. Naval Academy in the film version of Sahara ) with lifelong best friend, Al Giordino.

In 1932, Hague, a friend of Al Smith, backed Smith against Franklin D. Roosevelt during the race for the Democratic nomination.

He was a close friend of Al Smith, the New York governor who would become the first Irish-American presidential candidate in 1928.

The award included a monetary prize of $ 500, 000 from the Zayed Centre, and Carter stated in his acceptance speech that the award carried extra significance to him, since it was named after his personal friend, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan.

Immediately after the trial the narrator went looking for his friend Al.

Keyes's old friend, Detective Al Garcia is appointed head of a task force to catch the terrorists.

BILOCATE was founded by the brothers Ramzi and Waseem Essayed and their friend Hani Al Abadi, and got started when they were joined by guitarist Baha ' Farah, and later by guitarist Rami Haikal.

He strove to achieve greater autonomy from the influence of Great Britain, as embodied principally in the acquiescent behavior of the Regent, Abdul Ilah and occasionally of his friend Nuri Al Said, and once resigned as Finance Minister in Nuri Pasha's cabinet in protest at a treaty of cooperation with Great Britain to which Nuri agreed.

For Rabies, lead singer / songwriter Nivek Ogre brought in friend and Ministry frontman, Al Jourgensen.

Holman defined " notary sojac " as Gaelic for " Merry Christmas " ( Nodlaig Sodhach ), and " 1506 nix nix " was reportedly a private joke that included the hotel room number of Holman's friend, cartoonist Al Posen.

However, he was inspired to become a singer by emulating artists such as Al Jolson and Perry Como, and by the success of a family friend, Alfredo Cocozza, who had changed his name to Mario Lanza.