MEMBERS buy their LPs and CDs from a variety of outlets - local record shops, specialist dealers, flea markets, car boot sales and even on e-Bay. Last Monday evening, they played some of their latest buys to an audience of fellow members.

A former youth band, the Doncaster Jazz Orchestra, opened the evening with This is Always, which featured the trombone of Pete Beachill and piano of Andy Vinter.

Clarinetist Sandy Brown is probably the most prodigious talent to emerge from the British jazz revival. In 1959 he teamed up with a fellow Scot on Rosetta. Trumpeter Al Fairweather, alto player Joe Harriott, tenor saxist Jimmy Skidmore and Bill Le Sage on vibes, took solo honours on a composition by Kenny Baker, Top Score, and played by the Melody Maker All Star Band.

Hot violinist Stephan Grappelli played Smoke Gets in your Eyes in Paris in 1970, then one member paid tribute to band-leader Artie Shaw, who died last week aged 94, with Concerto for Clarinet.

Welsh clarinetist Harry Parry, was playing trumpet and tenor horn in a brass band at the age of 10. Thereafter, he tried drums and violin before taking up the clarinet. He was selected by the BBC to lead a sextet on Radio Rhythm Club.

He made more than 100 recordings for Parlophone, including Sweet Georgia Brown. Parry's fluent, technically proficient playing was often likened to Benny Goodman. His death in 1956, aged 44, was a great loss to music.

Tenor saxist Paul Gonsalves, spent most of his career working for Duke Ellington, frequently taking a prominent role in Ellington's suites. He gave an electrifying performance on a Billy Strayhorn composition, Ready Go.

Mildred Bailey sang Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine. This song is unusual in that it has a 108-bar melody and was written for the 1935 Broadway show, Jubilee. It was totally ignored by critics and the public alike, until it was resurrected by Artie Shaw in 1938 and became a big hit.

Two records bought on e-Bay ended the evening - saxist Art Pepper played the standard Besame Mucho in a Latin mode, and a British group, Jazz Giants, performed JodyPot, a tune composed by trombonist George Chisholme and named after his cat.

The cast of some of these CDs and rare LPs convinces one that collecting jazz records can be a passport to bankruptcy.

Bury Jazz Society meets every Monday evening at the Mosses Centre.

J.R.