The Magnificent Goldberg

Boy Wonder Stevie Wonder Wonder Woman

I've been wondering about Django lately. If one has the Mosaic HMV & Swing set and the Vogue set, is that more or less it? And it seems silly to ask if those two sets overlap, but do they? MG

Sasha Baron Cohen The Count Le Vicomte de Bragelonne

Hur hur! A few I've found during the year and will be spinning later this month. Don Patterson - Holiday soul - Prestige James Brown - A soulful Christmas - King (Mostly instrumentals, but not traditional songs) James Brown songs Christmas songs - King (more traditional material) MG

The Proles 999 +44

Groove Holmes & Ernie Watts - Come together - PJ Not a bad session this. Had it for years and it always played fine on my old turntables but there's a slight warp and my new one doesn't like the start of side 1. Bugger! MG

How is the presentation of this box set? Presumably the reissue of the original box - I was wondering whether or not they had done a good job or put out a flimsy version. It's a good job. Somewhere above, a couple of months back, there's a comparison with the original box. It seems a few pics may have been missed out, or maybe the print is smaller on the new edition. MG

Sarah Bernhart Leonard Bernstein Sonny Hopson

I've a feeling that BIEM appeared on BN LPs imported into Britain by a different method in the period between the sale of BN to Liberty and Liberty's establishing a UK office of Blue Note - a period of a bit more than a year, if memory serves. Original BNs from the early sixties came through an exclusive importer, whose name I've forgotten, who charged top bucks for the albums. I THINK two of the LPs I got at Dobells shortly before the British office opened - 'Along came John' and 'Brown sugar' - had BIEM stickers. I no longer have either. Chewy has the John Patton disc though. Perhaps he could confirm. Sure he'll be reading this. If BNs in the interregnum came via France or elsewhere in Europe, that could explain the BIEM sticker on British BNs. MG

Sid Gribetz Nat Hentoff Dzondria LaIsaac

Spent most of the day with this Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino) MG

Problem's gone today! Hippo Select! MG

Exactly my thoughts. Only a long while ago. Maybe a half year back or a whole. I don't know if what I got was the 2013 or the 2012 edition. Now I see it was the 2012 annual edition, with Mingus on the cover instead of Clifford Jordan. So that's how it's standing now: brochure reduced to annual edition. Yes, you can understand it. But if there are fewer, maybe more get read and spur purchases. I can't be the only one MG

Same thing happened with Bob Porter's 'Soul jazz in the black community 1945-1975' - advertised on Amazon in 2005, then nothing. Still expected to be published in Nov 2005 MG

Those are the old counties, aren't they? There's no East & West Sussex, just Sussex. And do I see Rutland in there? Oh, and an undivided Yorkshire. Think I could do a lot of them, but the Lake District and the Midlands. MIGHT get Notts Gotta say, England looks funny without Wales next door. MG

I got 'em, but I can't necessarily spell 'em Massachusetts - oh the spell checker tells me when I'm wrong. Maryland Maine Michigan Minnesota Missouri Mississippi Montana MG

No one seems to be having a problem with IE 11 on other things. Personally, I'd rather stay with IE than go to some other browser that I've got to learn. But it's your ball, Jim. Let us know. MG

I laughed so much my stomach hurts. The American's trying to label European countries is much funnier. MG

What holiday is this? Have a good one, whatever it is. MG

Sex Pistols Sex Machine Little Jimmy Brown

Yes, OK, I don't disagree; just can't see the example you quoted. I think I see it elsewhere. MG

Bugger me, I've got it now! Just looked and I've quietly been upgraded to IE 11. Bugger! MG

It's just their regular magazine - only it's only coming out once a year now. Economy measure. I actually read it, because it's been so long, and decided to get the Diz Verve/Philips before it does a bunk. MG

Eric the Red Blackadder The Purple People Eater

I remember you playing that not too long ago Earlier Tata Bambo Kouyate - Djely mousso - Syllart Groove Holmes - Broadway - Muse MG