The Magnificent Goldberg

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

I particularly like the last paragraph. MG

Seriously, I greatly enjoy a lot of sleeve note writers - including particularly: Bob Porter; Ira Gitler; Chris Albertson; Dudley Williams; and W A Brower, who wrote the note for Gator Tail's 'Bar wars' (don't know if he did any others, but that one's enough). As for musicians writing their own, Freddie Roach gets my vote every time. MG

The Blackhearts Blackbeard Big Black

I was always pretty sure Dzondria was a pure invention. SOMEONE was writing that stuff and putting the name at the bottom MG

Jimmy Ponder - Alone - HighNote MG

Good piece that. MG

Slide Hampton Brother Bones Joan

If you read some of the old BFT discussion threads, you'll see that there are only two or three of us who are any good. The rest of us thrash about and sometimes score a near miss. MG

DZONDRIA LaISAAC!!!!!!!! He used to write sleeve notes for Duke/Peacock in the sixties. I can't cut and paste from Word... WTF? MG Now I can INTERESTING NOTES - ABOUT THE SLEEVE NOTE WRITER All who read the sleeve notes of Dzondria Lalsac know, feel intimately within themselves, that here is a man/woman of coterminous stature in the fraternity of sleeve note writers. Almost, on might say, was the word “HYPERBOLE” invented for Dzondria. Nor was syntax, and to a greater extent than few others. An artisan of commensurate ease with pen or pencil, Dzondria’s magic comes full circle on the typewriter, to swiftly enable you to completely ignore the music on the record. And this through methods of great simplicity!!!! - unerringly misplaced puntuation, seducing the eye into visions. of structure, and meaning never again, to be so magnificently fulfilled, if at all, BLOCK CAPITALS to strike the mind and fills it with enthusiasm. Lalsac is not merely a writer but someone who puts words together. If they gave a Nobel Prize for sleeve note writing, he/she would surely be their first protagonist. In the end, of course his/her achievement is the result of solid TEAMWORK and the incomparable backing of the DUKE/PEACOCK staff of just insufficiently diligent proofreaders. For years they practised together until at last they got it wrong yet again! !!! MG

Oh yes, Mike - a DL for me please! MG

Hm, I see. Trouble is, I don't really, because I've never heard Sgt Pepper all the way through and maybe I've only heard a few tracks anyway. If you'd talked about Otis Redding's 'Soul ballads' or 'Otis blue', or even Aretha Franklin's 'I never loved a man', well, I'm not sure you'd see those albums as integrated pieces (assuming, which isn't necessarily likely, that you've heard any of those all the way through ) in the way you evidently do the Beatles' album. So it's not clear to me that we're speaking the same language here MG

It wasn't lost with CDs - CDs enabled other kinds of programming. It became possible to develop programmes like the Chronological Classics have - put a couple or three years' worth of singles into a programme, something that was never done on LP, which provides a historical perspective on the music which isn't apparent to those who didn't grow up with the music coming out in the order it came out in. It also shows the warts in various people's art. I regret I didn't realise this when they started coming out. MG

Clyde McPhatter Ben E KIng Rudy Lewis

Erskine Hawkins - Swingin' in Harlem - Vocalion (Tax Sweden) now Florida Mass Choir - Higher hope - Malaco MG

Well, well. I still buy albums (in case y' hadn't noticed). What makes albums good? 1 You don't have to keep getting up to change the record, though you also can go and make a cup of tea while it's on - if you like putting your iPod on random shuffle, you're welcome to do so. 2 You can listen to something in some kind of order that works for you - maybe the artist's view of how the music fits together, maybe chronological order, maybe the producer's view of something, or some other thing - and ditto about the random shuffle. 3 Where would the album cover threads be without albums? 4 You can learn stuff from sleeve notes - but much music isn't worth learning about and sleeve notes have been disappearing for the last forty-something years anyway. 5 I just like 'em. Even when I mostly bought 45s, I always wanted albums. MG

Little Large Bigfoot

Spent most of the day, so far, with Jazz Crusaders - PJ Studio sessions - Mosaic I REALLY enjoy this set, all the way through. Now on disc 4. MG

Smirt Smith Smire (Nightmare has triplets, by James Branch Cabell)

The Gay Sisters Mr Happy Arthur Blythe