The Magnificent Goldberg

Bignose Bigears Bigfoot

This morning Tommy McCook - Hot lava - Third World MG

Ami Koita Aminata Kamissoko (Ami Koita's auntie - from Mali) Aminata Kamissoko (from Guinea Conakry)

Chain Gang Sam Cooke Gok Wan

Mostly Other People Do the Killing Mobb Deep Deep

Oh, I get it - all these musicians were murdered I've listened to the BFT already, and it's really nice, for the most part. Can't identify anything - though I've a few guesses - but will have another listen tomorrow. The last track is ravishing! MG

Postman Pat Pat the dog Peter & Jane

Always good stuff. I didn't know my edition of the Bennie Green was missing a track. I'll have to look out the Blue Moon version. Or will I? My copy, issued by Charly on the Atlantis label, has 6 tracks... I like this one a lot, as Frank didn't often record with an organ band MG

Delmer 'Mighty Mouth' Evans Evans the Death Ocky Milkman

The afternoon, it's been the Mingus Atlantic box Pithecanthropus erectus The clown now Oh yeah next Tonight at noon, maybe, unless I get a quick start on my preview copy of BFT116 MG

... a recommendation on another forum just prompted me to check out Buddy Johnson's band ... and for sure there's some fine blowing (I've got the 1947-49 Chrono disc) by these guys David Van Dyke and Purvis Henson! Do get the other Buddy Johnson Chrono Classics CDs. There's a very nice tenor player in the '41/'42 band, who'd previously been with Louis Jordan - Kenneth Hollon. And the songs are classics anyway. MG

That looks very interesting, Thanks for the heads up. MG

Hi Mister Jazzman, and welcome. Pity I'm here first, because those two pianists aren't really up my street. Now, if you'd said Les McCann, Junior Mance or Ray Bryant... And if you'd said Gene Harris, Dan would be on the case. But there are plenty of Brubeck and Oscar fans knocking around here. MG

Neither could I. Below the second map is a bar that says "Showing all performers who played a session between 1943 and 1967". There is a circle at each end. Pull the circles in to set the beginning and end dates. Those performers who played within that date will be shown below the graph, with others grayed out. Still can't get anything to happen. Maybe it's me. I got it to work. Interesting so just capture a year at the beginning, then move the timeframe forward slowly. All musicians in the early days seemed to come from east of the Mississippi. MG

Andre Gide Andre Malraux Maldoror

Indeed. The people across the road left their recycling bags out on top of their wheelie bins and hadn't moved this morning. Phew! MG

Woolly Bully Sam the Sham The Pharaohs

Many happy returns, Guy. MG

So some - maybe quite a few - don't ever reach the magic number? MG

This evening Florida Mass Choir - Live in Miami - Malaco now Kenny Burrell - Ellington is forever - Fantasy vol 1 is LP, vol 2 is CD. MG

Interesting. I always thought that Granz was very conservative in his musical preferences, but putting the avant garde Charlie Parker onto the concert stage in 1946 was quite a risk. So, for that matter, was doing the same with Illinois Jacquet. MG

It's interesting that so many have started recently, when many Mosaic boxes had gone out of print. Does that suggest that the number of sets was pitched too low? MG

Yes, bay trees are good when they're planted in the ground. The one we have in a pot, however, has been trimmed so it's a sphere about two feet across, about three feet above the pot. MG

Listened to this at breakfast this morning. From my heart to yours. Couldn't stop crying. MG

The forecasters don't seem to think it's going to be as bad as 1987. (Michael Fish says so, however, and he's the one who bolloxed up the 1987 forecast.) Anyway, we've battened down the hatches. I'm worried about one of our bay trees, which is in a very aesthetic pot that my wife likes but which ALWAYS falls over in a blow. It's in a sheltered place but... MG