The Magnificent Goldberg

Ah, yes, a narrower time period, then, but covering the war, industry, R&B, politics, journalism, churches. I forget what else. Novels & poetry? Not sure. Probably need to read it again. MG PS - should have said jazz, too. Also comedians and dancers. And, for TTK, Korla Pandit!!!

I think you've got the same problem as I had - tracks coming out in a different order. MG

Helen Reddy Ethelred the Redeless Reid Miles

How does that book compare with this, Dan? The great black way goes rather wider than jazz. MG

Hm, the presence of Joe Pass on an infinity of Pablo sessions was an instant 'ignore' message for me. It seems I've missed quite a bit of good music, that way (though Joe Pass is still a big turnoff - apart from his early recordings with McCann, Holmes, G Wilson & Bostic. MG

Definitely a must have. What's this Gene Ammons/Leo Parker Marcel? MG

Jackie Ivory Jr Walker & the All Stars Stargaard

Well, I've got 13 of them. Ditched 'Kind of blue' in 1970. Haven't missed it Ditched 'A love supreme' about the same time, but did miss it, so I got it again. MG

The first west coast jazz albums I got were Vince Guaraldi's 'Black Orpheus', then 'A flower is a lovesome thing', John Lewis' 'Grand encounter' and, in '66, the soundtrack to 'I want to live' and 'Birth of the cool'. I enjoyed all these, though I was never really bowled over by them. Then, later in '66, I heard Les McCann and THAT DID IT! Then there were Groove Holmes' albums for PJ, Gerald Wilson's albums, Billy Larkin & the Delegates, The Jazz Crusaders and Wayne's other band, the Freedom Sounds. All of this was the real stuff to me, so I ditched the stuff I'd bought earlier. I didn't feel the same way about Clare Fischer, however, and I've still got the albums of him that I got in the '67-71 period. Soon, Teddy Edwards, whose work with Gerald Wislon grabbed me kinda slowly, Curtis Amy, Clifford Scott, Paul Bryant, Charles Kynard, Sonny Criss and Hamp Hawes attracted my attention. In the mid seventies, I encountered Chester Thompson's 'Powerhouse' then 'Spring rain' by Rudy Johnson (whom I knew from his work with Jimmy McGriff) and tried (with difficulty) to follow Black Jazz records, eventually winding up with a few of Gene Russell's albums. There are probably others I've got into since, but I can't think of them at present. MG

There’s a story (which may or may not be true) going around in the popular press about an old woman in hospital with Alzheimer’s, who was discharged and taken home in an ambulance. The ambulance driver and assistant rang the bell and it was answered by an old bloke, apparently doo-lally, who let them in and carry her upstairs to put her to bed. Some time later, the old lady’s son was going frantic at the hospital – ‘Where’s my mother? She was supposed to be discharged today.’ ‘We’ve taken her home.’ They show him the details and he says, ‘that’s where she used to live!’ So off they go and the old guy’s still downstairs and the old lady’s still up in bed, asleep. This got us talking over dinner last night. Our friend used to be an electrician for Cardiff City and, when he was a young apprentice, went to a house to do a job. He was waiting ages for his boss, so the people there gave him a cup of tea. He sat by the window to drink it and saw his guvnor’s van four doors down the road! He can’t remember what he said to the people, or even whether he finished his tea. His father took him out one day and, while out, they went to a fish and chips shop, got lunch and took it back to his Dad’s car to eat. “Who’s been in my car? It’s trashed! Look someone’s ripped these wires out the dashboard!” Well they ate their fish and chips and a couple of blokes came along. ‘What you doing in my car?’ My wife did that in the Safari Hotel, Windhoek, car park. She parked her hire car, went in to get something from her room, took it back out to the car and couldn’t get the boot (trunk) open, no matter how she tried. And there’s this big black guy standing behind her, watching, and it was his car. I can’t remember doing anything like that but I saw someone, with a jazz connection, doing it. I was up at Parliament for some debate in late 1993. My colleagues and I were waiting in the corridor behind the Speakers’ Chair (where officials go in to the chamber) and Kenneth Clarke (recently promoted from Home Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer) came around the corner, said hello politely, exchanged a word or two with the doorman, and went off up another corridor. A couple of minutes later he was back, looking embarrassed and said to the doorman, ‘I went to the Home Sec’s room,’ then headed off along yet another corridor. These people run the country J Got any stories? MG

Oh dear - no 'I'm walkin'' by Ricky Nelson. MG

Stavros Fat Bloke The Lovely Wobbly Randy Old Ladies

Yes, I know you got 8 (my 9) right. I mis-recognised it. (Is that a word? Well, it is now.) When I looked at the tags, I realised I'd completely bollixed it up. But I didn't change what I'd said. MG

Ernst Toller Madame Tolbert Bembeya Jazz National

Call Me God Kindly Call Me God God Calls Me God

Which one would you like? Well. I'll do Gustave Moreau Jeanne Moreau Dr Moreaux

The cloud actually violates itself ... it's pretty perverted really, should be forbidden on moral grounds. What does that mean? MG

Damn, yes, I forgot Harper was on that. Must get it out. MG

Dude - it's data. On somebody else's servers. Even in a perfectly impenetrable world, you're still at the mercy of somebody else's plug. Keeping a local copy of everything is the only way to totally ensure that you'll always have it. No, keeping a second or third local copy is the only way to totally ensure that you'll quite probably always have it, if you haven't got a son-in-law who irrecoverably wrecks both backup discs, as well as your hard drive, in one fell swoop. MG

Frank Sinatra The Hoboken Four (group where he started his career) Guglielmo Marconi MG

Adrian Mole Nigel Molesworth Mole Jazz

Dare I google with the images option on? (Where's the emoticon for a leer?) MG

Short Fat Fannie Bony Moronie Mary, the Pride of the Prairie

The Lettermen ZZ Top The Top Notes

Thanks Hans. Not too familiar with Mingus' discography. MG