The Magnificent Goldberg

Dead Kennedys The Grateful Dead Judge Dredd

Oh, that's wonderful - buy the CD from Amazon UK for £4-99, or £3-72 from a seller, or an MP3 rip download without sleeve notes for £7-49. Definitely a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand's doing MG

I am so close to issuing a jazz fatwa on your arse. (I keep tellin' y'all I ain't a jazz fan. Now you know what it means.) MG

Funny, the sleeve notes of the CD don't say that there were two versions of 'Django'. I gave away my LP of 'Idle moments', when I got the CD and only just noticed that MC's addendum to the CD note says that the original notes referred to it. But also, DP's note says that the issued take of the title track was the last one done at the session. The BN discography lists the 4 November session as tk 11 Jean de fleur tk 14 Idle moments tk 28 Nomad tk 32 Django MG

All these RIFF`s have a very very good Fidelity. Never seen any Riff albums. That looks a good 'un. Now playing Charles Mingus - Blues & roots - Atlantic (That's jazz series) MG Cor! MG

stella artois isn't french (but it is close to budweiser).... Enjoying one now - and you're right; it's Belgian. MG

Took me a bit of time to track this down but, amazingly, with the help of the All Music Guide, I've found this. Piddling little image. Anyway, it's Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, 'Serenades Francaises' on Naxos. I used to have a collection which included his bassoon concerto, which I always thought was lovely. Before I spring for this - although it's not terribly expensive - does anyone have any view on what you get when you download from Naxos? MG

Oh - can you point me in the right direction please? MG Sorry. It would seem that I was misplacing some of the Guinean music in my head to Guineau Bissau. I do have one record that I like quite quite a bit from Guineau Bissau: Super Mama Djombo. Other than that, I am not very familiar with the music of that country. But if that album is any measure of the quality of music coming out of Guineau Bissau in the 70s, it would seem to be quite high. Well, I assume that's an artist, so I'll do a search for that name when I've absorbed my recent purchases. MG

And wonderful liner notes by Duke Pearson! But not strictly accurate, as the dating of the CD shows. MG

A little cooler today. Very pleasant in the garden this morning. MG

Joe 'Fingers' Carr Jimmy 'Fastfingers' Dawkins Badfinger

Just playing this and noticed... MG

Walter Bishop - Soul village - Muse I love the sleeve of this LP - reminds me so much of Brixton. MG

Oh - can you point me in the right direction please? MG

I am struck with AWE. I take it you mean, ALLUSIONS to Post-impressionists are in. ALLUSIONS to Surrealists are most definitely out MG

Definitely applies. MG

Excellent. Someone else who has attained enlightenment. I don't think I've attained enlightenment; I like piano trios though, and 3 Sounds is a good one. But so are those of Wynton Kelly Red Garland Junior Mance Phineas Newborn McCoy Tyner Ray Bryant Les McCann Sonny Clark Ahmad Jamal King Fleming Ramsey Lewis Horace Parlan John Wright Bobby Timmons Norman Simmons Hampton Hawes And they ain't AT ALL the same old thing; not a one of them. MG How could you forget to mention Bill Evans? & Elmo Hope & Herbie Nichols I've never in my life bought any records by or (except for 'Kinda blue' which I didn't keep long) featuring Evans, Hope or Nichols. That's a list of trio pianists I like. Oh, Hope is on 'The fox', I think. Not one I play much. MG

Clara Bow The Slaves Lucky Dube

Freddie McCoy - Beans & greens - Prestige (with notes by Chris Albertson ) MG

In this context, R = right He's right-handed, or correct? MG presumably, but not all right handers hit right, although they almost always throw right, some go both ways - 'switch hitters'. No puns inteneded, really. Goodness, I never knew that was what a switch hitter was. I can't imagine a cricket batsman lining up to the bowler left handed, if he's a right hander. MG

Hey! Now I'm getting adverts for new cars from Lookers. That'll teach me to follow a link. Waste of their money, thought, 'cos I can't drive MG

Not music, but a book with a really shiny, smart, black cover Hi-de-ho; the live of Cab Calloway - Alyn Shipton It was in a list of books someone here linked to a few weeks ago. Haven't started it yet, but I love the cover so far Came a week or so ago, but I forgot to post it MG

Cyril, most of those ARE Impressionist paintings, not allusions to them. (And when was Le Douanier an Impressionist ) MG

Chopper Hopper Billy the Kid

In this context, R = right He's right-handed, or correct? MG