The Magnificent Goldberg

Breakfast with Bill Doggett - As you desire me Fela Kuti - Open and close Coumba Sidibe - Gnogonte MG

I agree entirely. I have a Sony CD recorder - an RCW-W100, which I got in 2003. I can't organise my study to record direct from the music equipment to the computer so I have to make R/W CDs in the CDR then rip them to the computer. Don't know how many LPs and K7s I've done through it but every one of the K7s has never been issued on CD. It's all West African stuff; never even been issued in western society's business. Ripping from a K7 is a pain in the arse, though. At least when you're ripping an LP, you can see how long before you have to press the tit for the end of the present track, and guess whether you've enough time to nip outside for a cough and drag, or make a cup of tea. Can't see that when you're playing tape. MG

You're right, but there was a point to it, wasn't there? And it shouldn't be criticised on grounds of political correctness. It was 1977. Those were the days when political correctness was confined to Belgium. Unfortunately it escaped and we ALL have to conceal our real feelings for pretty well everything nowadays, despite there being no real reason why we should all be nice to one another. MG

Breakfast with Johnny Otis - Back to jazz George Braith - Musart Jimmy Forrest - Out of the Forrest Charles Mingus - Mingus dynasty MG

I dare say it's fairly famous but Chris Farlowe recorded 'Stormy Monday blues' pts 1 & 2, which was issued on Island Records Sue label under the name of 'Little Joe Cook'. I got it and thought, "there's something funny about this," so I wrote to Island and asked what US label had recorded it. Island always mentioned the original label except when it was one of Juggy Murray's labels, but this was obviously not one of those. Chris Blackwell wrote back to say it was recorded by an obscure label from the southern states, which was a self-evident lie as to an R&B fan, there ain't no such thing What got me is that I used to see Farlowe live every other Saturday night at the Blue Moon Club at Hayes Football Club, and I didn't recognise him!!!! MG PS - here's a pic of the 45 MG

Yes indeed. I can't see the point. I do like re-reading many of my books. I'm reading Eric Hobsbawm's series of books on world economic history since the French and Industrial Revolutions for the third or fourth time - and finding new stuff in them all the way through. When I finish, I've a book I bought in Paris last year - Peter Cooke's critical bio of Gustave Moreau - which I've yet to start because I wanted to get the Hobsbawm out of the way first. MG Just thought... Almost invariably, I eat every scrap of food on my plate, except bones, pips and leftover gravy Gotta have something to do with it. MG

I'm amazed that people have heaps of albums they've never listened to. With very few exceptions (some of which were mistakes, like selling 3 LPs by the Wings over Jordan Choir after listening to a couple of tracks of one) I've always played everything I've bought pretty nearly as soon as I've got 'em. And I keep listening to 'em. There are a few hundred I play rarely, but they're not ones I'd think of ditching. At present I have 6652 current albums (ie not fucked up, or held for discographical reasons or overtaken by events, such as the 2 ET Mensah compilations, which were overtaken by the Mensah box set). 86.59% of them are on my hard drive now, but I've still got the LPs, K7s or CDs from which I ripped them. But I don't actually listen to the originals much, as I prefer to hear music on the computer. I can HEAR it better. After fifty odd years of listening to Fat's Domino's 'The fat man', I never really heard the words until I played it on the computer. MG

This morning Zaiko Langa Langa - Kay Kay Three sounds - Today's sounds Tommy McCook - Hot lava MG

Don't know if this is too late but I just remembered the Theme from Gurney Slade - a TV series starring a young Tony Newley, which had this Max Harris cut as its theme MG

This afternoon MJQ - Lonely woman Truthettes - Flowin' Charles Kynard - Where it's at Next up Ben Webster - Atmosphere for lovers and thieves - one of the best and most appropriate album titles ever MG

Breakfast with St James Choir of Detroit - I need him Impressions - Keep on pushing Betty Roche - Singin' & swingin' (with Brother Jack & Jimmy Forrest, no less) Groove Holmes - Shippin' out Pretty decent band. MG

This evening Ray Charles - Dedicated to you Skatalites - Return of the big guns - in my view their best album ever Bobby Hutcherson - Total eclipse Finishing the evening in a few minutes with one of the albums I feel is completely beautiful from beginning to end. Ray Charles & Betty Carter MG

Well that didn't work out too well Also MJQ - Blues at Carnegie Hall Baaba Maal - Wango MG

This afternoon The great 1955 Shrine concert great 1955 shrine concert

Yes. And elsewhere than jazz - also like yours, I recall. MG

Fred Jackson - Hootin 'n tootin' Same number of bonus tracks as on the original LP MG

I have a jazz album on my shelf, and it's NOT 'Kind of blue' (not any of 'em) MG

Breakfast with The Staples Singers - Why (am I treated so bad) Mbilia Bel (& Rochereau) - Faux pas Grand Kalle & l'African Team Les Bantous de la Capitale MG

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Boogie uproar - Complete Aladdin/Peacock singles Birthday present from my daughter Houston Person & Ron Carter - Chemistry Sekouba Fatako - Le troubadour moderne - Sabou MG

Just caught up with this thread and found that you'd been PLAYING the Vlach Qtet version before I started talking about it!!! MG

For breakfast Sam Mangwana - L'international Narciso Yepes - Rodrigo guitar concerto Lionel Hampton Chrono classics 1942-44 MG

'Time out' was on the pop album chart for 164 weeks. But er... Kenny G's 'Breathless' was on for 214 weeks. However, in Ahmad Jamal's period the album charts started off with fifteen places and, by the time 'But not for me' disappeared, it had fifty places. 'Time out' was in a 100 place chart and Breathless in a 200 place chart. So they ain't the same thing at all. Oh, and 'But not for me' was only 107 weeks on the chart, not 109. And there were a good many not quite but almost jazz albums on the chart a long time by the likes of Sinatra, Cole, Bennett, Connick, as well as Henry Mancini's 'Peter Gunn' which was not far off contemporaneous with the Jamal LP and was on for 119 weeks. MG

Good idea, except Lee Morgan's sidewinder (I mean his BN recording) is very frequently used in ads, gardening and cookery TV programmes (over here, anyway) so, would ANY other version count? Answer in 2 letters please. MG MG

Funny, I always preferred the version on his Montreux album with Junior Mance. MG

"I'm not understanding. The picture or the music?" Well, it's a steel staircase going up a small ridge so that your soldiers can peek over at the enemy without being easily seen. Or something else, perhaps. The music might conceivably be something to do with Canada. Or something else, perhaps. MG