The Magnificent Goldberg

Haven't listened to that one in years. Time to pull it off the shelf and put it on the box. Thanks for the reminder. One I always regretted not getting. I guess there's a CD somewhere of them. This morning's vinyl Junior Mance - That's where it is (one for the grammatical correctness brigade) - Capitol Dexter Gordon & Wardell Grey - The hunt - Bop (Savoy Jazz) MG

I just got some spam in my mailbox from this firm, which is located in St Denis, France. It says it's from www.akhaba.com - see, it doesn't come out as a real address? When you hover over the link, it comes up with something that doesn't even look like a web address. It's something like http:/tk3.sbn57.com/sy/numbers numbers. Does anyone know if this is an up and up site? I shan't go there unless someone knows it's OK. MG

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This afternoon's vinyl has been Gene Ammons - Free again - Prestige Rev Charles Nicks Jr & the St James Choir of Detroit - I need him - Sound of Gospel The Skatalites - Return ofthe big guns - Island MG

I must look into these Les McCanns. I've wanted Mosaic to reissue the material for ages. Wonder what 'complete' means? This looks interesting, too. Wasn't one of the tracks in a BFT a while back? MG

A very good question and point. Absolutely. He may deserve to be compensated, but is he entitled to it? Either Mr Pujol has licensed this material or he hasn't. If he has, I'm informed by Scott Wentzell, the owners - the shareholders of COncord - are responsible for paying royalties. If he hasn't, and I don't see why he should because all the material is in the public domain, COncord are still responsible for royalties, because they're still the people who inherited John's contract. Of course, they won't pay, and why should they? MG

Yes; two very nice LPs. MG

Couldn't have put it better myself MG

Spent the afternoon with Ray Charles - Singular genius: The complete ABC singles 1960-1972 - ABC-Tangerine (Concord) now on disc 5 MG

Of course, there's always, 'Guess who I saw today' - I saw you. More recent than rock, but you might say it's still part of the GAS. MG

People got tired of intelligent stuff; or were put off it by those for whom intelligence is counter-productive. Actually, you've chosen a very limited form of wit and I'm not really surprised you can't find too many examples of it. But, if you simply look for songs with linguistic wit in the lyrics, as in Cole Porter, you definitely can find some in the rock era. Percy Mayfield is the great example of a songwriter who could write - 'Hide nor hair'; 'Strange things happening'; 'Baby you're rich'. But Lord Kitchener and Mighty Sparrow, among numerous Calypso singers of the fifties and sixties, had plenty of wit in their songs. And 'Cry me a river'. I love the lines 'Told me love was too plebeian Told me you were through with me, an' WHat a rhyme! Then the triumphal 'NOW, you say you want me...' It's a song in which the words and music combine more effectively than possibly any other (for me anyway). Few jazz musicians can bring it off, because the music NEEDS the words. Julie London couldn't either. For the full exploitation of that note, you need Ray Charles' version. MG

I used to have Betters' hit single 'Do anything you wanna' back in the day. It was a real groove and I've always regretted not keeping it. MG

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/george-w-bush-favorable-rating-lowest-living-president-100010623.html My policy is to allow an apostrophe if the style is all caps but lower case s w/o apostrophe if mixed case. So: DVD'S or DVDs, but not DVD's. Pickin's is correct of course. That's what I said. MG

From Dusty Groove CHarles Davis - Super 80 - Nilva Thanks for letting me know about this, Jim. It's a very nice album that I'll greatly enjoy getting into over the next few months. MG

Pretty unamusing beverage, actually. Sugar water, mint leaf, and bourbon. From the same people who think that Sweet Tea is a treat, Imagine taking a bourbon and coke (a respectable and pleasant enough waste of bourbon, especially not particularly good bourbon), and replacing the coke with a glass of water that somebody poured a buttload of sugar into, and then they say, hey, lets add some prissy-ass mint leaves to make it taste even better. No, no, no. Oh, I'm not a whiskey man, so I don't care what you do to it. MG

Joe Liggins worked with a couple of black territory bands in the thirties: those of Cee Pee Johnson and Sammy Franklin's California Rhythm Rascals. He also was in a quartet with Illinois Jacquet in 1939! Roy Milton's professional career started with the Ernie Fields band in the late '20s. He left Fields in 1933 and moved to California and worked with a number of other territory bands, before forming the Solid Senders. MG

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/george-w-bush-favorable-rating-lowest-living-president-100010623.html My policy is to allow an apostrophe if the style is all caps but lower case s w/o apostrophe if mixed case. So: DVD'S or DVDs, but not DVD's. I can see the rationale for that. Is it common in the USA? I mean, is getting it right common MG

What IS one mint julep? I can't be asked to look it up on Wiki - and it'll be more amusing here. MG

Discs 5 & 6 this morning (7 is my favourite; I love those R&B covers) MG

Correction: I heard from Red Ingle’s son, who informed me that Tedder (correct spelling) was a real person. Tell Mike Fitzgerald. MG

I don't care what it's been, what is it now? (That joke was first broadcast in the BBC Home Service on the fourth of March nineteen thirty-five.) MG

Alert! MG is listening to avant-garde musicians: George Adams, Byard Lancaster, Yusef Yancey, Garrett List! Have you heard this yet MG? Hank Marr with a very young James Blood Ulmer and George Adams. It defines the word 'raw' . Apparently this band played the clubs in Germany. A very kind man named Arthur Shoulders made a needle drop of this LP for me over ten years ago. I promised to send him a fiver for his generous gesture, but never got around to it. Dear Mr Shoulders, if you read this board, please PM me and I will send you a tenner instead. No - I've wanted that one for YEARS! Playing vinyl this afto Stan Seymour - Everyone loves Bermuda - Edmar Pharoah Sanders - Black unity - Impulse (MCA Germany) Leon Spencer - Where I'm coming from (From whence I'm coming?) - Prestige now Earl Bostic - Jazz as I feel it - Earl Bostic - King Mine's stereo, with a blue label. Very heavy pressing. Groove Holmes & Joe Pass had much fun on this. Well, everyone did. MG

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It's all here, folks http://www.jazzdiscography.com/fitzgera/pseudo.htm MG

I don't know whether it's only current in English, but we call it nom-de-date over here. MG