The Magnificent Goldberg

Great news, Bruce. MG

And thirteen years old, at the time (or was it fourteen?) Well. MG

Dr No Doctor Feelgood (because I've been playing some OkeH singles) Speckled Red

After dinner music on vinyl Pharoah Sanders - Rejoice - Theresa now Eddie Kirkland - It's the blues man - TruSound (Red Lightnin' UK) next, a few 45s before bed. I've picked out Piano Red (as Doctor Feelgood & the Interns) - Doctor Feel-good - Okeh Piano Red (as Doctor Feelgood & the Interns) - The Doctor's boogie - Okeh (Columbia UK) (new version of "Red's boogie") Bill Black's Combo - Bright lights, big city - Hi The Lighthouse All Stars - Big boy pts 1 & 2 - Skylark Cherebin Gospel Singers - Trumpet/Stretc h out - Songbird Swan Silvertones - Singin' in my soul/Sinking sand - Vee-Jay Mary Lou Williams - Chuck-a-lunk jug - Sue (Sue UK) and 2 soul classics The Falcons - I found a love - LuPine (London Atlantic UK) Alvin Robinson - Fever/Down home girl - Red Bird (UK release) MG

I had a little bit of a fling on Dakota Staton just over a year ago, but there were several others I wanted that Amazon UK didn't have. Just had a look there now and found five of them. Whoopeeeeee!!! Will post details as they come in. MG

Bob DeVos Barry Devorzon Frank De Vol

A lot of the "Foreground" album always reminded me of Debussy. Not "Summertime" of course MG

Houston Person - Heavy juice - Muse MG

The first one I came across was Back to back - Verve. That's with Johnny Hodges and I know you specified no horns, but this is the one where Duke really got through to me as a piano player. They play "Weary blues" and Duke's actually imitating Avery Parrish, Erskine Hawkins' pianist and the composer of "After hours" - but he's pulling stuff down from the outermost reaches of the galaxy! The other one not mentioned that I like (again a horn on board) is Duke & Trane - Impulse. MG

Perhaps for Kenny G, though the question posed was about musicians. Lester Young advised not to be a repeater pencil. Are you really say ing that, if you're a creative musician, playing all sorts of different things all over your instrument, RSI isn't a problem? Or is it a joke. (I think it's a joke.) MG

Cherry Wainer (hope you all remember the first British jazz organist) Giant Haystacks Hal "Cornbread" Singer

"California kidnapping" is on vol 6 of the Gates complete works series on Document. Yes, a great performance. Gates was not shy about pointing the finger at police and politicians in his sermons. And his own congregation, to be fair MG

Thanks Jim. How do musicians handle repetitive strain injury? Both prevention and cure. I should think it's a dreadful problem for them. MG

Yes, but it achieved its greatest popularity (not great popularity, obviously) a little later - '46-47, when Bird and Diz were having hit records. So the question I've always asked myself is, why wasn't it maintained? MG

Houston Person Memphis Minnie Cleveland Gaye

The Soul Stirrers - The gospel soul of Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers vols 1 & 2 - Specialty The Jackson Southernaires/The Williams Brothers (one side each) - With you in mind - Songbird (MCA) - sez 'ere, "produced by Lee Young" - could it be THE Lee Young? finally George Hines & the Gospel Winds - Presenting George Hines & the Gospel Winds - Atlantic For some reason I've never been able to fathom, the guys at Atlantic were very poor at producing gospel records - even when they hired Richard Simpson away from Peacock, he mostly didn't produce anything special - like this one. OK, without being particularly outstanding. MG

No, I can't resist it Gloria Coleperson Ornette Coleperson Coleperson Hawkins

BUT 'the environment and the vast cultural traditions' are trasmitted, internalized and memorized through Languages. But, as you say, we don't have all those words for snow. (Course, the English have LOTS of words to describe rain ) But environment does determine a big chunk of language. Also it determines a big chunk of culture, though the largest element of culture would surely have been determined by the invention of agriculture, in those societies in which it has flourished. All kinds of new words would have been needed in those societies, mostly borrowed from other societies who transmitted agricultural technology and skills as the idea caught on. MG

Oi! I was playing that at lunchtime!!! Was it you who was playing the original quintet album with the same pic on the cover yesterday, which reminded me of this one? MG Yes, it was. (Horace is demonstrating variations on the V sign.) I always thought he was telling Alfred that he really wanted those to be quintet dates. MG

Scarlett O'Hara Al "Scarface" Capone Scarface

Subbuteo was better ! Oh yes! I was never very good at that, either. My friend and I used to be Leeds Utd and Brighton & Hove Albion respectively - I never won. (This was in the days of the great John Charles.) MG

I don't use Outlook for mail - just log onto my Hotmail account direct off the internet. I use arrow keys for navigation in Explorer, though. MG

You're right about maths, Porcy. I've been fascinated by two little points for years. Most (all?) European languages have words for the numbers up to 10 - mostly related. English and German have separate words for 11 and 12. French has words for 11-16. Thereafter both languages use portmanteau words, made up of a version of the number plus an ending relating to 10. So, English encouraged (but probably didn't originally compel) us to lump teenagers and the teenage years into a conceptual bracket in a way that French probably didn't. The Mandinke, like Europeans, have words for 1-10. Their neighbours, the Wolof, have words for 1-5. Thereafter, Wolof goes something like 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 10, 10-1... 10-5-1, 10-5-2 etc. So the question inevitably arises - what were the Wolof doing with their other hand? (Answers on a postcard to the WSJ and NYT.) MG

Oi! I was playing that at lunchtime!!! Was it you who was playing the original quintet album with the same pic on the cover yesterday, which reminded me of this one? (Course, I was playing the CD RVG version) MG

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