The Magnificent Goldberg

Actually, they don't play anti-clockwise, as shown in this illustration. The read head is below the CD, so what appears to be anti-clockwise from above is actually clockwise from the point of view of the read head. MG Inside out and upside down. ... This sounds like one of those engineering jobs where they said at the start, "What if we did everything exactly opposite to the way it works now?" ... If only the marketing guys had done the same thing and come up with the 'pay it forward' method for acquiring CDs. Then we'd really have had something! Oh, and did you realise the CDs have to change speed as the music progresses? MG

Illinois Jacquet Buddy Tate Arnett Cobb

Actually, they don't play anti-clockwise, as shown in this illustration. The read head is below the CD, so what appears to be anti-clockwise from above is actually clockwise from the point of view of the read head. MG

If you come across any pre-1920 discs on Pathe (pre 1932 in France), you'll find that: you need a 0.05" stylus to play them with; the groove goes up and down, not side to side; the records had to be played at 90 rpm; they came in 8.5 inch, 10 inch, 11.75 inch, 12 inch, 14 inch, and 20 inch sizes; and THEY PLAYED FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%C3%A9_Records mg

Jimmy Hoffa James Petrillo Arthur Scargill

Houston Person - The big horn - Muse MG

I think it's quiet because they're all listening to ipods MG

The trouble with the "view new content" button is that it's next to the Forum rules button and one automatically blanks that out. I keep looking for it and not finding it. It's going to take a while... MG

Mory Kante - Tamala le voyager - Next Music Does this not work now? MG You got two http:// in there. MG

Glad I missed all the teething problems. Many congratulations on the conversion, Jim. But I don't like typing in Times New Roman (or whatever this is called). I can't think of anything to say in Latin. Can I change my default font? Next question - how? MG Oh, it comes out OK once it's posted. MG

I think I'm a bit like TTK in this. I buy what I can get and afford in whatever medium it comes in. Over the past 5 years, the albums I've bought have been on CD 755 DL 89 K7 22 LP 43 The number of K7s is down a lot, because I haven't had a holiday in Africa, but have to make do with short trips to Paris. I've stopped buying 45s and 78s MG

A treat from the postman Dembo Konte, Kausu Kouyate & Mawdo Susu - Jaliology Very nice! MG

Ah! Thanks Durium. MG

Ian Hislop Ian Dury The Blockheads

I didn't know about this! I always thought Durium was an Italian label. I remember the hits of Domenico Modugno - "Volare" and something else - came out here on Durium. MG

Dave French Mike German Swiss Tony

I don't think I'm selling it short. I just don't like it. And, in the mid-late-sixties, I started getting heavily into soul jazz and buying loads of stuff by Big John Patton, Freddie Roach, Willis Jackson, Baby Face Willette, Don Wilkerson, Freddie McCoy, Gene Ammons, Les McCann, Hank Crawford, Grant Green, Jimmy McGriff, Arnett Cobb, Jack McDuff, Billy Larkin, Johnny Hammond Smith and so on. That stuff was REALLY doing it for me and it seemed urgent that I get what I could because, unlike that of the acknowledged masters, this music was always put down as commercial rubbish by the jazz press and didn't look a good candidate for being perennially available (and indeed, a lot of it has never been reissued on CD). And between music I don't like and music I love deeply, there was no competition for my money or listening time. And later, there was Mbalax, Djeliya and Wassoulou and other kinds of African stuff. Again, no competition. And still no competition now. MG

That's obscene. And I think it's 6 CDs. What's on that Mosaic? I thought it was just the Black & White and Capitol material, which is just a 3 CD set. MG

A long day's shopping in Cardiff today started by taking a long look through the second hand shop in the market. And I snagged this one, in perfick nick, for eight quid. Buddy Tate - The Texas twister On the Master Jazz label, with a rather self-congratulatory sleeve note by the producer - someone called Bill Weilbacher (does he post here?). It's a wow of a record, with Buddy singing on two cuts. The local dealer must do a fair bit of research - found a CD of it (didn't know it had come out on CD) on Amazon.uk for one penny less than I paid - but I didn't have to pay postage. MG

A long day's shopping in Cardiff today (I ran out of CDs!!! Must get an ipod!) started by taking a long look through the second hand shop in the market. And I snagged this one, in perfick nick, for eight quid. Buddy Tate - The Texas twister Flung it straight onto the turntable as soon as I got home. Woo, what a nice album! The local dealer must do a fair bit of research - found a CD of it (didn't know it had come out on CD) on Amazon.uk for one penny less than I paid - but I didn't have to pay postage. And when I got home, I found the postman had very kindly left me two CDs. This one Kandia Kouyate - Ngara Thanks to I forget whom for buying it himself and posting it here This is a compilation of her second LP plus some other live stuff done for radio, I think. There's another recently issued, which has her first LP (which I've already got) plus some more radio things. Will have to do a bit more research. Anyway, this is wonderful - much better than the albums she's been making with strings and stuff in the past decade. MG Oh, the other CD was something I hadn't ordered MG

Thanks Allen. I can hear a difference. In my mind it's mainly been associated with new guys coming along - Jimmy Dawkins in Chicago, Bee Houston, Johnny Copeland and Albert Collins in Texas and so on. I can hear a change in Otis Rush's music, too, but I put that down to these new guys coming along and influencing him and others. I never realised this was coming from rock bands. Mainly because I never listened to them more than I could help after the mid sixties MG

LeRoi Jones Leroy Vinnegar Leroy Anderson

The only Criss I have so far are This Is Criss which is very good and Sonny 's Dream which is a masterpiece. What are the ones you would get next? I'll still get the two listed above since they are cheap. How is his Jazz In Paris date? Bertrand. Yes - an excellent reason to buy one rather than another at any particular time. Sonny Criss is one of those guys you get very addicted to. But his records are likely to be easy to get for some time - even "Warm & Sonny" which Chewy and I LURVE - but many don't like at all. Just make up your mind to get everything, and you don't have to make difficult choices Oh, and you'll get a lot of very nice music, too. MG

Yes - I was playing that album the other day. MG

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