The Magnificent Goldberg

Thank you both. MG

I dislike Thai food intensely, but my wife likes it. I sent her that article. MG

Gotta admit, African spellings are moderately variable, even within Francophone countries. Between Francophone and Anglophone, they're usually wildly different; the spellings of Wolof, Mandinke, Soninke and Bambara words, even family names, between, on the one hand, Senegal, Guinea Conakry and Mali and, on the other, The Gambia. French orthography is highly standardised and rule-based. English orthography is accent-based. MG

How does Apple spell it? MG

Ami is correct. MG

Thanks very much. I'm not, by nature a subscriber to stuff. And that's pretty expensive: only 42 tracks for £20:99! Maybe it's just expensive over here, but that's what it is. MG

Wow!!!!!! Where is it for sale, David? MG

Lesser known names are very good too. On the top line there's Mankunku - Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi. Anything you find by him - Yakhal' incomo is very good - you'll probably find interesting. Khaya Hayane Dlamini I don't know, but he looks pretty cool. Bra Sello (on P5) is also very good. Dennis Mpale is SAID to be very good, but I've got a K7 of his which makes the worst of Donald Byrd sound pretty damn good... On p7 I like the Elite Swingsters a lot. Pretty old fashioned, however, so... I've got 'Cool down' (2 long instrumentals) by Lulu Masilela and Thomas Phale and like it very much, but it's MUCH more Township Jive than modern jazz, so... Zacks Nkosi (p8 & 10) was one of the great old masters of South African Jazz. I haven't got either one, but I've never heard anything I haven't liked by him. Well, that's 10 pages looked at. Can you just buy this stuff or do you still have to be a subscriber? MG

Which album? I didn't mention the title of the Ami Koita, which is 'La sublime Ami Koita', and my reference to Rufus Thomas... Don't get it. MG

Yes, I know. I don't hold it against you, though We all have different taste. I was, however, very disappointed about the Ami Koita. I bought that album in 1994, when it was moderately new - I think from the previous year. When I tried to play the K7 a few weeks ago, I found the tape had stretched. Most of them hold up better than that. So I tried to find a copy somewhere else on the web. No luck ANYWHERE, not even Discogs have heard of it. She's from Mali, Afriisa International was Tabu Ley's band from the Congo, and the album appears to have been recorded in Cote d'Ivoire. It's completely unlike anything either artist has ever done. But it worked! Woe is me. Dog walking time. Come on Rufus! MG

Thank you Scott. You just excluded most of my music, so I was right. I am STILL buying records that never came out on CD. I've never accepted that what is in print at any particular time, a matter NOT under my control, is adequate for me. Therefore a record collection. TINA, as Mrs T used to say MG

I don't do streaming because I think a hell of a lot of the music I like isn't available via streaming and, frankly, I can't be arsed to find out. So let's find out from the people who DO use streaming, whether they can access any of the following half dozen tracks by some of my favourite artists: Jazz - Jackie Ivory - Freddie the Freeloader Gospel - The Loving Sisters - Jesus is all I need Bambara - Super Djata Band - Sisse na djolo Mandinke Djeliya - Ami Koita & Afrisa International - Koro ta Latin - Cal Tjader - Funquiado (1978 version) R&B - Bobby Bland - Hollywood woman And if so, which? MG

No, it's too big for the board to accept. Send me a PM with your e-mail address on it and I'll send it, one way or another. MG

Except there are 5 tracks on the LP, not four. MG

Oh yes. He was on Blue Mitchell's 'Bring it home to me' album, too, if memory serves. Can't think of anything else, though. MG

Oh that's fine; when I read your post I thought there weren't going to be any other editions but the Japanese one. MG

My Classic is going OK at present, but I shall need a replacement in due course. I don't want a phone - I don't use mobile phones now and don't intend to start. So I want something basic. But big: my Classic holds 160 GB of music, it sez. The review of the SanDisk doesn't say anything about how much you can get in it. Do you or does anyone know? MG

Hell, in JAPAN!!!!! MG

I thought 'Funk in France' was supposed to come out on CD on the same day. Have you heard anything about this, Claude. I promised to buy them for my mate. MG

Well, I've ripped the tracks now. One problem, on the second track, my LP seems to have developed a fault in the seven years since I played it last and after six minutes and keeps repeating. Well I stopped it and can't be asked to try and locate the fault and give it a going over with an oily cloth. However I'm going to attach them both. Track 1 on the LP is Grant Green, playing a blues figure that turns into something like 'Cantaloupe woman' then IS 'Cantaloupe woman' at the end. Track 2 sounds like something GG MIGHT have played if he were feeling in a hard bop mood and not really feeling himself. It's not Kenny Burrell, so maybe it's actually Atilla Zoller. I wouldn't know an Atilla Zoller if it bit me on the bum, so can anyone identify it? Oh, it's too big to upload. I'll send the rip of the 2 tracks to any volunteer. MG

Thanks for this. I searched for his name but couldn't find it. New version now saved. I see he's got the Oil Can Harry's album in already, but not 'Funk in France'. Are we catching it in mid-edit? MG Damn me, Claude! Now you've got me confused. You're making me rip these tracks to see which is which and by whom. Back soon. MG

Right. Thanks. MG

Well, I got 'em in ordinary High Street shops in Brighton and Cardiff; I couldn't afford to go to London to buy stuff at Dobells, Colletts and... was Mole open in those days? OK, the Jazz department at Sound Advice Records in Cardiff (a good name, that) was the hon sec of the Welsh Jazz Society, so he DID get a nice lot of stuff in. A lot of advanced stuff, too. I saw my first Nessa albums there, and other boutique labels like India Navigation. (It was there I got 'Inner urge and the Morgans.) But Spillers got a lot in too and were MILES better at Prestige material which was greatly frowned on by the jazz aficionados. I couldn't get THAT stuff from Sound Advice. Was I blessed in having two such shops to choose from? Well, perhaps, perhaps not, I dunno, guv. All I know is what I got, when and where (but not how much they cost). MG

While I was emptying the dishwasher, I thought that, really, what I was doing in terns of BN in the mid 70s was filling in gaps in my collection. I already had most of the label's stuff that was most important to me: the Fred Jackson, the Vick, both Willettes, all of Patton, Wilkerson, Braith, Turrentine, most of Grant Green, Freddie Roach, Lou Donaldson, Lonnie Smith, and lots of Donald Byrd and Duke Pearson, as well as the two Quebecs with Roach and 'Into somethin' - the other Youngs I'd had and flogged as unsatisfactory. MG

Well, that wasn't quite my experience in 1974/75. Until August '74, I lived in Sussex and worked in Brighton, then moved to Cardiff. From the regular record shops in those areas (not London, and not second hand shops) I got the following BN albums (often not for the first time ) (Brighton) Lou Donaldson - Everything I play Ike Quebec - Soul samba Lou Donaldson - Midnight creeper (Cardiff) Lou Donaldson - Say it loud Grant Green - The Latin bit Jimmy McGriff - Black pearl Stanley Turrentine - Dearly beloved Ike Quebec - Blue & sentimental OK, that was March '75. Didn't get another until July '76 (Inner urge, and 6th sense & City lights by Lee Morgan). But I was into different stuff in that period and found it easy to get new but evidently classic albums on other labels like Fantasy, Milestone, Kudu, Delmark, Groove Merchant, and OF COURSE loads of Prestige LPs by Person, Booglaoo Joe, Sparks, Purdie, Ammons, Earland, Jacquet and Kynard. And I'm as sure now as I was then that the Prestige stuff, and much of the rest, was better than the BN stuff. It was also in that period that I discovered Fela Kuti, so there was more competition around, as far as I was concerned. So I'm certain that my lack of purchases of BN for over a year wasn't because I couldn't get them. I just didn't want them, thanks. MG