The Magnificent Goldberg

Nat Dixon Nat Adderley Nat Shilkret

Phew! Never heard this or even OF this before. Didn't think they still made real soul records in 1978! MG

Indeed! MG

Have a great day! Best wishes. MG

Happy birthday! MG

Damn! I've been meaning to get that Buster Bailey for decades! Need to reconsider McPherson, too. Thank you, Joe. MG

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Now Bill Leslie - Diggin' the chicks - Argo in a few minutes Chester Thompson - Powerhouse - Black Jazz MG

Missed it! But hope you had a good one! MG

A very happy birthday to you, Porcy! MG

Coleman Hawkins - Soul - Prestige (OJC) MG

Glad I didn't miss this one! All the very best wishes, Paul. MG

I like that, too! MG

Onzy Matthews Select just finishing. MG

But it's a world market, Lon. Universal Japan have just put out some Prestige material - including Leon Spencer's "Bad walkin' woman" and Rusty Bryant's "Friday night funk" - that hadn't been issued in either the US or Japan before - the Spencer had never been on CD before, the Bryant only in the UK. They must think there are enough customers out there to make it worthwhile. (Oh, and Toshiba issued "Grant Green's "Visions".) If a Japanese firm can sell albums in suficient quantity, so can an American one - the same people are buying. Delmark must have felt there was a market for Red Holloway's "Go Red go" - a real surprise (to me) of a new issue. Yes, I know; Delmark has a different attitude to EMI and Universal Japan. Ditto Palmetto and Criss Cross Jazz for two Lonnie Smith releases this year. And Doodlin' Records, too. There's people out there wanting this stuff but the likes of EMI don't know how to get to them, by the looks of it. MG

Oh well, I spent a lot of yesterday making sure I had backups of the most important stuff (which I always do) and also the less important stuff, which I often can't be asked to backup. Every time I got the error, I had to turn it off and restart. About three quarters of the way through, I went down to make a cup of tea while it was rebooting and found, when I got back, that a startup checkdisk utility that only appears once in a blue moon had started and was finding - and trying to repair - all the errors. So when that was finished, and of course it hadn't repaired all the errors, I worked out that I'd lost very little interesting stuff and backed up the bits that I hadn't already covered and which I hadn't lost and decided to let the rest that hadn't been lost lose itself when I reformatted. I reformatted this morning. Then, before I started writing data back to the hard drive, ran a virus scan, just in case - but it was OK. And after lunch started putting data back on the external. It takes bleeding ages to reorganise stuff. Just finished. Will order a new external hard drive, in view of what you all say. I shan't junk this one - I'll use the two together, one backing up the other. Thanks for all your advice, folks. MG

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Thanks Seeline - I tried that site. Never heard of it before. Found a forum thread with the identical problem but it never reached a conclusion to say whether the last thing the guy tried worked or not. Oh well... I suppose I'll be better off having two than one. MG

Damn - I was just down the road (although in a nappy ) . No excuse, I know. I think the Ammons LPs did appear on Esquire (or possibly Stateside) - for sure the Coltrane jam sessions were issued by them. Pretty rare LPs - only in the few hundreds in many cases. Oh to have a time machine and a Leeds Public Library ticket ! Did we all live in Leeds in the fifties? MG Yes, Jimmy Saville as well! I knew about him, but not you and Sidewinder. MG

Damn - I was just down the road (although in a nappy ) . No excuse, I know. I think the Ammons LPs did appear on Esquire (or possibly Stateside) - for sure the Coltrane jam sessions were issued by them. Pretty rare LPs - only in the few hundreds in many cases. Oh to have a time machine and a Leeds Public Library ticket ! Did we all live in Leeds in the fifties? MG

Well, it's back now. But I suppose I had better take this as a sign that it's going to give out pretty soon and start to think about thinking about forming a band - no, no, getting a backup HD! MG Amazingly, my connection was good enough to get the 3:59! Yes. MG

If I reboot after getting that message, it lets me into one of the small directories - one with mainly text files (though I haven't tried to fire up a file; but all the sub-directories are there). As soon as I try to access one of the music directories or photos, it says there's nothing there. MG

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I've had a few messages from Windows today when I've tried to access my external hard drive to say it's not formatted and doesn't contain a recognisable file system. I think it's a lie, because after rebooting earlier, I was able to access it. But I've tried twice this afternoon and get the same result. I've heard hard drives are unpredictable. Does it sound like this has had it? Anyone know? MG

Mundo's prices are also quite high compared to Hiroshi's. Earlier this week Hiroshi told me he might still be able to get new Japanese CDs after January 1, but nothing's been decided yet. That is hopeful. We'll await with interest. Yes - Mundo is more expensive than Hiroshi. MG