The Magnificent Goldberg

Off topic!!!! Two coherent! MG

Like all of yours, it's a mis-spelling - of Nick Griffin. Today's man! Ah! Too subtle for me. MG

My wife's computer has Vista; mine has XP. I don't like Vista, though I'm obviously not familiar with it. I've got the printer, so if she wants to print something out, she sends me an e-mail. But I can't read it unless she explicitly saves it in the old version of Word. Vista's not backwards compatible that way. She wanted me to put a shortcut to a folder onto her desktop the other day and I couldn't find out how to do it!!!! I've also been told it won't run Access. But I see Ubu has Access. So, have I been misled? MG

How does that follow on from Cnythia, a Ronnie Barker character? MG

Thanks to Alexander reminding us that it's Dizzy's birthday today, I've had an afternoon with some of his vinyl Katie Bell Nubin - Soul soul searching - Verve Dizzy Gillespie - Bahiana - Pablo (UK) Dizzy Gillespie - Swing low sweet Cadillac - Impulse (DMM Germany) MG

Have a real good 'un! And many more. MG

Herr Hilter Wislon Cnythia

Carl Hoffner Hugh Hefner Fafnir MG

And a happy birthday from me, too! MG

A fine afternoon of vinyl Don Patterson - Soul happenin' - Prestige (Saba) Sonny Stitt - I remember Bird - Catalyst Goerge Freeman - Frantic diagnosis - Bamboo Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots - Atlantic (That's jazz) Erskine Hawkins - Vol 3 1941-1946 - RCA Black & White now Dexter Gordon - Mastertakes - Savoy Jazz (Ariola) MG

George Clinton Bootsy Tyrone Shoelaces

I love this coment: MG

Cole Porter Frank Sinatra Jacques Offenbach

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions - Motown (UK) MG

I think that one was reissued on a twofer LP on Impulse, coupled with a Sonny Criss (his Peacock LP?). Can't remember the title of the twofer. MG

It's really terrible to go into a place and you can't make up your mind. If the McGriff you got was "Topkapi", which is what it sounds like - bad move. I think I might have gone for the Wiggins, especially as it's Tampa #1. But I don't know the record at all. MG

Etta James - Tell Mama - Cadet (Chess UK) MG

Roger Moore Simon Templar Leslie Charteris

Shirley Scott - Drag 'em out - Prestige Charles Earland - Soul story - Prestige MG

I think you edit the first post - if it's the only one I think - and you get an option which allows you to delet the post. MG

If you're a Wilson fan and/or a Blue Note completist. And can afford it MG

There's something in most shampoos that gets me - I get anything from itchy scalp to dandruff. The only kind of shampoos that are any good are the really cheap and nasty ones. At the moment I'm using Tesco's Value shampoo, which costs £0.27p per litre!!!!!! And it's the best shampoo I've ever had! Something really counter-intuitive might work, Jim. MG

I get that, but it's a problem with my connection - and it's fine this afternoon - dreadful yesterday. MG

Yes, I view in details, too. But the details you get in the other columns get changed when the folder gets redefined - well, sometimes, they do. So you have to reselect the details from the view menu (and deselect the details you never wanted in those sorts of files, like date picture taken and dimensions, otherwise you still won't see what you want to, 'cos it'll be off the screen). I'm dreadfully sorry to see that no one else is plagued with this MG

Wynton made five albums for Verve. The first two, "Comin' in the back door" and "It's all right" are the ones you're thinking of. There's not much in them, really, though the latter has a moment or two with steel drums. The last two - "Smoking at the Half Note" and "Willow weep for me" were both drawn from his 1965 live session with Wes, though the second has strings overdubbed. (I think there's an undubbed version of this somewhere.) In the middle, there's one called "Undiluted" which I heard once but haven't got. I saw it was scheduled to be reissued two or three years ago, but it never came out, to my knowledge. Now, from what I remember from hearing it over 40 years ago, THAT was a truly ACE session. With Paul Chambers & Jimmy Cobb (Ray Stevenson on flute on one cut). And then he did "Full view" for Milestone, in 1966, another straight ahead trio session, with Cobb & ROn McClure. I like this one very much indeed. So I don't think he sold out so much as got temporarily caught up in Creed Taylor's wish to make smooth jazz records that hit the charts. MG