The Magnificent Goldberg

I don't have a "my computer" icon - must have deleted it years ago due to lack of use. But I know I'm on XP service pack 3. MG Look at the menu after pressing the Start button. Thanks - it works! Yes it's version 2002 and service pack 3. MG

Dexter Gordon at Montreux with Junior Mance - Prestige I love the version of "Body and soul" from this, replete with the feel of "Maiden voyage". MG

Here's a little video of one of my favourites, Moussa Ngom Moussa is probably the most sucessful contemporary musician from the Gambia. The original lead singer with the Guelewaar Jazz Band and a founder member of The Super Eagles, he was one of the early lead vocalists with Super Diamono, in the eighties, with Ismael Lo, Mamadou Maiga and Omar Pene. Lo left early to pursue a solo career, and Pene edged the other two out in the early nineties (a shame, because I greatly preferred their voices to his). MG

I've got this on order. MG

Postal strike wouldn't have anything to do with it, would it? MG

Sam Phillips Sonny Phillips Leslie Phillips

So they did! I'd forgotten that! MG

Harry Enfield Tim Nice-but-dim Loadsamoney

Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott - Common touch - BN orig MG

I don't have a "my computer" icon - must have deleted it years ago due to lack of use. But I know I'm on XP service pack 3. MG

The Jabberwocky King Kong Godzilla

And the Pathe-Marconi releases came out at a time when we were starved of Blue Notes, because EMI shut BN down, when it aqcuired UA Music and Records Group in 1980. But it wasn't just the fact that you could get some Blue Notes again after two or three years. They were reissuing some very interesting Soul Jazz (which I already had but props to the firm) - the reissue of Don Wilkerson's "Preach brother" was the start of the "Don Wilkerson is God" movement in 1983 and the beginning of Acid Jazz over here. MG I like Rajah, too MG

I haven't seen them, either, on Amazon UK. But didn't someone mention that Tower's web presence was now Caiman? MG

Ronnell Bright Bright Moments Rahsaan

I don't know. How do you find out which version you're on? It's XP. MG

Daniel E Kelley Dr Brewster M Higley Rev W Herbert Brewster

Sir Walter Scott John Ireland Leslie Welsh (remember him? )

Prester John John Buchan Richard Hannay

Well, that "should" work, but sounds like Explorer has some issues. You might want to check and see if there are any available Windows Updates. ...if that doesn't work, buy a Mac. Damn machine hung when I tried to close the error reporting box!!!! And now all my music folders have been redefined as pictures!!!!! And my photo folders are music folders!!!!! I do get regular Windows updates. Anyway, thanks for trying, Shawn. MG

Just tried that. Never thought of doing it via the properties menu before. I have all the music in one main folder. So I did it and then checked. All the categories were OK - music. So were all the Mbalax artists; and the folders for the individual albums. But when I went into the first album folder, that was defined as pictures. So I tried the next artist in that folder, and that was all right on the first bottom level folder. Then, when I tried to go into the next one - "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and has to close" GRRR!!! Send message to MS as ever. "Dr Watson debugger has encountered a problem". OBO110X!!!! MG

I use the menu - shortcut is Alt v; i; k - this sorts items into track order. But if trak isn't one of the items selected for display, it doesn't work. In the menu below where the i is called, there's an option for choosing the details, which provides a drop down menu for everything under the sun, and you pick as many of those as you need (I expect there's a limit). At present, my external hard drive is defined as pictures but it's displaying music details like track number. My C: drive - the main system disk in the computer - is defined as a music folder and this CAN'T be changed. Except it does, from time to time. I don't understand it. I mean, it's not a problem, just a pain in the arse, y'know? MG

More big tenor players Al Grey & Jimmy Forrest - OD (Out 'dere) - Greyforrest Brother Jack McDuff & Gene Ammons - Brother Jack meets the boss - Prestige (green label) MG

Does anyone else get this? I go into a folder with a bunch of music in it and find that the folder has been redefined as pictures or documents, so there isn't a handly little "play selection" button. And, half the time, the details that Windows is keeping are stuff like date picture taken and not track number, so I have to re-choose what details I want it to display, so I can sort the tunes in the right order first. And vice versa. And the other way round, too. When I open a folder, I never know what kind of thing it's going to open as. Is there a way to stop this happening? It's a total pain in the arse Oh, I'm running Windows XP. MG

Looks like it's a discussion of "In a silent way" - I greatly prefer Nat Adderley's version. Of course MG

Nice one! Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson David "Fathead" Newman Buckethead