The Magnificent Goldberg

Hot chocolate for me every night. Zonks me out completely. MG

Frank Severino Leroy Vinnegar Les McCann

That makes sense Claude. Are these only just being issued over here? MG

Kevin is this by the Jesse Jones (Jr) who's Melton Mustapha's brother and made that alum "Soul serenade" for Contemporary? MG

Some people can just WEAR clothes. Freddie's one. MG

Bet he's got those Ike Hayes albums in his own collection. And he don't need the Beefheart & Talking Heads. No one does MG

So THAT'S what happened to the Buddy Bolden cylinder!!! MG

I wonder if it has ever been played. I bet W was down there every other day, listening to this, saying, over and over, "They hate our freedom! They hate our freedom!" MG

Gene Ammons - You can depend on me - Quadromania MG

Nice! I really liked Freddie's clothes. Ooooooo! That's for real! MG

They're not on Amazon.com. MG

Well, or maybe they're ZYX Fantasy issues. But surely it would be uncharacteristic for these to have a release date? MG

Have you got anything a bit greeeeaazzzier than this, Chris? MG

Struth!!! Doesn't Chet Atkins look like John Kenneth Galbraith? Atkins Galbraith Did Chet have a job on the side lecturing on economics? MG

Good luck to you all. When the economy's in such shitty shape, it's awfully difficult to be too hopeful, but maintaining contacts is the most important thing you can do - about a third of all people who move out of unemployment into jobs do so through personal contacts. That's a hell of a lot of jobs you're not going to get if you just rely on the want-ads. MG

Well, that was a good thought, so I checked http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...x=6070236678408 It doesn't say anything about it being a CD-R, unless I've missed it. And CD-Rs wouldn't have a release date of next Tuesday, would they? MG

George Braith is the man!!!! MG

Montgomery of Alamein Wolfe of Quebec Gordon of Khartoum

Gene Ammons - Organ combos - Prestige (RCA UK) Coleman Hawkins (with Tiny Grimes & Charlie Shavers) - Hawk eyes - Prestige (Xtra UK) next Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Back to back - Verve (HMV mono) MG

I got an e-mail from CD Universe today, advertising new reissues from Bobby Timmons and Coleman Hawkins. Well, I looked, didn't I? And CDU says: Wow! Fantastic!!!!!! There's more.... What!!!!! The!!!!!! Fuck!!!!!! MG

Here's a good 'un. Just been listening to Gene Ludwig & Cecil Brooks - Double exposure - Savant In the sleeve notes, by Bill Milkowski, who shoud know rather better, I think, this gem: "Ludwig adopts Earl Gardner's block chord style..." Even better, Bill says that the album was recorded at the end of the session that produced Jimmy Ponder's "What's new" (HighNote 7100). There's so much about the circumstances, backed by quoted from Cecil, that I'm sure there's no mistake about this. On the reverse of the notes, it says "recorded in July 2000". But "What's new" was recorded on 5 August 2002, a trio session with Ponder, Ludwig & Brooks. Ponder's album "Thumbs up" was recorded in July 2000, but Gene Ludwig isn't on that album. So there's no reason why he should have been there to use up a couple of spare hours at the end. So two different people made two different types of mistake on this one. MG

Wizzard The Wicked Witch of the East The Wicked Witch of the West

Wow! That's fantastic! What album is it from? If ever there was a sleeve to make you want to buy the album, it's this one. MG

This LP turned up today from Dusty Groove Been looking for this forever!!!!! It's not the reissue on Ubiquity - it's a sealed (well, it was sealed) copy on Bam-Boo!!!! Surely at the price I paid ($8.99) it can't be an original? Is someone repressing this? MG

This LP turned up today from Dusty Groove Been looking for this forever!!!!! It's not the reissue on Ubiquity - it's a sealed (well, it was sealed) copy on Bam-Boo!!!! Surely at the price I paid it can't be an original? Is someone repressing this? MG