The Magnificent Goldberg

Freddie Roach - Mo' greens please - BN Liberty MG

Martina Navratilova Little Mo Evonne Goolagong

I wanna change my mind I've just been listening, for the first time in about three years, to Fallou Dieng & le D L C's 1999 album "Prestige" on KSF. The last three tracks on side 4 (it's a 2 K7 set) are totally dynamic - "Dabakh", "Weex bet" and "Xam xam". MG

????? So what are you saying? Perhaps I'm just not " learned" or "sophisticated" enough to understand. Unusually, Jim hasn't been as clear as he usually is. I think he means that, in the early R&B days, the musical language was limited and therefore someone who was capable of more was letting himself down more clearly than would be the case now. So, I guess, Jim means that double standards aren't operating. Of course, it does depend on what you're trying to get to. And if what you're trying to get to is the message of the honking R&B horns - and you happen to be Gator Tail - then doing it isn't letting yourself down. And though Gator later moved away from that stuff (a bit) and said something like "well you can lie on the floor with your foot in the bell of your sax but in the end, what are you playing for people who want to buy an album?" (can't be asked to look up the reference) I don't read that as denigrating what he was doing earlier because a) he got to be thirty and that makes a difference, b) things changed and it became an LP market and c) the public went off that kind of stuff in about 1954, so Gator had a hard time in the late fifties and it wasn't until he moved more firmly over to the jazz side that he started doing good business. And I know not what to learn from all that MG

Houston Person Ake Persson Andre Persiany

I like rhubarb crumble. Do Americans have crumble? MG

You've asked this question before in this thread, but I couldn't find it just now when I looked. I think it's an interesting question. Are double standards at work in some way? And why? And what's the effect? Who are you talking about from the 40s/50s, Steve? MG

We have loads of wind chimes. Tubular bells, bits of metal stuff, bamboo tubes, crystals. I love 'em. So does my missus. Bollocks to you lot! MG

Oh, I missed this! But a very happy belated birthday, Guy. And many thinks for the stimulation you provide. MG

Oh my - and he wasn't really very old. I must have quite a bit of his work floating around; a good man to have around, if not one of the greats. RIP. MG

Emma Goldman Michael Bakunin Peter Kropotkin (Communist Anarchists all!)

Gotta go for Roy Eldridge again "Dale's wail" (again!) and "Rockin' chair" from disc 1 of the Mosaic box. Mind you, Roy's take on "Rockin' chair" is, in a way, contradictory to the actual character of the song. Hoagy's version of it is all about resignation. But there's nowt resigned about Roy's playing! MG

Me too! Great stuff, ain't it? MG

'Private Eye' is still going strong, if not quite the cult it was in the 60s. It really came to the fore at the time of the Profumo/Keeler scandals ( 1963 ) and the rise of The Establishment Club ( part owned by Peter Cook ) and the satire boom. It used to be a 'must read' for the under 30s at the time and exposed a number of juicy scandals. If I remember rightly it did sometimes have a cover-mounted flexi-disc which could well have had the 'glum' song on it. I still have one of those Private Eye records - "Dear Sir, Is this a record?" But, sad to say, it doesn't contain the Glum song. It does contain Dudley Moore saying, in a voice simultaneously lugubrious and lascivious (nice work if you can get it) "I love that swelling organ sound". But mentioning it with a capital G, "Round the Horne" (I think it was, but perhaps it was earlier) had Ron and Eth - The Glums. The song may have come from there. MG

Leon Spencer Melvin Sparks Idris Muhammad

Chuck Rock Chuck Nessa Nessie

Jim Rotundi Fats Navarro Ramon Navarro

Is that standard golf equipment? No wonder my son-in-law plays golf. I must show my daughter. MG

Yes. Yes. Yes. MG

k d lang Frederick Longshaw Dinah Shore

The Rubber Band Man Bobby Vee Youssou Ndour

J B Lenoir The Black Baudelaire Leroi Jones

In my estimation these are all excellent. There was an import twofer of the first 2 released awhile back, not sure about the last one. I agree - they're all worth getting, if you like Roach. The twofer was, of course, deleted when Concord acquired Fantasy and all the Ace/ZYX Fantasy catalogue went. But that wasn't too long ago really and copies shouldn't be too difficult to get hold of (or too expensive). Ditto for "My people" - it was issued on CD by Japanese Victor in 1998, then deleted after its edition finished. A couple of years ago it was (I think) one of a slew of Fantasy reissues by Victor at a specially cheap price (1,000 yen). That edition's finished, too, but shouldn't be too hard to find one. Ask Hiroshi. MG

I think I'm of the view that there shouldn't be jazz programmes anyway. When I was a kid, you could hear all sorts of stuff on the same programmes - classics, jazz, R&R, R&B, pop, comedy, gospel, country. That's the way to run radio - I can't see any merit in drawing lines the way people do. MG

Indeed! MG