The Magnificent Goldberg

Still raining this morning, but stopped while I was having breakfast. Still lowering. Cloud thinning - I can see the fields at the end of the street (about 8 houses away). MG

Very nice reissue in good sound. Alternatively I suggest finding the 4 Dodds issues on Classics and the Neatwork with the alts. Dodds is one of my favorite artists. More for the Want List. I had a shufti around. The Classics 1927 is the only one around at present. Amazon France have it for 55 Euro! Honestly, you'd have thought that someone as important as Dodds would have had a decent box put together. MG

Sir Walter Scott (again ) Walter Trout Captain Beefheart

Try "The Cape doctor" by Robbie Jansen (Mountain 7516). Some "toe-tapping" stuff; some serious, highly charged and interesting playing. MG

Jackson Pollock The Bollocks The Sex Pistols

Happy anniversary! Hope it was as good as it might have been. KAL=Kan't Arf Larf? MG

Morris Nanton Mountainous Maurice Dennis Sherpa Tensing

Sir Walter Scott Clifford Scott Scott's porrige

Rained all afternoon. Still raining. Five day forecast says Rain Rain Rain Rain MG

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Hoffnung Flanders & Swann Marcel Proust

Gokudo has no cheeseburger can MG

Kenny Burrell Ken Livingstone Boris Johnston

Brad Baker Sonny Lester Lester LaSalle

Tiny Bradshaw Sonny Stitt Rufus Gore

True. I hear uncompromising jazz all the time over the sound system at Starbucks and at Barnes & Noble--but how many people are actually taking note of it and listening with any awareness. Probably very few. I don't think that matters. I think it's good that jazz can form part of the background to people's lives. It means that people can pick up on it, if they want to. And not, if they don't want to. Surely that's all anyone could ask. I can't really see why anyone would want anything more; there's no special virtue about jazz, apart from the fact that we like it. Well, bollox to us! I think that the fact that places like Starbucks can put "uncompromising jazz" out in their coffee shops is a direct counter to Pat Metheny's initial comment that the culture was "openly hostile". Were that so, people would walk out of Starbucks when they heard it. That doesn't happen, because if it did, Starbucks would play something else. MG

At least he's all right, Aloc. You must have been dead worried. MG

Ah, more than Bill Oddie, this sounds like Kenneth Williams. But I don't know. MG

I can almost hear it, Chris, but I don't know who or what it is. Sounds like something by Bill Oddie; perhaps a song from the radio show "I'm sorry, I'll read that again", which was at its peak of popularity in 1965/66. Perhaps the fairy one is, as well. I think only one LP of "I'm sorry, I'll read that again" ever came out, which I've got, and those aren't on that LP, which doesn't really mean anything if they weren't from that show and that was excerpts, not a complete show. MG

Well, you've revealed that I have severely fucked sleeve notes to my Quadromania Dodds set (surprised?) They list New Orleans blues - 22 Apr Wild man blues & Willie the weeper - 7 May Aligator crawl, Potato head blues & Keyhole blues - 10 May Melancholy blues & Weary blues - 11 May Wild man blues (with George Mitchell) - 4 Jun Whut? MG

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More like "the culture is completely indifferent to jazz." I honestly don't think most people know it's there. In order to be hostile towards something, you have to actually be aware of it... I don't think I'm a great expert on this issue, but surely the existence of all those Walt Disney films etc with jazz soundtracks means that most people DO know it's there. You also wouldn't get all those TV ads with jazz backgrounds. Nor the DIY and cooking programmes. I was stopped dead in my tracks while passing through the lounge some time back by hearing Grant Green's "Selma march" on a DIY programme. And a few minutes after that, there was "Back at the Chicken Shack". What most people DON'T know is there, and probably wouldn't care about if they did, is hardcore modern jazz. I've never heard Metheny; is that what he plays? MG

Coleperson Hawkins Ornette Coleperson Gloria Coleperson

Well, this week it's got to be two cuts from the Roy Eldridge Mosaic Dale's wail and Echoes of Harlem MG

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