The Magnificent Goldberg

St Thomas St Eustatius St Barthelemy

Richard the Lionheart (crusader) Tiger Woods Joe Puma Too slow Bill, it's Evan Evans Herschel Evans Ieuan Evans

Reminds me of Mel Brooks' "The critic". "You don't like the Lighthouse, you suck" Why's it spelt Geico? Isn't it gekko? MG

So how do you pronounce that (if you're 66% Dixie)? Ed. Eddie Cochrane Eddie Bo

Durn tootin'! I got 72% Dixie!!!!!! MG

Joe Sample Wilton Felder Stix Hooper

George Freeman - Frantic diagnosis, from the album of the same name. Nineteen minutes of incredible! With Von, Dave Hubbard, Caesar Frazier, Earland... MG

Gertrude Stein Rude Lubbers Love

Best wishes for the future Shawn. It's good to hear of someone getting it together. MG

Ray Charles did some nice celeste work on "The great Ray Charles". Charles Brown sometimes played celeste, and to great effect - the original version of "Merry Christmas baby" has him on celeste. But I've got to agree about Duke Pearson's celeste playing on "Prairie dog" - could do a lot better. I have a few others, I think, but can't bring them to mind. I think it has its place, when a musician really wants to do something with it; as with everything else. Junior Mance did some nice stuff on harpsichord on the "Harlem lullaby" album. MG

Led Zeppelin Iron Butterfly Metallica

Buddy Holly Dr Beeching Orchestre Baobab

Nine albums on 8 CDs and 2 LPs. Mine's smaller than yours MG

Rolf Harris The Bee-Gees Slim Dusty

You're the piano man, Peter. I like all of those Riverside trio albums you mentioned. What don't you like about the Prestige ones? MG MG, Haven't heard them in quite some time. But as I didn't think much of them when I first acquired them, I disposed of them. My recollection, though admittedly a bit vague, is that they were attempting to "cash in" on the popularity Timmons gained via his" jazz hits" with Cannonball. They seemed to lack a coherent trio feeling and had a sort of less than "authentic" feeling to them. By contrast, the Riversides had strong rhythm sections and , to my taste, swung more and with a greater sense of unity. Now, it is possible that if I heard them again today, my opinion might be different. Interesting - quite the opposite to me If you run into "Chun-king", or the twofer it's on, going cheap, you might think about trying again. MG

John Kirby Charlie Shavers Maxine Sullivan

Noel Gordon Lord George Gordon of Khartoum Robert Crumb

Damn! Back to the drawing board! MG

Joe Thomas & Bill Elliott - Speak your piece - Sue DG mono Chester Tompson - Powerhouse - Black Jazz Jack McDuff - Midnight sun - Prestige blue label orig stereo These last 2 LPs are so short, I've been having as much exercise getting up to turning them over as Sidewinder does with his BN 45s MG

Oh yes, I got that. I assume, a black folk saying, though. I can't hear white folk saying that - particularly not in an English accent MG Well, yeah, and the phrase "Jive Ass Mother Fucker" was in use long before Griff or anybody of his generation. What I'm referring to is the actual "term" JAMF. Remember how TOBA (Theater Owners Booking Association) came to stand for "Touch On Black Asses"? Looks like somewhat the same thing happened, albeit in reverse, to "Jive Ass Mother Fucker", and I'm willing to speculate that it happened long before 1957! Yes, that's what I was saying in the original post. It made no sense to spell JAMF "Jamph" unless JAMF had become a "word" rather than an acronym. Oh, well, possibly. If Curtis Fuller or Orrin Keepnews knew that Jordan had recorded a tune called JAMF the year before (and surely they would have), the altered spelling of the Fuller tune might simply have been to keep out of the way of the Jordan one. MG

A very interesting analysis. Thanks Guy. MG

Oh yes, I got that. I assume, a black folk saying, though. I can't hear white folk saying that - particularly not in an English accent MG

Which was actually "Scotch & Water". The composer's name was mentioned and mis-heard as being the title of the tune. .........and just who WAS that composer, MG? Well, according to my cheapo compilation, it was Wynton Kelly. I do feel I'm missing the point - or missing the pint. MG

Nah, with 2008 oil prices, it's better this (it's even healthier): That looks like the bike I got for my thirteenth birthday. No gears; you certainly couldn't play 78s on it. Sit up and beg handlebars. I turned them upside down and that improved the look rather well. MG

You're the piano man, Peter. I like all of those Riverside trio albums you mentioned. What don't you like about the Prestige ones? MG