The Magnificent Goldberg

All right; keyboard players McCoy Tyner Herbie Hancock Jimmy Smith Les McCann Cal Tjader Lionel Hampton Balla Kalla Cheikh M Smith Am I getting warm? MG

? Too American for me, I suspect. MG Think keyboard player. Joe Henderson? MG As in Joe "Piano" Henderson? That well known hard bop pianist? MG

Amilcar Cabral Agostinho Neto Samora Machel

Anton Karas Orson Wells The Third Man

Only have one LP of his Mercury stuff. An instrumental, I assume MG

? Too American for me, I suspect. MG Think keyboard player. Joe Henderson? MG

Thanks Kevin. Yes, I'm running XP - forgot to mention that bit. I turn it off whenever I'm not going to be using it for a bit; but not when I nip down to make a cuppa It tends to get a bit hot if it ain't allowed to cool down occasionally. Laptop. MG

Mississippi Gambler Kenny Gamble Leon Huff (a martingale is a gambling strategy)

? Too American for me, I suspect. MG

Windows. MG

3 mins, 44 secs for me - or in real time, 3 hours, 44 mins. MG

Coincidentally, over breakfast this morning I was listening to Johnny Griffin's twofer CD "Bush dance", and re-reading the sleeve notes over my toast and marmalade (only later noticing the slightly greasy fingermarks I'd left). "The JAMFs are coming" is one of the tracks - of course, you all knew that. Zan Stewart's sleeve note gives a little bit of history of the tune, which was frst recorded by the Clarke-Boland Band, with which Johnny was playing in the mid-sixties. It was a coincidence because, first thing in the morning, I'm not clever enough to pick out a CD for breakfast listening that has some connection to what I was listening to the previous evening. What I listened to yesterday evening was Blue Mitchell's "Big 6", recorded in 1958, with Johnny Griffin and Curtis Fuller. And I particularly noticed (probably not for the first time, as I've had the CD for a longish while, but probably for the first time in that specific linguistic connection) that there's a Curtis Fuller tune on that album called "Jamph". How strange for there to be a euphemism of an acronym, which is itself a euphemism. I wonder whose idea that was, Fuller's or Keepnews'. A euphemism of a euphemism only makes sense if the acronym JAMF had become a word in 1958. Well, I don't know, had it? (Zan Stewart had to explain it in the 2004 sleeve notes, but maybe things had changed since 1958.) MG

Hi Alex and welcome. MG

Jesse Powell - Blow man, blow - Jubilee DG mono (actually it says "Superlaphonic hi-fi" ) MG

Monty Sunshine Hank Snow Wynder K Frogg

You're absolutely right there, HP. MG

Thanks Evan! MG

The 3Bs Bernard Purdie Godfathers of Groove

Happy Birthday, David! MG

Last night's vinyl was Paul Bryant - Something's happening - Fantasy (Vocalion UK) Maceo Parker - Us - People (Polydor UK) MG

You've 'ad it, mate MG

Roberta Flack Les McCann Joel Dorn

Spoilsport. MG

Who? MG

I'd give it a little more time - I think there are people ahead of MG who should have the chance to step up first. We've also got a few days in May to sort it out. I kind of have a feeling that there are some people on the list who have wandered away from here and may not be ready or interested anymore. Absolutely - as I said, if no one ahead of me wants to have a go. MG