The Magnificent Goldberg

The Ravens The Robins The Orioles

Me too. Specific theologies CAN be true guides for day to day living - but only, it seems to me, if they're truly related to the real and present world and the real and present needs of societies. But that seems impossible in today's world in which wide and open communications have made the planet smaller and the community so much larger (and consequently, more diverse). MG

This was done at an open air gig in Central Park in 1989. It was first issued in 1990, but perhaps only in Europe - my copy is made in Germany - so this may be the first opportunity for American buyers to get one at normal prices. CD Universe are offering it at $9.20, which sounds like a good deal to me. In my view, this is one of Fathead's most enjoyable albums. Everyone has plenty of opportunity to stretch out comfortably - the shortest track is 11:09. And the "everybody" is stellar. In addition to Newman and Jordan (could you want more?) there's Ted Dunbar, Buddy Montgomery, Todd Coolman and Smitty Smith. I lurve this album! MG

Nude descending a staircase The Five Stairsteps The Invisible Man's Band

Yes, you're wrong, Jazzshrink, but you're right about Ikea being not right. You're railing at a system, because major retailers aren't like mom & pop stores. And yes, mom & pop stores serve their customers better - much better. But the large retailers provide cheap goods much better. No way out. MG

Terrific joke! I just sat there, looking at a blank screen! MG

Happy Birthday! MG

Didn't give up on this; finished it yesterday evening. Pretty good. Very chilling to read how the British Government was bounced into a war it didn't want by unscrupulous guys who had their own agendas to pursue. And by methods alarmingly similar to those adopted for Iraq. MG

Quite true! And both of them excellent singers. Doris Day could have been a fine jazz singer if there'd been more money in it. I'm not sure that money was really the key point. A lot of those singers who came up with the big bands kept their styles - Sinatra and Fitzgerald for example. And a lot changed their styles - eg Como and Day. But I don't think Sinatra's income suffered for it. And I seriously doubt that Como's or Day's would have either. I think they changed because they wanted to. Sinatra COULD have done jazz gigs, as Ella did, but what jazz venue could have afforded him? I think he stopped being a "jazz singer" simply because he was too popular to be one. And I suspect the same was true of Como and Day. But they changed to what I suppose was what they wanted to be, but he never felt he needed to. MG

Hm. They'll probably be £11.99 or, more likely, £12.99 at Spillers. I think I'll still get mine there, though. MG

When. Trust you know he was a member (with 2 brothers) of The Joneses MG

Jeanne Moreau Gustave Moreau Odilon Redon

So, does that mean that Al Haig thought that Schaap would have been correct? MG

I think the list and Lord are wrong. The listing for 86025 is almost certainly incorrect. I've never heard of a Columbia Record Club pressing having a different number. Michael may have meant Capitol Record Club, which did assign different numbers to their pressings, but what are the odds that the numbers would be so similar? Whoever supplied Mike's information gave him a mistaken item. I know it's possible - I was one of Mike's contributors! Well, mine certainly looks exactly the same as the other Limelights I've got. I just checked the number in the runoff area and it's 86031. It's surely impossible that it would have been remastered for a record club issue, so 82/86031 must be correct, as you say. MG

Ah, the Hamburg Metro is a good bit better, I think. MG

Polly Perkins Paddington Bear Champion Jack Dupree

Damn good story! MG

There's something wrong with that list. There are two possible entries for Oscar Peterson's "With respect to Nat", which Mike noted needed confirmation. Also, there are two entries for Les McCann's "Beaux J Pooboo" at 86025 and 86031. I have 86031. Michel Ruppli's Mercury discography gave 86025 as the number for "Pooboo". I wrote to him to say mine had a different number. His reply was along the lines that he thought I had a copy issued by Columbia Record Club. (You wouldn't know to look at it.) Lord's discography, astoundingly, says that 82025 is the mono number and 86031 the stereo. But my edition has both mono and stereo numbers on the sleeve and they're 82031 and 86031. Which leaves two questions. 1 Is there a Limelight 82/86031 which is a real Limelight not a Columbia Record Club and is some other album not "Pooboo"? 2 How many other Limelights (indeed Mercurys) were treated thus and does anyone really know what the true list is? MG

Oh yes - I used to have that but flogged it when I was on the dole. Good session. Not outstandingly jazz-oriented, but good stuff. How are you doing? MG

Judy Garland Garland Green Red Garland

Julie Felix Joni Mitchell Shirley Collins Judy Collins Joan Baez Joan Jett

Yes, I remember some interview with Miles, in which he talked about how great it was to see a whole bunch of people dancing, because he knew they'd all felt the music. MG

Ha ha! But they're thin, ain't they? When I got mine, even the cellophane wrap was bending them - 'cos the jackets were thin, too. MG

Hi Blacksavage, welcome and thanks for bumping this old thread which I hadn't seen before. Despite what JOS might say about teaching her, Shirley was developing her style contemporaneously with JOS and first recorded a few months after his initial job for BN. Sure, I've no doubt that all the guys in Philly who were woodshedding on organ were getting stuff from each other. But Shirley, Johnny "Hammond" Smith and Lou Bennett developed styles that weren't really based on JOS' playing but sound to me much more influenced by Wild Bill Davis (and in JHS' case Erroll Garner). In Shirley's case, this is particularly clear in her accompaniments - she could swing a tenor player out of the windows - even from a basement! But yes, I think, as Jim or Mike said, she probably felt she needed both hands for that. Smith and Bennett both did a lot of recording with bass players. I hadn't thought of the Jaws angle though; that's an interesting idea. MG

I don't have ANY Hezekiah Walker. What vintage is that one? What label? MG It is a 2005 release on the Verity label. Thanks. MG