The Magnificent Goldberg

My wife's turn on the PC - bumping so I won't forget when, at last, she relinquishes it. MG

I don't get it. You get statistics for AAJ - and if Mike Ricci is top poster with 92 posts in a week, well... but you can't get similar stuff for Org. Have I just pushed the wrong button? MG

My wife has done mine since we got together. MG

I've been listening to Cannonball Adderley's "Portrait of Cannonball" and "Cannonball takes charge" this morning. It's very interesting how different these albums are from the ones Cannon made with his and Nat's band. Not only are the general thrusts of the two albums completely different from what the quintet was doing - the first is a straight bebop album, the second strangely like something Benny Carter might have put together - but Cannon's playing is different - he seems to me much more focused on melody and flow. I think it shows how much that band owed to Nat. About the only track where you get the dirty funk stuff that the later albums are full of is "Blue funk" on "Portrait". So it seems to me that Nat didn't take Cannonball anywhere he didn't want to go, but he was critical to Cannon's actually getting there. MG

Must be a bugger to dust. MG

So that's nice. MG

Charles Earland - Soul story - Prestige orig Grover Washington Jr - Feels so good - Kudu orig Freddie McCoy - Funk drops - Prestige orig mono MG

Beyond voter registration, which I'd always viewed as benign, the general concern about the government's endless appetite for personal information is a concern I share. The current regime is obsessed with knowing everything they can about everyone, all in the name of security. They say London is the most heavily "watched" city in the world, with security cameras everywhere. This is a little different than a paper trail, but not much different, with the advent of face recognition software. They have started putting these cameras up here in the U.S. as well. In Tampa they are stationed around Ybor City, a Cuban area of town known for its nightlife, and elsewhere. These sorts of things always end up being challenged in court by individuals who claim their right to privacy is being violated, and it seems like the argument usually fails, for one reason or another. (No standing to sue, no right to privacy in a public place, you're free to chose not to go to Ybor City, etc.) Meanwhile, government creeps further and further into our lives, monitoring us on the streets, listening to our phone calls, calling for national ID cards. ... ! Of course, the inevitable counterargument is, if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to fear. But that's sort of beside the point, IMO. It is government imposing itself on individuals in order to "force" certain behaviors. Don't get intoxicated and wander the streets of Ybor City, you'll be noticed. Don't hang around with the wrong crowd in Ybor City, it's being recorded. It strikes me as odd that the same people who jump up and down for less government are often the same ones who apparently have no problem with this ever-growing security blanket (here in the U.S., anyways). (I guess the London security cameras are the hook here, as far as remaining tethered to the initial post .... ) /rant Well, in the past couple of months, we have had a series of scandals over here in which it's been discovered that different government agencies have simply LOST data discs with hundreds of thousands, or even millions in the case of the Revenue, of people's personal data on them. And they've not been found. Well, some have - two huge bunches of data relating to driving and vehicle licenses were found, at separate times, on the same roundabout in Wales. (I think it's these scandals, more than dodgy election contributions, that are responsible for the Government's present poor showing in opinion polls.) The obvious point is, just because the government has data for (really) benevolent reasons, there's no guarantee that it will stay there and not find its way into other hands. MG

So, how old is she, Ray? MG

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should have said that i had already looked at amazon.co.uk for you (starting at 14 pound), maybe amazon.fr is an option (iirc they charge only 4,50 at least to germany...) or something other than amazon... Oh, thanks Niko MG

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Glad I delayed Bert added an Organisers LP so I copped that, as well as the Earland Trip. MG

I don't know - I haven't read a newspaper since I retired. MG

Thanks niko - I'm going to look over here first, because Amazon.de charges 6 euro for postage to the UK. MG

Note that you are not required to say which party you support--the only reason to do so is to be able to vote in a closed primary if your state has one. Or if you're a proud partisan and want to declare your affiliation as a matter of militancy. In any case, if you want to keep your politics to yourself you simply decline to give that information. And, of course, having registered as a supporter of one party doesn't mean you can't vote for another. Cf. the well-known phenomenon of the "Reagan Democrat" of the 80's and the "Clinton Republican" of the 90's. Oh, I do appreciate all that. It's more the principle of there being more information on file about individuals; information that can be manipulated and joined up with other stuff to produce results that many (perhaps most) people would regard as most objectionable. MG

Not me, I was leaving it for you. As the initiator of the thread you can alter the title by editing your first post. Really, I think I have a marked preference for Willie Jones, who played guitar with Hank Crawford and Willis Jackson. MG

It isn't that I don't like Randy Weston - I do - a lot. It's just that I hardly ever seem to get around to buying his records Now that's not the case for Teddy Edwards. So I had better catch up with "Volcano blues" - didnt know Teddy was on this. MG

Bump again - still no time... MG

I've seen that quote before, Bill. Who was Hunter S Thompson? Ah, just did what doesn't yet come naturally to me - Gooogled him. MG

I'm sure that's not where I know the name from. I don't have any albums of the Ellington band with him. MG Ok, pick one: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...0pfixqegld0e~T4 Oh, Jug's "My foolish heart"; the Eddie Chamblee "Back Street" session. Well, I should try to remember more things better, shouldn't I? Thanks Jim. I had no idea you could do that on AMG for a bass player. MG

I'm sure that's not where I know the name from. I don't have any albums of the Ellington band with him. MG

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