The Magnificent Goldberg

Thanks Paul. All OK so far. MG

What did you do about it, Paul? I only changed my password on my mailbox. MG

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Looks like I was hacked as my wife got an e-mail purporting to come from me but I hadn't sent her one. So, if you got one, don't open it. A friend had this a few weeks ago and the same e-mail went to all her contacts. So please let me know if you got an e-mail from me this weekend - send me a PM, please. MG

Actually, I have a lot of versions of that: Kenny Burrell Houston Person Jimmy Smith Ramsey Lewis Rhoda Scott And ORGANISSIMO!!!!! I also have it by the Staples Singers and Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey. But, as it started off as a song, it doesn't get in the list And thanks Jim for the list of Joe Zawinul standards. MG

Pedro Ximinez (my favourite) Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros Michael Palin MG

One more acquisition I've got this year is 'Biguine Wabap' by Al Lirvat, a trombonist from Guadeloupe who went to Paris to make his name in jazz and, after playing lots of gigs all around, got the idea for a music combining Bebop with the music of Guadeloupe and has made several albums in France. Interesting music, but I've enjoyed this sleeve more than any others this year. YAYYYYY! MG

Duh? MG

I expect you're right about Joe Zawinul. The only ones I know are 'Mercy X3' and 'Money in the pocket'. Is that frequently done? Can you mention the others, please? MG

1 Stuff may be in the Real Book, and I wouldn't dispute the need for jazz musicians to KNOW it, even know it very well, but do people get them out and play them much, other than in rehearsals or in music college classes? I don't know so, if you do (or anyone else does), please list 'em. That's what I'm after. 2 Yes, that was my idea. There are loads of pop songs written by non-Americans, many of which have become standard fare for jazz musicians, much as Cole Porter's have. And pop songs, when thinking about non-Americans, could be anything, because a huge number of varieties of pop music have been knocking around the planet for a very long time. So I had to eliminate all songs from my thinking. MG

Frank Culley Harry Van Walls Winston Walls

You may have seen my Malian entries, too MG

One that was a standard plate in South Wales, but some rich guy had bought it and put it on his Roller: OBO110X I LURVE that one. MG

Djeliya from Mali now, after my mate phoned. Best album of 2015 (actually, it came out in November 2014, but I still count it brand new) is Kasse Mady Diabate - Kirike - No Format Bloomin' fantastic album! So delicate; never heard any Djeliya so delicate/ Kandia Kouyate - Renascence - Syllart Her last album, production completed after her death and before Ibrahima Sylla's. And a new name to me - unfortunately I only heard of her from a blog after hear death in July - Bako Dagnon. Two recent albums. Titati - Syllart and Sidiba - Syllart Got ALL four of those as downloads from Amazon - not pricey at all and good value, even if they had been. MG

All oldies for me, but ones I never heard before, some I never heard of. And they're mostly vocalists. Not in any order except the first one. Etta Jones - Etta Jones sings, sings, sings - King (This was the point - 1957 - when she truly became the greatest Soul Jazz singer ever!) Gloria Lynne - Miss Gloria Lynne - Everest (Evidence) Art Prysock - Only for you - Old Town (Hallmark) Art Prysock - Too late Baby: The Old Town singles 1958-66 - Old Town (Ace) (That one only came our last year. 'Bout time, too) Etta Jones - Chronological 1944-47 - Classics Budd Johnson - Mr Bechet - B&B (Got at Paris Jazz Corner) Al Grey - The thinking man's trombone - Argo (ditto) Red Garland - It's a blue world - Prestige (OJC) (ditto) The Al Grey is an LP, the 2 Etta Jones' are DL from Amazon and the rest are CDs. Actually, a pretty poor year for jazz. But some wonderful Djeliya material from Mali, which I'm going to list ANYWAY, when I've made a cup of tea MG

I like Clifford Scott's 'Let's go to the snack bar' rather better, myself MG

Here are a few more Misery is a thing called Moe (sung to the tune of 'Happiness is a thing called Joe') Streamline Stanley (Sonny Stitt) Original? (another Sonny Stitt tune) Don-De-Lion (Skatalites number featuring Don Drummond) A few from the realms of George Clinton Do fries go with that shake (Clinton himself) Viagravation (another of Clinton's own) When in doubt: vamp (F Wesley) Discositdown (F Wesley) If you don't like the effects, don't produce the cause (Funkadelic) Free your mind and your ass will follow (Funkadelic) Unfinished instrumental (Parliament) There is nothing before me but thang (Parliament) Everywhere is out of town (Pee Wee, Fred & Maceo) MG

One I've always liked is the thought of Cole Porter, sitting at his desk one rainy afternoon, happily contemplating punctuation issues. What? Is this thing called love? What's this thing called, love? What's this thing called, love? What's this (goddamn) thing called, love? MG

Thanks, but the only ones I really chuckled at were “Jesus Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?” Well, I laughed out loud a lot at that one. And five minutes later, it's still funny. “Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joseph” Is pretty good, too. MG

I ripped 'Easy walker' to disc this afternoon. It's the first time I've ripped any of Stanley's LPs. One of the things I noticed about it was that McCoy Tyner was the only musician who made the level indicator flash into the red, so I had to start again. (That was during his solo on 'Meat wave'.) But that surprised me, because one thinks of Stanley as a player with a LOT of volume. He evidently has a LOT more control than he's given credit for. MG

Violette Leduc La Batarde Battling Siki

I know loads, but can't think of any! MG

Wow! I'm most grateful for all those comments. Some new ones to go in, and some now to come out. Coming in: Looks like 'Malaguena' should be in. I always thought it was a song. Jim R's info on the different spellings of 'Some other time' has proved most interesting, so that one stays IN. And Bronislav Kaper's 'Invitation' is the other one he wrote that I couldn't think of. Many thanks again, Jim. 'Adios Nonino' has to go in, too. Another I'd never heard of - but I've never yet got into Tango. Thanks Duaniac. And Uli suggested 'Manteca should be in because Chano Pozo contributed to it, with Diz and Gil FUller. I don't see too many non-American writers in this list, so I'm inclined to go with it. Going, or staying, out I hadn't put 'Desafinado' in because of doubts, which Jim has confirmed. More thanks, Jim. Thanks to Teasin', out comes 'Watch what happens'. (But, in view of uncertainty, 'Once upon a summertime' and 'Pieces of dreams' stay in.) 'Mack the knife' was a German pop song of the heavily satirical variety, so it's not going in. I'll do a full list in a few days, if there are more responses. Looks like there are only seventeen at present. And some are not terribly widely played. MG

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Oh, just looked 'Estate' up in Wiki. It was a pop song to start off with, called 'Odio l'estate' ('I Hate the Summer'). So that one's out. But in is Victor Herbert's 'Indian summer', which wasn't originally a song. And Herbert was originally Irish and didn't get to America until he was in his mid twenties. (I dare say he became American at some point, but...) MG Oh goodness yes! And not only 'On Green Dolphin Street' - there are several others I have in my collection here and there, could I but think of them. Wiki is no help with Mr Kaper's tunes. I bet Teasin' knows. MG