The Magnificent Goldberg

Generally, True Blue sells acknowledged masterpies. If you like acknowledged masterpies, buy with confidence. MG

Really, what Baumol is saying - and it makes sense to me - is that some sectors of services - those that emphasise or rely on personal performance, such as nurses, lap dancers and prostitutes etc - can't get much more productive per se without sacrificing quality. So if you include figures for those occupations in an average for all services, they drag the averages down. The question of what makes resources flow or not isn't wholly reliant on productivity changes. What it's actually wholly reliant on is anticipated rate of return - and productivity contributes to that but doesn't absolutely rule it. It seems to me that there are two factors which have a somewhat different impact on the equation. First, there are market failures. In economics, nothing inevitably happens automatically. A big market failure is lack of knowledge. An investment can only be made where there is knowledge that will enable a return to be made. Some people's imperfect, or limited, knowledge directs them into certain areas of activity (there is a regional effect here, too, it seems to me). Some of those areas may be low productivity services. The second, and more important, factor is the state of the market; plain ole supply and demand. I think it was you who posted an article here a few days ago which noted the change in price of CDs, going down, and live gigs, going up. It also noted a falling profit margin on CDs. It didn't talk about a rising profit margin for live venues, but I think that was the implication. Profit margins aren't quite the same as rates of return, but they're pretty good indicators, I think. The WSJ article noted rising demand for some services as baby boomers retire. It didn't note that, because of the generally good condition of the world economy for extended periods since WWII, that generation are uniquely equipped to pay for those care services they are likely to need. But that is almost certainly the case. So there is already more money to be made in this area than was the case a couple of decades ago, and this trend is likely to increase. So resources will flow. An awful lot of economic theory is based on manufacturing. Economic theory developed in the Industrial Revolution and was very much influenced by what people saw was happening. I'm not saying economists ever ignored services; clearly they didn't. But several good economists I know have told me that, in particular, economics is not very good at cultural stuff. But it is just this area that is a very big part of services growth, now becoming less reliant on manufactured goods as a delivery mechanism. As ever, we live in intereting times... MG

Yes, back to business. I've played the live session a few times now and like it a lot! MG

Memory isn't serving well, MG. Here are a couple of links to the whole story: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Front...1/jaynetts.html http://www.history-of-rock.com/jaynetts.htm Producer was Abner Spector, not Phil. Thanks Jack - I knew they were someone else. When I played the Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans afterwards, I realised I was wrong about Darlene Love. Still a great single. And neither of those accounts say who the organist was. MG

Vault was distributed by Atco and their LPs bore the Atlantic address: 1841 Broadway, NY 22. But the label appears to have been owned by Jack Lewerke. He also produced the Hampton Hawes TV show that Fresh Sound has reissued (with Criss, Edwards & Turner), which originally appeared on JAS. It wasn't uncommon for distributing labels to assign master numbers to recordings they picked up from other labels; Chess did that a helluva lot. My guess is that Lewerke still owns those masters and leased them to Fresh Sound, but for some reason hasn't got the masters for "Jazz organs" and the other that hasn't been reissued. If Atlantic owned them, I reckon they'd have come out on Collectables. MG

If Chewy's in control of your life, get help immediately! MG

Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans - Zip-a-dee-doo-dah - London UK 45 (Blame Chewy for these 45s ) MG

Just played it. There's a bloody good organist on it, which I'd forgotten. If my memory serves, the lead singer of the Jaynetts was Darlene Love, of Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans. Actually, that's another. MG

The Jaynetts - Sally go round the roses - Tuff 45 orig MG

All you need is one 45 - "Sally go round the roses" by the Jaynetts - Tuff 369, arranged by Artie Butler, produced by Abner & Spector. Very strange record. From 1963. Think I'll play this loud later. MG

Yes yes! MG

Ricky Nelson Ozzie Harriet

Hank Crawford & Calvin Newborn - Centerpiece - Buddah orig Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff - Steppin' up - Milestone orig Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis - ConSoul & sax/In Atlantic City - RCA Fr twofer MG

Thanks for posting that excellent read on Zaentz, KH1958! MG

Groan - feed that man to an irritated crocodile. MG

I'm not much for this, but a mate of mine used to run the 6th Brighton Scout troop marching band, in the days when they frequently won the GB competitions (mid-seventies). And it was DYNAMIC stuff! None of this pansy Bartok rubbish. They'd hit you with stuff from The Who and Doors and so on and, though it's not my kind of music in the first place, you couldn't help being moved to a yell occasionally. There's a LOT of skill in the nu style, but no impact. MG

What's wrong with that? After all, the first part of the escape plan worked well, so why not try it again? And again? Bet he goes for #4 soon as his owner's back's turned again. Perhaps he should head off in a different direction once he gets to street level. MG

Today's delivery of my Etta Jones order was Great! MG

Earl Neal Creque Louis Leakey Beaky

Maybe we will just have to agree to disagree but just to get this straight: When I referred to "accessibility" I was definitely not implying any comparison with Hawes' other Contemporary albums but was rather trying to hint at the fact that some of those around here apear to prefer something more elaborate that they have to "work their way into" (at least that's the impresion I often get here from a lot of posts discussing a lot of different jazzmen). At any rate, I found "All Night Long" very accessible and also quite fluently swinging and just enjoy listening to it intensely (rather than dissecting). Now if I am tin-eared I probably am just as tin-eared as Ted Gioia, Robert Gordon, John A. Tynan and Ron Wynn. So be it then ... BTW, re- "For Real": As another often-overlooked Hawes outing from that time I'd like to mention "The Sermon" from 1958, recorded just before he was to serve his prison term (but the music remained in the can until the late 80s). Yes, I like "The sermon" too. Very down to earth playing. MG

Very interesting Berigan. Thanks. MG

Good tenor player, Eddie Williams. Did some very nice work with Bennie Green. Do you have the BG Mosaic Select? MG I do, but haven't played it in ages. He'e on there? On the "Walkin' n talkin" and "45 sessions" sides. Mg

George Freeman Von Freeman Bruz Freeman

Perfect example! Oscar Peterson is the pianist on that ditty. And he's a pretty good, if occasional, singer--- Oh yes, I recollect that on the LP "With respect to Nat", Oscar admitted that he started his career imitating (or perhaps trying to) Nat Cole. But almost everyone on the West Coast was doing that. MG

Is it because there's a live concert attached to the Definitive? Is that the one with Criss, Edwards and Turner? MG