The Magnificent Goldberg

Good tenor player, Eddie Williams. Did some very nice work with Bennie Green. Do you have the BG Mosaic Select? MG

Roy Budd Roy Rogers Gene Autry

Cadbury's dark hot chocolate. MG

I'm glad I had paid OJCs more attention than most members - I already had all the Don Patterson, Gil Mellé, Blue Mitchell, Kenny Burrell, Herbie Mann, Sonny Rollins (Riverside and Contemporary) CDs, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Ernie Henry on LP, as well as the Monk (both), Modern Jazz Quartet, Wes Montgomery, Joe Henderson, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans Riverside, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins Prestige box sets - that helped quite a bit. Just checked on my list of stuff still to get - 59 OJCs, 19 other Fantasy albums. Oy! MG

Angus Deaton John Cobb Arnett Cobb

Thanks Aloc. MG

Hank Crawford - Mr Chips - Milestone Freddie McCoy - Funk drops - Prestige blue label mono Freddie McCoy - Beans & greens - Prestige blue label stereo MG

It makes me log in occasionally - two or three times a day. But I'm always on the same machine. MG

Ain't nuffin' vere, Aloc. Zis one of dose orgs you need to subscribe to? Please post text. MG

Brill! Sorry, I don't know of others, but thanks for those! MG

Funny, I was playing the "All night session" 3cd set last night. I really like this set. It has a good bit more funkiness than most Hawes - though he was always a funky player. I think my favourite Hawes' are "High in the sky" and "Green leaves of summer". Oh, and I love the concert with Sonny Criss, Teddy Edwards and Big Joe Turner as much. MG

Connie Stevens Jacqueline Beer Ephrem Zimbalist Jr

Of course, it depends on when you think the panic started. I guess with me it would have been about March 2004, when I saw a note of the sale on the Fantasy site. But probably, I didn't think about it seriously until 2005. And I've always bought Fantasy records in large quantities; Fantasy had been the biggest company in my collection since the 1970s. So that's why I haven't needed to go quite so nutty as some. This is (date order) what I've bought since then; it comes to 75 albums on 61 CDs (I've excluded a couple that have been issued by Lonehill etc, but have included some issued by Japanese Victor and UK Ace). JAZZ GIANT - BENNY CARTER MY FIRE/MINDBENDER - BOOGALOO JOE JONES SPARK PLUG/SPARKS - MELVIN SPARKS PISCES - EDDIE "LOCKJAW" DAVIS & JOHNNY GRIFFIN DYNAMITE BROTHERS/CORNBREAD EARL & ME - CHARLES EARLAND/BLACKBYRDS THE BLACKBYRDS/FLYIN START - BLACKBYRDS CITY LIFE/UNFINISHED BUSINESS - BLACKBYRDS BLUES UP N DOWN/GRIFF N LOCK - EDDIE "LOCKJAW" DAVIS & JOHNNY GRIFFIN MISTY/GOING TO THE MEETING - EDDIE "LOCKJAW" DAVIS & SHIRLEY SCOTT ACTION/BETTER DAYS - BLACKBYRDS LOVEJOY - ALBERT KING I'M IN A PHONE BOOTH BABY - ALBERT KING SILKEN SOUL - JACK MCDUFF BOSS IS BACK/BROTHER JUG - GENE AMMONS BUSH DANCE/CALL IT WHATCHAWANNA - JOHNNY GRIFFIN SPOON AT MONTEREY/RENNAISANCE - JIMMY WITHERSPOON FOUR - HAMPTON HAWES TATE'S DATE/GROOVIN WITH TATE - BUDDY TATE BIRD SONG - HAMPTON HAWES TAKIN CARE BUSINES - OLIVER NELSON GROOVY - RED GARLAND THE SONG BOOK - BOOKER ERVIN SWEET N SOULFUL - BOBBY TIMMONS HAWKINS/GARLAND - COLEMAN HAWKINS & RED GARLAND RED IN BLUESVILLE - RED GARLAND BACALAO - EDDIE "LOCKJAW" DAVIS & SHIRLEY SCOTT NICE N EASY - JONNY LYTLE LOVE SHOUT - ETTA JONES BLUES GROOVE - TINY GRIMES & COLEMAN HAWKINS INTRODUCING ERIC KLOSS/LOVE & ALL THAT JAZZ - ERIC KLOSS EVENIN BLUES - JIMMY WITHERSPOON BLUE STOMPIN - HAL SINGER MILT JACKSON AT THE VILLAGE GATE - MILT JACKSON MOODSVILLE VOL 1 - EDDIE "LOCKJAW" DAVIS & RED GARLAND A STRANGER IN TOWN - GENE AMMONS THE LAST GOODUN - JACK MCDUFF SETTIN THE PACE/THE TRANCE - BOOKER ERVIN/DEXTER GORDON MOVING RIGHT ALONG - ARNETT COBB BBB & CO - BARNEY BIGARD, BENNY CARTER & BEN WEBSTER CONFESSIN THE BLUES - BILLIE POOLE MONEY TALKS - BAR-KAYS LONELY AND BLUE - ETTA JONES MANTECA - RED GARLAND SONGS I LIKE TO SING - HELEN HUMES TAINT NOBODYS BUSINESS - HELEN HUMES MY PEOPLE - FREDDIE ROACH SOUL MEETING - KING CURTIS NICE N TASTY - JOHN WRIGHT INTRO PITTS - TRUDY PITTS SOUL SEARCHIN - SHIRLEY SCOTT MONGO EXPLODES - MONGO SANTAMARIA MUCHO MUCHO - SHIRLEY SCOTT & LATIN JAZZ QUINTET SWINGIN WITH HUMES - HELEN HUMES LIVE AT THE SUMMIT CLUB - JOHNNIE TAYLOR TINY IN SWINGVILLE - TINY GRIMES TOUGH TENOR FAVORITES - EDDIE "LOCKJAW" DAVIS & JOHNNY GRIFFIN FROM THE HEART - ETTA JONES CLEANHEAD/CANNONBALL - EDDIE "CLEANHEAD" VINSON & CANNONBALL ADDERLEY REGAL IN NEW ORLEANS - LITTLE JIMMY SCOTT & PAUL GAYTEN IN THE BEGINNING - MILT JACKSON & SONNY STITT SO WARM - ETTA JONES I've still got a bloody long list! MG

Hank Crawford - Tico Rico - Kudu UK Polydor release Hank Crawford - Midnight ramble - Milestone MG

Albert Marx Richard Bock Lester Koenig

Charles Lindbergh Roald Dahl The Hermit of Radyr

Make that a double! MG actually was gargling the peroxide for a sore throat. Ah, so you have platinum blonde tonsils now. MG

Sonny Stitt Roost sessions discs 4, 5 & 6 MG

Make that a double! MG

Ah, but it was OFFICIALS who did it. Had it been POLITICIANS who had taken the decision, it would have been subject to all sorts of sabotage by anarchists in black hats in the 1890s. Unlike politicians, officials over here are permanent, so what they do lasts. MG

Master Bates Tony Perkins Bill Perkins

I've always thought that most jazz musicians, certainly those who make up the majority of my jazz collection, were no better than fourth rate. But that fourth rate jazz musicians were bloody good! And worth listening to. That's why this shit is so fucking expensive. MG

Yes, he did another one in Italy, on July 1964, with the Enrico Intra group ("Milt Jackson Sings"). Thanks. I guess Amazon.de or .fr is likely to be the best place to search for that, is it? MG

He was limping, but the trainer was rubbing his arm... I must be missing something... MG

I absolutely LURVE Milt Jackson's singing on "Soul believer". He could have been a serious rival to Charles Brown, had he wished. Did he make any other vocal albums? I want them, if he did. Grady Tate, too, is a musician with a real voice. Well, so is Ray Charles. And so is Nat "King" Cole. And Louis Jordan. And actually, Q ain't too bad sometimes. I think the musician who shouldn't have sung, but did, was Art Blakey. MG