The Magnificent Goldberg

Dick Bentley Jimmy Edwards Eric Sykes

Well I did - it reinforced all the usual stereotypes of Americans MG

That's a good one to get on LP - the CD issue missed off one track - "Y'all". (I HATE it when they do that!) MG

I always felt that the best of his Kudu albums was "Inner city blues". It was a total surprise when that came out - it did actually break the mould of what jazz with orchestras could sound like. Very exciting. But the follow ups were kind of more of the same. MG

I think that's wrong. Any kind of music from any group of society is a means of human artistic expression. Trying to view Jazz, Blues, Soul, R&B, Hip Hop, Gospel, Reggae as something qualitatively different strikes me as being very Americo-centric. MG

Ah yes - with Charles Kynard - beautiful album. There are really quite a lot... But Sonny made over 150... And that's more than a lot. MG

Eddie Cochrane Gene Vincent She-she little Sheila

Elsa Lanchester Hilary Armstrong, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Duke Ellington

Some of the Argo/Cadet material that's come out in the recent past on Euro labels is damn fine - with Sonny put in unusual situations. "Stitt goes green" is a twofer with "My main man" with Bennie Green and "Soul in the night" with Bunky Green (and Odell Brown). "Move on over" - another twofer with "Move on over", with Nicky Hill (only just getting into this after having it a couple of weeks and it kicks!) and "At the DJ Lounge" with Johnny Board. Both LPs had Eddie Buster on organ. There ain't any slacking on any of these! MG

Kuki Gallmann Elspeth Huxley Karen Blixen

There's that prehistoric lake bird, the Loon, on one side of it. One of the typical sights of Canada. Thanks sidewinder. MG

Not like it - that IS it. A bit of a burner, y'know. MG

That Whispers song, "(Your love is) so doggone good", makes that LP for me. The whole approach, but particularly Hawes' piano rhythms, is so off-centredly funky... MG

YES YES YES YES YES! That's possibly the greatest live recording ever made. Even if you hate electric sax, it's a total fuckin' burner! I imagine the audience coming out after the gig with horrid blisters, weeping pus, all over their faces. And Don Patterson was playing Like a maniac! And so was Billy James! MG

Surely, this time, it's not the strength of the Canadian economy, but the fucked-up-ness of the US economy that's causing the exchange rate movement? Why the hell do you call the Can$ a "loonie"? MG

Still fuckin' obscene. MG

Here's an interesting piece from a tax lawyer. http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007...igh-gas-prices/ MG

Ah, I see - do you think those people chose Blue Note or was it EMI who did the deciding? MG No clue. Guy In (at least) the majority of those cases, the "artist" chose the "label". The impression I got - and obviously I was wrong - was that EMI was putting on BN some people about whom there was some uncertainty - Anita Baker, who hadn't made an album for a decade; Green & Morrison, whose best selling days have probably passed; Norah Jones, whose enormous success couldn't have been forecasted; and so on. MG

I think that's what comes through in his music. What more can you ask? MG

Sonny Stitt -discs 5 & 6 - "Stormy Thursday" got up and yelled at me today (and it's Saturday). MG

Joris-Karl Huysmans Stephane Mallarme Arthur Rimbaud

Nice photo - very studious. But where's his beard? MG

Sonny Stitt - disc 4 MG

No - they simply didn't have an Industrial Revolution and a French Revolution. (Yet) MG

That's interesting. MG