The Magnificent Goldberg

I put on 6 pounds in 2006, starting at Christmas 2005. Gotta take it off; my trousers aren't fitting! Give proper attention to buying African music this year. Bought hardly any in 2006. Withdrawal symptoms bad. Two Sekouba Bambinos to be ordered in January for starters. Ditto Gospel music (as opposed to singing preachers - though I shan't forget about them). Avoid telling my wife to shut up when she talks while I'm trying, on her behalf, to negotiate a telephone menu; it doesn't go down well, I notice. MG

Just keeping in touch Mr B. MG

Ditto. MG

Etta Jones & Houston Person - A Christmas together Jimmy Ponder - Guitar Christmas MG

Thanks Rod. I'll look into Young Tiger. He sounds very good. MG

Sounds like Lord Tanamo, but if this was recorded in the late '40s - by the sound of it - he would only hae been about 15 years old, and whoever it is was older than that! So who was it? MG

I just noticed it's 6 pages, because this is last year's thread. So, already it's twice as long as last year. And six pages in 39 days is 0.15 pages per day. The "Which Mosaic are you enjoying" thread has 109 pages after 940 days; and average of 0.115 pages per day. Am I a fuckin' nerd or what? YAY! MG

Nine pages isn't too bad and it's not Christmas Eve yet. MG

I think it's been happening for a long time; since the war, I reckon. The marketing men have been getting better and better at chopping music up into little chunks that they can flog to a public that has been similarly chopped up. But all hope is not lost. As society changes boundaries may (and, I hope, will) become permeable once more. The technology will change things as well, which may (and, I hope, will) have an eventually disastrous impact on the multinationals. One of the big issues in the culture clash I referred to earlier is the rejection of the Western way of doing business. I think the internet is going to be instrumental in changing the way business is done over the next century or so. MG

Al Casey Buster Crabbe Ming the Merciless

That's a shame. Well, I can listen to Big Band Jazz by Cab Calloway, then Big Band Djeliya by Bembeya Jazz National and it's like eating a curry followed by chocolate pudding. It all gets mixed up inside me and feeds me. I don't truly make a distinction between the two - or anything else - inside ME. Of course, if I'm trying to convey something to someone else, I have to recognise that some words have particular meanings. Of course, the meaning of the word jazz is something that people have fist fights about. And that should tell us that there's not much more to the meaning NOW than a method of marketing music. It wasn't always this way. But what people understood by the word jazz in the 1920s is yet another excuse for fisticuffs. MG

Go do laundry. Go directly to laundry. Do not pass GO. DO not collect £200. MG

I pulled that out for play later today, too. MG

Faye Dunaway Frances Faye Francis of Assisi

Magic Sam Small Sad Sam Richard Smallwood

Yes. A friend once observed that very few musicians (classical or any other kind he meant) make more than one step forward (assuming you agree that there is a forward). So, once you've made your step, what do you do for an encore? MG

Don't know that one. Always thought the sleeve looked a bit too cleverclogs for me. MG It's a very nice date with what I consider to be the definitive recording of Earl Zindars' "Elsa." Get it for that alone. Coming from you, Al, I think I'd better. MG

OK, we're saying the same thing. My take is that the cliches and received ideas actually DO make most of us what we are. But some people aren't fooled and can see through them. But they're in the same environment of cliches and received views as everyone else. The TRUE innovator (and not some eccentric who looks at things oddly) finds the RIGHT way of seeing things through the fog and brings about new ways of seeing which eventually give rise to a different set of befogging cliches etc. And so it goes on, all the time requiring a new someone to come along with the new RIGHT way of looking through the new fog. And it's not fiction MG

Wow! Both down now! Thanks Ray. MG

Hilarious! MG

MG congrats on winning the corn flakes.Winning the lottery pales by comprison!!!! Dunno 'bout that. I'll let you know when my wife's number comes up Feeling even better today; awaiting the postman with the last batch of the year! MG Party on Bro!!!!! You sound like the office party's done you a bit of good. (First one I went to - I was 16 - I got very drunk and threw up everywhere. But I managed to kiss a very sexy married lady I'd lusted over.) MG

First download worked fine Ray. Now going for #B. Thanks. MG PS takes about half an hour per download. I think I have thinband.

Clementine, you should have been a member of the Warren commission ! How do you know he wasn't? MG

Cedar Walton Hazel Scott Holly Golightly

Don't know that one. Always thought the sleeve looked a bit too cleverclogs for me. MG