The Magnificent Goldberg

Do you mean "People & love"? MG

David Newman Blue Mitchell Steve Novosel

Not much - 1 compilation. But that's something. And I do have a fair bit of other Farmer, Golson and Jazztet stuff. Well, Roy next purchase, then. Thanks folks. MG

Columbus Mann Christopher Columbus Andy Kirk

Glad to see this thread; Roy Eldridge is someone I have hardly anything of. And sound matters to me much more than notes. SO, do I go for this before the Farmer/Golson? (Decisions, decisions...) MG

Cha Cha J is there - track 7. The site is also in English Thanks very much for that! MG

That's interesting. I'll try to get one. Where did you get them? MG

LAL - does the CD contain more material than the LP? (Blues for Lester/Go Red go/Smooth sailin'/Flyin' home #2) MG

If the HMV Japan site is correct, the TOCJ doesn't have all the tracks on the LP - "Cha cha J", on which Jimmy plays piano, is missing. Glad you mentioned this Kyo - I was going to try to find my way through the Japanese to buy it. MG

Kool & the Gang The Fatback Band George Adams

Fred Perry Babycham Sekouba Bambino

Lunchtime, we had Tesco's Strine wine (red) with the lamb. V cheap, v nice. MG

"Snap your fingers" was recorded by Joe Henderson. I think this is not a very helpful line of reasoning. MG

Bruce Lee Stryker Lee Lee "Scratch" Perry

Heinz Alfred Hinds The Deerstalker

Unfortunately, the cover doesn't have either the title or the artist but it's "Dead men don't smoke marijuana" by S E Rogie MG

I can't effin believe you, Chewy. MG

Nope, try again. George Shearing MG

Richie Valens Frankie Avalon Kenny G

The one and only Herman Foster? MG

http://www.crapsweb.com/craps-table-layout.html Note that the table is not necessary for the execution of the game. So try here: http://www.gamblingplanet.org/craps.php Thanks - had no idea it was a craps bet. MG

Absolutely - and George Freeman's quirky solo on "Seven come eleven" (what does that mean in American?). But Groove isn't quite the star of this album, in my view. MG

My! Isn't that effin' disgustin'!?!?!?!? Bet Reid puked when he saw it. MG

If you live in Chicago, you should easily be able to get hold of a couple of books from the library that I hope will be helpful. They're both by Dempsey J Travis: "The autobiography of black jazz"; and "The autobiography of black Chicago". Travis is/was a real estate man (after having been a bandleader in the '30s) and the first of these books (the only one my local library can get) is written very much from a real estate man's point of view. I can't imagine that the other is any different. The first is worth reading for its own sake, by the way. MG

ben and les? Yes indeed, but in my view, not quite up to the standard of the other two PJs I mentioned. MG