The Magnificent Goldberg

Does that mean that those of us who were toying with our scruples have had it? MG

Stanley Turrentine - Discs 1 & 2 MG

War Fatback Kool & the Gang

Max Harris Max Harrison Wendell Harrison

Well, I wasn't going to order mine until the very end of the month. MG

Alfred the Great Ivan the Terrible Boogaloo Joe Jones

That name Doris Duke is familiar... MG

He said "Not bad, but he stole it all from me..." MG

??? I posted so I'd get e-mail notifications so I could keep up. Then I forgot to check the effin' box! MG

I LURVE it! "Zim" and "FJD" are killers. MG

Fuck!

Posting to keep in touch with this. MG

Bout time I invested in a proper collection of this stuff. And the price looks OK. MG

I can't say I particularly like scatting or vocalese but one alum I REALLY like is Joe Carroll's "The man with the happy sound". It helps that there is Grant Green and Conrad Lester in the band, of course. But Joe's singing is always amusing and on the button. Happy sound is dead right. MG

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How about arranging them so they're looking at each other, trying to mess with each other's heads? "You think you're bad?" "Badder than your sad ass." "I'm badder than all of you suckers!" "I'm so bad I don't even have to say how bad I am." MG

Joe Pass Mosaic box - just the discs with Les McCann. MG

Thanks Mike - another for the endless list! MG

I agree completely. What also bugs me is when someone comes out to introduce a jazz concert and gives a fervent speech about how jazz is equal to classical music. A variation on this speech is that jazz is better than classical music. The person giving the speech always seems to shout, and to build to a mighty emotional climax when the jazz-classical music comparison is made. I always think, jazz and classical are not alike, and to compare the two head-on is foolish. I have noticed that this jazz is greater than or equal to classical music speech is often given by someone raising money, or campaigning for public office. Even in its more subtle form, I find this very embarrassing, embarrassing for jazz. It sounds like a cover for an inferiority complex. A number of Wynton Marsalis' comments on classical music and jazz really bother me in that respect. He talks as if he is on a mission to prove to the world that jazz can be as "serious" as classical music. He has even made statements to the effect that he only plays classical music for that reason, i.e. to gain more respect for jazz. The effect is just the opposite. Why put jazz on the defensive? It doesn't need to be. We have 100 years of jazz great music, much of it recorded. What else is needed? Why should jazz be respected? Why should classical music? Why should Mbalax? Blues? Soul? Wassoulou? Reggae? Hip Hop? Gospel? There's nothing intrinsic in any kind of music that should automatically induce respect. Of course, one should respect the culture out of which it arises, but that's a different thing. And a musician should be respected for trying to do whatever it is well, and that's another different thing. MG

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Indeed - no one (else) here seems to think Smooth Jazz has anything to offer... MG

Ole Hansen Eric "Slow Hand" Clapton George Orwell

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Calder Hall Three Mile Island Chernobyl

What's not to like about it? MG Like I said elsewhere on the board, that's a matter of taste... Sure, but MC isn't picking stuff for his own collection, he's running a record company. Lou sells. MG