The Magnificent Goldberg

John Knott Scaffold Madame Guillotine

It seems to me that there are quite a few examples between John Lewis and Milt Jackson among the MJQ's recordings. So often, one slides in under the other and, for a minute or two, there's no determining who's got the lead there. MG

Wild Bill Davis Wild Bill Davison Wild Bill Hickock

Whatever you do decide, Laurie, please let us know - so I can show my wife, for when I die. MG

Kofi Annan Boutros-Boutros Ghali Ban Ki-Moon

Amy Winehouse Bea Booze Lunchtime O'booze

Tried looking for this - can't get it on download, from Amazon, iTunes or MeMusic. Space for new CDs almost exhausted. I'll wait until someone puts it on DL. MG

I don't deny anything you're saying, Scott. It's been clear since the fifties that there are two fairly separate jazz audiences. I happen to like Soul Jazz, of which smooth jazz is the rather lame descendant. You happen not to. OK. But it's all jazz, lame or great; it's not compulsory for jazz to be good. MG

Wasn't the case when most of my favourite jazz musicians were having R&B chart hits. I'm confident that smooth jazz is still represented. And gospel music frequently appears on the R&B album chart even in this day and age. To say there's a difference in musical tastes is not racist, young man. MG

Never HEARD of that one!!! MG Never HEARD of that one!!! MG I used to have this LP years ago but sold it because it did not really grab me much. I bought it because of Wheeler's presence but unfortunately the music struck me as rather so-so. Oh hell - I just realised it's not Jack McDuff but Jack Duff. What a duffer MG

Roy Gaines T-Bone Walker Guitar Crusher

At $.054 per album play you would have to had played Born to be Blue about 370 times to generate $20.00 of revenue. You must really like that album. At $.06 per song, a ten track album would have to be played all the way through 100 times to make $6.00. There are very few, if any, albums in my collection that I have listened to 100 times. Most jazz albums are considered successful if 1000 - 2000 copies are sold. For musicians who sell that few albums, the economics of Spotify do not make sense. Sure I like it! I'm surprised at someone playing their albums so little, but I don't know how old you are It takes me a LONG time to listen to an album many, many times. Only about 27% of my collection has more than 100 plays - but 60% of my collection is stuff I've bought since 2000 and that's too short a time for me to listen to anything as much as that. But returning to an album year in and year out for up to fifty odd years... it mounts up. And I still greatly enjoy those albums; I don't play them out of a sense of duty or getting value for money. I'm actually quite shocked to find you saying that 1-2000 copies are regarded as success for a jazz album. Do you think that reflects a perception on the part of the public that jazz isn't entertaining any more? Even in a small country like Senegal, NORMAL first runs of Mbalax albums are 25-30,000 and, since royalties have to be paid on numbers manufactured rather than number sold, those first runs are set conservatively. The black population of the US is several times that of Senegal and there are, in addition, a lot of white people who like jazz. MG

Porgy Bess Sporting Life

The House of Lords? MG

My old boss used to be called Hugh Brodie Not any more, he's dead. Miss Jean Brodie Vanessa Redgrave Zoe Caldwell

Never HEARD of that one!!! MG

Of course - on the web images come and go - here's the post where I listed a lot of what I got in July - MG

Well. a fair amount of my stuff I get on African K7s which aren't sold in the west (except in cities with a good-sized African population, like Paris, Brussels and, perhaps, Little Senegal in New York - the real reason I go to Paris every year and come home wit h40-50 albums). But anything you've seen me post an image for on the board SHOULD be gettable somehow, because I get the images from the web. Don't restrict yourself to Spotify - maybe it's somewhere else; Amazon are doing a lot of downloads of CK7 albums nowadays - course, you have to BUY those - and I have found stuff on iTunes and CD Baby that's not on Amazon. Do Google for a comprehensive search. MG

And your reason is.....? A debate about Apple and their skinning 30% off every music sale, and other things, would certainly derail the thread - and my issues are not entirely related to music. So I don't think such a debate would be fruitful. People who use Apple and like them will be pro - people like me anti. I can ssure you though, I will never buy an Apple product or service, so it's not an option for me. I hope you understand - I'm not avoiding the issue, it's just that I can predict the path any debate would take. It wasn't a rhetorical question. I'm seriously curious about your reasons. Apple's 30% is (I think) less than most brick and mortar stores take. Well, it's gone up a bit since the sixties, which isn't wholly surprising. Back then the shop I worked in was making between 20 and 25 percent margins. MG

Acme Road Runner Bo Diddley

I'm not at all sure that $0.006 IS an abysmal rate of pay per play. It's not .6 of a cent per album but per play - so a ten track album, which gets played through would earn 6 cents. If I'd have had to pay someone 6 cents every time I'd played Grant Green's 'Born to be blue' - oh it's a nine cut album, so that's 5.4 cents, it would have cost me getting on for twenty dollars by now. Of course, albums I don't listen to wouldn't have cost nearly as much as the hard copy versions in Spotify terms but, although I have a few of those, I keep them for discographical reasons. And, also of course, I haven't played my recent acquisitions hundreds of times - yet, and may never do so, as we inevitably die before we've got full value out of lots of the things we buy Oh well. What artists probably need to think about is making music that customers will want to come back to decade after decade. If they can do that, these tiny payments can add up to a good income. MG PS - like Ligeti, I don't watch TV or even know how to USE a mobile anything, so I have plenty of time for music. Decisions, decisions. Now, what shall I listen to next - Edmundo Ros 'Dance again' MG

Fred Jackson appears to be playing alto sax. Used to have this LP but sold it when I was EXTREMELY hard up. It's very nice, but not SO nice as you'd go without food to keep it. MG

Mack the Knife The Hatchet Man Butcher Pete

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Anne of Green Gables Lancelot of the Lake

Funnily enough, I don't I expect I will do, one day. MG