The Magnificent Goldberg

It is just before the England v Brazil match. Ronaldinho goes into the Brazilian changing room to find all his teammates looking a bit glum. "What's up?" he asks. "Well, we're having trouble getting motivated for this game. We know it's important but it's only England. They're sh*te and we can't be bothered." Ronaldinho looks at them and says, "Well, I reckon I can beat them by myself. You lads go down the pub." So Ronaldinho goes out to play England by himself and the rest of the Brazilian team go off for a few jars. After a few pints they wonder how the game is going, so they get the landlord to put the teletext on. A big cheer goes up as the screen reads " Brazil 1 - England 0 (Ronaldinho 10 minutes)". He is beating England all by himself! Anyway, a few pints later and the game is forgotten until someone remembers, "It must be full time now, let's see how he got on." They put the teletext on. "Result from the Stadium 'Brazil 1 (Ronaldinho 10 minutes) - England 1 (Lampard 89 minutes)." They can't believe it; he has single-handedly got a draw against England!! They rush back to the Stadium to congratulate Ronaldinho. They find him inthe dressing room, still in his gear, sitting with his head in his hands. He refuses to look at them. "I've let you down, I've let you down." "Don't be daft, you got a draw against England, all by yourself. And they only scored at the very, very end!" "No, no, I have, I've let you down. I got sent off after 12 minutes."

Maybe. It seems they're lost, however, so it's probably academic. MG

Hm, must compare prices & postage rates then. Thanks Bebop. MG

I'm tryin' but Disconforme is unhelpful. Offering the CD for 10.95 Euro then, when you hit checkout, you're redirected to Jazzmessengers.com, who are charging 11.95! The buggers! Are Jazzmessengers.com an American firm? If so, they'll hit me with big postage bills, too. MG No, jazzmessengers.com is a Spanish site I believe. . . it's European at least, not American. Thanks Lon, I'll have another go, then. MG

My wife used to be a big Manilow fan. He was an OK working musician before he became a successful singer. He was music director for a TV talent show for a few years; then Bette Midler's MD. If you listen to her second LP, which he produced, there are some fairly adventurous (for pop music) ideas in there - powerful arrangement to "I shall be released", a brill version of "Skylark" accompanied only by Manilow's piano. Manilow was heavily into jazz as a young man; West Coast mainly; apparently Cal Tjader was his idol. MG

I'm tryin' but Disconforme is unhelpful. Offering the CD for 10.95 Euro then, when you hit checkout, you're redirected to Jazzmessengers.com, who are charging 11.95! The buggers! Are Jazzmessengers.com an American firm? If so, they'll hit me with big postage bills, too. MG

Sloppy research, I reckon, perhaps combined with ambiguous responses from Bernard. In the end, the guy who wrote the article COULD and SHOULD have checked his facts. If I were in Bernard's position, I'd have expected him to do his own homework. MG

Yes - is that another pinch of salt? I know hardly anything about Miles Davis' recordings. MG

Does the grimace on the back cover mean that side two is bad or just that Hank was constipated? He looks as if he's watching the owner of a 2CV nudge his car out of the way, in order to park. MG

"Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio" is a fine one. More Buddy Tate - "Groovin' with Tate" two SV LPs on one CD - "Tate's date" & "Grovin' with Buddy Tate". "Tiny in Swingville" by Tiny Grimes is another good 'un. The Al Casey was the first one I ever bought, though, a second hand copy with a crack all the way through - just held together by the label - and I've always had a particular affection for it. It was the King Curtis band of the time, with Rudy Powell instead of Curtis. MG

He's also on the previous Mel Sparks album Good player. I've enjoyed his contributions to both Sparks' and the Wilson albums. MG

I'm with Paul on this; a whole shaker of salt. In particular, the ref to "Love is strange" is strange. That was recorded in 1956, when Bernard was still a country kid. On his own admission, he didn't get to NY until 1960. And he really doesn't need to exaggerate; what he HAS done is great. I met him at Brecon in 2000 and he was endlessly patient with me. A good guy and an impressive man, as well as a great drummer. Really sorry to hear he has arthritis. Total bummer for a drummer. MG

Another spurious claim... he is a great drummer, though. Not entirely spurious - he DID play on "It's a man's, man's, man's world". But that's not a groove item. MG

I like this album - not as much as I like others of Hank, but it's still a good 'un. There is indeed something of the feel of "Breakthrough" (which I slightly prefer) on it. But Hank sounds very happy to be doing it. MG

Right-oh! I've just ordered Barcelona blues Boptronics George braith & friends The fourth CD is still not on the CD Baby site. What's happened to it? MG

Not in Britain. There's a doctrine about "reasonable force" over here, which generally doesn't include killing someone, unless you can show that your own life really depended on it. There have been a few celebrated cases here in which even wounding a burglar with a gun has led to prosecution and guilty verdicts. Nobody agrees with this. However, the implication of the alternative is that people start arming themselves and this seems like the thin end of the wedge in creating a society like the US. So, in this case, I think I side with the narrow interpretation of what a person can be allowed to do. MG The doctrine of reasonable force is also in effect in the United States. A person may not use deadly physical force unless he/she is in reasonable fear of serious physical injury or death AND (unless you are in Louisiana or Florida) retreat is impossible. However, there is no duty to retreat if you are in your own home. I think it unfortunate if British law requires retreat in such instance. As for the lawsuit, it definitely has merit, and, under the letter of the law, the plaintiff should prevail. I've never heard of the law here requiring one to evacuate one's home under these circumstances. Of course, if you were in the street, it's a different matter and anyone with any sense would get the hell out, rather than tackle someone armed. MG

"Two sides" is on Collectibles - available MG

That is in the UK only, which has no private copying exception at all. In the US, there is a fair use provision which covers some forms of copying, but I don't know the details. Ah, just us - of course. And the USA, from what Relyles just posted. MG

S'okay MG

This is a very nice album; I was listening to it a few days ago. The others mentioned are VG+ as well. But in my view the best Jack Wilson piano album is "The Jack Wilson Quartet" - that one has a young Roy Ayers playing beautiful stuff. It originally looked like this That's a bit small, so here's a drawing of the cover Then it was reissued on LP in this sleeve (title was changed to "Corcovado") and Collectibles has reissued it on CD like this coupled with an LP by Frances Wayne. MG

I've seen a thread somewhere in which it was pointed out that, because of some legal anomaly, it isn't even legal to copy records you have bought for your own purposes - eg to tape your own LP so you can play it in the car stereo. This law is so bad that it isn't enforced, but it's there, apparently. So copying a record borrowed from a library, even though in Britain the public library system pays a bulk royalty to copyright owners, is certainly illegal. MG

Not in Britain. There's a doctrine about "reasonable force" over here, which generally doesn't include killing someone, unless you can show that your own life really depended on it. There have been a few celebrated cases here in which even wounding a burglar with a gun has led to prosecution and guilty verdicts. Nobody agrees with this. However, the implication of the alternative is that people start arming themselves and this seems like the thin end of the wedge in creating a society like the US. So, in this case, I think I side with the narrow interpretation of what a person can be allowed to do. MG

Never heard of that one - you don't mean "The loop", which was on Tuba, do you? MG

Thanks for all this info people. It does sound plausible that Dearly Beloved could be from this performance. I do have a cassette of some of the tunes and do remember that on Crazy Legs or Easy Walker that Grant really stretches out. I haven't heard Lester Leaps In though but at that length it sounds like it would be worth hearing. It begs the question though how would Bob Beldon have got to hear the session tapes for this recording if it is an Eastbound date and not a Blue Note one. Something that I have is a copy of a great live blues by Grant that has Billy Taylor on piano and is sourced from an Italian jazz guitar comp that may not be an official realease. I do know that there is two more trio tracks from the same performance without piano. does anyone else know anything about this session? I didn't know there were two more Grant Green tracks from this session. According to the sleeve notes, the recordings are from 1961 but that's impossible, since "Canteloupe woman" wasn't written then. An Atilla Zoller discography dates his performance of "Straight no chaser" on the same LP (also with Gene Taylor and Connie Kay) to 4 July 1966 at Newport Jazz Festival, which doesn't seem unlikely. Billy Taylor is only credited on the Kenny Burrell track but, since there is a pianist on the Grant Greens, I assume that's Billy. The sleeve lists the first track as "Blues in Green", but it's "Canteloupe woman". The second track isn't a blues and has some unusual playing for Green; almost verging on free at the beginning, then moving into something that sounds as if it was inspired by Elvin Jones' playing. Very nice and interesting stuff. I'd like to hear more from the session. Can anyone confirm whether GG was at Newport that year? MG

If you mean the French were luckier, fully agree If they had been in that group C, they would end up fifth Nah - France will do better - Senegal didn't qualify! MG