The Magnificent Goldberg

? Leftover from the Dex thread. MG

I highly recommend picking up the JRVG version. You will find that it leaps out of the speakers as well. The domestic mastering sounds really lame. Worth the extra $, because "Sunshine Superman" has to be played LOUD! I'm thinking of taking your advice. I was disappointed in how quiet it was. When you say JRVG, is that the Japanese RVG? Isn't that version available yet in the US? MG

Or they can't get away because they already owe the boss so much money; the real point of the "Company store" operations. MG

What's wrong with that? James Brown fined his musicians if they were late onto the stand or played a bum note. Silver and Brown are businessmen - successful ones. Creed Taylor spent money like a drunken sailor and CTI went belly up. MG

That is a totally wonderful story. Thanks HBJ. MG

Etta James - Blues in the night - the Late Show MG

A superb bargain! A 2 CD set with "Alive & Cool" from Fillmore West 1969 and "Molten Ice" from the Mocambo Club Toronto 1973. Almost two hours of frenzied Ice-pickin'! for GBP6.99 - incredible! A quid cheaper than Amazon! Shows the potential power of the independent retailer who knows the market. And the music? Even more incredible than the price. MG

The lack of published method makes it even worse. It reminds me of the "non scientific" polls that CNN runs. It is a classic paradox. The presentation of the poll is intended to induce the belief that the poll is meaningful; but the poll is explicitly disclaimed and the lack of controls and adherence to scientific methods entails that the poll is meaningless. If you want to know how much ignorance is expected of the viewer/reader, that is a measure of it. The same is true here. Anthony Braxton would no doubt call it an example of the Spectacle Diversion Syndrome, and he would no doubt be right. Spectacle Diversion Syndrome! Oh, I do like that! But it's from the viewpoint of the victim, by the looks of it. From the oposite viewpoint - ie the instigator's - it would be Spectacle Diversion Tactic. MG

Hi MG, I've seen you relate this story here a couple of different times, but would you be willing to let us specifically know who that quote should be attributed to? Cheers, Shane Francis Wolff told the story when he was interviewed on the BBC's Sunday night jazz programme in the summer of 1970 (he was over in Europe to produce Hank Mobley's "The flip"). He didn't say "I told them" or "Alfred told them"; he said "they were told". So I don't know who the hatchet man was; it might have been an accountant, for all I know. Francis didn't specifically point the fingers at Smith, Byrd & Donaldson as the victims but they were the most likely. They all switched labels pretty quickly; Smith with great speed - "Bashin'" was recorded five weeks after "Midnight special" hit the pop album charts! I've often thought that was what made Donald Byrd start studying law. MG

I find this extremely funny for some reason. "That's not what I'm doing!" What, making money? You're a bit late, Jim You'da bin rich in the sixties, I'm sure. MG

Last Jimmy Forrest LP of the day Most Much MG

I can't do a top fifty - there aren't fifty pianists I like. Here's thirty I like a lot, more or less in order. LES MCCANN JUNIOR MANCE HAROLD MABERN HERMAN FOSTER JOHN WRIGHT STAN HOPE HORACE SILVER BOBBY TIMMONS RAY CHARLES DUKE ELLINGTON HAMPTON HAWES WYNTON KELLY CHARLES BROWN PHINEAS NEWBORN SONNY CLARK HANK CRAWFORD RAY BRYANT AMOS MILBURN PIANO RED NORMAN SIMMONS GENE RUSSELL LLOYD GLENN SONNY THOMPSON ABDULLAH IBRAHIM PROFESSOR LONGHAIR NAT 'KING' COLE VAN “PIANO MAN” WALLS MCCOY TYNER JOHN HICKS THELONIOUS MONK Plus AHMAD JAMAL I only heard Ahmad for the first time about ten days ago, when I bought a few of his CDs. I think he'll be in the list in a few months, though. MG

More Jimmy Forrest LPs going on Heart of the Forrest Out of the Forrest Waymon Reed - 46th & 8th (with Jimmy Forrest) MG

Betty Roche - Singin' and swingin' (with Jimmy Forrest) Jimmy Forrest - Forrest fire next Jack McDuff - Tough Duff (with Jimmy Forrest) MG

Thanks for bringing this up Rooster; I've really enjoyed it. Must have another listen to "Iron city" - didn't know it was Larry on organ MG

Al Grey/Jimmy Forrest - Live at Rick's - Aviva Al Grey/Jimmy Forrest - O D (Out Dere) - GreyForrest Next Jimmy Forrest - Night Train - Delmark (from United masters) MG

I like the album a lot. Now on my third copy - had an accident with the first in 1972. I don't think this album is as good as "Club Mozambique". Sylvester Goshay isn't anywhere near the drummer Joe Dukes is. And Rudy Jones isn't the tenor player that Dave Hubbard is. Same goes for Larry McGee compared to George Benson. More than that, the FEELING of the Detroit session is so much more funky, so much more vibrant. And it's LOUDER, too. It just LEAPS out of the speakers. Having said that, "Move your hand" isn't an album I would want to be without. Ever. MG

For living jazz pianists, how come nobody's mentioned Horace Silver? They should have included "funkiness" as a criterion. Then Horace, Duke, Les McCann could have made the list and Monk would have been higher. MG

I think 70 years after the death of the author is too long. So is 70 years after the creation of the recorded work. The purpose of copyright laws is to help people earn a living from their copyrighted work. People's normal objectives in earning a living are to support themselves and support their immediate family, which often includes parents. Only in relatively few cases in which misfortune removes a generation from a family do people have the objective of financially supporting their grandchildren. Fifty years seems to represent best the period in which people would normally expect to be working to support their family. Works that are out of print are no different to those that are in print, to my mind. Fashions change. What is not exploitable today may be exploitable tomorrow. Hip Hop is an excellent example; huge numbers of out of print records have been sampled. To quote one instance, the complete version of James Brown's "Funky drummer" was out of print from 1971 to 1986. Clearly 14 years is too short a period. The link on orphan works reveals the large range of material that is not created for the purpose of anyone earning a living; or an ongoing living, in the case of wedding photographs and similar material. I doubt whether copyright in this type of material should be owned by the photographer anyway - surely it should be owned by the family, so they they are able to prevent public use of private material. The same applies to private letters. But it isn't clear to me that any of this type of material should be subject to commercial copyright. There ought to be a different legal system for protecting this type of material. MG

Struth!! Thanks for posting that. Good thing he missed Belafonte and Dylan. MG

I didn't know that. And what's half a dozen supposed to mean? Six a week, month, year, decade, lifetime? MG ask the judge... just be decent about it. (what does decent mean???) No nude disc swapping allowed!! That's all right, I don't have any nude discs; I keep them covered up to stop horrid substances getting on them. MG

I've got that; it was originally called "Soul in the night" and came out on Cadet. Odell Brown is on organ. I like it a lot. I used to have a Bunky Green album, also on Cadet, called "The latinization of Bunky Green" which was pretty poor. Background vocals were by The Dells. I seem to remember Green was playing electri sax on that one. One to steer clear of. One I want is "Testifyin' time" - another issued by Cadet in the '60s. MG PS - I think the "Stitt goes green" also includes the album Sonny did with Bennie Green. A good coupling, in my view. MG

I didn't know that. And what's half a dozen supposed to mean? Six a week, month, year, decade, lifetime? MG

Crusaders - Ghetto blaster MG

More big sound tenor players Arnett Cobb - Smooth sailing Dexter Gordon - Ca' purange MG