[“Live at the Plugged Nickel” — just *not* Miles Davis]

Another unknown organ room was the Bon Ton Club, in Buffalo, NY. Idris Muhammad made his first jazz recording here, paying his first visit to the United States, as Lou said, on this

I've had this album for decades but I only just noticed the venue and cracked up

This MUST be the only album recorded at the Bombay Bicycle Club, LA

 

YAAAY for the Bombay Bicycle Club!!!!!

Back to Atlantic City. This was done at Club Harlem, there

Someone mentioned The Trianon in Chicago earlier. I think it wasn't a club but a pukka ballroom, but this was done there.

I can't see a credit for the cover art, but it's great! And a Columbia album yet!

 

 

MG

 

[“Live at the Plugged Nickel” — just *not* Miles Davis]

Oh, and HOW can any member of Organissimo forget Jimmy Forrest, Shirley Scott & Randy Marsh? Done at The Alibi Club, Grand Rapids, Mich

 

 

More from Jimmy & Shirley - with Al Grey

 

 

Done at Rick's on the Lake, Chicago. Like the Griff & Jaws session at Mintons, this is spread out in three albums. I've assembled the whole lot. with duplicates removed, it comes to an hour and 53 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small's Paradise hasn't had a mention, but not too many albums were made there.

Jimmy Smith did two

King Curtis made one

 

 

 

 

But I just found this by Babs Gonzales on Discogs

 

And this Roy Brooks

 

MG

[Your Early Parameters for Buying or Avoiding Certain Jazz Albums]

7 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

 

But how can you handle my writing about my lack of passion for Brubeck ? 

Easily!

MG

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Breakfast with

Lord Nelson - Black gold - Richie's Music 1978

Milt Buckner & Marcel Zanini - Blues & bounce - Black & Blue 1976

 

Now

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - Alo mi alo - Decca West Africa

 

 

Next

Monguito - El unico! - Toboga 1984

 

 

MG

 

 

[“Live at the Plugged Nickel” — just *not* Miles Davis]

8 hours ago, mjzee said:

Charles Earland - Living Black! (@ The Key Club, Newark, NJ).

There was also Rhoda Scott's second album.

 

Other Newark venues included The Cliche Lounge

The Cadillac Club

The Front Room

 

 

The Golden Slipper

 

 

Most of those clubs were neighbours. The Cadillac was diagonally opposite the Key Club on Halsey & Williams Streets. The Cliche Lounge was a short distance along Halsey. And there were other clubs. Bob Porter gave me a guided tour of the old places where there were clubs when I visited Newark in '96.

 

MG

Other little places included

Club Baron in New York, where Trudy Pitts made this GREAT album

And of course, there was Jimmy Smith's Supper Club, in LA somewhere

 

A GREAT live session with Teddy Edwards and Blue Mitchell. No one should be without it.

Speaking of Jimmy Smith, this was done in Paschal's La Carousel, in Atlanta

 Also not to be forgotten is Grace's Little Belmont Club, in Atlantic City

More later, when I can get round to it.

MG

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

This evening

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - Obey @ 70 - Obey 2012

Orquesta Reve - Suave suave - Areito 1990

Last one tonight

Nemours Jean-Baptiste - Ti-Carole - IBO 1966

 

 

MG

 

[Your Early Parameters for Buying or Avoiding Certain Jazz Albums]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

I think it's all those factors that make Miles THE starting point for listeners coming to jazz for the first time.

I dare say you're right, as far as new jazz fans coming in after the early fifties. But surely the millions and millions around the world who came in after hearing the Goodman, Ellington, Basie bands would well outnumber those developing a taste for a music with a declining audience.

MG

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

3 hours ago, EJ Walker said:

Nice! The other one 'The Fourmost return' is nice too.

MG

[The 1967 Stanley Turrentine sessions with medium-sized bands]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Try Mayme Watts.

& Walter Davis, Jr.?

https://books.google.com/books?id=uz8hAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2289&lpg=PA2289&dq=Mayme+Watts+you+want+me+to+stop+loving+you+w+davis&source=bl&ots=b2HKOFmDeg&sig=ACfU3U0Y9XqKGsh19I-KtkzNylSn0GcmtA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAtKOUwffyAhXZRTABHeZGCUUQ6AF6BAguEAM#v=onepage&q=Mayme%20Watts%20you%20want%20me%20to%20stop%20loving%20you%20w%20davis&f=false

Mr & Mrs they were: http://www.45cat.com/record/4g0103

https://books.google.com/books?id=IzkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=mayme+watts+walter+davis&source=bl&ots=sIUmuXL1Wc&sig=ACfU3U3hgiZ2zy2SEpGLg9QP_yizlV7ZJQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjiutSAwvfyAhX0RDABHfmOCDEQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=mayme%20watts%20walter%20davis&f=false

Mayme might have had some bank...

STRUTH! I looked at Mayme watts in Discogs but she seemed a bit too early for this. And there was the best part of bugger all on her there, anyway.

MG

Oh, and Sid Wyche also wrote 'A woman, a lover, a friend' for Jackie Wislon.

MG

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

This afternoon

Ikenga Super Stars of Africa - Ikenga go marry me - Rogers All Stars 1981

Kenny Burrell (PR7008) - Prestige 1957

Arthur Prysock - Love makes it right - Old Town 1974

MG

[The 1967 Stanley Turrentine sessions with medium-sized bands]

I'm sure this can't be a Wild Bill Davis tune. I tried to get at it by looking on google for a songwriter called M Watts and didn't get anything looking likely. But there are plenty of people called M Watts, and some of them (Mike Watts) are musicians.

But it's a song, not a tune. No tunesmith would EVER write an instrumental with that title. So don't look in jazz. It's a song that's so unsuccessful that it's not even celebrated for its lack of success.

MG

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Just ending

Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis & Johnny Griffin - Ow! - Reel to Real 1962

 

Now

 

Lee Dorsey - Yes we can - Polydor 1970

 

MG

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

7 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Inspired by Mark Strykers article:

Sonny Stitt Nightwork with Howard McGhee, Walter Bishop, Tommy Potter and Kenny Clark. Recorded in Switzerland. 

 

Nice album. One of the last 3 Stitts in my to rip pretty soon list.

MG

 

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

8 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

iNo! ¿Que es?

Kanaga de Mopti started off as the Orchestre Regional de Mopti. It was one of the original regional bands subsidised by the Ministry of Information of the post-colonial government of Mali. This is their first recording, from 1970, recorded by the Ministry of Information and released on Barentreiter-Musicaphon. The Mopti Region includes the Bandiagara Escarpment, the central part of the land of Do, home of the Dogon. Very important centre for tourism.

 

The band's second album was made in 1977 for the Mali Kunkan label, owned by the Ministry of Information (apparently now owned by Syllart). This was recently reissued on CD. It's outstandingly brilliant.

Pawi is one I recently found out about from the guy from whom I've been buying African records on and off for thirty-something years. He doesn't know when it issued.

All three of these albums are very different.

MG

 

 

 

 

Breakfast this morning with

The Soul Children - Open door policy - Stax  1978

(Made by Stax after the label had been acquired by Fantasy)

Djeli Fode Kouyate - Sagesse - AMC 1998

No image on web; will upload it.

 

Ben E King - Supernatural - Atlantic 1975

 

MG

 

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

4 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I haz this one, also! 

Bet you doesn't haz the Kanaga de Mopti!!

MG

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

This evening

Osdalgia Lemnes - Osdalgia Contigo Live - Mimisma Prod

 

 

Now coming to the end of 

 

Kanaga de Mopti - Pawi - Samassa

 

No image on web. I'll be at the bottom, I reckon

 

Orquesta Aragon - That Cuban Cha cha cha - RCA Victor 1956 (and you thought it started with Tea for two cha cha in 1959 )

 

 

 

 

 

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I've been meaning to investigate Morales' music.  MG, would you have a recommendation for a good place to begin?

 

Enjoy!   

 

I've got five. I like 'Como esta' a lot.

The others are 

Holiday in Havana - cheapo on Design from 1960, but probably earlier material

 

 

His piano and rhythm - Ansonia 1960 - very nice indeed

 

 

Mambo with Noro - Palladium 1952 very nice indeed

 

Mambo with Morales - Harmony (Most is with Humberto Morales)  

 

The cheapos are likeable, but I don't think they're as nice as the proper issues. But I bet they're a cinch to find in cutout bins.

MG

 

 

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

5 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Bsrney Kessel, Solo (Concord)

Johnny Lytle, Close Enough for Jazz (Solid State)

I've always thought 'Close enough for jazz' to be his weakest album, though not without good spots. How do you find it?

MG

 

[Your Early Parameters for Buying or Avoiding Certain Jazz Albums]

Unlike most of you, I got into jazz through R&B.

I got my first record player for Christmas 1958 and started buying singles. By the summer of '59, I looked through the 45s I'd got and decided most of them were shit. SO I looked again and picked out the ones that WEREN'T shit and got Clyde McPhatter, the Coasters, Chuck Willis, Bobby Darin, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Larry Williams. I read the labels! That stuff all came out here on the London label, with a credit to the original label, and you could identify that Atlantic and Atco were the same company, because their catalogue numbers were all HL-E, Imperial's were HL-P. But Specialty's were just HL.

Radio was bad news in 1959  and full of the shitty stuff I'd been buying. So I decided to ignore it and what my friends at school said and go by labels.

The New Musical Express published a list on Wednesdays of all the following Friday's single releases, with catalogue numbers so I decided to get anything with an HL-E number, whether I knew anything about it or, more likely, nothing whatever. As Imperial had Ricky Nelson, it was TOO dangerous to buy Imperial. The following week, out came 'There goes my baby' by the Drifters. So I took it to the record shop opposite Victoria station near my school and ordered it. When I got it home I put it on and heard the first real soul music I'd ever encountered. Phew! That was IT! But a couple of weeks later, out came Ray Charles' 'What I say'. And THAT was it, too!

So when I started buying jazz, I started with the MJQ, because THEY were on Atlantic. And that was different. But, later, David Newman's 'Fathead' came my way, when I was working in Harrods - well I DID know something about him, of course.

And during that period, I learned to avoid Columbia. And RCA Victor. And Brunswick (US Decca's label over here). And to focus on indies. I decided that indies HAD to be run by fans, and KNEW that couldn't be true of the majors. So that thought led me to Blue Note, Prestige, Pacific Jazz, Riverside and the Chess labels.

I used the same parameters when I was exploring music from Africa. It worked there, too, and Syllart is the fourth biggest label in my collection.

 

MG

[The 1967 Stanley Turrentine sessions with medium-sized bands]

9 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

of all the Duke Pearson arranged sessions ST did for BN, this is probably my personal favorite.  Not coincidentally it's it's the littlest big(ger) band and the first one I owned.  I have long thought that mid-sized bands are their own distinct thing and should be recognized as such in polls, awards, etc.  If you only have 7 or 8 slots to fill, then every choice of instrumentation and personnel really matters.  Great cover and I like the tunes too.

Yeah, this is one of my favourite of Stanley's albums (along with Shirley's 'Soul song' and the one with Les McCann).

It was also the first of his 16 hit albums; made #20 on the R&B album chart. 'The look of love' was his only other hit on Blue Note.

Alfred Lion retired soon after these 1967 sessions and Francis Woolf took over production duties. I'm wondering if that caused some kind of chaotic hiccup at Blue Note, with Liberty pushing for hits and Francis feeling he had to make a name for himself. But, as Mike said, a hell of a lot of Stanley's records weren't released at the time. And Stanley ALWAYS played well.

But, as we know, Stanley wasn't the only one whose records were treated thus. It leads to the speculation of what might have happened if the owners hadn't had t osell the label but had just carried on until they died. Would anyone EVER have heard all that stuff? Maybe not.

MG

 

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Breakfast with

The Soul Children - Friction - Stax 1974

Mildred Clark & the Melodyaires - God's got everything you need (except the complete recordings of Perez Prado) - Savoy 1979

Abdoulaye Diabate - Bende - Cobalt 1998

Noro Morales - Como esta - Tico 1960

MG

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Breakfast with

Maaskool - Massa Thiono - KSF 1997

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - In the sixties vol 1 - Decca West Africa

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - In the sixties vol 2 - Decca West Africa

Erskine Hawkins - After hours - RCA Victor

 

My favourite big band...

MG

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Yeah!!!!!

 

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now on the 'table:

Jacquet sounds SO GOOD with organists.   

 

Yeah AGAIN!!!!

MG

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

This afternoon/evening

Nemours Jean-Baptiste - Jouant pour la jeunesse - IBO 1963

Professional Uhuru Dance Band - Special Highlife numbers - Decca West Africa 1971

 

International Super 5 - Super 5 International vol 1 - Tabansi 1975

(There are NEVER five people on their sleeves - sometimes more, sometimes fewer )

Now

The Caravans - The Caravans sing - Gospel 1958

 

MG

 

 

 

 

 

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[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

14 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Last night with dinner:  Milt Raskin - Kapu (Crown, mono)

Oh, I remember seeing that around way back when.

MG