The Magnificent Goldberg

Leo Sayer John Hanning Speke Chris Chataway

Veronica Lake Sam Rivers Billie Poole

You're definitely wrong there, Guy. Lots of jazz albums got onto the Billboard pop or R&B charts in the eighties. I've got a list of 388 by 131 artists : 2 Ahmad Jamal 5 Al Dimeola 7 Al Jarreau 1 Alex Bugnon 3 Alphonse Mouzon 1 Andre Previn 6 Angela Bofill 3 Bill Summers 2 Billy Mitchell 1 Blackbyrds 11 Bob James 1 Bobbi Humphrey 1 Bobby Broom 2 Bobby Caldwell 2 Bobby Mcferrin 1 Branford Marsalis 1 Brecker Bros 1 Charles Earland 2 Chick Corea 5 Chuck Mangione 1 Cleo Laine 1 Damon Rentie 9 Dave Grusin 2 Dave Valentin 3 David Benoit 2 David Grisman 7 David Sanborn 1 Deodato 1 Diane Reeves 1 Diane Schuur 1 Doc Severinson 1 Donald Byrd 1 Dr John 9 Earl Klugh 1 Echoes Of An Era 1 Ernie Watts 1 Fattburger 1 Frank Barber Orch 1 Fuse One 1 Gary Bartz 2 Gene Dunlap 8 George Benson 8 George Duke 6 George Howard 2 Gerald Albright 5 Gil Scott-Heron 9 Grover Washington Jr 1 Harry Connick Jr 1 Harvey Mason 1 Heath Brothers 7 Herbie Hancock 5 Hiroshima 2 Hubert Laws 1 Jaco Pastorius 5 Jazz Crusaders 5 Jean-Luc Ponty 6 Jeff Lorber 1 Jeff Tyzak 3 Joe Sample 1 John Bolivar 2 John Klemmer 3 John Mclaughlin 5 Kenny G 1 Kirk Whalum 1 L A Boppers 6 Larry Carlton 2 Larry Elgart 6 Lee Ritenour 1 Lena Horne 2 Lenny White 1 Leon Redbone 1 Locksmith 2 Lonnie Liston Smith 6 Lou Rawls 1 Madhouse 1 Maurice White 2 Maynard Ferguson 1 Mccoy Tyner 1 Members Only 5 Michael Franks 3 Miki Howard 8 Miles Davis 4 Mtume 2 Najee 5 Narada Michael Walden 2 Noel Pointer 3 Norman Connors 2 Passport 9 Pat Metheny 4 Patrice Rushen 6 Patti Austin 1 Paul Hardcastle 1 Paul Winter 6 Pieces Of A Dream 3 Quincy Jones 1 Ralph Macdonald 4 Ramsey Lewis 6 Randy Crawford 1 Ray Charles 2 Regina Belle 1 Rickie Lee Jones 2 Rippingtons 1 Robben Ford 5 Rodney Franklin 1 Ron Carter 4 Ronnie Laws 7 Roy Ayers 1 Sadao Watanabe 2 Santana 2 Sergio Mendes 11 Spyro Gyra 3 Stanley Clarke 3 Stanley Jordan 2 Stanley Turrentine 1 Stephane Grappelli 1 Sweat Band 1 Terri Lyne Carrington 1 Tim Weisberg 5 Tom Browne 2 Tom Scott 1 Tuck & Patti 1 Vince Guaraldi 1 Walter Beasley 1 Wayne Henderson 6 Weather Report 2 Webster Lewis 1 Wilbert Longmire 1 Will Downing 3 Wilton Felder 6 Wynton Marsalis 3 Yellowjackets (I've cut stuff by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, numbers of various artist and film soundtrack comps.) Now you can say that there's not much jazz in so and so's work, but that's the point, I think - there WASN'T a serious disconnect between jazz and popular music in the eighties. Even in the nineties there were between 200-250 jazz albums charting. What you got was a spectrum from jazz-ish, to very hardcore jazz. MG

Allen Lowe plays Toni Braxton MG

Sonny Knight Quartette Sir Charles Thompson I K Dairo MBE

Sweet William Salty Dog Sourpuss

Is that an album cover? Really looks just like a photo of a guy standing outside a record shop. MG

Christopher Tolkien Christopher Robin Bonnie & Clyde

Yes, I put a track in one of my BFTs a few years ago. I had a quick look around (but not e-bay) and found there's a new and a second hand copy on Amazon UK, but the prices are bleeding ridiculous - £44.86 2nd hand ($75.43); £49.99 new ($84.06) Plus postage. Keep searching - and there's another WBD on Jazz Connaisseur with Plas Johnson £24.23 second hand. Cheapo MG

I think it's Clifford singing. Back in the VHS days, I had a few songs he did at Antone's. But I never compared the CDs with the video - they've always been in different rooms - so I can't be positive. MG

One has to wonder why the sleeve on the sand is an album by Lester Lanin... MG

Willie Tee Earl Turbinton Richard Tee

The Headhunters Michael Foot Clyde Ankle

Hot Ptah's response to one of the tracks on BFT122 ('Who is Clifford Scott?') led me to start this thread. Clifford Scott, also known as Joe Splink, was one of the great Texas tenor players, was born in San Antonio on 21 June 1928. He died in 1993. He worked with Jay McShann and Amos Milburn in the late 40s, then joined Roy Miltons great band, The Solid Senders, in 1952. In 1953, he was with Lionel Hampton and toured Europe with him, recording in France. This is out on BMG: He returned to Roy Milton in 1955 and later the same year joined the band in which he was to make his name. In January 1956, Clifford first recorded with Bill Doggett, with whom he remained until 1962, putting his individual stamp on such hits as 'Honky tonk', 'Hold it', 'Slow walk', 'Leaps and bounds', 'Ram-bunk-shush', 'Rainbow riot', 'Monster party' and 'Yocky dock'. Bills band recorded a much wider range of material than their hits reveal and it was with Doggett that Clifford started paying alto sax and flute. While with Bill, Clifford was called upon by King, for whom the band recorded, to play on various sessions by other R&B acts. One of the first was the first session of a new singer, James Brown, at which his first classic hit, 'Please, please, please' was recorded. He also played on Browns 'Try me'. During his period with Bill Doggett, Clifford got the opportunity to record as a leader. His first session, in 1958, featured a young Andrew Hill on piano. He recorded again as a leader in 1960. No albums were made but I think the material appears on a compilation with some Lynne Hope recordings. After he had left the Doggett band, Clifford made a couple of sessions with blues guitarist Freddie King, then moved to Los Angeles. On the coast, Clifford made an entirely different set of recordings. He appeared on albums by Carmel Jones, Vic Feldman, Marvin Jenkins, Groove Holmes, Lou Rawls, Jimmy Witherspoon and Charles Kynard. In this period, he got another chance to record as a leader. Starting with the wonderful LP, 'Out front', backed by Les McCann Ltd, Clifford made three LPs for Pacific Jazz, none of which have been reissued. He also appeared on Billy Larkin & the Delegates second album, 'Blue Lights', another magnificent album that has been reissued by Fresh Sound: He worked with Onzy Matthews in 1964 (the material is in the Mosaic Select), then Della Reese, and rejoined Bill Doggett briefly in 1965. He joined the Ray Charles band in the late 1960s (Ray always liked to have Texas tenor players in his band) and played on the 'My kind of jazz' album. In the early 70s, Clifford returned to Texas, where he lived for the rest of his life, a regular at Antones, only emerging occasionally, as when he toured Europe in 1986 with Wild Bill Davis. Davis album, 'The Zurich concert', is one of the few bits of extended Scott available. Finally, back in Texas in the early 1990s, Clifford made two albums, with a high R&B content, with his regular band for the French label New Rose. This player should be more widely appreciated. The only bit of praise I've seen for him is from the Groove Holmes album 'Something special' in which John William Hardy describes him as sounding 'like Gene Ammons on a GOOD night'. OK, that's typical hype - not even I think he's THAT good. MG

Oh yes, please. I promise not to spill the beans. MG

The Goof I Al Cohn

WHO IS CLIFFORD SCOTT!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness! I'll send you some. I've got to say not much is available by or featuring him. This one is probably not too hard to get and you'll like it a lot: Jimmy Witherspoon - Evenin' blues - Prestige (OBC CD) (with T-Bone Walker, Clifford Scott & Bert Kendricks on organ.) AMG has the barest of bare outlines of his career here http://www.allmusic.com/artist/clifford-scott-mn0000159260 MG

Well, I never heard of this guy before but, looking at the wiki page you referenced, I can see why. MG Did you see the link within the article to Keltner's webpage, MG, which lists his recordings? He recorded on albums by Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, Roberta Flack, Booker T. Jones, Chaka Khan, Aaron Neville, Ibrahim Ferrer, the Impressions, Cal Tjader, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley, Keb Mo, Mavis Staples, Pops Staples--it wasn't all rock music. I didn't notice that link, so I found it just now and had a look. It lists 826 albums which, compared with the thousands by Bernard Purdie and Plas Johnson, isn't a great many over 45 years. The vast majority of the artists listed I've never heard of. I have albums by seventeen of them. Only on Albert King's 'Lovejoy' is his name mentioned (there's no personnel listed on my edition of Freddie King's 'Woman across the river'). Those are the only albums I've got with him on it (apart from the two by the Afro-Blues Quintet Plus 1, who aren't listed in the discography ) He doesn't appear on any of the albums I have by Albert Collins B B King Ali Farka Toure Bette Midler Booker T & the MGs Buddy Guy Cal Tjader Clare Fischer Gatemouth Brown Ernestine Anderson Freddie Hubbard Grady Tate Jimmy Witherspoon Ray Charles or Roberta Flack. Hardly surprising I've never heard of him MG

Katie Boyle Baron de Bathmat Boyle Basil de Bathmat Dilswipe Boyle (his nephew - from a poem in a Saint book I read as a teen)

Grant Green Grant Green Jr Erkey Grant & the Earwigs

Well, I never heard of this guy before but, looking at the wiki page you referenced, I can see why. MG