The Magnificent Goldberg

Oh, I remember seeing that around way back when. MG

Breakfast with Carlyto Lassa - Africa na moto - Syllart 1996 Conjunto Matamoros - La epoca de oro 1950-51 - RCA International Now Stanley Turrentine - Betcha - Elektra 1979 Next Super Ensemble Nemours Jean-Baptiste - The trois dangers - IBO 1965 MG

I use Foobar for playing music, converting and burning stuff like compilations to CDR. I rip CDs using itunes. It's a flaming nusance when it keeps wanting me to sign in to the itunes store and stops ripping if it does that during a rip, but I haven't worked out how to get Foobar to rip a CD while it's playing something else to me. WMP will do a rip for me, I think, but that programme insists on tracking down every bit of music on my hard drive before it does a hand's turn; after three days of searching, it hadn't finished so I gave up. MG

Very nice! MG

Listening to Willie Bobo yesterday, I realised he's one of 'em. And with a pretty good voice, too. MG

Breakfast with Mongo Santamaria Afro American Latin - Columbia 1969 So good it CAN'T have been on Columbia. Even the sleeve is magnificent. Bantous de la Capitale - Grands succes Africains vol 3 - Pathe Marconi Now Les Difficiles de Petionville - Ce la vie - Haiti Records 1970 Next James Moody - Coming on strong - Argo 1964 MG

I like that. Always think of it as a Buddy Collette album, even though it does say Latin Jazz All Stars in small letters on the back cover. MG

This evening Mills Blue Rhythm Band - 1931 - Chrono Classics Led by the great Edgar Hayes, fresh from his experience with Eight Black Pirates - I wish that band had recorded George Shearing & Dakota Staton - In the night - Capitol 1957 Nemours Jean-Baptiste & Webert Sicot - Union - Delta 1983 Jean-Baptiste (in glasses) was only a couple of years from death when this was made, but it's still good. MG

Lovely one. MG

Breakfast with Bill Doggett - 3046 people danced 'til 4AM - Warner Bros 1961 Willie Bobo - A new dimension - Verve 1968 Beny More - El barbaro del ritmo - RCA Victor early fifties James Moody - Another bag - Argo 1962 MG

Earlier this evening Stanley Turrentine - Nightwings - Fantasy 1977 Tito Puente - Pachanga con Puente - Tico 1961 MG

Yes, I agree with all that. We know about 'Hog maws, false start'. My guess is that false starts might have been quite frequent. We know that Blue Note paid for two days of rehearsal. At that time, those rehearsals would have been under Duke Pearson's supervision. We can readily assume that the musicians knew what they were going to do, but you can't avoid false starts or other surprising events - the guitarist coughing or a glass getting tipped onto the floor or the sax player's trousers. MG

I thought, 'but 'Extension' was recorded in 1965?' and looked at my TOCJ copy. Sure enough, it sez Mar 24-27 1965. So I got out Ruppli's BN discography and couldn't find it there. Sure enough, it was the same dates but in 1964. Seems quite unlike Toshiba EMI to make an error like that. But, in the end, how do you know how long the version of 'Extension' was to say there wasn't any room for it? There's almost five and a half minutes of space on UCCQ5008. MG

This afternoon Webert Sicot - Haitian Merengues - Ansonia 1960 Al Grey - Last of the big plungers - Argo 1960 MJQ - Jazz Dialogue - Atlantic 1966 Next Perez Prado - Mambo Jambo - JVC 1972 (looser band than on his RCA Victor recordings - very nice) MG

Breakfast with two albums DL from Amazon yesterday Mildred Clark & the Melodyaires - God's got everything you need - Savoy 1979 (!) Sekouba Kandia Kouyate - Kouma - SKK Prodns 2021 And oldies Groove Holmes - $6,000,000 man - Flying Dutchman 1975 Mongo Santamaria - All strung out - Columbia 1970 MG

Now Osdalgia Lesmes - Contigo live - Mimisma Prodns (her own company) Bloomin' fantastic singer! MG

Nice one, Guv. MG

Yeah, but when you listen to the tracks from the first date (12 Sep '61), you can't hear Albert Winston on organ, though you CAN hear Ray Barretto on conga, and when you listen to one of the sessions on which Winston's not supposed to be present, there he is, playing organ. Or maybe someone else is. And on that session, William Curtis (who I assume is Bill Curtis who later played drums with the Fatback Band) is down as playing bass and there's supposed to be no drummer. Only there is. Er... MG

No. I've only got two and the other's on Elektra's American Explorer label and sounds like they were trying to make big money. I've been looking for his material since then (27 years) and found this on a blog the other day. So I can't give recommendations on the strength of that. I thought it was a killer, is all I can say. Jeff Crom has a good many of Vernard's records. Ask him. MG I love this. Sounds silly, but I think it's my favourite record that I don't really like all that much. Now playing Grupo Sierra Maestra - Viaje a la Semilla - Egrem 1994 MG

It's party time with Jesse Powell - Trusound (DG) 1961, ripped this afternoon. Ruppli's discographical info is fucked up (and Lord copied it). I probably noticed this when I bought it in '79, but forgot over the past 42 years. So there. MG

Yes, I like that one a lot. MG

Yes, you're right about the odd choices. But I can't see that it's interesting unless you've got a complete bunch of stuff, rather than someone else's decisions. I haven't got a complete ABC/Tangerine album collection but maybe I shall have one day. THAT would be interesting... but to me it's not worth spending big bucks on finding out. MG

LOUD breakfast today Larry Williams - Unreleased - Specialty Vernard Johnson - I'm a witness too - Savoy 1981 Quieter now Trio Matamoros - El Cubanismo vol 1 - Areito 1982 MG

I think I know. From a soul jazz point of view, 1979 was a bloody crappy year. Not much in my list ANYONE here would like. And some that I only like for special reasons. Jaws - Heavy hitter Fathead - Scratch my back Gene Ludwig - Now's the time Norman Simmons - Midnight Creeper and out of the jazz frame, but still from the USA Randy Crawford - Raw soul O V Wright - Live MG

Somehow I didn't see your post about the Spinners. I think you've nailed it. Someone mixed up the titles. There WAS an office at Prestige. Joe Fields worked in it, doing stuff for Bob and whatever was needed, learning the business (and probably what you could get away with). Esmond was in it before he became a photographer and then producer. And if Bob Weinstock didn't have a secretary, I'm a French beer salesman. MG