The Magnificent Goldberg

Happy Birthday!!! MG

Snowboy Mark Cotgrove Mark

Buster Brown Eddie Buster Prince Buster

This afternoon Georgia Mass Choir - I'm going to hold out - Savoy twofer MG

It is not one of his more well known albums. I do not know if any members here have it. He's made quite a few >20 I think. Few on big labels. MG It could be more than 120, from the 1970s on. Oh, as a leader? Or... is he not the leader on this track? MG

It is not one of his more well known albums. I do not know if any members here have it. He's made quite a few >20 I think. Few on big labels. MG

Juggin' Around (Foster) Going South (Foster) Jim Dog (Ammons) Sermonette (Adderley) Little Ditty (Wess) Swingin' For Benny (Green) That's all there is. Interesting. I wonder how come a Charly LP has the right number of cuts, when... Just noticed you said a track was SUBSTITUTED. So this is my track list - all the tune titles are there, but in a different order: Juggin' around Sermonette Swinging for Benny Little ditty Going south Jim dog Que? Slaps head - go back to bed Manuel. MG

Ronald Shiner The Man in the Moon Doris

Well, if it's Hicks, #8 sounds as if it OUGHT to be from 'Music in the key of Clark', but it isn't. So I is stumped, 'cos I don't have many albums where Hicks is the leader. Piano trios are hard. MG

Reminded of these by Dan in the Griffin 'Do nowt til you hear from me' thread. Paul Bryant - Something's happening - Fantasy (Vocalion UK) Paul Bryant - Groove time - Fantasy MG

Gotcha. I was wondering if I hadn't realized that Griff is on one of the Paul Bryant-led dates that Fantasy/OJC never got around to issuing. I want to say its Clifford Scott or Red Holloway on those. I bet MG knows. It's Plas Johnson - some of his best stuff, in my view. Haven't you got them? Something's happening - with Plas, Jules Broussard (as), Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (hca), Junius Simmons (g), Johnny Kirkwood (d) Groove time - with Plas, Gene Edwards (g), Kirkwood (d) BTW, Kirkwood is Perri Lee's son. You flogged me her LP with Eddie Chamblee a few years ago (many thanks still). Glad you mentioned these - going to listen to 'em both now. MG

Mucho giggles. A guy I used to work for in the Civil Service was the ONLY Scottish bagpipe player in South Wales. He got a gig every New Year's Eve, marching through Cardiff playing traditional bagpipe music. He told me once that all traditional Scottish bagpipe music was pentatonic. MG

Don Drummond - Greatest hits - Treasure Isle MG

The Cellar Dweller Teddy Edwards Howard McGhee

I'm reading Johnny Otis' 'Upside your head' over lunch just now, and this tickled me. I keep giggling about it, every time I think of it. It concerns Harlan Leonard's Rockets, which Johnny joined in 1943. "Let vocalist Myra Taylor tell it. 'I had just joined Harlan Leonard's band and at our first rehearsal, Harlan asked what key I sang Summertime in. I told him B flat. Harlan turned to the band and said "OK, fellas, our arrangement is in C, so we'll transpose it to B flat." Trombonist Fred Beckett, who was drunk as a skunk at the time, answered, "Aw right, D flat." Harlan said. "No, B flat." Beckett blew spit out of his trombone slide and said, "Thass what I said, E flat." Saxophonist James Kieth looked back in exasperation and shouted, "B flat, motherfucker! BEE as in Botato!" MG

Illinois Jacquet Big Jay McNeely Harold 'Pop Pop' Rollins

Well, I was going to say - 'ere, I've bloody well got this and didn't ID it! Well, I've got Fletcher Henderson's 'Hotter then 'ell', but though this is the tune, it ain't the recording. The one I've got was done on 25.9.1934 and there ain't no organ or accordion or whatever. And the drummer's fine. No wonder I said I'd never heard it in my life. MG

Oh, I guess it was one of the late Riversides, that wasn't out long enough to get a rep before Riverside closed. And that OJC series is a limited edition (well, theoretically, though I'm not sure). I see it's expensive at Amazon UK - 16 quid. And the Japanese edition is 32. Phew. Good to get it for $3.99. MG

I don't agree. You're not seeking perfection in record collecting, just to enjoy yourself (and I AM sure of that). Leave perfection to those who may be able to understand what it is or may be. Can't remember who it was who said or wrote, 'there's no evidence whatever that life is a serious business,' but I agree with him, her, them. Well, I don't suppose it actually was Van Morrison; doesn't sound like his kind of thinking. MG

Never came across that one. Who else is on it apart from Buddy M? MG

I'm sure I agree with you, Bev, but a link would be helpful. We're busy doin' nothing', working the whole day through Trying to find lots of things not to do. We're busy goin' nowhere, isn't it just a crime? We'd like to be unhappy but, We never do have the time. Very seditious song by Burke & Van Heusen. MG

Sonny Knight Billy Larkin & the Delegates Paul Chambers

The first Rushing I ever heard was with Goodman on "Benny in Brussels". But this ain't from that. So, I should have listened to the tenor player, rather than the nice arrangement by Gil Lopez & friend. 'Happy soul' indeed! MG

Well, here we go. 1 This is something that’s definitely NOT what it seems. So much so that it’s got to be Sun Ra. Well, it IS ‘Clap hands here comes Charlie’ (I think). Anyway, just to cover my arse, I dug out that song by Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra, really knowing I’d never heard your version in my life and, you know what? – It isn’t that one, either! Anyway, I note it’s live, so I dare say it’s a modern version. Well, a bit of swift research throws up Tom Waits. Yes, that sounds like the sort of thing you’d put in to put us all off the scent. 2 ‘St James Infirmary’. And such a nice version. I don’t know the singer. It’s hard for a foreigner to get his accent, but is it Chicago? Gawd, what a tenor solo! And what a lovely arrangement, too! Always changing behind each soloist. I suspect the arranger is Benny Carter. 3 A very nice lo fi version of a tune I don’t know. It sounds old; perhaps a recording of a broadcast from the thirties. Drummer’s a bit loud. I’d like this to be a broadcast by Fats Waller, but I don’t expect it is. 4 Strange little track. Really not sure what to make of it. The drummer reminds me of the guy with Dave Brubeck – was his name Gene Wright? No, Joe Morello. 5 ‘Take good care of yourself, you belong to me’. So much swing here. I’m thinking Jonah Jones, whom I’ve been listening to a bit lately with the Cab Calloway band. 6 Is this Tito Puente? I’ve got a strong feeling it might be. The way the drumming comes on, the openness of the arrangement, say Puente to me. I need to get more Puente. I know the tune – I expect I’ve got someone like Machito playing it, but this is much nicer than a Machito version would be. Really makes me think of Tito Puente. 7 Oh so funky, and so cool. Yeah! And then the trumpet player leaps and bounds and strides in, swashbuckling, and the tenor player goes along with that. Then back to the theme and the early mood. It reminds me of something Henry Mancini might have done. But Mancini would have got it into three minutes. On a second listen, the tenor player reminds me of Rusty Bryant, but I’ve definitely never heard this before and I think I know all of his recordings both as a leader and sideman. 8 I’m getting a strong Cedar Walton feeling about this one, but if it’s Cedar with bass & drum, I’m surprised it’s out here in a BFT. Maybe we’re going to get a tenor player in here in a mo, but I doubt it. No, we get a bass solo, with a little buzz that makes me think of Ron Carter. Actually, piano trios are hard stuff for a BFT. 9 Klezmer violins? This is making me think of Maurice Ravel, for some reason. Interesting. Once they start soloing, it stops reminding me of Ravel, but stays interesting. I think Ravel would have found it interesting, too. 10 Ah, some definitely modern jazz type music! I’m going to hazard a guess and say Roswell Rudd. There’s a Mingus flavour about the way it moves from one soloist to the next. And something Shepp-like about the tenor player. 11 Oh, this is interesting and dramatic. It sounds as advanced as Cecil Taylor at times, but at others, it sounds like an old guy still playing more piano than most ever could – an Earl Hines or a Jay McShann – ‘cos there’s that boogie thing going on in the back. I think it’s McShann. Changed my mind when I was having a ciggy – I reckon it’s Eubie Blake. 12 I feel I know that cymbal. I feel I know the tenor player, too. And I nearly know the tune, but it’s designed to fool me. I don’t know the trumpet player – or is it a flugelhorn? Or a pocket trumpet? It’s miles too high-pitched for my taste, though the dog doesn’t seem to mind it. No, this is one I’m content to say, ‘O Bloody ‘Ell’, when reveal time comes around. 13 Oh, I know this tune – it’s by a Blue Note artist, but disassembled in such a way that I can only almost recognise it. The way that’s been done demands that you listen. But the solos don’t grab me the way the arrangement does. Time for a cough and a drag. 14 This pianist has the touch of Junior Mance – I think he’s playing ‘Spring is here’ but sometimes I think he isn’t. If it’s Mance, it’s a Mance I don’t THINK I have and ought to have. Perhaps one of his Sackville albums. Later – well, I just downloaded a Junior Mance discography and the only ‘Spring is here’ is with Cannonball from ’57, so I’m either wrong about the tune or the pianist. Oh well. 15 This must be John Lewis; the way he’s placing the notes down as if he doesn’t quite care if they’re quite in the right place, though they inevitably are. Now the strings come in and I still think it’s John Lewis, not Ramsey. (Definitely not Ramsey.) Oh, a clarinet. Struth, this is nice! Still sounds like John Lewis. What a nice piece to end with! Ravishing! On a second listen, I’m reminded that I used to have a John Lewis LP called ‘Jazz abstractions’ which had Dolphy on bass clarinet and a few other instruments of the clarinet family. I don’t think I’d have flogged that LP if this had been on it, but you never know; I was often pretty stoopid in 1968. I really enjoyed all of that, even the bits that didn’t grab me. Thank you, Bill. MG