The Magnificent Goldberg

Rev Johnny Lee 'Hurricane' Jones Henry Higgins Pygmalion

Bread Quentin Jackson The Jam

Jimmy Forrest Tiger Woods Orchestre Jardin de Guinee MG

Is this a smile? I always thought it was MG

Oh, I didn't know that. Ta. MG

Lots of vinyl this afternoon. Aretha - I never loved a man the way I love you - Atlantic (Canada) Georgia Mass Choir - Yes, he can - Savoy Then a bunch of Fela Authority stealing - Kalakuta (orig, complete with pressing fault for which Fela apologised on the sleeve and Young African Pioneers newspaper) Gentleman - EMI Nigeria (Creole UK) Confusion - EMI Nigeria (EMI UK) Coffin for head of state - Kalakuta (French edition, but you can't tell which firm was responsible) S E Rogie - Palm wine guitar music - Rogiphone (Cooking Vinyl UK) MG

Twinkletoes Twinkie Clark (Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark-Terrell) Twiggy MG

Tangerine Dream Milton Banana Don Cherry

Near enough the same, I guess: Foreword (Sue Mingus) ... 5 (4) How Tall Was Mingus? (Joel Dorn) ... 7 (6) He Could Have Played Football For Vince Lombardi (Tod Dowd) ... 11 (8) Man, I Feel Like Hollering (Patrick Milligan) ... 13 (9) Could Anything Be More American (Andrew Homzy) ... 16 (11) Charles Mingus: The Atlantic Years (Andrew Homzy) ... 22 (16) The Need To Tell A Story (Stefano Zenni) ... 50 (44) The Players (Andrew Homzy) ... 60 (53) Charles Mingus Atlantic Sessionography ... 72 (65) Atlantic Album Discography ... 77 (70) Orginal Atlantic Liner Notes ... 86 (79) Selected Bibliography ... 116 (108) Production Credits ... 118 (110) Looks like they missed out some photos at various points. MG

Yes, and that's quite a bit more interesting to see. Looking through my early purchases there are jazz albums and things that are sort of jazz, viz: Ella's Gershwin song books and 'Sweet songs for swingers' Como swings (and he could, that was his background) Dakota Staton - 'More than the most' & 'Late late show' Mel Torme - Songs for any taste Ray Charles at Newport (& several others) The hardcore jazz albums were MJQ - Pyramid L Armstrong - W C Handy B Goodman - Benny in Brussels David Newman - Fathead Ellington - Nutcracker suite - when I brought that home my mother observed dryly, 'Oh yes, I saw him in 1934' (or whatever year it was). Nat Adderley - Work song MG PS most of those were bought at Harrods, where I worked for a bit over half of 1960, and where I got staff discount. I didn't keep my Harrods bags (and I don't keep my obi strips either).

If you're referring to the Mingus Atlantic box, there is a booklet with it, but it's not 120 pages; it's 112. Actually, I don't know if it's been done the same as before, but the colours are bleedin' awful in some places! The personnel/dates pages are printed in white and yellow (!) on a background of what's probably some handwritten Mingus music on deep chocolate paper. It's so difficult to read I'm going to use standard discographies. The personnel listing (as far as I can decipher it), doesn't carry release information. I haven't read the text, going to save it for about a year's time, when I'll have listened to the box enough to enjoy them (maybe). MG

Yes it is available as part of Roscoe's L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples. It was originally a 2 lp set now fitting on one disc. The music might not be in your "wheel house". L-R-G is 37 minute trio for woodwinds (Roscoe), high brass (Leo Smith) and low brass (George Lewis). The Maze is a 21 minute octet for all kinds of percussion. S II Examples is a 17 minute exploration of multi-phonics on the curved soprano saxophone. You're a gent, Chuck. Thanks. MG

Joe Louis Horace Silver PC49

I've NEVER kept an obi, either for an LP or a CD. On the other hand, I have a useless little pile of cardboard covers for CDs, which I can't bring myself to ditch. I suppose it's because no one considers them as enhancing the value of a second hand CD. MG

Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know. Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's. Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia. edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording. Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording. The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff. Coo lummy! Todays miscellaneous collection of vinyl includes the LP that I've had longest (since '65) James Brown - Grits and soul - Smash (mono) Dizzy Gillespie - Bahiana - Pablo (Polydor UK) Lynn Hope - Tenderly - Imperial Sly Dunbar - Sly-go-ville - Taxi (Island UK) now Donald Vails Choraleers - Yesterday, today, forever - Sound of Gospel Fans of George Clinton's bands will wish to be informed that Gary Shider is on guitar. Very Detroit production by Armen Boladian, who owned Sound of Gospel, Eastbound & Westbound & Watts Club Mozambique. The Choraleers are a Detroit choir. Here's track 1 side 1 - 'When we all get to heaven' with THE most splendid performance by a gospel coloratura soprano I've ever heard - Delores Taylor-Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9OpoLfk7E MG

Now on this one Now on this one, just starting the alternative takes. Woooo, this is nice! Afterwards, I think there'll be time for this before bed Haven't heard 'Tonight at noon' yet. Tomorrow. I shan't listen to the interview until I've absorbed the lot - probably about a year to go MG

Pleasure Pleasant Peasant Cousin Joe

I thought some of that Dylan stuff was owned by Sony, some by Universal. How come it's all in one box? MG

This is what Bob Porter had to say about Mickey Fields, on the sleeve of Stanley Turrentine's BN twofer 'Jubilee shouts'. He was writing about the 'boss' tenors, men like Jug, Sonny and Stanley, who travelled around, playing with whatever local rhythm section was there, and sometimes welcoming a local hero onto the stand. "But... the champ must be careful. A Mickey Fields in Baltimore or a Bill Easley in Memphis is capable of cooking an unsuspecting tenor man into bad health!" I have an LP of Mickey, mostly recorded at an (almost certainly) 1967 Left Bank concert, with Groove Holmes, George Freeman and Billy Jackson. There's no doubt that Fields cooked like a madman on 'Straight no chaser' and 'Left Bank Cookout'! But he gave the game away on 'Lover man'. There's no tenderness in his playing; the tune is done in high octane mode. Whether this was Groove's fault for calling the tempo, I dunno, but I doubt it. I'll be interested in getting this. Am I too late? MG

Roy Brown The Royalteens The '5' Royales

My dog didn't like the title track and 'A foggy day', but he stopped complaining afterwards. Now on the Teddy Charles Word from Bird. The title track is like a smoothed out, but more pretentious, MIngus cut. I can see why Charles wanted Mingus on the date. MG

Thank you, Chuck. Is that one available? 'Maze' sounds like an understatement. MG

Got this yesterday Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino) Spent most of the day ripping it to my PC and reorganising it into its constituent albums, then downloaded the two tracks from Teddy Charles' 'Word from Bird' missing from the box (because Mingus wasn't in them), but I was damned if I was going to have my first encounter with Teddy Charles on only half an album. So, I couldn't get undisturbed listening time until nearly bedtime last night, and listened to This afternoon, been listening to Ever since I got my first Mingus LP, 'Dynasty', in 1966, I've always (every time I buy a new one) been surprised at how accessible it is. MG

Ah, there are three identical ones (or are they identical?) and I clicked on one without "We had a few fine musicians in the room - Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Malachi Favors, Douglas Ewart, Don Moye, Joseph Jarman, Thurman Barker and guests Charles Tyler, the Colsons (Iqua and Steve), the Abrams (Muhal and Pegi) and Lester Bowie. Ann's photo diary could form a book." Is that young you in the cream trousers and grey/blue shirt? What album was that for? MG

Linus Charlie Brown (not the tenor player) Charlie Brown (the tenor player)