The Magnificent Goldberg

A really nice Grant Green trio session (one of my most favourite GGs) is That's the original Japanese LP sleeve. Reissued on CD as 'Standards' MG

Goodness! I do remember her as having twelve fingers on each of her nine hands. She always seemed too nice on TV in the late fifties. When is this stuff from, Patricia? MG

Got an e-mail from CD Universe this morning, to say that Solar have issued (or will soon) an Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis set - 7 original albums. I had a look and saw that I only have six of them !!!! So I went to Amazon and got myself a download of the one I never even HEARD of (because it's usually listed under 'Sweets' Edison's name, I guess. Sweets & Jaws - Jawbreakers - Riverside (OJC) Neat sleeve concept. Bloody nice music! Wooooo! MG

I did one in April, Jeff, so you could put me down for one after that. I've got half the tracks picked. MG

I would recommend checking out Ravi Coltrane, though I'm not sure if many (or any) of his albums are on vinyl. In a similar "spirituality" vein as A Love Supreme I would recommend Pharaoh Sanders' Impulse! albums... Karma may be a good place to start, though it is leaning on the free side. Another fantastic post bop album is Sonny Rollins East Broadway Run Down. I've actually been looking into Karma, I'm holding out for the vinyl right now but first pressings rarely pop up on eBay in decent shape and there doesn't seem to be a decent reissue. I just might have to go with the CD. I didn't think Pharoah's albums were that popular on vinyl. I bought all my original ABC pink rim first pressings before this recent vinyl boom. I don't think I paid more than $30 an album, for all in what look and sound like unplayed condition. Pharoah was pretty popular, back in the day. 'Karma', 'Jewels of thought', 'Thembi' (all Impulse) and 'Love will find a way' (Arista) were all hit albums (not huge but on pop & R&B LP charts). Oh, and German pressings from the late 60s/early 70s are pretty nice. My copies of 'Karma' and 'Jewels of thought' have been pretty heavily played since I got 'em over 40 years ago and still sound great. Bet those are cheaper. Surprised no one's mentioned the albums made by Booby Hutcherson & Harold Land, since everyone here seems to think they're great. MG

Etta Jones - Love me with all your heart - Muse (promo) MG

Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer Frederick Michael Switzer Swiss Family Robinson

Ted Heath MP (aka 'Teeth') Ted Heath Satanist & child killer Ted Heath bandleader

Curtis Peagler - I'll be around - Pablo Recorded after Fantasy had bought Pablo. Saw the sleeve in Mole Jazz one day and instantly bought the album. You just can't deny a sleeve with that amount of conviction, can you? (Mine's got a hole in the same place ) MG

Really sorry to hear this news. First heard of Jimmy when 'Mr Shing-a-ling' came out - he was only 21 then. He was credited as Jimmy 'Fats' Ponder, but forever afterwards just Jimmy. So I never really thought of him as a fat guy and it wasn't apparent from his album sleeves. But the photos posted on the Colter Harper blog really do show him as a fat guy. Always liked his playing. I have most of his albums as a leader and probably as a sideman, too, though I'm not sure about that. One of the few guitarists to explore the Green/Young/Jones area of organ trios (try 'To reach a dream'). Not to sound like GG but to feel that way. 'Mean streets, no bridges' coming up next. RIP Jimmy. MG

Oh, I see. There were two LPs numbered BCP6035: Various - 15 star saxophones Jaws & Shirley - Eddie's function The Jaws & Shirley LP 6035 was a reissue of BCP6069. (Eh?) Well, it has 6 tracks from a Feb '56 2 day trio session with Doc Bagby & Charlie Rice and 7 from sessions between July '56 and June '57 (or '58) with Shirley Scott instead of Doc. I really want all of the King material, but I suppose this'll have to do, if there's no other CDs around to cover the lot. MG

'BCP 6069: Eddie Davis – “The Best of Eddie Lockjaw Davis” (CD & 12”)' Does anyone know what this is? The Bethlehem discography at the JDP only lists 2 tracks from 1958 (though Lord has them as 1957) on this LP. Is the rest some of his King material? If so, who knows what? MG

I only have one of his own albums - 'In African eyes'. It's OK, but McLean seems too much of a jazz musician and not enough of a township jive musician for the material. But there are a couple of tracks, like 'Ziyagiya' where he does seem quite at home. He made a live album in South Africa in 2003 but I haven't been interested enough to find out about it. As a sideman, I have Woody Shaw's 'Love dance' which is excellent stuff when I'm feeling like a bit of hard bop. MG

Johann Strauss Richard Strauss Zarathustra

Sonny Hopson Charles Earland Sailor Vernon

The one really interesting thread on AAJ was the one which Pat Martino wrote. Lots of interesting stuff about his working in Soul Jazz in the early sixties. MG

Well, if you're headed for Europe anyway, you can get lots of stuff not available elsewhere. Sterns in London used to be good for Nigerian and Ghanaian LPs but only a bit from Francophone Africa outside Congo; but no more. MG

The Chu Berry set is (was?) my favourite set so far. Unfortunately you'll be waiting a long time to get these tracks as part of a complete Fletcher Henderson or Cab Calloway set out of Mosaic. Anyway, bring on the Chick Webb! (and the others Mosaic, so I can give you all my money) Well, I've got lots of Fletcher Henderson (but not complete) and a complete Cab Calloway 1930-40 on JSP. I'd like a forties box of Cab. MG I've got a cheapo CD of Webb. I don't think the sound's bad, but I am a very long way from being even an UNreliable authority on sound I doubt if Mosaic would use existing CDs unless they were as good as can be. MG

There ARE gems in those there sets. I got the Wilson PIckett box a couple of years ago. I knew the singles, of course, but the albums as albums were a big surprise. PIckett really was one of the greatest male soul singers of all time. Been contemplating Dionne Warwick... Still am... MG

This afternoon/evening Florida Mass Choir - Jesus will never say no - Savoy twofer Xalam - Goree - Celluloid Houston Person - Suspicions - Muse Laba Sosseh - Salsa Africana vol II - Sacodis Tommy dean - Deanie Boy plays R&B - Official MG

I did a search on US Amazon for Ganda Fadiga, and came up with many, including the two TMG recommended: 1992 Vol. 1 1992 Vol. 2 I listened to some of the samples, and cannot relate. It's not easy. Ganda Fadiga is mainly a praise singer, (more of a praise talker, actually), praising his patrons, after whom the tracks are named. There are also political moans and groans in there. That's about what he does. If you're looking for actual singing, Njarou, his first for CK7, features his wife Hawa Drame, one of the most revered vocalists in Mali. That's on either France or US Amazon. MG No, there aren't any CDs. CDs you have to go to Paris or Brussels for. They cost money to make and sell, so he doesn't do that for western audiences because there isn't enough demand. Downloads is the only way he deals with the west, presumably because it's profitable on even low sales. MG

One of my favorite Ben records, MG. Mine too, but I haven't yet got around to 'The Kid and the Brute'. And the title is INSPIRED! MG

Taximan Sekouba Bambino Sekouba Fataco

Today's vinyl The Donald Vails Choraleers - We've come to praise him - Savoy twofer Ben Webster - Blue lights (reissued as Atmosphere for lovers and thieves) - Black Lion now Brooklyn Allstars - Our greatest hits - Nashboro twofer MG

Yes, it's a very large catalogue. He seems to have two new series' going on CDs (as well as reissues that carry the original K7 numbers up to 1092 in 2007 in my collection) - a 3000 series (I have 3064 & 3065 from 2008) and a 4000 series (I have 4289 from 2011). To me, that looks like over 1400 albums in about 23 years. I've bought 39 of his own productions and possibly a dozen licensed from elsewhere; a tiny sample. Some of it I've bought at random, just looking at sleeves to get a vibe off them, y'know; never been disappointed. But a good number are by people whose work I already knew from their recordings with other labels: I don't think he deals with unknowns, just people unknown to me But at the price of a K7, I've bought a lot of stuff I knew nothing about, from all companies (and there are many in Sahelian West Africa; many more than in the former British colonies), not just CK7. But when you think of this huge catalogue, you can understand why some people come on the board and say stuff like Blue Note - where to start? MG