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None of it included in Mr R&B's 'Be baba leba' compilation. But it's only an EP. MG You'd need to check out her OTHER Mr R&B album: New Million dollar Secret (on Whiskey WOmen and ... KM-707). Half of the EP is on there: All I Ask is Your Love (after-hours slow blues, as the title suggests) and Woojamacooja (nice danceable mid-tempo) Oh.... MG

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My wife's watering the garden. The forecast said rain in 50 mins. So I just looked at the latest forecast. No rain forecast. Thank heavens for a wife with extra-sensory powers! MG

Consumption costs time and effort, as well as cash. And we all know it here, don't we? MG

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Just finished Bobby Ellis & the Professionals - Meet the Revolutionaries - Third World MG

Yes, one, like Booker Ervin and John Manning, whom you can't help listening to when you hear him. RIP. MG

None of it included in Mr R&B's 'Be baba leba' compilation. But it's only an EP. MG

Larry Young, too. MG

Dusty Bin Slim Dusty (anyone remember 'A pub with no beer'?) Da Barstids I do. But you shouldn't. It must have been a hit. The Wizard Of Id The Wizard Of Oz Germaine Greer (Oz magazine). Why shouldn't I? I'm almost 70 It was a hit in 1959. MG

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Serenades Francaises etc - Naxos Nice bit in the sleeve notes - Boismortier was regarded as a bit too popular for the hoity-toity Now THAT'S a musician I can admire! The Sonny Stitt of his age. MG

Worth noting that if you order the CD from amazon.co.uk (not from amazon sellers) you get the download included free...though not the pdf Yes, I knew that, but I'm getting this stuff without using shelf space - which is a bit short. Just downloaded it. MG

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Not sure about that. One difference was that Blue Note payed the designated musical aggregations two days? rehearsal time. So the musicians were able to be more analytic and prepared perhaps. Most Blue Note and Prestige sessions were recorded at Vangelders, although Vangelder says he had different recording set ups for BN and Prestige. He has said the differences were the result of paying attention to what each producer wanted to hear. Perhaps Vangelder himself preferred the Blue Note sound he achieved over the Prestige ones. I think the song lengths are fairly consistent across both labels. Although BN might have favoured the 2/3 split and Prestige the 2/2 split. Perhaps if it was more determined by personal and what material each musician bought to the session for consideration? As between Prestige and Blue Note running times for LPs, generally Prestige seems to have had shorter albums. I've read somewhere (maybe here, or maybe in an MC sleeve note) that RVG advised Lion to aim for 18-22 mins per side. I think that's what was generally achieved. The only albums I can think of offhand that were quite a way below normal time were 'Hootin' 'n tootin'', side 1 of which was 16:32 (but side 2 just over 21 min). Side 2 of 'Drives' is 16:57, as well. But Prestige sides were often under 16 mins, some under 14 - 'Lonely avenue' 13:40, 'Hot barbecue' 12:32. MG

Just finished Mango Santamania (with DCG-P) - Suppertime - Pablo Live (red vinyl) Pretty nice. Now playing the CD from the same gig - Montreux heat! Mind you, he'd changed his weskit MG

It had finished by 0600 here and the streets were mostly dry. Forecast is more rain at 1800. MG

I don't think it matters what they call him. Prince Charles has stated that he'd be George VII. So let him be Wilfred. Or Osama. Or Elizabeth. MG

No there are no Cd issue`s as far as I know. Grrrrrrr! MG

Yay! Mad Martin's one of my favourites! MG

Thanks Bev. This one has 28 tacks and the Naxos site took me to Classics on line. I see now, looking a little more carefully, that there's a .pdf file I can download. So I'll get this tomorrow. Thanks very much. MG

Speaking of Illinois - Illinois Jacquet - Bottoms up - Prestige (green label) MG

All these RIFF`s have a very very good Fidelity. Never seen any Riff albums. That looks a good 'un. RIFF a private label owned by the late Dutch drummer Theo van Oosten. Thanks - I never knew that. A few Buddy Tate & Illinois Jacquet albums came out on Riff. So did Milt Buckner's 'Grunting genius', which I have on CD, but looks as if it was a Progressive recording, issued in Holland (or |Europe) by Riff. Apart from the Buckner, has any of this material ever been issued on CD? MG

But Duke also said it was the last tune of the session. 'Django' didn't need to be changed because of 'Idle moments' but because it and 'Nomad' came to 25:31 - a length that RVG consistently advised that, in 1963 technology, was too long. Dinner's ready. Bye. MG

Frankly, I'd rather buy from Naxos, if what they do is OK. Hope Bev comes in on this. MG