The Magnificent Goldberg

This morning Sam 'The Man' Taylor - Jazz for commuters - Metrojazz Toots & the Maytals - From the roots - Trojan Now on: Sonny Okosuns - Wind of change - Ivory MG

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(The bandmaster is wearing a sword) MG One of my favourites MG

More Ray Charles - Swiss Radio Nights, Zurich 1961 - TCB (Oops, I mean days ) This year's favourite - Hadja Kouyate - Yilimalo - Frikyiwa Toto Necessite & Ocelito - Toto pa gin visa - Dorceants MG

That one is pretty interesting. The lead track is called 'Polygamy' and discusses the pros and cons of it. Is that the only such song? MG

I've recently got some Ray Charles ABC albums, from after I stopped buying ABC and found that he probably ALWAYS had something to say. I've played I'm all yours, baby Invites you to listen Even later, on WB - Would you believe Now on - Shleu Shleu - Super Shleu MG

I have that sound problem with Atlantic stereo recordings, but not all of them. I don't think I have any trouble with the MJQ stereo versions. I love the stereo versions of Chris Connor's 'He loves me, he loves me not', 'A jazz date with' and 'Chris craft', and 'Double exposure' is only a little less smashing than the mono version, but I really hate her stereo 'Ballads of the sad café'. Joe Turner's 'Boss of the blues' is another horrid one; a very muddy sound to that. And Milt Jackson's 'Plenty plenty soul' is another. So is 'Soul brothers', though I don't dislike 'Soul meeting' some of which was done at the same session. I KNOW there are a few others, but I forget which. Chewy's thread about prices on LP spines, and my response about King's catalogue numbers including the price made me think about this issue. When LPs came out, record companies knew nothing about how to programme them other than make original cast albums or bang a bunch of old 78s into them. And King obviously didn't know how much to charge for them. And the same was true a few years later, when stereo came out. People had to experiment, and some of the experiments were duff. But no one - least of all the punters - knew the stuff was sub-standard because who buys mono and stereo copies to compare? (Well, I did with 'Soul brothers', because there are different tracks on mono and stereo.) So stuff got released and stereo was hyped to the extent that, before I bought 'Soul brothers', I thought an audio engineer I used to work with was heretical for saying he preferred good mono to stereo. MG

The only one of those brown twofers I have is the Jazz Crusaders' Young rabbits. That's a US manufactured job and has no price on the spine. Grant Green's Live at the Lighthouse has bugger all on the spine, not even title or artist! MG

Just kind of lost all my albums on my hard drive! Hit the windows folder with it all in with stupid fingering on the mouse and I think I've created a registry error. It thinks it's cancelling a move to the odd bits and pieces folder, which is where it now is. But it's all there and accessible, because I've just accessed Marais - La folia - Purcell Quartet - Hyperion Well, it's good music for calming me down, even though I can't move the folder back where it belongs. And probably can't delete it to restore from backup because it takes up more than half my hard drive. Oh well, I can get at it. MG

Indeed not everything. I've been trying to replace a screwed up K7 of Ami Koita accompanied by Afrisa International for some while but I appear to be the only person in the world who's ever heard of it. And both were top-selling acts in their respective fields, not so far back in the day. MG

As far as I know, only side one - which was included in 'A stranger in town'. I had to rip side two to get the whole thing onto my hard drive. Blooming LOVELY album! MG

King did this too. Here's King's first LP from 1952 (10") The catalogue number is 295-1, with 295 being the price. The prefix was very variable; number two's number was 219-2. No image in discogs. See 'em all here http://www.bsnpubs.com/king/01king10/01king10.html MG

Yay! Breakfast this morning with Prince Nico Mbarga - Experience 001 - Rogers All Stars Little Johnny Taylor - Everybody knows about my good thing - Ronn Mogontafe Sacko - Fifi Doumbia - Syllart All nice wake me up music. MG

Rhoda sings on a couple of tracks... not terribly effectively in my view. Caveat emptor. MG

So how do you pronounce 'canteen'? Same? Different? What do you think about THAT word? MG

Yeah, I like 'em both on those two albums. And way back as a lad, I always admired the sleeve of 'Song of the wanderer'. Though I can't say that the unissued album of him singing traditional French children's songs does much for me. Good idea, but he was no Harry Belafonte. MG

Just bought a bunch of downloads from Amazon, as I didn't ask either wife, daughter or grandsons for any music for Christmas and didn't have much time yesterday. Yaya Bangoura - Wo koberato!!! - Amacif Got this on a K7 when it came out but only just found out it was on a CD, so I looked in Amazon and there it was. (I can't be arsed to rip stuff unless it's vital). And while I was there, got three by Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey that I've had on my waiting list for a few weeks: Around the world Austerity (meaning that Decca West Africa couldn't afford to hire photographers with steady hands) Mukulu muke MG

One I forgot to play yesterday James Cleveland & the Angelic Choir - Merry Christmas MG

Two discoveries that have delighted me completely. I got the Kid Ory Mosaic box in January and have played it tons of times. I had a {Quadromania} box before and there's a decent amount of good stuff in it, but his Verve records from the turn of the fifties are just beautiful - so straightforward and swinging! Hadja Kouyate. I found her in March, while doing a search at Amazon for records on Syllart, and have bought all I found: Manding-ko - 2001 (Frikyiwa) Tomassere - 2003 (Syllart) Yilimalo - 2003 (Frikyiwa) Touro Touro - 2008 (Hadja Kouyate) A korossi - 2014 (Hadja Kouyate) Aye Yafa - 2019 (Hadja Kouyate) Stunningly clear and firm voice. She's married to Amado Sodia, another Guinean singer and bolon player. MG

I like this a lot. Played it yesterday, too. Today's menu: James Brown - A soulful Christmas Various - Christmas in Soulsville Rhoda Scott - Les orgues de Noel And, of course at breakfast Organissimo - Christmas tunes for you MG