The Magnificent Goldberg

Amazon UK have the 3 I want most (Bish, Rudy Johnson and Gene RUssell) at pretty reasonable prices (from sellers). If this is an honest company, I'll get them next month. But I wish they'd reissue Rudy Johnson's 'Spring rain' too. MG

I bet you enjoy the Ray Barretto, Mike MG

The rest of my Fats Domino Imperial singles set turned up today Volume 2 - 1953-56 - (Ace UK) Vol 3 - 1956-58 - Ace UK Vol 4 - 1959-61 - Ace UK These are joyful all right. So glad Ace finished this series and I could get 'em all. Also this Aminata Kamissoko - Malamine - Djenne Music (Sterns) This is not THE Aminata Kamissoko, who has made several great albums in Guinea, but AN Aminata Kamissoko, from Mali. I got this cheap (less than 4 quid inc post) from an Amazon seller, thinking it was THE Aminata Kamissoko. But I'm not disappointed. This one is very good and turns out to be Ami Koita's auntie. MG

curious as to what that means. he was still in his 40s and playing his butt off! I was worried about what Felser said. Is this bunch on the up and up, Val? MG

Milt Jackson/Ray Brown Jam - Pablo (UK) Inez Andrews - The need of prayer - Songbird (Vogue) MG

Well, there's this, which looks pretty funny. MG

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Looking for paper bags, keep finding other stuff MG

The complete Chuck Willis 1951-1957 - JSP (enjoyed the '58 tracks a lot ) MG

That's the one I was talking about! I dunno what you're talking about MG It's different from the clip you posted in #26. Yes - that was supposed to be one a bit like it. MG Yes - the Weavers recorded it as 'Wimoweh' in the early fifties. But it's a traditional tune from South Africa. I think its real title may be 'Mbube' - I had a recording of it by Miriam Makeba under that title in the early sixties. MG I remember hearing the whole of Abbey Road on the radio too, just before release. In Cornwall, though, not Africa. You know, as we're about the same age, I thought that was likely the case. Bet you saw the worldwide 'All You Need Is Love' in '67 too. I was in Singapore when it was broadcast. Even I saw that I also remember Ronnie Scott's comment afterwards - something like 'there's real musical intelligence in that', to which I always mentally append 'my own'. MG

Outstanding stuff! Glad it was ID'd; anyone who hasn't ordered it ought to. Easily my favorite Nessa release, (Ben Webster, Did You Call Her? was leased) ... but that's just me. Damn! I've got this one! MG

This morning, after breakfast Earl Hines - Tour de force - Black Lion MG

I thought Roy Brown was more interested in Caddys MG

Excellent link, Bev. The fifties Ravers had transferred themselves into most of the audience at the Ealing R&B club, when it opened in '61, with Alexis Korner every week. Sartorially and terpsichorally, at any rate. Well and politically, too. The mention in one of the comments of the Ace Cafe on the N Circular I found a bit odd. By the time I moved to Ealing, mid '59, that was a bikers' cafe - and served the best All Day Breakfasts the world has ever known. More of a connection to the Rockers of a few years later than the Ravers. But maybe in '55 it was different. Some places were ambiguous. The Crusader coffee bar towards South Ealing, where my mates and I hung, had a LOAD of Blue Beat singles on it, though I hardly ever saw any West Indians there. My fat friend Rose and I played them, anyway But we never fathomed why they were on the box. MG

That's the one I was talking about! I dunno what you're talking about MG

I'd forgotten that detail, but it did fit with the left wing image that trad had at the time. Why can't I get underneath the quote, if I delete some of it? MG

And he wrote a lot of riff-based blues numbers. This one's a little like 'Mean greens', but not enough like it, I think. MG

There are quite a lot of rips of 'Tom Hark' in different places. I've heard a Ska version, several South African versions, too, not unnaturally. Here's one, probably from 1958. It's from this LP MG

Never bothered with that compilation, because I had all his Muse LPs. That's a funny one, though. MG

This afternoon/evening Sonny Phillips - Black on black - Prestige (green label) Shirley Scott & Clark Terry - Soul duo - Impulse (promo) Various Artists - Live at the Apollo 1944-47 - Everybody's Charles Kynard & Buddy COllette - Warm winds - World Pacific MG

Looks like it... MG