The Magnificent Goldberg

Pharoah Sanders did it quite a bit. Karma has Richard Davis & Reggie Workman on one track, Reggie Workman & Ron Carter on the other. Izipho Zam has Cecil McBee & sirone. Jewels of thought has Richard Davis & Cecil McBee on Sun in Aquarius. Black Unity has Cecil McBee & Stanley Clarke. I think I remember 'Let us go into the house of the Lord' as having 2 bassists - must get that album again. Trance of seven colors features Maleem Mahmoud Ghania and (his father?) Maleem Boubker Gahnia playing guimbri, a bass lute used in Morocco. Bloomin' fabulous album this one! Message from home has Charnett Moffett and Steve Neil on bass (Neil sometimes on elec bass). Turning to more mainstream jazz, not quite but nearly right, Nat Adderley's 'Work song' has cello and bass - Sam Jones and Keter Betts play both at different times, and Percy Heath is on bass sometimes. Les McCann's 'Invitation to openness' has Bill Salter on electric bass, Jimmy Rowser on accoustic. Can't think of any more, but it wouldn't surprise me if a fair number of CTI/Kudu albums didn't have electric and accoustic basses. Can't be asked to go through them, at present MG

Here we are - Berrios was on 'Rip-a-dip' and 'Groovin' high'. Tough – Prestige 7471 (2/1966) – Vincent McEwan (tp), Claude Bartee (ts), Willie Bivens (vib), John Spruill (p), Jon Hart (b), Richard Landrum (cga), Norberto Apellaniz (bgo), Henry ‘Pucho’ Brown (timbales, leader) (shan’t mention Pucho again) Saffron & soul – Prestige 7502 (11/1966) - Vincent McEwan (tp), Claude Bartee (ts), Harold Alexander (ts, fl), Willie Bivens (vib), John Spruill (p), James Phillips (b), Bill Curtis (later of Fatback Band) (d), Richard Landrum (cga), Norberto Apellaniz (bgo) Shuckin ‘n jivin’ – Prestige 7528 (8/1967) – Vincent McEwan (tp), Claude Bartee (ts), Willie Bivens (vib), Neal Creque (p), James Phillips (b), Norberto Apellaniz (bgo), Cecil Jackson (cga), Jackie Soul, The Soul Sisters (vo) Big stick - Prestige 7555 (12/1967) – Willie Bivens (vib, p, clavinet), Neal Creque (p, org, clavinet), Norberto Apellaniz (bgo), Cecil Jackson (cga), Jackie Soul, The Soul Sisters (vo) Heat – Prestige 7572 (4/1968) – Al Pazant (tp), Eddie Pazant (ts, bars, fl), Willie Bivens (vib), Neal Creque (p, org), James Phillips (b), Norberto Apellaniz (bgo), Cecil Jackson (cga), Jackie Soul (vo), unknown strings Dateline – Prestige 7616 (2/1969) – Al Pazant (tp), Kiane Zawadi, Barry Rogers (tb), Eddie Pazant (ts, fl), Willie Bivens (vib), Neal Creque (p, org), William Allen (b), Joe Armstrong (d), Norberto Apellaniz (bgo), Richard Landrum (cga) Jungle fire – Prestige 7765 (1/1970) – Al Pazant (tp), Eddie Pazant (ts), Seldon Powell (ts, fl, el sax), Willie Bivens (vib, perc), Neal Creque (el p), Billy Butler (g), Sehorn Westbrook (el b), Bernard Purdie (d), Joe Armstrong (cga), Norberto Apellaniz (bgo), Sonny Phillips (arr) Yaina - Right On PRO5000 (c1971) – Al Pazant (tp), Eddie Pazant (sax), Harold Alexander (fl), Willie Bivins (vib), Jack Burvick (p), Leo Williams (g), Ernie Adams (b), Cadillac Joe Armstrong (cga), Norberto Apellaniz (bgo), Harry Gist (d), Richard Landrum, Butch Johnson (perc) Super freak – Zanzee SZLP2603 (c1972) – (printing on this is horrid, so I’m not sorting it, it’s hard enough) John Madhatter Spruill (el p)Richard Landrum (bgo), Alvin Bunn (cga), George Michaels (d), Ernie Adams (b), Kenny Rogers (ts, ss, fl), Eddie Pazant (fl), Cornell Dupree (el & sitar guitar), Al Pazant (tp), Willie Bivens (vib), Marilyn Johnson (voc) Jungle strut – Lexington 1003 (5/1993) – Al Pazant (tp), Eddie Pazant (sax, fl), Willie Bivens (vib), John Spruill (kbds), Melvin Sparks (g), William Allen (b), Bernard Purdie (d), Ricky Bongo James (bgo), Ernie Clayton (cga), Ernie Colon (d 2 trx), Amanda (who sings worse than Althea Young) (lead voc), Cheryl Gadsen (bk voc) Rip-A-Dip – Milestone 9247 (6/1995) – Al Pazant (tp), Eddie Pazant (sax, fl), Willie Bivens (vib), John Spruill (kbds), Marvin Horne (g), Jon Hart (b), Larry Killian (cga), Ricky Bongo James (bgo), Massamba (African drums) Special guests – Melvin Sparks (g), Steve Berrios (chekere, bells, clave, guiro, bgo, cga, coro), Mel Martin (ts, as, sops, fl, picc), Melecio Magdalyo (bars), Robbie Kwock (tp), Wayne Wallace (tb) Groovin’ high – Cannonball 27103 (c1997) – Al Pazant (tp), Pamela Fleming (tp, flh), Eddie Pazant (as, ts, fl), Willie Bivens (vib), John Spruill (p, org), Marvin Horne (g), Jon Hart (b), Larry Killian (cga, perro), Ricky Bongo James (bgo, bells, cga, djembe), Steve Berrios (guiro, cowbell), Ernie Colon (d, cga, bgo, bells), DJ Daze (scratching), MC BaBee Power (rap) Mucho Pucho – Timeless 444 (2/1998) - Al Pazant (tp), Pamela Fleming (tp, flh), Eddie Pazant (as), Joe Locke (vib), John Spruill (p, org), Marvin Horne (g), Jon Hart (b), Larry Killian (cga), Ricky Bongo James (bgo, misc perc), Chaka Tonge, Seka Tonge (perc), MC BaBee Power (rap) Caliente con soul - Cubop CBDC021 (3/1999) – Eddie Pazant (sax, oboe, fl), John Spruill (p), Marvin Horne (g), Jon Hart (b), Tyrone Govan (d), Ernie Colon (bgo), Johnny Griggs (cga) Special guests – Arturo Velasco (tbn), Antoine Caito (baby bass & quinto), Michael Turre (ss, fl), Bobby Matos (guiro, bata) How’m I doin’ – Cannonball 27108 (12/1999 & 1/2000) – Eddie Pazant (as, bars), John Spruill (p, org), Marvin Horne (g), Tehrin Cole (b), Tyrone Govan (d), Santos Rivera (cga) Special guests – Fred Wesley (tbn), Tony Velez (trez), Dave Valentin (fl), Lew Soloff, Kenny Rampton, Gerald Brezel (tp), Harvie Swartz (b), Al Pazant (!) (tp), Eric Alexander (ts), Louis Kahn (vln, tb) The Hideout – Milestone 9340 (4/2003-3/2004) – Al Pazant, Richard Lee Wendell, Gerald Brazel (tp), Eddie Pazant (as), Dave Ellis (ts), Lewis Kahn (vln, tbn), Ric Faulkner (tb), Willie Bivens (vib), Joe Locke (vib, marimba), John Spruill (p, org), Danny Mixon (p), Marvin Horne (g), Tehrin Cole, David Herscher, Harvie Swartz (b), Tyrone Govan (d), Johnny Griggs (cga, perc), Santos Rivera (bgo, perc), Chico Alvarez (voc, perc), Deborah Resto, Dwayne Fitzgerald (voc) MG

Will do - back soon. MG

Her early material with the Lucky Millinder band realy rocks! You can find it on these CDs: Lucky Millinder 1941-42 - Classics Lucky Millinder 1943-47 - Classics But I can't say I really like her voice all that much. I much prefer her mother's album with the Dizzy Gillespie quintet: Katie Bell Nubin - Soul, soul searching - Verve with Leo Wright, Junior Mance, Les Spann, Art Davis & Lex Humphries - Jan 1960; a lot later than her daughter's early stuff, but very stirring. MG

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Oh, I'm sure I have a few of these. Will take my time looking. Oh yes... MG

We've had cats and dogs. They've all been themselves and I've loved them for themselves. The first was Golly, an almost pure black cat. Very streetsmart. Used to bang on the letter box when she wanted to come in. Went on holiday most summers to the people around the back. Went off looking for her kittens, because we'd found them homes while she was at the vet's being speyed; found her at a riding stables, ruling the rooost over a bunch of Jack Russells. Much more people-oriented than most cats. When we went on holiday to my father-in-law's in the wilds of rural Sussex, she would walk tidy on a dog lead! She was 18 when she died. There was Muff; a stray black & white cat we adopted and very dim (but not so dim she didn't know which side of the bread was buttered), named after a small town in Ireland (racist joke - English people will appreciate). Golly had to help her have her kittens. Got run over aged 18 months or so. Toby; the last word in nutcase pug dogs (or so we thought). A fawn. The most wonderful dog ever. Would chase traffic, if allowed. Was always allowed to chase trains going by the cricket pitch on an embankment. "Nearly caught that one, Dad," he'd say, running back, exhausted. Couldn't be effectively punished. Would LOVE to get my daughter's soft toys out of her room, bring them in the lounge, wagging tail and saying, 'look what I've got!' He'd be told off, smacked or whatever. He'd apologise handsomely, then go off and do it again. Pugs are wonderful! He was 14 when he died, during my first trip to Africa. Blossom, an aged (we don't know how aged) bitch Peke my daughter's boy friend at the time rescued from an apartment in which her very aged owner had died. Very calm lady. Toby bossed her around something rotten. We had to have her killed due to congestive heart failure same day as Princess Diana died. Henry, present pug dog, black, puts Toby's insanity to shame. Two years old at the moment. Wants everything to play with him particularly lorries, white vans, cyclists, joggers, people on Vespas, children, adults, anything that moves. We don't live anywhere that he can see a train. They told us blacks were worse than fawns, but not how much worse MG

Von was probably playing with Gator Tail, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Carl Wilson & Yusef Ali in your dream, Paul; that's why you didn't notice them Er, I might not have noticed Vonski... Well... MG

There's a nice quote about money in the AAJ interview. As with Johnny Griffin, whose chateau in France was on offer a short while ago for about half a million pounds or thereabouts, it's nice to hear of a jazzman who was wise enough to do well. Plenty weren't. MG

Sidney Bechet Select I must say, it's wunnerful to hear the probable source of Piano Red's 'Right string but the wrong yoyo'. There's a pretty good cornet player on some of these tracks MG

My UK edition from Top Rank has the same spelling, I'd assumed it was a mistake made here given that Kelly is not exactly a common name in these parts. I'd forgotten that Top Rank used to distribute VJ over here. But I remember Dee Clark and Wade Flemons 45s coming out on TR, now you mention this. Is your copy one from before or after EMI took Top Rank over? MG After, EMI on the back cover where it's spelt Kelly in contrast to the front cover. The LP labels also have his surname as Kelly. Oh, EMI corrected 3/4 of the errors MG

I’ve loved this band for decades. Unlike most of the Latin bands that incorporated jazz into their music – Machito, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri and many others – Pucho & LSB also incorporated soul and funk into what they were playing. They also mainly played different venues; not many Latin venues but mostly organ rooms and other soul jazz venues; appealing mainly to a black, not Hispanic, audience. The band broke up in 1974; as Pucho said in an AAJ interview in 2004, ‘I was in the Catskill Mountains making money. Playing in Jewish resorts, working with stars like Milton Berle, Robert Goulet, Tony Bennett. That was the “matzo ball circuit” I was working.’ He put the band together again in 1993 on advice from British DJ Russ Dewbury and began recording again. Tough – Prestige 7471 (2/1966) Saffron & soul – Prestige 7502 (11/1966) Shuckin ‘n jivin’ – Prestige 7528 (8/1967) Big stick - Prestige 7555 (12/1967) Heat – Prestige 7572 (4/1968) Dateline – Prestige 7616 (2/1969) Jungle fire – Prestige 7765 (1/1970) Yaina - Right On PRO5000 (c1971) Super freak – Zanzee SZLP2603 (c1972) Jungle strut – Lexington 1003 (5/1993) Rip-A-Dip – Milestone 9247 (6/1995) Groovin’ high – Cannonball 27103 (c1997) Mucho Pucho – Timeless 444 (2/1998) Caliente con soul - Cubop CBDC021 (3/1999) How’m I doin’ – Cannonball 27108 (12/1999 & 1/2000) The Hideout – Milestone 9340 (4/2003-3/2004) There’s also: The best of Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers – Prestige 7679. It contains material from 1967 and 1968 LPs. As they did with Brother Jack McDuff, Fantasy reissued most of the band’s Prestige material on CD in pretty random order on two CDs – ‘Legends of Acid Jazz’ (PRCD24175) and ‘Cold shoulder’ (PRCD24240). I attach an Excel table detailing the issues. However, over the past year, according to their new update catalogue for 21012/13, Ace records in the UK have issued two twofer CDs on the BGP label that sort out the mess; and complete the issue of the band’s Prestige material, except for two tracks that have never been issued. I’m surprised they waited so long, as the twofer of ‘Heat’ and ‘Jungle fire’ they issued in 1992 is still in the BGP catalogue, and must be selling still. However, as Universal is Concord’s European licensee, I dare say Ace had a protracted negotiation with Concord. The two new CDs are: CDBGPD252 – Big Stick & Dateline and CDBGPD255 – Saffron and soul & Shuckin’ n jivin’ Here's the table (it's a Word doc, because I'm not allowed to upload .XLS files ) Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers Prestige issues.doc MG

I think you probably can remove the jpeg, then use the little box above the posting area to incorporate the address of the jpeg into the right place in the press notice. I bit fiddly but I expect it's just an accident that no one noticed, rather than a decision. MG

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My UK edition from Top Rank has the same spelling, I'd assumed it was a mistake made here given that Kelly is not exactly a common name in these parts. I'd forgotten that Top Rank used to distribute VJ over here. But I remember Dee Clark and Wade Flemons 45s coming out on TR, now you mention this. Is your copy one from before or after EMI took Top Rank over? MG

I think I was the wrong age for Pet. In the early 60s, I used to be friendly with a girl who managed in a record shop in Ealing. She used to get blues & R&B singles in on the day of release, knowing there was a bit of a market there. One day she told me a GREAT story, though I never knew if it was true. She got a call from the organisation that put together the UK pop charts for the New Musical Express. They'd apparently had a fire in the office, had lost all the information they used to compile the charts and needed to produce something for the publishing deadline, so were doing a quick telephone sample. And she told them that Pet Clark's cover of Lee Dorsey's 'Ya ya' was her best seling single. So it entered the top thirty! I always thought it was extremely odd for a French language cover of an R&B song to be a hit in Britain MG

A WINNER!!!!! But surely it can't REALLY be real? MG

I agree with Mike. I have heard Milt Jackson sing on one or two recordings and thought his vocals were terrible. If you don't like Charles Brown, I can see you wouldn't like Milt MG

Very Clinton-inspired MG

Well, I had to look. Nor have I. MG

I'm fine with April. Start on All Fools' Day MG

How much of that derives from Cheikh Anta Diop, Jazzbo? Never read a more disorganised writer than Diop. MG

Oliver Nelson - Stolen moments - East WInd (Inner City) MG

One I've had for a long time and always enjoy - listening to it now - is Stolen moments - East Wind (also Inner City) With Bobby Bryant, Jerome Richardson, Buddy Collette, Bobby Bryant Jr, Jack Nimitz, Mike Wofford, Chuck Domanico & Shelly Manne. March 1975. Always enjoy this. MG

My Missus has cut my hair since 1971. She doesn't shave me though. I wouldn't ask MG