The Magnificent Goldberg

Michael Moorcock mentions - of all things - John Patton's 'Fat Judy' in 'The entropy tango'. That was 1981 - a couple of years before Acid Jazz became fashionable in Britain. MG

Maybe my favorite post-Fantasy Mongo album, that one is. Forgot that Carter was on it, will have to (gladly) relisten. Have a hard time getting to the band side, though, the percussion side (Side One) is so mesmerizing. Right up there with Patato & Totico imho. But the way the side ends with that groovy full-band version of "Para Ti", yeah, just play that one side over and over and over and over and...never make it to Side Two. Although, I guess if you have it on CD, that's not a problem. Yeah, the CD version I have is a twofer from Collectables, coupled with 'Mongo's way' featuring Stanley Turrentine as a guest soloist on 2 cuts. It comes first on the CD so I play it all the way through Thanks for the info Mike. The notes on the Collectables release are only legible when I'm wearing my tiny sleevenote glasses and in good sunlight MG

Quite right. Should you ever see a 45 of 'Sax 5th Avenue' backed with 'Jack sax the city', pay whatever's asked. The B side is definitely NOT aimed at the MOR market. By the way, you can get Plas 3 MOR LPs for MGM/Charter on one 2CD set from Blue Moon, a Barcelona firm. The 2 CDs contain Sax Fifth Avenue (Charter) On the scene (Charter) Blue martini (Ava) (Definitely one for TTK ) MG

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That's a name a can't remember from my Mongo sleeve notes, but my collection is far from exhaustive. What was he on, Mike? MG

And that Wagner guy. Big in movies, though. MG

Ah, you got one! What, even with Joe Pass there? MG

He was on McDuff's first COncord album, 'Color me blue', recorded in 5/1991 & 3/1992. MG

That's the type of off-centre pressing I've mostly seen. I used to have a turntable where you could take the centre spindle out; I'd made a mark on the label, like CIH does, so I'd know how to lay the disc on the mat, and play it. Unfortunately, my current turntable doesn't have a removable spindle, so I just don't play those sides any more. MG

PM sent on Willis Jackson at large - Mint $5 MG

Thanks Skeith. MG

Apparently not, unless in Japan. It was MV10, 'ALone with the blues'. WHile I feel I may have seen it on a Japanese CD, I may be remembering Ray Bryant's LP of the same title. MG

I think it was Stefan Wood who posted that he'd got this, some months ago. Guelewar - Halleli N'Dakarou - Touba Auto K7 (Teranga Beat) I thought it was the Xaley N'dakarou K7 with some bonus tracks. Now I've got it, I see Xaley N'dakarou was issued as a 2 K7 set, of which I've only got one. Now that's the way to do reissues! Interesting sleeve note all in all. Never knew Moussa Ngom came from The Gambia (though I suspected it). Thanks for the info, Stefan. MG

No coincidence. My wife googled UK flights for her sister and London properties for our daughter. Shortly afterwards Organissimo brought me offers for both. Well, a car battery wouldn't get your sister-in-law far off the ground, even if she stuck her fingers in the holes MG

Yes, it must be - I've just seen it again and it's an ad for Bosch car batteries. Nasty suspicious mind, that is MG

Bill Hardman - Focus - Muse I didn't get this decades ago, when I first got it but this time it was really nice. Well, look at that band, will ya! MG

Just saying, not complaining but I just saw, as I was floating off to another thread, that there was an advert for Bosch at the bottom of the 'new content' screen. We had a visit from a Bosch engineer 90 minutes ago and I afterwards downloaded a set of my dishwasher instructions. Coincidence? MG

I hope that, when the book on WP/PJ is finished, you'll come here and tell us. That's one I definitely want to read. MG

Oh yes, I sent Joel Dorn a critical e-mail. In the sleeve note of the Label M reissue of David Newman's 'Captain Buckles' he'd written that the session was kind of an apology for his having overproduced 'The weapon'. I wrote saying that the weapon was done about two years AFTER 'Captain Buckles' and where had his memory gone. A few days later, one of his sidekicks e-mailed me to ask for my phone number. Mystified I gave it to him, thinking he was about to visit Britain, but he phoned me the following weekend. Really, he wanted to know where I'd got 'The Magnificent Goldberg' from and told me how 'The Masked Announcer' had arisen. And he stayed on the phone for over an hour, transatlantic! MG

My older Grandson, Lawrence, just coming up to 18, is a big fan of Marilyn Manson. Manson has done 2 gigs in Britain recently, split by a tour of Europe. Lawrence went to the one in London a few weeks ago and enjoyed it greatly. Last week it was Birmingham. My wife and I heard from our daughter that Lawrence thought it was 'the greatest gig ever'. Smiles. But when they all came over for lunch on Sunday, we heard the story. My daughter dropped Lawrence off at the gig, quite early. He met a girl there; a 19 year old student at Birmingham University (and has now decided that Birmingham would be a good university for him to go to to study maths ). Her friends, for some reason, hadn't turned up so she and Lawrence hung out together and watched the gig. But she and her (absent) friends were on journalism courses, and had press cards; one of the absent friends had an appointment to interview Manson for the university paper. So the girl who WAS there, went backstage after the gig. And Lawrence followed into Manson's dressing room; no one stopped him. So he sat there quietly through the interview while Manson took off his makeup and so on. He was overwhelmed! Nothing like that ever happened to me. Anyone else got stories of being an overwhelmed fan? MG

Thanks Jim. MG

Hm, we don't need a scan if Skeith just tells us what MC's cited on the CD as doing. MG

Charles Davis - Super 80 - Nilva MG