The Magnificent Goldberg

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I keep forgetting how bloody great Chuck Jackson could be (and was often enough)

Breakfast with Charles Brown - 1946 Houston Person & Ron Carter - Remember love Empire Bakuba - Hommage a Emoro MG

OK. You got me going there. MG

Having breakfast with Lou Rawls - Too much Ramsey Lewis - The groover Houston Person - Thinking of you MG

I read it too, but got it out of the library. Didn't like it, but the general background was VERY informative. No music exists outside society, but much music exists outside one's own society. MG

I never heard of a Prestige 1500 series. What was it? MG

I saw him on TV once and he had a luminous saxophone. The lights went out and he went down on his back and all you could see was this sax in midair at a surprising angle - screamin!!!! MG

Breakfast with Three Sounds - Live at the IT Club The Drive - Slow drive to Soweto Alhadji Sikuru Ayinde Barrister - Fuji explosion MG

Breakfast with Paul Williams Complete 1947-1956 Having seen the news about Big Jay, after all that, I've simply GOT to have a honking day and overdose on HIM, too I'll rejoin the human race later today (I dare say). MG

RIP Big Jay and thanks for all those honks. In 1990, he was playing in Berlin, in a club close to the wall, when it began to be taken down. Next day, Berlin papers announced "Big Jay blew the Berlin Wall down!" This is similar to my favourite t-shirt Thanks Adam for posting that video of his 91st birthday. Gonna overdose and play all my Big Jay later. MG

Almost my favourite Hamp Hawes album!!!! This morning Ann Peebles - This is Ann Peebles Aretha Franklin - Soul '69 Duke Pearson - Tender feelin's Pepe Kalle - Verre casse MG

Missed this Happy birthday Dan MG

Celestine Ukwu - Igede fantasia Fela Kuti - Ikoyi blindness Willie Bobo - Juicy MG

Breakfast with the MJQ - Dedicated to Connie then Lassana Tamoura - Ganikie MG

This afternoon Ismael Isaac - Rahman Nice bit of Reggae from the Cote d'Ivoire, NOT by Alpha Blondy Shleu Shleu - 6eme anniversaire Nice band from Haiti Milt Jackson - Vibrations Always wondered about this - Got it in July from Paris Jazz Corner. Sorry I spent fifty years not hearing it. MG

Alarm clock needs a new battery - late breakfast with Gene Harris - Genie in my soul MJQ - The last concert Empire Bakuba & Pepe Kalle - Gerant MG

Ah, got it to work. Joel Dorn described it as the most exciting live jazz recording he'd ever heard. Well, this from a man who'd previously released Sonny Stitt's album with Don Patterson & Billy James live at the Left Bank is saying a bit TOO much - but he was trying to sell records. It is indeed very, very good Ray Bryant, a solo gig, recorded by him, somewhere he'd forgotten after all the years - hence the title. MG

My sentiments exactly. MG

Do you have this one, on here now? Ray Bryant - Somewhere in France Just finished Wild Bill Davis - His heah! Next Houston Person - All soul MG

This afternoon Ray Bryant - Montreux '77 Meters - Trick bag Houston Person - Moment to moment MG

I bought it in the sixties. The background vocals are by the Dells! Frankly, I didn't like it all that much. Seemed too wooden and restricted to me. Ditched it soon. Just goes to show... Enjoying breakfast with Pat Thomas - Asawa do Peggy Lee - Black coffee The Three Sounds - Beautiful friendship Ray Bryant - Con alma MG

I love their vocal arrangements. I don't have many albums by vocal groups - more by the Coasters and the Pointer sisters than any others. MG Lunchtime o'grooves Red Garland - Red alone Bopol Mansiamina - Manuela Al Casey - The swing-jump guitar of Al Casey (in Pete Brown Sextette 1944-45) MG

Breakfast with The Pointer Sisters - Black & White Pointer Sisters - Steppin' Empire Bakuba & Papy Tex - Livre d'or MG

Shirley Scott - Scottie plays the Duke Houston Person - Rain or shine Ramsey Lewis - Bach to the blues MG