The Magnificent Goldberg

Can't find a mono image. MG

Amazon UK eventually disgorged this, today. Dr Lonnie Smith - The healer - Pilgrimage Lined up for listening over lunch. MG

From All Music Guide. MG

V interesting, thanks. Looks like it was produced by Mr Shanghaied. Must be reading it wrong MG

Jim Morrison. That's the opening of "The Soft Parade", right? I thought it was on a Roberta Flack record. MG

No-score draw. These are jazz musicians, aren't they? MG

Oh, too many Japanese reissues (BN & Atlantic). I like 'Sophisticated Lou' and will welcome a CD. I'll go for the Moacir Santos ones, too. 'Maestro' is a MARVELLOUS album!!! MG

This morning Savannah Community Choir - He cares for me - Atlanta International next Clare Fischer - Easy living - Revelation (Jazz Workshop London) My sleeve isn't anything like this one. Good job too; I might not have bought it seeing Clare looking so much like a pratt in that little beard He had better beards on Pacific Jazz. Maybe Bock was in charge of the barber shop. MG

What was wrong with the Black Jazz CD's coming out? I thought that wss nothing short of miraculous, was very thankful to be able to grab those Doug & Jean Carn CD's while I could, and also have picked up several other of the titles through the years (Rudolph Johnson, etc.). There's a thread here somewhere detailing people's unfortunate experiences in paying for the records and not receiving them. MG

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Oh right. No Harold Vick or Shirley Scott, then MG

Damn me! One of my favourite albums and I didn't see that! MG

Never heard of that one. Did Francis produce it? My favourites of those keep changing but, on the basis of how much I play them, #1 is one no one else seems to like - 'Gettin' around'. I like it partly because Dex doesn't seem to be trying too hard and there's some kind of aural connection to Frank Haynes in the way he's playing. Next is '1 flight up', another in which EASE is the predominant factor for me. (Then 'CLubhouse' and 'Go') MG

Funny, I've got loads and they don't sound any different to me from other Fantasy stuff. I have one or two that I've also got on other editions... I believe it were the ZYX 20 bit remasters of OJC material in digipaks that could sound very bad. The standard jewel case editions were the same as the US OJC:s, which are mostly quite decent. Oh, I only have a very few of those: 3 I think - Ammons' 'Boss tenor'; Carter's 'Jazz giant'; and Wes' 'Incredible jazz guitar'. They all sound fine to me. The Ammons doesn't sound too different from the Ace LP. MG

Here's the Wiki entry for the label. Only gives an album list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_Records There was a subsidiary label as well, Today Records. Here's a partial discography with a bit about the company. http://www.discogs.com/label/Today%20Records Looks like the firm lasted five or six years. MG

I thought the label was called Strata East. Hope this isn't going to be another deal like Black Jazz. MG

Some hip wailing sax on that McNeely. edit: Plus a taste of Jesse Belvin and Mercy Dee Walton thrown in for good measure. Yeah, most of those honkers could really PLAY! This afternoon's vinyl Gospelaires of Dayton, Ohio - Camp meeting - Peacock (MCA) Jimmy Witherspoon - Midnight lady called the blues - Muse (French issue) I think this is my favourite Spoon - probably his last recording - but his singing is still right on the button and with the most perfect R&B band you could imagine. now Cootie Williams - Original Hit recordings - Hit (Phoenix) next Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah - India Navigation With Jiggs Chase on organ MG

This is a quaintly outdated warning. Satire is satire, whether topical or not. But less poignant if not. MG

Funny, I've got loads and they don't sound any different to me from other Fantasy stuff. I have one or two that I've also got on other editions... MG

Loadsa vinyl this afto Bobby Timmons - live at the Connecticut jazz party - Chiaroscuro Dexter Gordon - Tangerine - Prestige (FOnit Cetra Italy) Salem Travelers - Tell it like it is - Checker Sonny Criss - This is Criss - Prestige (OJC) Rev Cleophus Robinson - He's done great things - Peacock (black label) now Dexter Gordon again - Ca' purange - Prestige MG

I don't. DOn't know anyone who does. If I see a peachstone split, it's only just a little bit split and I doubt if I could get it open to get at whast's inside. Peaches are related to almonds and they're, apparently, both part of the rose family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach MG

Doubtless you're right, but... MG

Wow! Never heard of that one! This morning Earl Hines - Tour de force - Black Lion Dizzy Gillespie - Swing low sweet Cadillac - Impulse (MCA Germany) Big Jay McNeely - Deacon rides again - Imperial (Pathe Marconi France) now Joe Thomas & Bill Elliott - Speak your piece - Sue (What was left of the Rhoda Scott Trio after Rhoda left for Paris with Jiggs Chase on organ) MG

Bill Doggett - Ram-bunk-shush - KIng (Starday) now Slim & the Supreme Angels - Old favorites - Nashboro MG

I'd wager that they're all from the same source, though, that LP & this private pressing. Yes, that's the one listed in the discography. But it gives Nov '71 as the dat, whereas the Chiaroscuro LP is from 1969, I think, though there's no date on the LP. MG