The Magnificent Goldberg

Fatou Laobe - BARA Mamadou Lamine - Tabala (No usable image on web) Aminata Kamissoko - Kognoumalon - Emedia BKS Aminata Kamissoko - Ambition - TAT Audio Visuel Drame (No image on web) This one's the only K7 I bought - all the rest are CDs. Pascal Dieng & Super Cayor de Dakar - Khewel - Origines (Lampe Fall) (No image on web) El Hadji Faye - Pastef - Boubarte (Lampe Fall) Assane Mboup - Tresor - Jololi Assane Mboup - Xaleyi - Lampe Fall Mapenda Seck - Adouna tey - Jololi Ouza - 20 ans ? - Lampe Fall Abou Djouba Deh - Yewende - Lampe Fall (No image on web) Kine Lam - Mame Bamba - Origines Coumba Gawlo - Ma Djinn - Sabar (No image on web - pity, she's wearing an absolutely stunning dress!) Abdoulaye Diabate - Makan - Syllart Yoro Diallo & Sali Diagbawara - Dunia kadi - CK7

A good shopping (and fressing) week in Paris. Great stuff and actually managed to avoid overspending!!! (Brought 20 Euros back home with me.) Got Sekouba Bambino - Innovation - Syllart Sekouba Bambino - Diatiguyw - Syllart Sekouba Bambino - Ma Guinee - SBD (Sekouba's own company) Ganda Fadiga - 2007 (vol 1) - CK7 Ganda Fadiga - 2008 (vol 2) - CK7 Diadia Fadiga - 2011 - CK7 Ami Koita - Africawe - Mali Music (FCA) Ami Koita - Sanou lolo - Akom (No image on web) Djanka Diabate - Ayan-don - Fanta Keita (No image on web) Tata Bambo Kouyate - Djeliya - FCA (No image on web) Djessou Mama Diabate - Mansaba - Super Selection (FCA) (No image on web) Fatou Laobe - He Laobe/Rewmi - Origines (FCA twofer) (No image of CD on web) (continued on next post)

Yes, I think I'll cop this one. Then Erskine Hawkins, maybe? MG

Concord reissued the four Ray Charles jazz albums issued on Impulse, Tangerine and Crossover as a 2 CD set a couple of years ago and this is what the personnel for Jazz II says: Ray Charles - Leader, piano and the Ray Charles orchestra, including: Johnny Coles, Blue Mitchell (tpt) James Clay, Andrew Ennis, David Newman, Don Wilkerson (ts) Leroy Cooper (bars) Edgar Willis (b) Ernest Ely (d) Arrangements by: Alf Clausen (#2,5) Teddy Edwards (#4,7) Jimmy Heath (#6) Roger Neumann (#1,3) I've always thought I could hear Teddy Edwards on his two tunes. MG Thanks. Seems to be some confusion among some sources. This site offers a "correction" according to a trombonist on the date: http://raycharlesvideomuseum.blogspot.com/2010/02/jazz-number-ii.html I just picked up the LP yesterday and have not been able to listen yet, but I got it because I had seen a discography that said Marcus Belgrave was on it. I'm seeing Marcus later today and will ask him about it. I'll also have a chance to listen in a bit and check the aural evidence. Thank you Mark - that's a much more persuasive personnel list than what Concord published. If you do see Marcus, ask him if he remembers if Teddy Edwards played. MG Well, my ears told me Marcus is playing at least some of the trumpet solos, and he confirmed today that he's on the record, though he doesn't think he played all of the solos. I had brought it along to have him listen to identify certain things more specifically, but his turntable wasn't working so that will have to wait. In any case, it appears that the personnel listed on the website is correct, though I didn't go through it man by man with him. He did say that he does not believe that Teddy Edwards played at all on the session. The record was made in 1971 either right before or right after a tour that Marcus had rejoined for (as he did from time to time, for a short run of gigs, or a special festival reunion or maybe a TV spot or something similar.) Thanks Mark - very interesting. MG

A WONDERFUL LP!! Cleanhead and Jaws are fabulous on it, too. And 'Hit' as in hit record, too. "(Cherry) Red blues" spent 9 months on the R&B top 15. "Somebody's gotta go", the A side of "Round midnight" made #1 on the R&B chart. "Is you is, or is you ain't" was a smaller hit, too. MG If it's on Obey, it's an eighties pressing. SOme LPs on Obey appear to have been original issues, but most bear the catalogue number of the original Decca release, but the Obey trademark. Which have you got? Here's a link to Obey's enormous discography. http://biochem.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~endo/EAObey.html MG It's this album: 1974 Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band Iwalka Ko Pe (Decca WAPS 218) [A] Iwa Ika Ko Pe / Gbogbo Bi A Ti Nse / Maa Se Niso / Ninu Odun T'awa Yi Edumare Jeki A Lowo Lowo / Ori Mi Ma Jeki Nte Motun Gboro Agba De / Imole De / Ilu Mi Ko Kere / Egba National Anthem / Lai Ku Ekiti / Jinadu Isale Eko / Eyo O It is on Obey and has the designation WAPS 218, so it must be the reissue. The vinyl is in near mint (or close to it) condition. The address below the trademark photo is 7A, Shipeolu Street, Onipanu Palmgrove, Lagos, Nigeria. Nice find! West African LPs in that condition are very hard to come by. MG

I hate to say it, but When? The Hit Parades of the Swing Era, the best-selling record lists of the 30s and 40s seem to argue otherwise (I've seen old Billboards and such). Who, outside of black communities, knew of Armstrong, Morton, Bessie Smith during the Jazz Age? Crown Jim? Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, the Dorseys, etc., were part of the jazz world too. And hit parades weren't the only criterion. Wasn't it so that public turnout to live appearances went a "bit" beyond that of a niche product too? Would Paul Whiteman have crowned himself 'King of Jazz' if the appellation hadn't meant anything in marketing terms? I rather think not. All those gangsters who ran illicit drinking clubs knew well that they had to get jazz musicians into their establishments. There's a nice story about Petrillo strong-arming one of them into paying proper money on behalf of a jazz band; the gangster caved in because he knew that, without those musicians, he wouldn't have customers. MG

It's a cold, dull summer's day this side of the Bristol Channell MG

If it's on Obey, it's an eighties pressing. SOme LPs on Obey appear to have been original issues, but most bear the catalogue number of the original Decca release, but the Obey trademark. Which have you got? Here's a link to Obey's enormous discography. http://biochem.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~endo/EAObey.html MG

Very interesting Jazztrain. Thanks very much. The Ohio Players? Well, interesting indeed. MG

I don't think I understand what an aspirational pop music fan is or was in the seventies/eighties. No, I'm sure I don't. There was a comma in there. They were (i) aspirational as opposed to confrontational and (ii) liked light, fun pop music as opposed to heavy, worthy rock. Two separate things but a common combination in suburban families. Thanks, I'm beginning to get the hang of this now, but still not quite there. I think your parents were roughly of my own generation, so when you say they liked 'light, fun pop music as opposed to heavy, worthy rock', I guess that means Gary Glitter, T-Rex and Wizzard, as opposed to Cream, Led Zep and King Crimson. Or does it mean Manuel & the Music of the Mountains, the Big Ben Banjo Band and Val Doonican, as opposed to ALL the aforementioned? (If the latter is correct, I've got to say that I never, ever, met anyone like that in my own age group.) But I can't get 'aspirational as opposed to confrontational'. Aspirational isn't the opposite of confrontational. And I'm not sure of the relevance to musical taste of either term. Please explain a bit more. MG

This afternoon Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers - Doin' what we wanna - Atlantic MG

I've read the Eden books a couple or three times, over the last twenty-something years, and enjoyed them; lightweight but enjoyable. I borrowed a couple of the Stainless Steel Rat books from the library about the time I got the Eden set but found them as pure pulp as could be, so I never read any more. RIP. MG

Concord reissued the four Ray Charles jazz albums issued on Impulse, Tangerine and Crossover as a 2 CD set a couple of years ago and this is what the personnel for Jazz II says: Ray Charles - Leader, piano and the Ray Charles orchestra, including: Johnny Coles, Blue Mitchell (tpt) James Clay, Andrew Ennis, David Newman, Don Wilkerson (ts) Leroy Cooper (bars) Edgar Willis (b) Ernest Ely (d) Arrangements by: Alf Clausen (#2,5) Teddy Edwards (#4,7) Jimmy Heath (#6) Roger Neumann (#1,3) I've always thought I could hear Teddy Edwards on his two tunes. MG Thanks. Seems to be some confusion among some sources. This site offers a "correction" according to a trombonist on the date: http://raycharlesvideomuseum.blogspot.com/2010/02/jazz-number-ii.html I just picked up the LP yesterday and have not been able to listen yet, but I got it because I had seen a discography that said Marcus Belgrave was on it. I'm seeing Marcus later today and will ask him about it. I'll also have a chance to listen in a bit and check the aural evidence. Thank you Mark - that's a much more persuasive personnel list than what Concord published. If you do see Marcus, ask him if he remembers if Teddy Edwards played. MG

Pete Fountain, though I must have seen dozens of his LPs in the sixties, isn't a person I'd recognise if he bit me on the ankle, especially thirty years older. Well spotted! MG

A few LPs this morning Jimmy Smith - Crazy baby - BN (Pathe Marconi DMM) Ray Charles - Yes indeed - Atlantic (WEA France) now Lou Donaldson - Coleslaw - Argo (Cadet GRT) next Sly Dunbar - Sly-go-ville - Taxi MG

It's fairly normal for jazz musicians to appear on pop, R&B and blues recordings but rarely do they appear on gospel albums, especially if they aren't Christians. I know of two, one of which wasn't really surprising. The unsurprising one was the whole Dizzy Gillespie quintet providing the backing for Katie Bell Nubin's album 'Soul soul searching'. First, that was on Verve; second, K B Nubin was Sister Rosetta Tharpe's mother and obviously very connected to showbiz. The surprising one was the appearance of Melvin Hassan (aka Sparks) on Dorothy Norwood's 'Look what they've done to my child' on Savoy, which had, by that time, long ceased to be a jazz label. I suppose a jazz record shop IS a place you'd expect to see jazz musicians. I'm sure lots of the people hanging at Dobells in London in the sixties were jazz musicians, though I didn't recognise them. But to meet Ben Webster there ('69 or '70, not sure exactly) was truly unexpected! I acted like a fan, of course, and he was gracious. MG

Oh yes! My missus continually leaves tissues in her pockets, then she expects me to get three million tiny flecks of tissue off the clothes, because my eyes are better than hers. I do. MG

Concord reissued the four Ray Charles jazz albums issued on Impulse, Tangerine and Crossover as a 2 CD set a couple of years ago and this is what the personnel for Jazz II says: Ray Charles - Leader, piano and the Ray Charles orchestra, including: Johnny Coles, Blue Mitchell (tpt) James Clay, Andrew Ennis, David Newman, Don Wilkerson (ts) Leroy Cooper (bars) Edgar Willis (b) Ernest Ely (d) Arrangements by: Alf Clausen (#2,5) Teddy Edwards (#4,7) Jimmy Heath (#6) Roger Neumann (#1,3) I've always thought I could hear Teddy Edwards on his two tunes. MG

Don Patterson - Tune up - Prestige (purple label) next Lou Donaldson - Sassy soul strut - BN This may have been one of the ones he said he phoned in, but I still like it. MG

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Thank you TTK, that's really very helpful. I'll shove them on my wish list so I don't forget next month. MG PS I did actually buy Martin Denny's 'Quiet village' back in '60

And the forecast for Paris when I get there on Monday is rain!!! OBO110X MG

If you hand washed your shorts, how come you didn't notice this chunk of metal in the pocket? I dropped my door keys down the toilet once. I can remember cringing as I fished them out, but of course, there was no doubt that they'd work after their and my ordeal. MG

I'm going to be, but haven't got a round tuit yet. MG

See my post yesterday in the Vocalion thread. Fortysomethings like me love this stuff. Because when we were growing up it, and music like it, was always in the background, it's more evocative of our childhoods than the "cool" rock and roll we were supposed to like. Plus, our parents were aspirational, pop music fans. We didn't want to rebel against them like the previous generation did (and had to) against theirs; we wanted to emulate them. I don't think I understand what an aspirational pop music fan is or was in the seventies/eighties. No, I'm sure I don't. MG