The Magnificent Goldberg

This evening's vinyl Thionne Seck - Yow - Syllart Bill Leslie - Diggin the chicks - Argo (DG mono) Jack McDuff - Kisses - Sugar Hill Grover Washington Jr - All the king's horses - Kudu (Pye UK) MG

GREAT album..... living with that one since 8 years old. Yes, I'm really enjoying it. Very nearly pristine, after a bit of buffing with a Parostatik. Very glad I got it. MG

This morning's vinyl Ramsey Lewis - Going Latin - Cadet (Chess UK) Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers - The love I've been loking for - Atlantic Dorothy Norwood - Look what they've done to my child - Savoy (If this were big enough to actually READ the sleeve notes, you'd see Melvin Hassan listed on guitar. I've always thought it strange for him to have used his Moslem name for a gospel album.) MG

Sorry, almost de rigeur for the time. I agree with both your posts and would add that I don't like the sound the X77 makes. But Thorny!!! That man made so much good music with organists, it's just not true. MG

Well, you may be right, Bev. I know that, in '69, my boss who owned the record shop I worked in then played me a piece of RVW that was written after the Bloch concerto that was a dead rip of it. Perhaps I'm remembering it wrong as a violin concerto. Bloch was one of my favourite non-French composers. The Yehudi Menuhin version of that concerto (on HMV) was splendid. MG

This morning's vinyl The Soul Stirrers - Strength, power & love - Jewel Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Hold it right there (live at Sandy's) - Muse Little Richard - VOl 2 - Specialty (Ace) MG

I know that even into the 70's he took "anonymous" sideman work dates on pop dates. Offhand I can't think of any Jazz dates where he was a sideman. He did make a sideman date in 1957 for King, with Bill Jennings as leader. 3 issued and 2 unissued tracks. But, generally, I agree - after he left Cootie Williams in about 1950, he was leading his own band. He was on quite a few R&B singles in the fifties. Some of the more memorable R&B singles with him in the band are Ruth Brown - Teardrops from my eyes (Willis and Ruth were married for several years) Ruth Brown - 5-10-15 hours Ruth Brown - Daddy, Daddy Little Willie John - All around the world (aka Grits ain't groceries) Little Willie John - Need your love so bad (I wish Gator had recorded this song himself) MG Well, I was wrong about Gator never having done a jazz date as a sideman. I recently got a listen to a very rare Johnny 'Hammond' Smith album, called 'Imagination' - Warwick W2003. Seems to have been recorded in 1958 or '59, though it's not certain (I think '59). No personnel listed but I'm sure the guy playing tenor on some cuts is Gator Tail. It's Smith's first recording and is a very good example of his style. The other players are said here http://johnnyhammondsmith.com/?p=6 to be Thornel Schwartz, George Tucker and Leo Stevens. However, whether the blogger concerned ever listened to the LP isn't certain, because he doesn't mention a sax player This is the sleeve: MG

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I'm not familiar with either composer but Vaughn-William's violin concerto is a rip-off of Bloch's violin concerto, composed about 3-4 years earlier. I'm not sure how common this was in classical music. MG

My copy of Slide Hampton's 'Sister Salvation' (London Jazz Series UK) has the most wonderful message. 'This record is presented to Peter Cox by his father, on the occasion of the birth of his and Hilary's daughter, Ann Marie Cox, born Oct 6 Friday 1972. Pleasant listening Pete and a good life Ann Marie. XXXX' Isn't that great? The 6th of October is my birthday, too. MG

This morning's vinyl Professor Herman Stevens - Poet of the gospel organ - Savoy Stevens was a big influence on Baby Face Willette, and you can hear it. Jack Wilson - The jazz organs - Vault (bad water damage on sleeve looks worse than this) Eugene Williams & Sister Lee Ida Brown & the Houston Interdenominational Choir - Somebody bigger than I - Songbird (No image on the web) Slim & the Supreme Angels - MOre than alive - Nashboro (another no image on web - 70s gospel is REALLY unpopular) Bessie Griffin - Testimony - Nashboro (really REALLY unpopular) Well, here's one George Hines & the Gospel Winds - Presenting - Atlantic MG

That's a funny selection. I know the Black Beats recorded for Decca West Africa; don't know about the others but the AMbassador Springboks sounds like a SOuth African band (though there was an AMbassador label in Ghana). Seems odd for it to be on Fontana. Can you tell when it issued? MG

Amazon UK only charges £1.26 for domestic postage (even if the seller is in the US). That's about $1.98. I have to agree that $2.98 sounds a lot by comparison. It doesn't cost as much as £1.26 to post a CD in Britain, so there's allowance for packing in there. MG

Little Milton - Chess blues masters series - Checker (Vogue Fr) MG

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953. I was nine and it was the first time I'd seen TV - I think that was the case for a hell of a lot of people in Britain; TV never had a larger audience than radio until then, and never a smaller after that. My mother and I had been invited to friends for the event. We watched it all day (it WAS a long gig). The commentary by the great RIchard Dimbleby made it even more portentous than it actually was. And heightened by the morning papers announcing that Everest had been climbed for the first time. MG

Is that YOU, Freelancer, or something from the hype on the site? MG

You can certainly get a cheap phone at Tesco - my wife uses one. Tesco is a supermarket chain, mainly at out of town shopping centres, though I'm sure there will be some in central London. Here's a link - though it's for rentals. http://shop.tescomobile.com/collection/special_offers?tmcampid=22&tmad=c&gclid=CPj1o6L5t7ECFRMgtAodMnMA4g MG

Before the LP, a bit of video of the Salem Travelers - one of my favourite post forties gospel groups. Swings nicely. MG

I'm fucking knackered! So, vinyl for the extremely knackered this evening. Willie Bobo - Tomorrow is here - Blue Note - an album distinguished by the complete absence of anything relating to Blue Note. I wonder if TTK has this. I like it, for those extremely knackered times. next In case you left your magnifying glass at the office, this is Salem Travellers - Heaven is my goal - Nashboro - smooth soul arrives in Church MG

Still hot and dry. The real drag is, I've got to get off my arse and paint the doors and doorsteps. And it's no good me arguing that a woman's work is never done That cuts no ice with my good lady. MG

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Probably not quite this simple. Double-Time is/was run by JD Aebersold, Jamey Aebersold's son. A lot (though not all) of the records are from players who are in the "professional jazz educator" world and live out in the hinterlands, but have connections through the education world with the Aebersolds. Marr was one of these - he did play-a-long records for Aebersold and was a clinician at the jazz camps he ran. As for why Marr is the only one with records in this style on the label...it's probably more a reflection of the fact that there are few pro teachers out there who focus strictly on 1960s soul jazz and lots and lots of them who are into post-Coltrane/Brecker playing. Thank you. Very interesting. I assume there is little demand from colleges for soul jazz teachers MG

This morning The Caravans - Just like him - Vee-Jay (Fontana UK) Sonny Criss - Portrait of - Prestige (Fantasy green label) Then several hours of painting the back door and frames. Now relaxing (is it?) with Charles Mingus - Mingus dynasty - COlumbia (CBS UK) before embarking on the front door frames and step, when the sun goes around the house. MG