The Magnificent Goldberg

Wow! You're obviously not a believer in "cast nae a cloot till May is oot"! My Missus maintains that the reference is not to the month but to the blossom. MG

Cheapo Kod Ory comp on Quadromania. Disc 1 is mostly 1944 broadcasts. Rousing! (By the way; is that REALLY Ory on the sleeve?) MG

Nowt. Turntable packed up last night in the middle of Art Blakey & Sonny Stitt - In walked Sonny - Sonet It's only two and a half years since I had the same problem repaired. Think I'll get a new one. MG

Apologies to the grammarians for moving off topic, but I have Dues and consider it a fine album. It's certainly a good choice for this Overlooked/Neglected thread and others have thought so too, as I was first alerted to it by Marc Myers who featured it as a "hidden Gem" on JazzWax in 2008: http://www.jazzwax.com/2008/06/5-hidden-gems-a.html As I recollect, the album was pretty well thought of in Britain at the time. Whether that means anything, I know not. MG

Goodness! MG

Definitely - or definitively, if you like. Also this Part 1 of a 2CD set on THE 3361BLACK label. A great set. MG

watch out. your participles are dangling! Please explain. Not proper English: whom I'd really like to read a good bio of. Proper English: someone about whom I'd like to read a good bio Participles (in this case: "of") should not be placed at the end of sentences. Having been married to a writer myself, I know that being a good one does not equate to someone who can necessarily handle grammar and syntax well. Very surprising --- these functions must be handled in different parts of the brain. There are some contexts in which it's NECESSARY to have a dangling preposition. I always remember Winston CHurchill's remark on the subject. "Prepositions at the end of sentences are things up with which I will not put!" MG

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Johnny Hammond Smith - Higher ground - Kudu Some of my favourite Joe Henderson on this. And what an idea to have Joe and Hank Crawford on one album! MG

Strangely, in view of her background, she does a couple of tracks on WInard Harper's album "Faith" (Savant). I've got some other guest appearances of hers elsewhere, but that's the most memorable. RIP Carrie. MG

Never saw the Reed sleeve before, but I had a suspicion that that might have been first. The Wolf sleeve is so well known though and the album is generally referred to as 'the rocking chair album'. It's funny that it's the imitator. MG

I didn't know there was one. Was it visible over here? Booful day today. Sat out in garden with dog at feet, book in hand. Nice. MG Oh, it was me with the book. Dog isn't interested in 19th C African history. And doesn't read too well. Or do tricks or anything except being naughty.

Oh, interesting. WHich was first, I wonder? MG

Well, I did! MG

Today's vinyl, so far Jack McDuff - Tough Duff - Prestige (purple label) Les McCann - The longer you wait - JAM None of you lot ever seem to play JAM LPs MG

I started off buying the MJQ in 1960 - 'One never knows', 'Music Inn vol 2' & 'Pyramid'. And Chris Connor. But at the same time, there was Ray Charles - 'What'd I say', 'At Newport' and 'Fathead'. (But also Goodman, Armstrong, Ella, and Duke. Then later, there was more Ray, Nat Adderley, but also Basie, Miles, Jacques Loussier (YES!). But all the time, I'd go into listening booths with a Blue Note LP (very expensive) and something locally manufactured for about half the price and listen to Jimmy Smith, Lou Donaldson, Freddie Roach, whihch I couldn't afford, then buy the cheaper album. I bought Blue Note on 45s. Also on 45, Jimmy McGriff, Phil UPchurch, Bill DOggett, Hank Jacobs and Harold Betters. But I wouldn't say that in the early 60s I was HOOKED on jazz. I was hooked on R&B and viewed all this jazz I really liked as a kind of R&B. But, by the mid-sixties, much soul was formulaic and driven by the likes of Motown, while I started working an 84 hour week in a textile factory and had enough money to buy Blue Notes. So I really got hooked when I heard Grant Green, John Patton and Ben Dixon on 'Good gracious'. I'd bought the album, played it a bit, then really got into it one evening while I was doing the washing up and kind of opened up my mind without thinking much. That would have been late '65. MG

I know they issued a lot of soul jazz on the BGP label - some of which never came out on CD in the USA (eg Freddie Roach, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Rusty Bryant, Billy Hawks, Funk Inc) - as well as some compilations with unusual stuff. But really, even though I find it wonderful, that's a tiny fraction of Fantasy's former jazz holdings. For more mainstream, bebop and modern jazz, there's a hell of a lot that didn't come out on Ace but did come out on ZYX. Well, that's not clear: the two companies were in a consortium licensing the Fantasy material with other firms in other countries, listed on the backs of the CDs. But most of what ZYX manufactured you couldn't buy in the shops here, even though it said Ace in the list; you had to import it from the USA, or Germany - both expensive options, in the days before Amazon. I downloaded an Ace Fantasy catalogue in 1996 and it's tiny. (And anything that was also available in the USA (except the ZYX items) was marked 'Not available for export to the USA & Canada' - eg the Legends of Acid Jazz series.) One thing that's interesting is that a lot of this soul jazz that Ace did but no one else did is still available - on vinyl and CD. Boogaloo Joe Jones' "Snake rhythm rock/Black whip" - his last two and his two very best albums, with Rusty Bryant and Dave Hubbard respectively - and all the Funk Inc albums are still in the current Ace catalogue. I think Ace has been the only source for this material since the 70s - I could be wrong, but I don't think even Japanese Victor issued the stuff. Fantasy certainly didn't and Concord certainly won't. ANd they're still issuing danceable jazz from the Concord labels, even though Universal hold the Concord license for Europe. Almost all of this club DJ jazz stuff is on the Ace imprint BGP (Beat goes public). I've been buying Ace stuff since 1981 - 10CH27 - Roll hot rod roll, by Oscar McLollie & his Honey Jumpers - a 10" LP of fifties material from Modern. Yeah, they do what they do very well. MG

Thanks Steve. I have the Official LP already and a good bit of modern stuff with Maxwell. I expect I'll get this in due course, though. MG

Many happy returns Chuck. :party: MG

Courtesy of Jazztropic Terrific album, with Hank Jones, Duvivier & J C Heard. MG

Looks very interesting - thanks Dan. MG

I thought I'd posted this some time back, but... MG

I don't think I'd invite musicians. I'd go for record producers. Bob Porter, Jerry Wexler, Esmond Edwards, Chris Albertson and a guy called Nessa who always makes funny remarks. I bet there's a million funny stories ABOUT musicians in that lot. MG

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I liked her. "State of independence" was the first that really got to me. But nonetheless, I've always had other priorities than her. So RIP Donna. MG