The Magnificent Goldberg

Samuel Beckett Thomas a Beckett Henry Plantagenet

Now John Coltrane - Live at Birdland - Impulse (Jasmine) next Joe Henderson - Canyon lady - Milestone MG

This one's a bit different. Katie Bell Nubin was Sister Rosetta Tharpe's mother. A good, not great, but very interesting, album, with the Dizzy Gillespie band of 1960 - inc L Wright, Mance, Spann, Art Davis & L Humphries. MG

Pilgrim Travelers - Best of the Pilgrim Travelers vols 1 & 2 - Specialty MG

Friedrich Krupp Heckler & Koch Heym

Kenneth Williams was one of the great British comedians of the sixties/seventies - the only one who was in EVERY Carry-on film. And the Decca series "The world of" ran for hundreds of albums, including many classical reissues under the generic title "The world of the great classics". So it WAS a big fucking deal! MG

Absolutely true. If you're truly dedicated to a genre, you do so much listening that even the classics begin to pall. This inevitably leads to the mining of lesser seams where there are fewer gems - but, by now, you're so steeped in the genre and your ears so attuned that you derive perhaps more pleasure from these minor works than you did from the classics in your amateur listening days. Yes - that's what I meant. MG

Download for me, too, please Thom. MG

Willie Banks & the Messengers Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Les Messagers du Mali

Late as usual, but I'm very sorry to hear this. But glad Chuck's thinking of reissuing his LP. And glad to see some other stuff to buy. (Well...) MG

Just seen this. Wonderful! Thanks Larry. Vernon Price must have been a special guest at that gig with the Tommies. I have a lot of their albums (all but two of which have soloist credits) and she doesn't appear on any of them. MG

U-Roy I-Roy Ubu Roi

I was chatting to a guy some time back and he remarked that he liked good music in any genre. I thought, “Well, what’s wrong with bad music?” but it was neither the time nor the place to explore his and my thoughts about it. Last night, however, reading the Dizzy Gillespie and Joe Henderson threads for the first time, it occurred to me that I’ve got a collection of bebop and hard bop (and avant) that has pretty well nothing but good records (ones I think are good, but see that that view is widely shared here). I formed the view that this was because I don’t really like those kinds of music. In terms of music genres that I do really like – Soul Jazz, Gospel, Mbalax & Djeliya – I am very happy to have, and enjoy, mediocre, poor and even thoroughly crummy albums and not mind that they’re not good (in my opinion). But for kinds of music that I don’t really like, I generally won’t buy anything that isn’t really good. Does anyone else feel the same way about the music in their collection or am I strange? MG

Joe Liggins Jimmy Liggins Manny Riggins

This morning, it's been the John Patton Select. Now disc 3 - "Certain feeling" & "Understanding" - Whoooooo! MG

Frankie Laine Dusty Rhodes Janet Streetporter

Thanks John. So I wasn't just lucky. Incredible. MG

Other baritone players I like a lot, who aren't mentioned, are Hank Crawford, Leroy "Hog" Cooper, Jerome Richardson, Charles Davis and Paul Williams. Babe Clarke has a great sound in ensemble work, too. MG

Gotta go for Ronnie. I've got a huge bunch of his stuff from his early days with Slide Hampton to nowadays. He never fails to be exciting. Leo Parker would be #2 for me. It's not just his 2 BN albums. I've got his King LP with Bill Jennings, which I like very much and a bunch of Savoy sides with Dex and Jug which are all very good. But, sadly, it's still not very much.

Stanley Turrentine - Easy walker - BN (UK) Florida Mass Choir - Be encouraged - Savoy next Preston Love - Strictly cash - Saxophonograph MG

I don't go to Starbucks in the UK, so the few visits I made while I was in Austin and Fort Worth were the only occasions I've been there. But, apart from their ability to make tea, I was struck by the music I heard. Not just for what it was but as much for the odd things that one wouldn't expect. Jazzbo and I spent a pleasant half hour or so, trying to guess the hard bop stuff that was playing in Austin - and by the way, the pianist on Stanley Turrentine's "Alone together" was McCoy Tyner, not Sonny Clark, as I'd suggested. But that was a somewhat odd one. Two of three visits in Fort Worth brought more jazz - less focussed on hard bop - and one evening in which Soul & R&B was on the menu. The usual Soul suspects but, once more, some decidedly odd tracks, eg Chuck Berry's "Havana moon" - who would have thought of including that? What I expected in those towns was country or country rock. Was I just lucky to hit the right places at the right times or is there a general policy in Starbucks to play black music? If the latter is the case, I begin to see some sense in the firm's strategic alliance with Concord. MG

Dino & the Dinosaurs Desi Arnez Lucille Ball

If it's the same one, it was shown on UK TV in the late sixties. Very interesting. MG

I never noticed that before. MG

1 I never go in Starbucks in the UK. Never ever. But Starbucks in the US was the only place where I could guarantee getting a half-decent cup of tea. Otherwise, it was always as you describe, Bev. Even Belgians know better than that If Shawn is watching this thread, he might come up with a you-tube link to the record he played me of Jack Bruce and some US punk band giving Americans instructions for making a proper cup of tea properly. MG The day before Alan Moss/The Magnificent Goldberg came to visit us @ our house, my wife said, "Do you think I should offer him tea?" I chuckled, and told her, no...don't even try to go there. Fortunately, either Alan was a really good sport or else really liked it (or maybe it was the only semi-acceptable choice ), but at the barbeque, we offered a beverage selection that included iced tea that was a brewed mixture of Lusianne ice tea tea bags & Constant Comment & it seemed to be well-recieved by our guest-of-honor. Even so, I seriously doubt that it was enjoyed as "tea" per se. But at least we didn't make the miostake of not knowing what we didn't know, so I guess that goes down as a net-nothing on the Hospitality Scoreboard. At least I hope so.... It was good, thanks Jim. But tea is tea. Iced tea is iced tea. Each has to be drunk on its own terms. MG