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It's not wrong, but it's just not the TRUTH. I can play loads of African stuff, including the music of the Touareg and Fulani (Peul) that sounds like blues, but it means something different. Without a message, music is empty. In any case, no Touareg people were taken to any part of the Americas as slaves because the Touareg are white. Few Songhai or Fulani (from this area) would have been, either, because they were just a bit too far off the beaten track. And because the nationals most traded at Charleston were Mandinke and Bambara, who live rather more to the east in Mali/Guinea/Burkina Faso/Gambia/Senegal/Guinea Bissau/Sierra Leone. MG

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Nice stuff! MG

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Well... "Do somethin'" was taking things a bit farther, while "Turn your lamp down low" seems to have been the mixture as before (though I could well be wrong about that). True MG

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Marginally. Fela Kuti's "Yellow fever" comes to mind MG

I got 11 and I was quite mystified by the last question. Conservative Moderate Liberal I don't understand this grouping. Where is "Socialist"? Where is "Communist"? Where is "other even farther left"? (Which is where mine would have gone.) Does "moderate" mean a little bit conservative? MG

More like YUKKKKK!!!!! Now this one is from West Africa. Guinea to be precise. I'm dreaming of a .... MG

Machito - Ritmo caliente (1942-1951) - Proper MG

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Thanks for sharing that, Lynda, and welcome to O. No time at present to look at the clips, but I'll do so later. I have some records of Gene - with Freddie McCoy and Hank Marr. Nice player. MG

Ditto. Ditto. But disappointed you couldn't clean up the Billy Wright "Do somethin'"; I'd have liked to hear a clean version. MG

All the very best, Stefan. MG

I'm a great Grant Green fan, but he wasn't the fastest guitar in the west, which seems to be what you're looking for. George Benson was a good bit faster - in the days before he was a singer - and influenced by Grant Green a lot. Also try Pat Martino. MG

Oh shit, double bad news - for you and the kids. Really sorry to hear this. MG

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What I've heard is that Rapidshare want to make free users into premium users. But I've rarely had corrupt files from them - just takes forever for the screen to come through - and it's not my connection; it's Rapidshare trying to be awkward. Use other share facilities. It's a competitive world. MG And PS - last time I looked at RS, they were saying that everything on Rapidshare.de was going to be deleted and they were going over to Rapidshare.com. MG

The Animals were from Geordieland. You know what they say about New Orleans? Well, WE say it about the Newcastle area. MG

Inez Andrews & the Andrewettes - The need of prayer - Songbird (Vogue France) This IS the real stuff! MG

I have TOCJ1610 - JOS trio + Lou Donaldson TOCJ1612 - JOS - Cherokee TOCJ1615 - JOS - Lonesome road TOCJ1616 - Tina - Minor move The only one with a credit is 1610, which says "tape transfers: Tony Sestanovich" - but it said that on the original LP - BN61013. But glad to get them out - got my breakfast music for tomorrow There's another new Toshiba BN series now. I've got Grant Green's "Visions", which is TOCJ8586. Came out in September 2009. No mention of the mastering; nether the engineer nor the number of bits. Has a copyright date of 2009. I believe this has never been out on CD before, so it must be a new mastering, surely? MG

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Yes - this is something to do with (I'll put it no stronger than that) the difference between Eric Alexander playing Soul Jazz on the one hand and Pat Martino or Ronnie Cuber playing soul jazz on the oher hand. The latter musicians worked in the black organ rooms, in the whole slice of life that they carried. Eric Alexander, for all that he worked with Charles Earland, a player who was every bit the equal in all respects of Gator Tail, McDuff, Benson and Dr Lonnie, didn't work with him until that organ room scene had gone away and Earland's audience was young whites who'd gotten interested through the Acid Jazz thing. Nowt wrong with that, in itself, but it does account for some of the things Alexander plays (not all - sometimes he has it absolutely right) whereas I never hear Martino or Cuber making a false step. MG

Am I late? Or early? What day is it over there? Well, whatever day it is, I wish you a good one! MG

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