The Magnificent Goldberg

Yes, Tuts was great. One of my favourite films is "Piano players rarely ever play together"; a German documentary film featuring Tuts, Fesser and Toussaint playing together, rehearsing for a gig they were to do together and talking about how the influence of Jelly Roll Morton had been passed down through their different generations and remembering where it al lcame from. The film and the gig were interrupted by Longhair's death. Must give that another view before we go over to digital and I can't see it any more. MG

Ah, I think I may have him. Eddie Taylor. He joined Roy Milton's band a couple of years after this recording. If you have my BFT from June/July of last year, I included a Roy Milton track featuring a very throaty solo from Taylor, done in 1952; "Night and day (I miss you so)". See what you think. Sure Jeff will have the CD it came from - the first Milton Specialty compilation. MG

Thanks for the link, Jim. Damn good band. Well, any band with Teddy Bunn is going to be damn good. Not sure about McVea - this guy is too throaty, I think. He has something of the sound that Roy Milton's tenor players got but they're a lot smoother than this geezer. And seems to me he's a lot closer to jazz than they are. Not Maxwell, either - he's too smooth. This guy has something of a modern approach that instantly made me think of Harold Vick - not that he's him, of course, but he's got that sideways thing like Vick but coupled with a looser version of the Earl Bostic sound transferred to tenor. Now, who do we know who might have played like that and was around on Central Avenue in '48? Clifford Solomon? MG

Indeed - though I'll be around (maybe briefly) tomorrow to wish everyone a happy Christmas again MG

If you've heard the record, I wouldn't bet against your judgement. If you haven't, this is '48 and Jack was still riding high on "Open the door, Richard" with his own combo, The Door-Openers. I'd doubt if he'd be doing uncredited sessions at that time. .... Though, of course, he would have been contracted to Black & White, so .... But I still doubt it. MG

Absolutely! Nesbitt's arrangement of "I've found a new baby" may be the world's first example of a totally GREEEEEAAAAZZZZYYYYY groove. It kills me every time. (But I expect Allen Lowe knows earlier ones ) MG

Osibisa - Ojah awake - Bronze Della Reese - Live - ABC (HMV mono) "Live" in the ABC studios with an invited audience - hem, hem - but still a great session, with Bobby Bryant (tp) Bill Doggett (org) Gerry wiggins (p) Herb Ellis (g) Ray Brown (b) Shelley Manne (d) MG

Many happy backwards returns! MG

Grisha Farfel! My goodness! You must be British! Alan Breeze Eric Gale Curtis Blow

Now listening to this for the first time. Thinking through my Von Freeman albums (not many) and sideman dates with George and others (more), I have a fair few from the seventies, but nowt more recent until this. Big gap to be filled. His sound is much bigger on this than thirty years before. And I'm filled with joy by the way Von comes out on the title track, as if he were still sharing a stage with Gator Tail. Oh my! Good band, too. Love his playing on "Darn that dream" but could have done without the bass solo. "Summertime" is "Oh Gawd!" territory. Oh, it's just the intro and what an intro! Struth, that man can talk! Wonder what he and Jaws would have done sharing a stage. Loved the blues, too, of course. Including the drum solo, which seemed fully in the spirit of Von's playing. Altogether, this is Von working his stuff with what's really a pretty ordinary rhythm section of good but unexceptional musicians. There's only one guitarist who could MEET Von and not sound dull by comparison, and that's George, of course. Exceptional album. Thanks Chuck and Von. MG

S E Rogie - Palm wine guitar music: the 60s sound - Rogiphone (Cooking Vinyl) Duke Pearson - Prairie dog - Atlantic now Earl Van Riper & Marcus Belgrave - Detroit's grand piano man - Parkwood MG

Certainly imititative, just missing the one word..... MUCH nicer legs, though MG

If it's in BFT71, we'll have a shot at it, Jeff Perhaps it was Little Willie Jackson, moonlighting from the Joe Liggins band (he played tenor as well as baritone). But you could pick Harold Land, from Jimmy Liggins' band, Fats Theus, from Preston Love's or Oscar McLollie's band or quite a few tenor players from Roy Milton's band. Few of those people would sound like they sounded a bit later. MG

The Pallisers Anthony Trollope Mandy Rice-Davies

I'll take your advice...and invest the money in a company whose shares are bound to rise in the next three years: Subtle... It's hard to read that pic - at first I thought it said "Perfume". MG

Go to the competition! Google "image hosting services" and I think there are quite a few. I'm sure one or two members here use other services than Photobucket. Alternatively, you can take a recommendation from a fellow board member - Serioza used http://farm3.static.flickr.com for his photos above. And Rockefeller Centre used http://omploader.org for his. MG

Stop paying now! It will take them that long to evict you MG

Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson Hal "Cornbread" Singer Frank "Floorshow" Culley

The postman brought my Nessa crap this morning! Thank you so much Chuck. Fred Anderson now on, to the accompaniment of me chomping salami sandwiches and slurping my wife's leek & potato soup. Bloomin' marvellous. MG

That's correct, the Mikulski connection. Except that his first name is Bernhard and not Hermann. At various times through the 80s (and beyond) you saw German pressings of Prestige/OJC etc. releases marked as being distributed by "Mikulski GmbH", Mikulski-ZYX", "ZYX" etc. Yes - I thought they were different firms - never saw any "Mikulski-ZYX" issues or I'd have had a clue. MG

YAY! Postman brought these this morning! I wasn't expecting them until next year... Thank you so much Chuck. Now to find some quiet time. MG

A download for me, too, please Jeff. This is going to be v interesting. MG

I'm sure that, whenever the world ends, we'll not have seen the reissue of Jackie Ivory - Soul discovery Paul Bryant - Something's happenin' Paul Bryant - Groove time or a complete Freddie McCoy box MG

My Missus would agree with you all the way. Christmas dinner is awful for her, because she really wants fish & chips. I eat what's put in front of me if it's a burger, but I never go near enough to a fast food establishment to give anyone from there a chance to put their wares in my face. My favourite burgers are the ones out on the street in Cardiff on Saturdays. MG

Thanks Mark. Thought he looked fairly young. MG