The Magnificent Goldberg

Bob's a great one for sweeping statements. I doubt if Talla Diagne, Cheikh Tidiane Seck or Ibrahima Sylla would be among the record producers who would say that MG

Damn right! Good thinking! MG

Milt Buckner Little Milton Maynard Keynes

Listening to honkers all day, Eddie Chamblee's 1953 recording of "Lonesome road" for United stopped me in my tracks (it's a long time since I played that LP, because I have more than half of it on CD). "WHO THE FUCK IS THAT PIANIST!!!!????" Well, he's not bad, y'know. Young Johnny Young MG

More honkers Eddie Chamblee - The rockin' and walkin' rhythm of Eddie Chamblee - Official Frank "Floorshow" Culley - Rock & Roll - Atlantic (Official) MG

Joan Rivers Joan Davis Joan Cusak

Honking saxes all day today! On vinyl this evening, it's Various Artists - Honkers & barwalkers (vol 1) - Delmark Big Jay McNeely - Big Jay in 3D - King (Sing) Various artists (Paul Williams, Hal Singer, McNeely, Lee allen & Sam Taylor) - Honkers & screamers - Savoy (Savoy Jazz double) now Various artists (Griff, Prysock, Frank Culley, Gator, Sam the Man, Arnett & King Curtis) - Atlantic honkers - Atlantic (double) Johnny Griffin's honking is the effin' END! MG

Eric Sykes Hattie Jacques Jacques Cousteau

Nellie Forbush Emile de Becque Bloody Mary

It may be a great album. No value judgement on the recording in my post, but players with styles set in the '40s and early '50s, while grafting on modal styles from the late '50s, recorded in the mid seventies are conservative to me. Had nothing to do with what I recorded. I don't expect/demand players change, I do expect a clear headed view of the evolution of music. I'm far from certain that Norman Granz didn't have a clear headed view of the evolution of music; he may well have done. But he had his own preferences and I would expect him to be true to those preferences. So in that sense, he was musically conservative. But I believe he was more conservative than that implies - I think he was entrepreneurially conservative. I started a thread some time ago, pointing out, about Verve, that almost all the musicians Granz chose to record for Norgran/Clef/Verve were people who had already made their reputations. No jazz musician (except OP) made a reputation recording for Granz. And yet, at the time he was running Verve, musicians with little reputation, but who would have fitted into his preferred aesthetic just dandy, were coming forward, and were ignored - by Granz, not by the likes of Weinstock, Lion, Keepnews, Grauer, Koenig, Bock, Ertegun. OK, someone had to record Wes Montgomery, Willis Jackson, Gene Harris, the Adderleys, Jack McDuff, Jaws' organ combos, Teddy Edwards, Hamp Hawes, Red Holloway, Phineas - the list is very long - but about the only newly emerging musician Granz recorded, for one album only, was Junior Mance (probably because he was in Dizzy's band at the time). And the same is true of Pablo; I think Jon Faddis and Al Gafa were about the only emerging musicians, working within Granz' general area, who recorded on Pablo. And they didn't make too many albums for him. Norman Granz doesn't seem to have been 'out there' finding talent, helping to bring forward people with new(ish) ideas, even within his own preferred field. Which is not to say that the stuff is bad or anything - it isn't; it's just not terribly exciting, even when it's very good indeed. Maybe this is what Chuck meant by having a clear headed view of the evolution of music; I don't know. MG

The Maggon Dan Dire Pigby

Hank O'Neal Paul Reiner Lilian Reiner

After the honkers, what could be better than The Illinois Jacquet Story - Proper Now just starting disc 3. Very screamin'. MG

Ha! Now I come to think of it, I've never seen a Prestige promo, either, to my knowledge - though I've got a Prestige test LP. MG

Indeed - and Pucho and Idris. I also didn't notice Cecil Brooks III or Winard Harper in there. MG

This morning, it's THE BIG HORN The history of the HONKIN' AND SCREAMIN' SAXOPHONE Just now, it's Big Jay McNeely - The goof MG

No mention of Ben Dixon. MG

I was thinking the other day, I've never, ever, seen a BN promo record, and I was wondering if there were such things. I had one or two mono BNs from the mid sixties - "Let 'em roll" was one I've still got and doesn't look any different from any others. "Street of dreams" (stereo), however, was a slightly darker shade of blue. I always wondered why. MG

David Blunkett Ray Charles Art Tatum

I haven't got it any more but I loved Daniel-Lesur's Symphonie de Danses. And I loved it because it SANG and DANCED! One with a lot of energy was Leonard Bernstein's Chichester psalms - somewhere between Elgar's choral works and Orff's - if you can imagine Not groundbreaking stuff, but I enjoyed listening to them a great deal. Sometimes I wish I hadn't flogged all my classical records. MG

Fat Boy Slim Slim Whitman Walt Whitman

Stick McGhee Brownie McGhee Sonny Terry

Did that one ever come out on CD? MG Does not look like it ever did! Don't know of a complete reissue, but a couple of tracks showed up here: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1037144 Never noticed that one before. Strange. I must get one some time next year. been playing Gene Ammons - My way - Prestige (Musidisc) Grover Washington Jr - Inner city blues - Kudu (Pye) MG

James Brown - Today & yesterday - Smash (Philips mono) (just finishing Sidewinder) MG

Not jazz, but this looks quite interesting. Pretty expensive for a shot in the dark, though. I've never heard of Vincent Segal, but Ballake Sissoko is one of the top kora players of the neo-colonial generation (which means he's not quite as good as his father ) MG