The Magnificent Goldberg

I thought I'd look back to see what I'd got on this album. Not a lot, actually. I've got two copies of a Grand Green discography by Atushi acchan Ueda, which isn't on the web any more, but wasn't any help, as it's not included And it wasn't included in the Jazz Discography Project, either. So, I found a little note, that MIGHT come from JDProj, as follows: "Date: July 4, 1966 Location: Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI Label: (radio broadcast) ldr - Attila Zoller; g - Attila Zoller; p - Don Friedman; b - Gene Taylor; d - Connie Kay a.Straight No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) I Giganti Del Jazz LP 12": GJ-55 Some sources state that this title was also issued on Europa Jazz EJ55. This is possible as "Europa" and "I Giganti" are produced by the same company. This title shown by Bruyninckx to be from 1961 and issued on "I Grandi del Jazz (It) GdJ55" however that issue is for a Bud Freeman recording." Well, fine. but The GG tracks can't be from 1961 as it says on the sleeve. I'm damn certain that "Canteloupe woman" couldn't have existed before 'Watermelon man'. So I'll stick with 1966. And in any case, though I haven't played it for years and years, I'm certain that 'Blue in Green' is played to the tune of 'Canteloupe woman' and 'Canteloupe woman' isn't . So there, sum total of my knowledge. One day, I'll get around to ripping this to my CD, but it's bottom priority below about a thousand others. MG

But also, in the early 80s I think, Pathe Marconi had started reissuing early BN single LPs. And I can't recall a time over here when you couldn't get BN single LPs from before Frank Woolf's death. They got hard to get and pricey in the period just after Liberty acquired the firm, and again in the period when UA was winding down and selling to EMI, but that was all. And we ALWAYS thought they were worth the money, didn't we? MG

I think that was partly the effect of 'Sidewinder', which spent seven months on the pop charts. Then Blue Note had to cope with another big hit - 'Song for my father'. Don't forget, the label was a bit of a one man, one lad and a dog firm. How much in the way of manpower resource does a firm need to handle a big hit album? 'Search for the new land' was delayed a bit longer than was usual with Blue Note, as a result, but was on the R&B chart in September 1966. MG

Welcome Holy Ghost!!! Do you mean that, as I did and do, you avoided getting Jackie McLean records or that you think he dominates his albums. MG

Can't say I enjoy Joe Henderson's leader dates for Blue Note: too much like hard bop. But I love 'Multiple', Canyon Lady' and 'If you're not part of the solution'. But as a sideman, with Johnny 'Hammond' Smith and others a bit later, he was as good as on 'Brown sugar'. MG

Around about the time he, Sonny and Billy James made that wonderful recording at the Left Bank show in Baltimore. I think it was kind of what he was like MG

Panic's over chaps. I'd hit a zoom button up the top somewhere. I can't see a zoom button now, but when I saw it and set it to 100% just now, i got a normal print. But I've still got this little arrow on the left pointing to a block manager. Is this part of the normal Organissimo screen? I've never seen it before. MG

Well, having listened to my selection, It doesn't feel greasy enough. Nice tempo. I added in at the end: Hip trip (Oh happy day) Sentimental journey (Patterson's people) I had them in on my first pass but cut them because, between them, they're almost 25 minutes. For really greasy Don Patterson, you have to go to the Muse period and have 'The world of Suzie Wong', "Why not', "These are soulful days' and Muse blues' - plus, of course, 'Hip cakewalk'. MG

Hell! I've hit a wrong key somehow and the board has gone small; I can only just read the print. There are two inch and a half wide grey stripes on either side and the left one has a little arrow saying, when you hover on it, "block manager". How the FUCK do I get out of THIS????? MG

Damn me! GREASE!!!!!! When was that, Larry? MG

I've never in my life even SEEN a German restaurant, except the one I went into in Namibia in 2002. (The only occasion since I left school 42 years earlier that I've ever had occasion to use the German I learned there, but surprisingly hadn't actually forgotten). MG

Giggle giggle!!! MG

Well, I've got 14, pulled from my hard drive in alphabetical order of album titles, and totalling 79:29 Island fantasy (Boppin' & burnin') Creepin' home (Bros 4) Sandu (4 dimensions) My man String (Funk you) Funk in 3/4 (ditto) Donald Duck (Hip cakewalk) Santa Claus is coming to town (Holiday soul) Merry Christmas baby (ditto) Head (Mellow soul) Good time theme (Oh happy day) Please don't talk about me when I'm gone (Patterson's people) Goin to meetin' (Satisfaction) Walkin' (ditto) Wade in the water (Soul happenin') Listening tonight and over breakfast tomorrow. MG

Never tried this. I don't think I'd choose more than a handful of your selections though. Will give my mind to it after I've taken the dog out for his walk in the rain and hope he has a crap quickly and don't drag me down to the bottom field MG PS Just had a quick look at them all. HELLISHLY difficult! I did this a few years ago with Jimmy Smith and made a nice CD I still enjoy hearing occasionally called 'Easy greasy grooves'. 1 Plum Nellie 2 All day long 3 Hollerin' and screamin' 4 Since I fell for you (alt) 5 I'm just a lucky so and so 6 Midnight special 7 Back at the Chicken Shack 8 I've found a new baby 9 Hotel happiness 10 Bucket 11 When my dreamboat comes home It's nice, though I say so myself. MG

Steve: what about Machito? Charlie Parker and Machito not for dancing? Charlie Parker & strings out on a tour of ballrooms not for dancing? Yes bebop WAS for dancing, but stopped being for dancing and I've never understood why. MG

Ah, so you understand where Steve and I are coming from MG

Yeah, and it takes longer, too. Everything takes longer. MG

I didn't say eternity, Jim. I said when we're all dead and buried. That's not going to be very long, in a historical timescale. But we all won't give a fuck. MG

Hey! That's where we live! MG

Another typo and I've lost my goddamn post! OK, for the third try... What I THOUGHT I'd typed was "Larry's first post and subsequent points are all about people rewriting history." Sometimes my cursor goes into different places without me noticing, because, even after almost 40 years, I STILL don't know where the letters are and have to watch the keyboard. MG

Actually SImon, that was a typo - I misseI don't .... Fuck. another. I'm typuing while I'm eating.

She's the reason I flogged my LP. MG

Goodness, Clunky!!!! That was unexpected. I hope you enjoy it nearly as much as I do. MG

As ever, it does depend what you want. https://www.amazon.co.uk/1953-1964-Ella-Johnson-Buddy/dp/B00000ASU7/ref=sr_1_55?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1521653621&sr=1-55&keywords=buddy+johnson I got a copy from Discogs, without box and sleeve notes, just the CDs, in January for £55 which was as much as I would have paid for the music. But there was a complete copy for over a century. They've gone now; Discogs haven't got any. And £193 is what you'll pay at Amazon UK. MG

Actually, I don't think we are getting off-topic. Larry's post and subsequent points are all about people rewriting history. To me, this isn't so much that people are deliberately trying to distort things as that no one can know all of the history. The problem is that people think that they DO know all of the history when they only know one part of it (the 'authorised version' as it were). But once one realises that there IS at least one other version, and that it has its own legitimacy, it ought to follow that one ought to at least have a nodding acquaintance with the other versions. I'm not sure that THAT'S happening much. No, I AM sure it's not happening much. And it leads to people making provocative statements that are, because they only know one side, tantamount to rewriting history. Well, life goes on and black people will still be dancing to funky music when we're all dead and buried. MG