The Magnificent Goldberg

Michael Foot Neil Kinnock Glenys Kinnock

Dod Grille Ambrose Bierce Ambrose

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Yes, mine's on Rhino. I haven't heard Ray's album "Renaisance", or even his version of "Sail away". To me, Etta James' version is definitive (well, so far). MG

John Patton - Blue John - BN DMM MG

Craft was president of Warwick , but his ownership stake was only 15% , with the rest being owned by a Canadian film studio . The Smith Warwick , Imagination , was also issued on MGM subsidiary , Arrow , as Have You Heard . Both issues are very rare indeed . Here are the covers : Thanks Chas - that's really interesting. Nice cover on the Arrow (leer) Have you got these, Chas? MG

a bit more Jimmy Forrest Jack McDuff - Tough Duff - Prestige (purple label) a really lovely album! I just wish Bob Weinstock had spelt "Tough" "Tuff" MG

Talking about fantasy Fantasy boxes, the idea of a boxed set of Cannonball Adderley procuctions came up. And we don't know what they are - precisely - because JazzDisco.org doesn't list the producers. So I thought we'd try to put a list together. These are the ones we think are or may be Cannonball's jobs. David Newman/James Clay – Sound of the wide open spaces – RLP327 Dick Morgan – at the Showboat – RLP329 Don Wilkerson – The Texas twister – RLP332 Clifford Jordan – Spellbound – RLP340 Budd Johnson & the four brass giants – RLP343 Lenny McBrowne & the Four Souls – Eastern lights – RLP346 Roosevelt Wardell – The revelation – RLP350 Paul Serrano – Blues holiday – RLP359 Dexter Gordon – Resurgence – JLP29 Can anyone add to these, or cross some off? MG

I used to have the Wardell and Serrano LPs. Good but not overpowering, so they went when I was short of money. But I've regretted selling both since. In addition, there's the Don Wilkerson, the Newman/Clay and the Budd Johnson, which all came out on CD. Don't know the McBrowne. Actually, never even knew about it until just now. I think there were one or two others. Someone at "The Showboat" or something? I had the feeling from seeing the cover that was definitely dodgy, despite the producer. MG there is a someone at the showboat album, plus Clifford Jordan's Spellbound and the Resurgence of Dexter Gordon, both fine, both out on Cd... some on Jazzland as well I believe, like the James Clay Album... had three saxophone lessons from Daniel Jackson when i was 16, one of the best things in my life so far, so i'm a little biased about the McBrowne (two of Jackson's compositions are on the Clay album...); Roosevelt Wardell is the best thing about those newly surfaced Earl Anderza/Dupree Bolton tracks imho, so i got curious... Clay's "Double dose of soul", with two Daniel Jackson compositions, was produced by Keepnews (it sez 'ere). And it was Riverside. The Wardell is very interesting. I didn't have it long but my impression was of something with the feel of the Young/Green/Jones trio - but a piano trio, not organ trio. But there was something about the way Wardell played that conveyed that oblique kind of feeling. I really do wish I hadn't flogged that one. I didn't know the Jordan and the Gordon were Cannon productions. Wow! That would be a very interesting box. Just looked up Jazzdisco.org. The "Showboat" LP is by Dick Morgan. Unfortunately, Mike F doesn't list the producers of the records, so we can't get a full list of these Cannonball productions. MG

Al Grey & Jimmy Forrest - Live at Ricks - Aviva MG

Why doesn't it compute? I just don't dig "greasy" music. Not my thing. After years of digging Jimmy Smith, for instance, I realized that most of it sounded like roller-skating music to me. Quite right. If you don't like it, you don't like it. But we're looking for exceptions within a musician's career, not whole genres to dis. MG

He certainly does some tunes few if any other jazz musicians have touched - "Where is love", "When I'm not near the girl I love", The music that makes me dance", "How are things in Glocca Morra" and "As long as she needs me". But seems to me there's a reason for that. MG

I wouldn't count Donald Byrd's "Up" - Byrd's overall oeuvre is so extremely up and down that there's hardly a normal. MG

The music was tailor-made for different applications. The same top-shelf composer/arranger may have contributed either "great" or "awful" music to the library. It was work made for hire, and it was as good as what was being requested of them. The albums, both the originals and reissues, are organized according to mood and genre, so it's generally easy to get the good stuff and avoid the bad stuff. I was about twenty-one when I started that job I might well think differently now. There's a lot more stuff I like now than then. MG

Jogged my memory. Rediffusion owned a firm called Reditune. In the sixties, I worked as a buyer for a firm called Sound Diffusion, which put in radio/paging/background music systems for hotels, nursing homes and hospitals. We used Reditune tapes, which I assume contained the KPM material - and which I used to buy! I thought the music was awful. MG

Mimi Trepel (my latest hero) King Hussein The Aga Khan

bbbbut, what about the Solid States!? would that be a Capitol brand that they could toss in with the Pacifics? http://www.dougpayne.com/jld.htm I've got two of Lytle's Solid States - "Close enough for jazz" (actually, not quite close enough to a good record) and "Man and woman", which I like very much, though I suspect most won't. I haven't got "JL does it again" but I do have the Village Gate job, which is v nice. All 6 of his Muse albums are very good. MG

I used to have the Wardell and Serrano LPs. Good but not overpowering, so they went when I was short of money. But I've regretted selling both since. In addition, there's the Don Wilkerson, the Newman/Clay and the Budd Johnson, which all came out on CD. Don't know the McBrowne. Actually, never even knew about it until just now. I think there were one or two others. Someone at "The Showboat" or something? I had the feeling from seeing the cover that was definitely dodgy, despite the producer. MG

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All the same, good wishes for a happy year! MG

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You could always move to Arizona - no DLS there. Isn't there someplace in Indiana where they also don't change? America gets weirder and weirder! Well, I just had to look at a map, didn't I? http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-usa12.php So there's a small part of Arizona (a small part!!!) that is the same as the rest of its time zone and changes twice a year, and the rest stays the same twice a year. But inside that small part, there's another part that doesn't change. And there's a part of Indiana (the bit by Chicago) that has decided it'll follow Chicago and not the rest of the state (not entirely unreasonable, I guess) - but that does appear to change in conformity with Chicago. MG

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I like the idea of a Johnny Lytle Riverside/Jazzland set - maybe with the two Milestones in there too; the second of those is a GEM! And never on CD. 6 Riv/Jzlds, 2 Milestones - make a nice box. 7 Lps in the Etta Jones Prestige discography, plus three bonus cuts. A four CD set? Very nice stuff. Of course, I'd add the complete Freddie McCoy on Prestige (I bet MC hates Freddie McCoy! Not even Bob Porter thinks much of him, which might be the reason his LPs never made it to CD.) 7 LPs, but mostly short. Might fit into a 3 disc Select. The Willis Jackson/Jack McDuff sessions - 7 LPs' worth. The sessions were never issued chronologically on LP, so a box of these would be a good thing. Bobby Timmons on Prestige. 7 LPs again, two never out on CD, one never out on CD inUSA. Freddie Roach!!!! Complete leader recordings - 5 BN LPs, 3 PR LPs. Arnett Cobb - 8 Prestige & MV LPs. Wonderful music! A good seller ought to be Jaws & Griff - 10 LPs from PR & Jzld Another important one - the popularisation of the tenor/organ combo- would be Jaws and Shirley Scott - but one ought to have the King(I think?) and Roulette material, too. Big box; maybe too much. Don Patterson's another one who could do with a box. Several of his PR LPs never came out on CD. Jug and Sonny - amazingly, some of that never came out on CD (well, one didn't). Collecting the two of them together over the whole period from the early fifties to 1973 (including the two for Verve) would be interesting. Johnny "Hammond" Smith 1959-June 1962 (prior to his Riverside period) would be interesting. 8 LPs, one never on CD, one other, on Warwick (apparently owned by Morty Craft), I've never even seen a trace of. Some interesting sidemen and his best ballad playing ever. A Teddy Edwards Contemporary/Prestige box (7 LPs) would be nice. Very underrated is Teddy. MG