The Magnificent Goldberg

Thanks Flurin - spent an hour trying to read it and still made lots of mistakes. OK, anyone want to comment on this box? MG

too small to read . Please provide Yes, it's a bit small. I enlarged is 10% and this is what I think it says. Later. Goin' shoppin' MG CD1

Julie (as in Oh Julie, by the Crescendos) Julie (who was at the bar, according to Honeybrowne) Julie (who was hot, according to Brian Batt & Donna English)

What seems very odd to me is that there were all these stereo recordings that BN only released in mono. In the BN 1967/68 catalogue - ie after Liberty took over - the following stereo releases are listed. 1554 - Orgy in rhythm vol 1 (but not vol 2 - isn't that strange?) 1563 - JOS plays pretty for you 1577 - Blue train 1593 - Blues walk 1595 - Somethin' else 4003 - Moanin' 4008 - Finger poppin' 4011 - Sermon And so on - I'm not going to list them all - the highest number that doesn't appear to have been released in stereo was 4084 - Stop & listen MG

"Da monzon" from the album "Orchestre Regionale de Segou" by the Orchestre Regionale de Segou, which I downloaded the other day. The sleeve notes say, "Recognise again the purely Ellingtonian flights in pieces like Da monzon". Well, I don't get the Ellingtonian flights - someone with better ears than me could, maybe - but this is a revelatory piece for me. I never knew that Bambara musicians used "namo sayers", in the same way as Mandinke and Soninke musicians. Use of "namo sayers" is about the only bit of African music technique that got transferred to America more or less intact. MG

But their predecessors had been very popular - "I'm sorry, I'll read that again", on radio; and "At last, the 1948 show" on TV, a bit of which I posted earlier, were both much more than fringe stuff. Maybe I thought the fringe was bigger than it was... MG

That's not the one MG Looks like spam, smells like spam ... It may be over there, but over here, a link to the BBC ain't spam. MG

There's not a lot, is there? "Laura" looks like it has some significant support - and it's cheap. This one isn't expensive either - anyone care to comment? Yes, Amazon UK got the sleeve wrong This is the album http://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Byas/dp/B0010V...9689&sr=1-3 Looking at the track list, it seems to be a random collection culled from Classics CDs. Can anyone confirm? There's also a Quadrophonic box cheap - here's the track list - not too legible, I'm afraid. Comments on these two would be welcome. MG

That's not the one MG

And the first half of the show that preceded Monty Python, including the famous "Chartered accountant" sketch. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mVDnwuw3N0Y&...feature=related MG

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J4oKXagF3IE MG

ARLD for the period 1940-59 gives McCuen only as working for RCA Victor - so that must have been his first employment in the industry (doesn't give dates for individuals). All Music Guide gives a list of credits including many sleeve notes and archive research, as well as record procucer. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...aifpxqwgldde~T4 He also produced the original cast album of "How to succeed in business without really trying", on the "classical" side of AMG. MG

What a strangely anachronistic sleeve note! makes you think this was written in 1946! But couldn't have been. I'll look at the track list. On LP & CD I have 32 tracks, one of which is from 1958 (so my LP can't be retired ) and two are duplicates. So maybe this is everything in that period. MG

I've yet to hear a bad Black & Blue album. MG

Dean Fraser did a nice Reggae version on alto sax. What does NEA stand for - National Environment Agency? MG

Oh, and er... Saturday, the postman brought Buddy Johnson Orchestra - 1942-1947 - Classics and yesterday Leo's Five - Direct from the Blue Note Club, East St Louis - Ace MG

Oh yes - what's this one, Jostber? What label? Picture? I really need to upgrade my Tiny Bradshaw stuff. MG Tiny was a real groover. Here is the record, a recent compilation of his King sides from Rev-Ola Bandstand records: I can't imagine it would be his complete 1950-55 if it's only one disc - but maybe it is. Does it say so? MG

When that particular font is small, it is illegible. I really appreciate the recs, fellas. MG--I was happy to find that Bembeya Jazz National collection on eMusic, I first heard them on your BFT. Glad you like that. Try the Balla & ses Balladins set next. MG

You might have linked to the jazz page, dux. MG

Hi, Julie. Spams will be deleted as soon as we can get round to them, my dear. You do get up early in the morning. MG

Spandau Ballet The Prisonaires Patrick McGoohan

I NEVER forget about that Amos Milburn Mosaic. One of my major regrets is not having known about that set until after the CDs were all finished - I didn't want it on LP, so I didn't get it. A BAD mistake. playing Candy Johnson - Candy's mood - Black & Blue MG

Well, this album turned up this morning! Zowie! What a wonderful CD! As Jim said, it's not going to change the world - though there's one neglected masterpiece on it - "Ugly ugly", a GREAT blues song. And Leo Gooden was a much better singer than I expected. But, for me, this is an exceptionally valuable CD; the music is so effin' REAL! If you went to your local and heard this stuff, you'd think you were in heaven! St Louis, like Atlanta and a few other places, clearly had a thriving black music scene in the post-war period, but one that you had to leave in order to get recognition - unlike Memphis, Detroit and New Orleans. One small error in the sleeve notes: Sorry Bill, you forgot Tommy Dean, with whom Grant Green recorded (for Vee-Jay) in 1956 (never released). Dean had a combo much like Doggett's but, whereas Doggett's band walked, Dean's FLEW! But I'd love to hear Terry Williams and Lloyd Wallace. Mucho thanx to Jim for unearthing this! MG

That would be THE Fred Jackson. Both he and Chuck Willis were from Atlanta and both were active on the Atlanta scene in the early fifties. Fred also recorded with Billy Wright "the Prince of the blues" for Savoy, and with Little Richard, for RCA in the early fifties. MG Thanks, MG! I have those Billy Wright and Little Richard recordings as well, but never knew that Fred Jackson was on them. Is there some sort of full discography? Only just seen this post but I don't think so. The Route 66 issue of Billy Wright's stuff has some discographical info. I expect there's a Little Richard discography knocking about somewhere but whether it would have personnel details, I doubt. Ditto for Chuck Willis. MG

One guy who is little known, but wonderful, is Candy Johnson. Johnson worked with Ernie Fields, then Tiny Bradshaw, then Andy Kirk in the forties. Led his own band in Detroit in 1945 and ’46. Joined Basie in the early fifties. Own band in Detroit 1954-57, then joined Bill Doggett until 1964. He made an album in Paris – “Candy’s mood” for Black & Blue in 1973, which would fit very nicely into this concept. and joined Arnett Cobb on “Midnight slows” vol 3 He also made a record called “Peppermint sticks” IAJRC 47 – 11/1974 He’s a great player in the frame of Ben Webster, with a bit of Arnett thrown in. Better known guys include Clark Terry and Harry Edison. And don’t get hung up on the hornmen – there’s also Al Casey, Fats Waller’s guitarist. Here’s a list of his post-sixties albums: Jumpin’ With Al - Black & Blue 33056 - 7&8/1973 Best of friends – JSP 1051 - 1981 6 swingin’ strings – JSP 1026 - Summer 1981 Genius of jazz guitar – JSP 1062 - Summer 1981 With Fessor's session boys – Storyville 429 - 10/1983&4/1980 Remembers King Curtis – JSP 1095 - 7/1985 A tribute to Fats – Jazzpoint 1044 - 5/1994 While on guitarists, don't forget the great Floyd Smith, the creator of the classic "Floyd's guitar blues" - a hit for Andy Kirk in 1940. He recorded for Black & Blue in 1972. Floyds guitar blues - Black & Blue 33046 - 5&7/1972 Another great guitar player, Art Tatum’s man, was Tiny Grimes, and he made a few albums in this period Frankie & Johnny boogie - Black & Blue 33030 - 10&11/1970 Profoundly blue – Muse 5012 - 3/1973 Some groovy fours - Black & Blue 33067 - 5/1974 Never too old – Sonet 736 - 4/1977 Back to the hornmen. Here’s a list of Buddy Tate’s post-sixties albums: Unbroken – MPS 15281 - 6&7/1970 Broadway - Black & Blue 33054 - 5/1972 Midnight slows vol 2 - Black & Blue 33045 - 5/1972 Buddy Tate & his buddies – Chiaroscuro 123 - 6/1973 Midnight slows vol 4 - Black & Blue 33068 - 1/1974 Midnight slows vol 5 - Black & Blue 33075 - 1/1974 Kansas City woman - Black Lion BL312 - 7/1974 Texas twister - Master Jazz 8128 - 2/1975 Jive at five – Mahogany 558103 - 7/1975 Our bag – Riff (Du) 659003 - 9/1975 After midnight - CNR (Du) 540049 - 9/1975&3/1976 Jazz meeting - Riff (Du) 659012 - 9/1975 Tate a tete – Storyville 4030 - 9/1975 Kansas City joys – Sonet 716 - 3/1976 A soft summer night – Riff 190.002 - 11/1976&Early 1977 Buddy Tate meets Dollar Brand – Chiaroscuro 165 - 8/1977 Sherman shuffle – Sackville 3017 - 1/1978 Buddy Tate quartet – Sackville 3027 - 7/1978 Live at Sandys – Muse 5198 - 8/1978 Hard blowin’ at Sandys – Muse 5249 - 8/1978 Scott’s Buddy - Concord Jazz 148 - 8/1980 Great Buddy Tate - Concord Jazz 163 - 3/1981 Ballad artistry – Sackville 3034 - 6/1981 Buddy Tate meets Torsten Zwingenberger - Moustache Music 120159 - 10/1983 Just Jazz – Uptown Up27.21 - 4/1984 Long tall tenor – Calligraph 008 - 12/1985 Buddy Tate live - Nagel Heyer 80 - 1988 Just Friends (H Person & N Simpkins) – Muse 5418 - 2/1990 And, thinking of Buddy Tate, almost automatically brings thoughts of Arnett Cobb and Illinois Jacquet (doesn’t it?) Here are Arnett’s albums from this period: Wild man from Texas - Home Cookin' 114 - 6&7/1971 Again with Milt - Black & Blue 33052 - 7/1973 Midnight slows vol 3 - Black & Blue 33055 - 8/1973 Live in Paris 1974 - France's Concert (Fr) 133 - 4/1974 Jumpin’ at the Woodside - Black & Blue 33175 - 5/1974 Wild Man From Texas - Black & Blue - 33099 - 5/1976 Midnight Slows vol 6 - Black & Blue 33093 - 5/1976 Al Grey featuring Arnett Cobb - Black & Blue 33143 - 7/1977 Arnett Cobb is back – Progressive 7037 - 6/1978 Live at Sandy’s – Muse 5191 - 8/1978 More live at Sandy’s – Muse 5236 - 8/1978 Funky butt – Progressive 7054 - 1/1980 Live in France - Black & Blue 33306 - 3/1980 Live at "De Spiegel" – Timeless 174 - 11/1982 Keep on pushing – Beehive 7017 - 6/1984 Show time – Fantasy 9659 - 8/1987 Tenor tribute - Soul Note 1184/94 - 4/1988 And here’s a list of Illinois’ albums: Genius at work - Black Lion 30118 - 4/1971 Illinois Jacquet with Wild Bill - Black & Blue 33044&33082 - 1/1973 Jazz at Town Hall – JRC 11433 - 7/1973 Illinois Jacquet’s birthday party – JRC 11434 - 10/1973 Illinois Jacquet with Milt & Jo - Black & Blue 33070 - 1/1974 Bottoms up - Black & Blue 33710 - 1/1974 At Minden - Rotary Club Of Minden Ke500 - 8/1974 The last blues album - Groove Merchant 3303 - 10/1974 Jacquet’s street - Black & Blue 33112 - 7/1976 Illinois Jacquet – Riff 658001 - 10/1976 Texas tenors – Riff 658006 - 10/1976 Live at Schaffhausen – Storyville 8357 - 3/1978 Midnight slows vol 8 - Black & Blue 33135 - 3/1978 God bless my solo - Black & Blue 33167 - 3/1978 Illinois Jacquet in swinging Europe - Skarby International (Swe) Slp00001 - 8/1978 Illinois Jacquet all stars – JSP 1014 - 6/1980 Battle of the horns - East World (J) 80189 - 9/1980 Jacquet’s got it – Atlantic 81816 - 8/1987 Most of those Black & Blue albums of Arnett, Buddy and Illinois feature the great Milt Buckner and here’s a link to Milt’s discography on the web (parts 2 & 3 cover this period). http://www.jazzdocumentation.ch/buckner/di...y/buckner1.html Plenty of choice there! I sometimes think that Americans forget that a lot of the swing era players couldn't get gigs in the seventies and hopped it to Europe, where they were greatly welcomed, particularly by Black & Blue records. MG