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Not the one I was thinking of - don't recognise that sleeve. So, does he play clarinet on it? MG

Kay. MG

If you're going to do posts like that, make sure they fall on the same page by deleting one of your own earlier posts, young sir MG

So if it sounds good to me, but not to you, does that make it good? Or if it sounds good to you, but not to me, does THAT make it good? Almost everything that gets onto record sounds good to SOMEONE. Does that make Kenny G good? MG

If that's the one on which he sings "If I could be with you one hour tonight", a neighbour had it in the early sixties and I think from memory he actually does some clarinet playing, too. So if he did, it's the same as Milt Jackson's "Soul believer" and Les McCann's "Les McCann sings" - don't count. MG

Hey! Do you think we all turn into pumpkins at age 50? I just figured that you all started listening to Steve and Eddie and shit like that! I suppose if you start out listening to that sort of music when you're young, you might return to it in later years. Er... I didn't MG

And WH Smug in small market towns isn't much good - the one in Pontypridd has the top thirty, not usually all in stock. But at least Ponty has Terry's - a market stall operation which has a surprisingly wide stock. Sells instruments, too. MG

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Sometimes, they even admit it. Two excerpts from the sleeve notes to Don Braden's "Organic" (Epicure) - first by Joel Dorn, the producer of the CD, second by Braden himself. I dunno, guv. Sounds like something that's theoretically possible but practically impossible. Or do you know of instances where it's worked? MG

I know Cadena well enough, just not a label named "Choice" that he had... Thanks. (In the Lord Jazz Discography, the only "Choice" referred to is the McDonald one). Apart fron the two Charles Earland LPs, which are the only jazz issues I know about, the rest of the catalogue has no business in a jazz discography. Quite a bit is in the Hayes & Laughton Gospel discography for 1943-1969. MG

Sorry to be so dim, but what's a Classic DVD audio? What advantage does it give over the TOCJ? MG

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Despite forecast, pretty wet this morning - but it's not raining - cloud all around us and there's a lot of wet inside a cloud. MG

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John Wright - Makin' out - Prestige (yellow label DG) Harold Ousley - The people's groove - Muse Art Blakey - The big beat - BN (DMM) Trudy Pitts - These blues of mine - Prestige (Fantasy pressing) MG

Yeah, I had in mind that you can't get away from some of the basic building blocks of your character. For example, you can't acquire a different native language - though you can learn to speak a foreign language like a native. But we think in words, so the words with which we grow up are always likely to exercise a formidable influence on the way we think. And, not to be Freudian, there are things that happen to us while we're young that have a similarly weighty impact. I think I've resisted authority since I was five or six, due to (failed) political indoctrination in the schools I was sent to in those days. MG

So do lots of people here. Thanks. MG

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The other Choice was based in Newark and run by Ozzie Cadena in the sixties. I think there were some twenty or so releases, the first 16 of which were mainly Gospel, with a few Blues, and mostly 1960-1962 vintage. He did some Jazz stuff (and a bit more Gospel) in the late sixties. Cadena was a record producer at Savoy and Prestige. MG

Haven't needed to do that for a long time. MG

Not Viz? MG I was going on Glenda Slag's "Crazy name, crazy guy", but you could be right MG. I've not read Viz for a long time. Nor have I - one of my staff used to bring it in back in the nineties. MG

I could, and DID! Nice one! MG

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