The Magnificent Goldberg

Pam Ayres Roy Ayers Air

I thought there was something familiar about this. Joan Baez used to sing part of that piece. MG

Oh shit! Well, I've gotta get this now, haven't I? Bought it back in the day, but didn't like it. Ditched decades ago. Shows the value of a blindfold test. When you buy something by so and so, you're expecting them to do such and such and, if they don't, you're disappointed. Thanks Bob. MG

No - it's eight minutes long and a lot of it is spoken. Buy the albums, Allen - it's all good. Amazon.com has a used one for $5.17. Can't go wrong. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...;condition=used MG

One of them's a trumpet player who had a brief spurt of popularity in the mid sixties, before lapsing back into obscurity. Another is a completely obscure tenor player. MG

Ah, I had the feeling that the correct place to reissue "Ain't no way" would have been on the "Common touch" CD, since it's from that session. So, was the "Easy walker" CD the first issue for "A foggy day"? I don't think I've got that. (So I can't make my own CD-R ) MG Ain't no way is indeed on Common Touch; it appears to be from a separate session, though with almost the same personnel as the session that led to Common Touch (the drummer is different). So it is - hadn't noticed that before. A bit of digging in the jazz discog site and "Foggy day" was from the same session that produced four of the tracks that were included in the "Return of the prodigal son" CD. I suppose that it was added to the "Easy walker" CD because of the similarity of material, rather than any other connection. These later Stanleys would make a pretty nice Mosaic. Though one would hope they'd do a better job with them than the eariler Mosaic, which isn't complete because it missed out "ZT's blues", one of his best early sixties jobs. MG

Oh, I didn't know there were bonus tracks. Are they the ones that were issued on the "Rainbow" BN called "Ain't no way" (LT1095)? Stan's shuffle Watch what happens Intermission walk Wave Ain't no way (with Shirley) MG Almost. "Ain't no way" is not on Easy Walker, but "A Foggy Day" is an additional bonus track. Ah, I had the feeling that the correct place to reissue "Ain't no way" would have been on the "Common touch" CD, since it's from that session. So, was the "Easy walker" CD the first issue for "A foggy day"? I don't think I've got that. (So I can't make my own CD-R ) MG

Ernie Andrews had some very interesting points to make analagous to this in his medley "Articulated blues"/"Parker's mood". It particularly focuses, but not unkindly I feel, on the diction of Walter Brown, the great blues singer with the Jay McShann band. This attitude isn't, it seems, anything like as recent as tying it to WM's views makes it appear. That's on the CD "The many faces of Ernie Andrews (HighNote). MG

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Nice! Thanks SS. MG

Oh, I didn't know there were bonus tracks. Are they the ones that were issued on the "Rainbow" BN called "Ain't no way" (LT1095)? Stan's shuffle Watch what happens Intermission walk Wave Ain't no way (with Shirley) MG

I love Braith. He is, I think, the only truly free musician there's ever been - truly doing whatever he wants to do, without being confined by concepts such as style and, as Jim said, having the initiative and skills to get himself heard. The albums he's been putting out himself over the last few years are, in my view, the best he's ever done, not because they're particularly good (on objective grounds you wouldn't stack them up against his Blue Notes and Prestiges) but because they're particularly Braith-y. He would never have been able to do what he does on these albums of his own, working for a regular record company. Braith's music is serious fun. But you mustn't take it too seriously, or I think you miss the fun. MG

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Do you really think, as I infer from the above, that WM is deliberately trying to erase some American history, or doesn't he see it (or simly not see it like that)? MG

Unlucky you! My default age is 18 (Well, sometimes 4, my missus sez.) MG

Yes, they're cheap and nasty, but for introducing you to a band to whom you might otherwise never get around, they're just the job. MG

I used to get my daughter off to sleep bouncing her on my knee to Bo Diddley. To each her own. Oh, and I've a Euro version which is fine. I think the Euro versions must have better music on them, too MG

Cheap at arf the price, Guv! MG

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Eric Alexander's own dates (I have only three or four) don't greatly appeal to me. But he's appeared on a number of other people's albums often to great effect: Charles Earland; Bob DeVos; Mel Rhyne; Irene Reid etc etc. MG

Here's a search for versions. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:214018 I see Les Baxter recorded it. I shouldn't be surprised to find that Plas Johnson plays sax on that version. MG

That's useful advice Jim, thanks. I do always have automatic updates turned on - although it's a pain in the arse when you want to go to bed and you're told "update 1 of 5 installing..." I just can't be asked to remember to look for updates when there's so many other things to do. "Popups for porn" carries a certain imagery... MG

OK, see what you mean. His solo on "Round midnight" often makes me think of Eddie Calvert. MG