The Magnificent Goldberg

The Platters?!?!?!?!?!? Do wha? Dan, it even sez under the screen that it's Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters. And that's been on u-tube for years. Yes, but it's still pretty cool. MG

Grand Papa Diabate Papa Kouyate Kouyate Sory Kandia

A glass of Marks & Sparks' finest reserve port. Very nice for a Sunday morning. I should be listening to music at least from Cabo Verde, but I'm not MG

Shit! Glad to hear you're OK, Moose. MG

Kenny Garrett Garnett Mimms The Enchanters

I suggest John Mayall Back to the Roots which also has some blues players you might like. You really only need one 45 - by Don & Dewey: Soul motion/Stretching out. The original issue was on Rush. It was produced by Sonny Bono, which proves that even a bozo can produce great record, given enough rope. British issues have been on CameoParkway and Sue. There are probably other ways to get the 45. Nothing I've heard of Harris has been anything other than a huge disappointment after hearing the 45. MG

Happy Birthday Jim. And many many more. MG

This evening's recently acquired vinyl has been Willis Jackson - Funky Reggae - Trip Charles Earland - Boss organ - Choice Blue Mitchell - Blue Mitchell - Mainstream Paul Bryant - Groove time - Fantasy MG

You won't regret that one, Tom! MG

Electric Flag Mike Bloomfield Barry Goldberg (not another!)

Good lord! The first session was the day I was born! MG

Hi Noal, and welcome. This is an auspicious start! I know little about Lucky - got the Hampton Jazztone set recently and was very impressed with him. MG

VERY incomplete, but a start, perhaps. MG

Actually, are all the Black Lion recordings that are on CD on the Black Lion label? No; I have a Dexter Gordon - "For all we know" on the Jazz Life label, which contains one track from "Blues walk", which is part 2 of "The Montmartre collection" on Black Lion, and four other tracks, which I suspect are the other LP in that series; all done the same night, anyway. Black Lion (and Barclay, MPS, Timeless and Black & Blue) would be suitable candidates for a Mike Fitzgerald label discography. There's a lot of very interesting material on them and much less is generally known about them than the big US jazz labels. MG

If you go to Amazon advanced music search you can search for Black Lion label items. You'll get 200+ hits. Oooo! You learn something every day! I must try that with Dakar Sound and Popular African Music. MG

Van McCoy Freddie McCoy McCoy Tyner

Izzy Goldberg Joe Goldberg The Magnificent Goldberg (couldn't resist )

Yeah, breakfast is THE important meal. I always have the same thing. A third of a litre (half a pint, near as dammit, I think) of orange juice (not from concentrate by preference). A bowl of muesli; Wally's de luxe, from a deli in Cardiff, (happily round the corner from Spillers records). One or two slices of my own wholemeal bread, toasted, with Asda Valencia orange marmalade (THE best available anywhere in Britain - 66% fruit). A LARGE cup of tea - whatever kind my wife wants to buy. And a bit more than an hour's worth of CDs on the portable downstairs before my wife gets up. I usualy take her a cup of Rhooibos tea before I start my own breakfast, plus toast or muesli, if she wants, but if she wants porridge, she has to make it herself She doesn't trust me to make it reasonably well (probably right). MG

Ah, on the floodplain... MG

Leslie Boosey Ralph Hawkes Ralph Malph

Frontal lobotomies all round ! The photo of the back cover was too small for me to read. Who the buggerin' 'ell are those flautists? MG

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You mean like jazz musicians should tithe part of their earnings to the producers who chop up their recordings so that they sound all right? http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=864842 MG

Alec Guinness Amy Winehouse Wallace Beery

I just checked back on an exchange of e-mails I had four years ago with Stuart Kremsky (originally about Charles Earland's "Funk fantastique", but I derailed the thread) onto "On Basie's bandstand". Stuart produced that CD and said Perhaps you'd have liked the album better had it not been all burners? MG