The Magnificent Goldberg

Had them for ages (Don't forget, Tina was Bubba Brooks' brother ) MG

If it's on Pablo Live, I've never seen a Pablo Live LP that wasn't on red vinyl. Pablo and Pablo Today seem all to have used the standard black vinyl. Pablo Live single LPs had a prefix of 2308; Pablo singles used 2310; Pablo Today used 2312. Pablo Live doubles were prefixed 2620; Pablo doubles had 2625; and Pablo Today (I think there was only 1 of these - an Ella) used 2630. Just to complicate matters, there were two doubles on Pablo that had a prefix of 2640. MG PS - I see from the Pablo list that "Kansas City shout" was 2310 859 - so it was a plain ole Pablo. And I've never see any of those on red vinyl - but I mainly see Pablos that were made in Britain.

Omix is Ximo Tebar's label. Is he on that album? And, by the bye, how do you pronounce a double L at the beginning of a word in Spanish? Is it anything like the Welsh double L? MG Nope. No Tebar on that date. It's a trio disc, with Coloma on piano and Hammond XB-2, Josemi Moraleda on double bass and Ramón Díaz on drums. "Lluis" is a Catalan name, to be pronounced as in Spanish "lluvia". Remember: "la lluvia en Sevilla es una pura maravilla". Oh, like Y. Thanks Agustin. MG

Omix is Ximo Tebar's label. Is he on that album? And, by the bye, how do you pronounce a double L at the beginning of a word in Spanish? Is it anything like the Welsh double L? MG

Ah, a very important comment from my point of view. What kind of percentage of alternative takes is there in the set? MG Thanks TM and Lon. I thought this was Blue Note material, of which I already have 2 LPs' worth but, looking at the discography, I see it's all OkeH, Columbia, Variety & Vocalion and I haven't got any of it. That alters the equation a bit for me. But 37.7% .... Have to think about this. MG

Earlier this evening Billie Poole - Sermonette - Riverside mono Stanley Turrentine - The man - Time (Japanese pressing) Eric Gale - Ginseng woman - Columbia (CBS UK) MG

It turned out that I needed to install Real Player. Going now. MG

I can still get it to play, but only after checking the box that I'm over 16!!! Oh, do I have to be over 16? I'll give that a try. Thanks Bill. MG

Sylvester Sly Dunbar Robbie Shakespeare

Yes, I think they did, but being of an older generation than Bev ("if you owned a jazz record you automatically owned a folk record"), I never went in there! I went in there once, realised I was in the wrong place (there were no James Brown albums there ) and left hurriedly. MG

Joris-Karl Huysmans Stephane Mallarme Paul Verlaine

Didn't Dobell's also have a folk/blues shop next door in TCR? I've tried listening to the Mole Jazz programme a couple of times but it keeps saying that the content isn't working and please try again later. Am I doing something wrong, stupid, or is the BBC out to lunch? MG

Didn't Dobell's also have a folk/blues shop next door in TCR? MG

So there's nothing in the file about why they couldn't or didn't do a deal? Have you got part 2 knocking about under a pile of other stuff, Chris? MG

Sir Percival Sir Galahad Sir Bors

Ah, a very important comment from my point of view. What kind of percentage of alternative takes is there in the set? MG

YMMV of course, but I'd say the first four are not exactly essential. The Blackburn and Adderley, however, are damn good. As a general rule, I tend to avoid buying "essential" albums, because there are so many really interesting and representative ones among the inessential One's mileage does, indeed, vary. MG

Cor! I'd forgotten about Imhofs. I know I bought Tom Lehrer's 10" LP - "Songs by Tom Lehrer" - there in January 1960. I think possibly one or two others, as well, when I had an Christmas holiday job with a silk merchant in Riding House Street, just up the road. MG

Lawrence Olds Thornel Schwartz Bill Leslie

Postman just brought me from Da Barstids! in decent nick (it looks like) and at a fair price. DG, too. MG

Freddy Slack Tom Loosemore Titus Groan

Bobby Pierce - Introducing Bobby Pierce - Cobblestone Bu Pleasaant - Ms Bu - Muse Groove Holmes & Ernie Watts - Come together - Pacific Jazz MG

Cor! Look at all those cheapo Cadets! But no McDuffs in there. That must have been just a bit before I started ordering from their catalogues, which was Feb '78. MG

Dunno, but Lou Donaldson was a great one for hiring trumpeters. After several years with Bill Hardman in his band (Bill is on most of Lou's Argo/Cadets), he had Melvin Lastie on "Alligator boogaloo" (Mel was a well known New Orleans musician who never found much fame outside) Eddie Williams on "Hot dog", "Everything I play" and "Cosmos" Fred Ballard on "The Scorpion" and there were, apparently, others who didn't record (Blue Mitchell appeared on quite a few of the later BN sessions) MG

I had a thought about this. EMI are probably doing the right thing. 1 They're in the shit. 2 Most of this stuff is going PD pretty soon - PD in Europe, that is, which means the same in the US, because it's pointless the US industry cleaving to the 70 year line - at which point in walk the Andorrans. 3 If you want to maximise the use you get out of this stuff, which is presumably selling pretty slowly, a deletion is going to mop up pretty well all the outstanding potential sales, at least for a few years. And right now (see 1) is when they need the money, not in dribbles and drabbles over the next few years. MG