The Magnificent Goldberg

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We've had the Dawkins before, Cyril. MG

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Buddy Guy Guy Fawkes Mackie Messer

Mildred Clark & the Melody-aires - I can't give up now - Savoy Mildred Clark & the Melody-aires - You've got to give an account - Savoy Harrison Johnson & the Los Angeles Comunity Singers - Don't make war - Creed MG

That woman in the centre, wearing the white jumper, is on another Decca sleeve from that era - with the same hairstyle and clothes and painted on face. MG

So does the point about Bootsie! MG

Bebe Daniels Lyon Ben Lyon Alfred Lion

Interesting list. I only have four of those, and haven't heard any of the others, so what you're saying isn't perfectly clear to me. But it does illustrate that where one stands affects one's viewpoint I have "Further explorations" and "Battle stations" of course. I see those two as straddling the boundary (if we want to say it's a boundary - it's not that clearly delineated) between Hard Bop and Soul Jazz. And from my perspective, they're Soul Jazz with a Hard Bop feel. The other two I have are "Ah um" and "Total eclipse". Yes, I can certainly see a difference But it does seem to me that they're doing similar things in their own, extremely individual, ways. That doesn't seem to be the case if you compare, say, Gene Ammons, Grover Washington Jr and Eddie Harris. Or Al Grey, Fred Wesley and Harold Betters. MG

Sure you don't mean Don Patterson? Bootsie was on "Why not" - the one with the sleeve showing a pair of lips and tongue. As far as I know, he's never recorded with Earland. MG

Lovely album. I have a stereo copy on red vinyl. This evening, playing my newie (Stereo) Then Dave Bailey - Two feet in the gutter - Epic mono Sonny Phillips - I concentrate on you - Muse MG

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I'll confess that's one title that never made any sense to me. Must be some PETA singalong about paint... It's "Violets for your furs". Make sense now? MG

I actually got "Boss organ" yesterday. Yes, it's good. The two Choice LPs have kind of been reissued, because most (not all) of the tracks were reissued on the Muse LPs "Smokin'" and "Mama Roots" (and some reappeared on 32Jazz). But there are differences. I'm still trying to sort this out. MG Wow! I have those two lps. When you figure this out, please let me know! I assume you mean you've got "Smokin'" and "Mama Roots". If I thought you had "Soul crib", I'd want to get your address and my burglar's uniform out. MG I've got four dogs, and their loud! I guess your above post means that Smokin and Mama Roots don't cover Soul Crib, is that right? What's the deal with Soul Crib. Is that any good? Any possibiilty of it being reissued? Hey, I don't know, man! If I knew what it was like, I'd have a copy and wouldn't need to think about getting my burglar's uniform on. The deal with "Soul crib" is that I think most, all, or many of the "Soul crib" tracks have been reissued on Muse. But there are George Coleman overdubs on two of the "Boss organ" tracks reissued on Muse. And Dave Schnitter is supposed to be on these "Soul crib" tracks on Muse and, if so, he's thought to be too young to have made the recordings in 1969. So are there Dave Schitter overdubs on the Muse reissues? Or is the sleeve wrong? Or don't we know his correct age? Or what? MG

Interesting piece. When I was reading it, I kept thinking, "Ray Charles, Ray Charles". MG

A few flurries of early snow here yesterday. And it's bloody cold! The wind is perishin'! Government gave us pensioners an extra fifty quid to help with heating this winter - oil's gone down, but electricity prices haven't fallen. Quel surprise! MG

(by the way, the map's upside down!) MG

Then I got a few come in from Dusty Groove I haven't heard much Della before - only a couple of tracks on "Christmas with Houston Person & friends". She's very good. With Houston's regular band of the time (1992) and cover photo by Etta Jones - didn't know she was a photographer! I like Cecil's albums. I was sorry I didn't notice these when they came out. Glad to have this now. Never heard of Lewis Keel before. Interesting alto player. Plenty of good influences but not terribly much his own man I think. Joe sometimes used Muse as a "vanity" label, I understand, and I suspect this may have been one such album. But with Ponder, Mabern, Jamil Nasser & Leroy Williams, the thing swings very nicely. The high point of the day! I thought this would be a fairly good band. COleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Don Redman, Joe Smith, Sidney De Paris, Todd Rhodes, Fats Waller, Prince Robinson. Not too bad. Kept me awake. Blew me away from time to time, they just swung so effin' HARD! And to hear the original version of "Gee baby, ain't I good to you" - with the words mostly spoken! I hadn't realised that Todd Rhodes was one of the three musicians who founded the Cotton Pickers; thought he just worked in the band for a short while. I'm definitely getting the other two volumes of this. And the sound! I think this must be the first time I've heard JRT Davies' transfers. It's just unbelieveable. MG