The Magnificent Goldberg

Oh, what a busy day! A day of interrupted (unfortunately) listening to new albums. Today's haul was I've had this a long time on a home tape. Very glad to get a real one now. This is the only one I haven't listened to (yet) The label says "full radial stereo" - wonder what that is My Concord sale order turned up before 9am! A hottie! What a super album this is! Ida's voice was a bit past its sell-by date, but the way she used it! And with Hawk, Roy Eldridge, Sammy Price, Milt Hinton and Jo Jones, you just can't go wrong. Sweet, with Clark Terry, Frank Wess and Junior Mance. Very nice music day today. Two by Tito Puente - first ones I've ever bought Also very hot stuff. Two 2Cd sets. I shan't go short of Tito Puente for a while. (For next post's thrilling episode, see below) MG

His ideas still can. Mrs Thatcher was very fond of quoting Adam Smith on economic matters. MG

Thanks for posting the list of non-BN deletions, Ubu - I WANT that Dakota Staton/George Shearing one!!!!! Time for being lackadaisical about it is over! MG

Yes, but that same sort of variety can be found within most musical genres. Take for example what we think of as "West Coast Jazz". The Mulligan Quartet was very different than the Dave brubeck Quartet which was very different from the Lighthouse All Stars. Mm, but can it be found in Hard Bop? MG

Where can you get it for 60 euros? MG

Thanks. MG

Coo, it's expensive, isnt it? Over a hundred quid from Amazon.fr. MG

Thanks very much, folks. Tom, "Mother ship" is not really my kind of thing, as you'll guess, but I like it a lot. It has most tremendous energy! MG

I'm sure you know all about the BBC World Service Junior. But here's a Wiki article anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service Is there a corresponding one for your service that I could look at? MG

Yank Lawson Hugh Lawson Nigel Lawson

I didn't notice before, but are there only a dozen or so tracks on each CD? About forty minutes a side seems a bit cheapskate. (Or am I forgetting that there are some long ones on them?) MG

I think I need a third opinion MG

See? You didn't have to be disappointed, Ted; they haven't stopped. MG

Charles Kynard Howard Roberts CLifford Scott

Oran "Juice" Jones The Joneses Redman

Thanks. The only one I might be interested in that I haven't already got is the Silver, 27th man album. Anyone got any views on that? MG

Of course they do, because "anti-Showbiz" is just another form of Showbiz. You follow my thought precisely, Jim To make more money by selling something that is "uncommercial" is quite clever. It's like in the sixties, Columbia was marketing rock albums as anti-hype! And the wonderful thing was, people believed it! MG

Lena Zavaroni Laurie London Shirley Temple

No; it's Showbiz. Customers buying a (musical) product for reasons that seem good to them. Mosaic eschewing the original artwork etc is an expression of "anti-Showbiz". But they still want your money. MG

Maybe Blue Note was trying, but the musicians didn't seem to be co-operating One interesting thing about Soul Jazz is that the musicians have all sorts of different backgrounds: Swing; Blues; R&B; Soul; Funk; Gospel; Bebop; Hard Bop. And they bring different ideas from these other kinds of music. For example, Baby Face Willette's albums were quite different to Fred Jackson's, even though Jackson was on one of Willette's. And both were quite different from Ike Quebec's albums with Freddie Roach, which were quite different from Roach's own albums. And all of this was different from what Lou Donaldson was doing with Willette and Patton. And different from what Patton was doing as a leader. And Don Wilkerson was different, and so was Harold Vick. And all of this with some of the same people - like Grant Green and Ben Dixon - running through many of the albums. (And this is just to think about Blue Note. When you add in Prestige - with people like Jaws/Scott; Arnett; Jug; Red Holloway; J H Smith; Forrest - and Riverside - with people like Johnny Lytle and Cannonball/Nat - Argo - with Ramsey Lewis & Al Grey - and PJ, with McCann, Holmes etc etc... Then add in vocalists like Della Reese, Nancy Wilson, Etta Jones, Lou Rawls.) Because Soul Jazz probably isn't one thing; it could probably be thought of as an umbrella term covering a multitude of different styles with, as their only (or at least main) common denominator, their orientation towards the popular black market. MG

Jimmy Ponder - White room - Impulse Larry "Wild" Wrice - Wild - PJ Stereo Inez Andrews - Lord lift us up - Savoy MG

Booker T Washington George Washington The VIllage Stompers

Aphorism of the year! MG

Yes, yes! MG

Was Gertrude Braxton's mother? MG