The Magnificent Goldberg

Not in my neck of the woods. I was thinking about CD issues, actually. Is there something like a Proper box that covers these recordings? MG

What releases are there of the Victors, please Chuck? MG

Blue Note died at 32. Bits keep getting exhumed, is all. MG

I'd LOVE to see little category cards in a record shop "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA A-F" "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA G-M" "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA N-R" "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA S-Z" But only the G-M section would have anything in it MG You forgot "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA VARIOUS ARTISTS" Well, stap me, so I did! MG

These two cheapos turned up today Spent a long time working out that I had all of this except six tracks on LP; I hoped there'd be more that I hadn't got but I'm very glad to have now his single record for Aladdin. Haven't listened to it yet. Because I've been too taken with this Wow! What an INCREDIBLE band!!!! It covers 1927 and 1931-1936. Not bad personnel - Coleperson Hawkins, Benny Carter, Ben Webster, Chu Berry, Buster Bailey, Hilton Jefferson, Russel Procope, Red Allan, Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Hamilton, J C Higginbotham, Dicky Wells, Benny Morton, Fats Waller, John Kirby, Sid Catlett. And sometimes, on some of the 1932 and 1933 tracks, the band - the ensemble, that is - just leans back and WAILS!!!!!!! Wails in a way you sometimes hear a soloist like Teddy Edwards or Sonny Criss, or Hawk himself, wail, but never a whole effin' band! I think they're Horace Henderson arrangements but I'm not entirely convinced it's the arrangements; I suspect someone like Red Allen was putting a little extra something. Perhaps Horace was poking him up the backside with a sharp stick Phew!!! Oh, and by the way, is that guy on the cover who looks like a BBC newsreader from the forties REALLY Fletcher Henderson? MG

A nice cup of tea. We're using Tetley pyramid bags at present; very acceptable if not sublime. MG

I rarely use seasoning. Sea salt sometimes - particularly on chips (French fried). But I like Honey & Mustard Dressing drizzled on salads MG

B B King - Completely well - Bluesway (MCA) MG

No - there'll be a popup which says "You're our millionth poster and you've been selected to win $500,000. Please send your bank details to..." MG

And parrots don't sing. MG

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I never knew that Eddie Morrison's calls were overdubs before. I never heard that Bryant recorded "The Madison" for some other label, from which Columbia licensed it. Which label? Bob Thiele's Signature, for whom he recorded the original hit version of "Little Suzie"? I haven't seen this in a discography. Mike Fitzgerald's Jazz Discography indicates it was recorded for Columbia in March 1959. Ray Bryant Sextet Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp) Urbie Green (tb) Buddy Tate (ts) Ray Bryant (p) Tommy Bryant (b) Billy English (d) NYC, March 16, 1959 CO64398 Madison Time, I Columbia CL 1476 CO64399 Madison Time, II - * Ray Bryant - Madison Time (Columbia CL 1476) It does make it clear that Morrison wasn't a participant in the session. Perhaps the single, when it issued on whatever label, wasn't called "Madison time" but something else. But I'd have thought Mike would have known that and cross referenced it in some way. This bit of story looks a bit spurious to me at the moment. MG

That one merits going in the strange covers thread - seriously MG

I can't help it if you take no notice of my post naming Hank Crawford's "World of Hank Crawford". MG

Can't compete with the beer girls, Junior... So have a very happy birthday. MG

Coo, eight years... Congratulations to all of you. And to your long-suffering loved ones MG

But it's not what it is that's important, in this context. It's the ingraining of whatever your parents played a lot so deeply that it provides some kind of different feeling to what other music provides. And I think it isn't nostalgia; it's more like personal recognition. Of course, I've got no room to talk about this, because we didn't have a record player in the family until I got my first at Christmas 1958; so I don't have those kind of memories. (But I bet my daughter does.) MG

I'd LOVE to see little category cards in a record shop "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA A-F" "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA G-M" "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA N-R" "CONTORTIONIST FUNK EXOTICA S-Z" But only the G-M section would have anything in it MG

This turned up earlier It's vol 7 in the Hep set. I've another one on the way. About half way through listening and just hit some Billie Holiday tracks. Struth, I think this is the first time I've heard her from that era. Serious love here. MG

I checked on the Billboard R&B charts for the two versions of the Madison. Al Brown's was the bigger hit on the pop charts: #23 pop; #14 R&B. Bryant's was bigger on the R&B charts: #30 pop; #5 R&B (and stayed on that chart 18 weeks, which ain't bad). I had the thought this morning, as I got up (!), that the band that played on the Goddard film might have been that of Jacques Denjean. Anyone got any ideas about that? MG

Out of the mouths of babes... You got me, Dave! Yes. MG

Don't know how we didn't think of this one before MG

Jazzmoose should have that as his avatar! MG

What a band! Whooooo! Pity they kept interrupting the music for a bit of rabbiting. Any idea who the band was, Nate? MG