The Magnificent Goldberg

Billy Preston - The most exciting organ ever - Vee-Jay (DG) Leo Wright - Soul talk - Vortex (promo) MG

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Yes please. Or, what about a Les Baxter thread TTK? MG

And Guitar Slim. But both were doing it, I supose you could say, manually - you know, like really just playing the instrument. MG As was Lenny Breau, but he was - as I mentioned in my original post - actually fashioning solos out of controlled feedback. It wasn't an "effect." The reason I mentioned him in response to the question whether jazz players were using feedback, tape loops, backwards tape, etc. before The Beatles or other "rock" was for that very reason. It was an architectonic use of feedback. Are there particular recordings of Watson or Slim that you would suggest to hear what they were doing? I have to admit that I'm not very familiar with their playing. Some of Breau's now very hard to find early RCAs utilize what I'm talking about as I recall, and I have a cassette tape somewhere that a guitarist friend gave me years ago - a private recording - that has an amazing drone-based, quasi-Indian thing that would blow your mind; the entire solo is feedback. I'll have a listen some time. MG

It's been that wonderful Lionel Hampton set all morning! MG

This just arrived Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but I'm pleased already. Haven't heard this album since about 1966, when I listened to my mate's copy. MG

Michel Ruppli's Prestige discography doesn't list any different takes, so they must be edited versions of the LP takes. MG

Have a good one! MG

This one turned up today Been a bit busy, so I've only just got round to listening to it. (I've skipped "Black cat" as I've had it for ages and I'm just listening to the material I've never heard before.) And I'm sitting here and just letting it wash over me without really trying to take it in. And it's joyous and hot and heavy. There's a bonus track done at the Watts Jazz Festival with the rhythm section of the Gerald Wilson orch - "Here's that rainy day", with Harold Land Jr, Johnny Williams and Paul Humphrey - which is wonderful, too. Damn me, but I'm glad to get this one!!!!! Thanks to whoever started that thread! MG

Tried Priceminister but couldn't see it. Could you post a link, please? MG

Best to EJP, Dan and Lon. No point in making resolutions for the new year if what you want to do comes before, or after. Just do it! MG

And Guitar Slim. But both were doing it, I supose you could say, manually - you know, like really just playing the instrument. MG

His lame-ass, flaccid stereo mixes are surely not part of that reason, unfortunately. The Beatles need to be heard in MONO! They tend to sound best in mono, that's for sure. I heard that one reason for that is that the music was engineered and initially mixed-down and mastered for mono, with the stereo mix being an afterthought. Apparently stereo was still considered a new (and perhaps passing) fad in some parts of the British recording industry at the time. Not a fad, but not relevant to pop music (British class prejudice again). Stereo was for classical music, jazz, "classy" singers like Sinatra, and the British equivalents of Enoch Light and Tony Mottola. MG

Sometimes an LP gets lost in a neighbouring gatefold sleeve. MG

Many happy returns! And many more! MG

Yes, I've got that from reading this thread. On the other hand, I have nearly everything Jug ever recorded... MG

Lou Donaldson - Sweet poppa Lou - Muse (WEA France) Lou Donaldson - Forgotten man - Timeless Lou Donaldson - Back street - Muse Lou Donaldson - Live in Bologna - Timeless These early eighties LPs are so full of life, though there's nothing very innovative about them. I think Lou was simply very happy to have said "bollocks to all that funky orchestral shit" and gone back to straight ahead music - and the happiness comes through on all of these. And they all feature the one and only Herman Foster. All recorded between Jan 1981 and Jan 1984. MG

Thanks. One to keep in mind, I think, rather than splash out on immediately. MG

Oi! Wossis? Never heard of Ammons working with Mingus. Early seventies? Montreux or somewhere in Europe? More info pliz. MG Gene Ammons is a guest artist on Mingus' large group concert at Philharmonic Hall. I forget the exact year, but maybe 1972 or so. The album is on Columbia, originally a two LP set. An expanded CD reissue is better than the original issue, especially for omitting an opening track featuring Bill Cosby. Ammons is featured on a couple of tracks (Mingus Blues and Jump Monk, I believe), and these are probably the two best tracks on the record. Overall, a somewhat disappointing record, not measuring up to the other contemporaneous great Mingus release on Columbia, Let My Children Hear Music, but still pretty good, especially the Ammons features. This one? A bit bleedin' expensive! Still it is two discs. And it DOES have Jug on it. MG

It was the last released album, but it was actually recorded before Abbey Road. I didn't know that. Shows how much notice I was taking then. MG

Oi! Wossis? Never heard of Ammons working with Mingus. Early seventies? Montreux or somewhere in Europe? More info pliz. MG

"The world of Hank Crawford". MG "Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day", by Horace Henderson (members of the group include Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman Hawkins) I thought so. Can we now move on from Beatle bashing? I am not bashing the Beatles with my Horace Henderson remark. I owned all of their albums as they were coming out and played them a bazillion times. They were huge in my life when I was young. They were huge to everyone, as I remember. I still like their music and think that they were really good. When I listen to their albums now, I am struck by the attention to detail and high quality throughout. I just think that Abbey Road is only one of thousands of recordings that is fine and mature. Fair enough. But I said "final" musical statement. That is, a last album made by an individual or group of musicians. Well, wasn't "Let it be" the Beatles last album? MG

I know it's a bit late, but I've only just seen that it's your birthday today Porcy. So I hope you're having a really good one. And that you have many more. MG

"The world of Hank Crawford". MG