The Magnificent Goldberg

We always have "Extra Virgin" olive oil at home. Seems such a stupid phrase to me. It can't really mean anything. But I'm sure someone knows why they call it that. MG

Ah yes! Excellent all round, that date! MG

Ah yes - it's been like November most of this summer - we had to put the central heating on the other day! I went out the back for a ciggie yesterday afternoon, but just stood in the doorway to keep out of the rain. There was a gap in the clouds and the sun was really hot, I thought (but not what YOU'D call hot) - just a reminder of what a lovely summer we'd be having if only the weather weren't so shitty MG

Sorry to hear this. Moore was a good trumpet player, whose work with the Skatalites was always true to the spirit of the music. MG

Thank you, Chuck, Larry & Jim. MG

Pouring. MG

Tigger Pooh Piglet

Gene Ammons - The soulful moods of/Nice 'n cool - Moodsville (PR) next Illinois Jacquet - Go power/The message - Cadet (Green Line Italy) MG

Odell Brown is alive and well (well, he's got a website) and he's selling recent recordings on it. Must get round to buying them. So if someone's cheating a living and working jazzman out of some money, I'd be more concerned than if it were Coleman Hawkins. But truthfully, OB&O was made into a classic organ group by the two sax players. As far as I'm concerned, Brown was an OK organist, and the right man to back up those two sax players with that concept. I wouldn't be without the first two, which are both great albums. The rest, well they're OK. MG

Me too (snigger snigger). MG Oh, OK, seriously, there are five LPs (out of 10) on this that have organ on them. You better believe it On stage Feelin' kinda blues California soul Eternal equinox But on the fourth, it's Jimmy Rowles who plays it occasionally, so maybe that doesn't count. MG

Henry Longshaw Bessie Smith Ma Rainey

Ah, well, it was a long time ago and you have excellent reasons for having a better memory for music than I do MG

I thought you had to be a subscriber. MG

Wow!!!!! My God!!!!! I MUST give that cut a careful listen. Have had it for years and was playing it a few days ago - I've never noticed a THING! MG

I LURVE sardines on toast when I've made new bread. So that's what I'm having this evening. MG

Yes, it's my mate's personal favourite Ammons. A very, very rewarding album with a rhythm section of people I've never heard of. I think it was issued on CD in Japan earlier this year (maybe last year), with a different title. MG

I agree with that. Just one or two numbers are taken at a pace that's just a bit too fast for Jug to really dig into them. Compared with "Groovin' with Jug", where all the tempos are just perfect, it's not quite as enjoyable for me. MG

A lot of Chicago people in there. Might there be some bias at work? I know some Chicagoans have got in, but... MG

A pretty good list of authorised masters, that. I note with surprise, however, the absence of Griff Jaws Jug Sonny Vonski Illinois Jacquet Fred Anderson Pharoah And am flabbergasted by the fact that there's no mention of The Blackbyrds Funk Inc Billy Larkin & the Delegates Fred Wesley & the JB's MG

Carmell Jones - The remarkable Carmell Jones - PJ (Affinity UK) Don Patterson - These are soulful days - Muse Billy Larkin & the Delegates - Dr Feelgood - World Pacific MG

Still raining. Forecast for another four days (ugh!). If it stops long enough to dry a piece of stick, I'll measure the depth in the water butt again. MG

Toad Mole Ratty

Well, I probably should have included that. "Up tight" was one of the first of his albums I ever bought (with Groovin' with" and "Bad Bossa Nova"), so it must have made a big impact on me MG

PM sent on Ray Charles, Genius + Soul=Jazz/My Kind of Jazz (Rhino) $7 The Greg Hatza Organ-ization (Palmetto) $6 Milt Jackson, That's The Way It Is (Impulse) $7 Milt Jackson, The Harem (MusicMasters) $6 Junior Mance, Junior Mance Special - solo Piano (Sackville) $7 Horace Silver, Silver's Blue (Portrait Masters) $7 Horace Silver, Its Got To Be Funky (Columbia) $6 Norman Simmons, 13th Moon (Millijac) $8 Norman Simmons, I'm The Blues (Millijac) $8 Norman Simmons, The Heat and the Sweet (Millijac) $8 Norman Simmons, Midnight Creeper (Millijac) $8 Sonny Stitt, Stitt Plays Bird (Atlantic) $7 Horace Silver, A Prescription for the Blues (Impulse) $7 Plus others on hold, just in case MG

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