The Magnificent Goldberg

I didn't know there was an Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis box. What is it? MG Dolphy Complete Prestige Recordings box Oh. ED doesn't stand for Eddie Davis, then A complete Jaws Prestige recordings box would be nice! I'm sure there are still two or three albums I haven't got MG

Rufus Thomas Carla Thomas Otis Redding

I think a lot of what he was saying was right. And I DID like the dancer! She was right there with the music. MG

Curtis Counce Count Hastings Harold

I tend to agree with Dumpy Mama, Mike. I do find it very difficult - as a non-organist - to draw the kind of line you're drawing between the musicians you've listed (plus, I guess, Shirley Scott, WBD, Dr L, Groove and Earland, all of whom I think you would have listed had you been trying for an exhaustive list of THE guys), and players like Baby Face Willette, Rhoda Scott, Freddie Roach, Bu Pleasant, Sam Lazar and Lou Bennett. To me, there are four innovators of post-war jazz organ - Wild Bill Davis, Baby Face Willette, Jimmy Smith and Larry Young (of course, neither Willette's nor Young's ideas caught on, but those innovations are still there). I've no doubt you've got reasons for making the distinction you do, Mike, but are they reasons that non-organists can get? MG

I didn't know there was an Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis box. What is it? MG

Oh, all right Orrin Keepnews Alfred Lion Lester Koenig

I'm on my third LP copy of "Work song", which was one of my early Soul Jazz purchases and I've loved the session forever. I suppose, if the price is fairly low, I could get the CD. MG

Happy Birthday, Bill! MG

J Arthur Rank Basil Dean Cubby Broccoli

Here we are with a somewhat delayed BFT58. Because it's running late, I'm planning to get the stuff out next weekend - 7 June, because Grant Green's birthday is 6 June. There is a standard BFT and a bonus disc of surprises If you want downloads, just PM me and tell me so. If you want discs, PM me and tell me so and give me your address. MG

Pssst! You're not supposed to tell us the theme - we're supposed to guess it OK, I'll start a thread for sign-ups later today. MG

Quite right. I think the guy's heart is in the right place but he seems to miss the point. Dividing McGriff's work into a) jazz standards; b) soul covers; and c) extended funk stuff is a really weak way of looking at him; it gives the impression that he's treating the music as a thing in itself, outside of its purpose. In particular, it ignores the fact that ALL of that material was directed to a particular end - providing an evening's entertainment for customers of his bar or other bars. On the other hand, he's a bit too enthusiastic, I feel, in lauding McGriff's jazz versions of soul tunes. I haven't time today to do any research on this, but I rather think other musicians like Grant Green, JOS and particularly Freddie McCoy were a bit ahead of McGriff. Apart from "I got a woman", which is really proto-Soul old-style R&B (and which JOS had recorded three years earlier), McGriff didn't climb aboard that bandwagon until the late sixties, by which time, Lou Donaldson and John Patton were aboard, too (and quite a few others). All of which is NOT to say that McGriff was less than these other guys at that side of thing, but is more to illustrate the weakness of trying to look at the music as something divorced from its context. MG

H Samuel Ernest Jones Joule

I think Joe was right that we can have a non-political discussion about this. But we can also have a political discussion about it and move the thread to the politics forum if that's what people want. MG

David Sanjeck Russ Sanjeck BMI

Ritchie Goldberg also worked for Ray Charles. He was on that wonderful live session in Atlanta that produced the classic version of "Drown in my own tears". MG

It was practically all boxes for me yesterday. In the evening, it was Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walker & Pee Wee Crayton - New Orleans guitar - JSP MG

I was playing something with a celeste intro by John Lewis a few days ago. Damn me, what the hell was it? Oh yes, it was wait for it Illinois Jacquet - Black velvet!!!!!! MG

Yeah! That's from the LP "Chicken fried soul", by Jimmy and Junior. Recorded in 1972 at Jimmy's Silver Slipper club, probably the same night that Jimmy's "Black Pearl" was done for Blue Note. It sounds better when you play the vinyl yerself, I must say If there are ESSENTIAL Jimmy McGriff albums, it's these two, neither of which has been reissued on CD. Between them, they encapsulate the entire organ room thing. MG

No mention of the role of displacement here. No one really knows at what point the buyers walk away because, so far anyway, the extra costs to consumers have largely resulted in expenditure being transferred out of other purchases. MG

Jazz Crusaders - nearly the end of disc 2 now. MG

I only knew of him through "Harlem nocturne" - didn't know about all those TV shows. What a career! RIP. MG

Juicy Lucy Psychedelic Sally Filthy McNasty

I never heard of this one. Anyone have any details? MG