The Magnificent Goldberg

Thank you, Jim. Yes, I knew the photo was Dorothy whatsit. And I knew she was a gossip columnist who was often on What's my line? So the recording wasn't a track from 'Parades and panoramas'? MG

PS I always wondered about the word 'tredging' in 'Lonesome road' and see that was how it was written way back. But I find no useful definition on the web. Is it a 'real' word? I always thought it was a black compilation of trudging and treading. MG

So is this Cnythia Hopkins from 'Parades and panoramas'? MG

Guitar Slim Guitar Gable Guitar Nubbitt

Personally, I like most of the albums. I like listening to the ones that Weinstock cobbled together from bits and pieces as well as listening to the complete session with Mal Waldron that was never issued as an album or even as a CD compilation and the two LPs of 'Organ combos'. Can't say I like the jam sessions very much, though I know Weinstock did. What I do like of them is most of what's on the long OJC CD 'Gene Ammons greatest hits: the fifties'. That's nearly all of those jam session tracks I like - plus the whole of 'Blue Gene', of course, on which Gene and Mal seemed to have been collaborating to get a Jug-like result, all the way through. MG

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Actually, it sounded like it was a rap DJ, with Ike on top, a bit like Malcolm X's 'No sell out', the backing for that (just looked at the 12") was done by someone called Keith Leblanc. I don't truly imagine it was him, but it's that kind of thing. MG

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Thank you, Jim. MG

Oh well, I suppose it's 'I like Ike' then, not that I care very much. MG

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Well, here we go! 1 ‘Signing off’. A song by Leonard Feather and J(ane?) Russell. I have versions by Johnny Otis and Wynton Kelly. This doesn’t sound like Johnny Otis, or rather, it doesn’t sound like my copy on LP. And Dorothy Morrison doesn’t quite sound Dorothy Morrison-ish enough. But the playing sounds like it. So after it finished, I dug it out from the waiting to be ripped pile and played it. Yes, it’s Otis and Morrison. Bloomin’ ‘eck! Well, the fi is different, which is why I didn’t get it immediately. I wondered why yours was longer than mine. 2 Damn, I know this one, too. ‘Saturday night prayer meeting’. Is this REALLY the version I’ve got on ‘Blues & roots’? I think so. Yeah, sure as hell is. Bet EVERYONE gets this one. And what a lot to pack into three minutes. 3 Off the wall. Something familiar about the tune… Oh yes, it’s ‘Shortnin’ bread’. Hm, don’t think I’m going to last the course. Well, I’m afraid I didn’t. Nowt objectionable about it, I just plain don’t get it. 4 Jimmy Brown NOT the Newsboy! YES! YES! Yeah, he’s Superbad! I think I have this on a 3 part 45. Yes, I do; King 45-6329 and the time on both sides label says 4:05 so mine’s longer than yours, but I shouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t edited to repeat a couple of minutes. King did a lot of that with Mr JB. Actually, I don’t mind them mucking about with his stuff. But catch me saying that if Jug had recorded for them 5 TV intermission music? Why else would someone pay musicians to do this? 6 Sounds like modern classical music. Not French, I fancy, as it doesn’t strike me as intended for entertainment. 7 “Lonesome road’, performed by a somewhat too modern band. What they’re playing doesn’t SOUND like they’re totin’ a heavy load. Nor does the way she’s singing it. 8 Load of bollocks! No evidence adduced. No stream of cause and effect. 9 More classical music? If it is, it again doesn’t sound French. Very heavy and ponderous. Oh, the baritone player seems to be playing jazz. Well, I dunno, guv. Time for a piddle and a cough and drag. Well, I can face the rest now. Sounds like a bunch of classical musicians helpfully trying to realise some jazz musician’s ideas of what classical music OUGHT to be. Well, I can’t actually hear anything likeable in this, but I’ll listen all the way through. I WOULD be interested to hear someone else’s ideas on what is likeable here. 10 Hm, some more of the same kind of stuff. And kind of foolish, too. Skipping through the rest of the track. Hm, nowt different, just more so. REALLY not with this. 11 More of the Mingus. Thought it was a bit short. This is nicely placed. I think can hear that the arrangers/composers of those pseudo-classical pieces have heard this and are trying to bring off something rather akin, but who needs to bother when you’ve got this? 12 DUH? President Truman? Oh, I’m sorry Jim, I’ve really liked only three cuts. Now for some Kande Sy. I don't think you'd like HER MG

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OK. I can't say I'm actually terribly impressed with it. It's in there to fool YOU MG

You did well, Tom. Hope you liked the ride. MG

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Thank you very much, Paul. So, now we ALL know. Not the same session as 'Insane asylum', and Daddy G on tenor. The usual suspects elsewhere. MG You mean, you'd have got it had it been better produced? MG

Thank you, Jeff. The Atlanta scene is terribly interesting. MG

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Well, no, though that was done at the same session as 'Floogie boo'. But in April 1942 Cootie's big band, with Eddie on alto, recorded 'Fly right' which was 'Epistrophy'. Cootie's band was in the centre of all three major developments of jazz during the war: mainstream; bebop; and R&B. A VERY interesting band. Later, he was the employer of a succession if tenor players every bit as interesting in their own way as Jaws: Sam 'The Man' Taylor; William 'Weasel' Parker; and Willis 'Gator Tail' Jackson. Hit the Honkers thread for a listen to Typhoon with Weasel Parker driving Cootie's band crazy. I'm sure you'll know 'Gator Tail' pts 1 & 2, but they're there, too. MG

Boxcar Willie Juggernaut Gene Ammons

I forgot to finish Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson properly Here's 'Floogie boo' which Eddie and Cootie wrote. Cootie, Cleanhead, Jaws, Bud Powell, Norman Keenan, Vess Payne. 4 Jan 1944. Cleanhead was also in Cootie's band when the original version of 'Epistrophy' was recorded, April Fool's day 1942. MG

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