The Magnificent Goldberg

Various Artists - Atlantic honkers side 1 (featuring some Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris) Happy Birthday Johnny! MG

Happy Birthday to a lovely honkin' tenor player! Now playing some cuts from 1947/8 with the Joe Morris band (and George Freeman, Matthew Gee & Philly Joe). MG

They're mentioned at the end of the piece Rod referenced. Use the search facility - look for "survived". Sorry, Chuck, I couldn't resist MG

Yeah! MG

This lot turned up from South Africa today (one item missing from parcel ) Lulu Masilela - Super Jive hits - Soul Soul (material originally on Plastik, Star Black & Go Go labels) This isn't jazz - it's pure Mbaqanga, but instrumental, recorded between 1970 and 1977. Lulu is quite versatile - he plays organ, accordion, bass and alto sax. Lulu Masilela & Thomas Phale - Cool down - Soul Soul No image on web. "Cool down" is one of the jazz albums Lulu made following Abdullah Ibrahim's insulting remarks about Mbaqanga and his subsequent appropriation of Zacks Nkosi's "Mannenberg" in 1976. Wish I could get the version the band made of "Mannenberg", which knocked Ibrahim's out of the charts, but I can't find it anywhere. Zacks Nkosi - A tribute to Zacks Nkosi - Gallo Zacks Nkosi - Our kind of jazz - Gallo Zacks was one of the great jazzmen of South Africa - actually, one of the great jazzmen period - born in 1918, played in big bands in early forties. The tribute album is a 1975 rerecording of some of the jazz standards he'd written in the early days. There is stuff on these albums that just takes my breath away. Zacks retired due to ill health soon after the later session (Oct 1976) and died in 1981. Everyone who is interested in South African jazz should have these albums. MG

Ho yus! That looks GOOD, doesn't it? Thanks for posting this. This lot turned up from South Africa today Lulu Masilela - Super Jive hits - Soul Soul (material originally on Plastik, Star Black & Go Go labels) This isn't jazz - it's pure Mbaqanga, but instrumental. Lulu is quite versatile - he plays organ, accordion, bass and alto sax. Lulu Masilela & Thomas Phale - Cool down - Soul Soul No image on web. This is one of the jazz albums Lulu made following Abdullah Ibrahim's insulting remarks about Mbaqanga and his subsequent appropriation of Zacks Nkosi's "Mannenberg". Wish I could get the version the band made of "Mannenberg", which knocked Ibrahim's out of the charts, but I can't find it anywhere. Zacks Nkosi - A tribute to Zacks Nkosi - Gallo Zacks Nkosi - Our kind of jazz - Gallo Zacks was one of the great jazzmen of South Africa - actually, one of the great jazzmen period - born in 1918, played in big bands in early forties. The tribute album is a 1975 rerecording of some of the jazz standards he'd written in the early days. There is stuff on these albums that just takes my breath away. MG

A bunch of stuff from South Africa (one item missing) Lulu Masilela - Super Jive hits - Soul Soul (material originally on Plastik, Star Black & Go Go labels) Lulu Masilela & Thomas Phale - Cool down - Soul Soul No image on web. Zacks Nkosi - A tribute to Zacks Nkosi - Gallo Zacks Nkosi - Our kind of jazz - Gallo MG

Raul de Souza Pamphile da Souza Francisco da Souza

Thanks, young sir! Get well soon! (Surprised to see I had four of these, not three - but I haven't listened to the Hampton Mosaic all that much yet.) MG

"Get off my fucking allotment" "And what if I don't?" "You can be replaced". Other nice titles are: "What did you think it was that needed to be loved, anyway?" "The magnificent bimbo" "Treasure that canary" "Never bite a married woman on the thigh" "It does not pay to be hip" "You soppy pratt" "Arted is my last name (Passing gas)" "I was a Kamikaze pilot" "Walk like an egg" "Bring on the nubiles" "I kill therefore I am" "William Butler Yeats visits Lincoln Park and escapes unscathed" "How many times can a fridge break down" "30,000 pounds of bananas" From the sublime pen of George Clinton "Take Your Dead Ass Home ! (Say Som'n Nasty)" "Butt-To- Buttresuscitation" "Get Off Your Ass And Jam" Finally, a Polish jazz title "Your goatee gets on my nerves (not to mention the mustache)" MG

Lunchtime O'Booze Lunchtime O'Boulez Pierre Boulez (This post dedicated to Ian Hislop)

Curtis Amy Select - all of it - just starting disc 3 - wonderful! MG

I didn't realise Von had a "Chicago" sound. I always assumed he had a very individual, highly penetrating, sound and that there wasn't a bunch of other Chicago sax players with a similar approach. Looking for some hints, here; I have much to learn about Chicago stuff. MG I can hear some Von Freeman in some of Johnny Griffin's playing - or vice versa. Ah, a misunderstanding, I see. I can certainly see the resemblances between Von's playing and Griff's or Jordan's - and other Chicago musicians. But I wasn't talking about the way he plays; it's the way he makes his sax sound that seems completely unique to me. And that's what I thought Paul was talking about. MG

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Document Records. http://www.document-records.com/ I think this label's very good for church music and, in particular, singing preachers from before the war. MG

Charles Boyer Maurice Chevalier Pony Poindexter

Cut the Crap Thomas Crapper (look him up) M C Rapp ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...1e1ca32f898778b )

I like Billy Larkin & the Delegates a lot. I suggest no one buys "I got the feelin'", his last album, which was without the Delegates and has stiff big band arrangements by I don't know. I think the band's best albums were the first two: "Pygmy" and "Blue lights", both originally issued on Aura, and reissued on a twofer CD by Fresh Sound. You can get it at Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Billy-Larkin-Delegat...0623&sr=8-1 I know Amazon sez "Billy Larkin & the Delegates featuring Clifford Brown" but it's actually the totally wonderful Clifford Scott, so don't be put off My only complaint about this CD is that they've mixed up the running order, and you get a track from each LP alternately. What a crappy idea! Iif you haven't any Larkin, you should get the Fresh Sound issue. Then look for LPs. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the British edition of "Hold on" was to some extent a compilation - I'm sure I remember "Charade" from that LP (don't have that copy any more), but it's from "Blue lights" - so watch out for track listings or stick to World Pacific originals. The next LP, "Hole in the wall" didn't have a tenor player on it, but Larkin hired Arthur "Fats" Theus, after that. Theus is pretty good - goes back a long way - he worked with Oscar McLollie & his Honey Jumpers in the fifties - and with Jimmy McGriff in the late sixties and early seventies and made one of the first CTI albums. I quite like Theus. The last LP with the Delegates - "Dr Feelgood" - has a different tenor player, who's also OK, Dan Mason, and also Wilton Felder - though I don't think he solos. It also has a singer - Ralph Black - on a few tracks. Black is a pretty good singer in the Lou Rawls vein. The interesting thing about Richard Bock is that he doesn't seem to have known how to make records that don't swing. MG

So did I - out into the back garden for a fag MG "...as he bends to pick a dog-end." - Ian Anderson Our Pug used to eat dog-ends - but only filter tips, not mine. He was VERY health-conscious. MG

Where's porcy? MG

I don't detect any of this on the Clifford Coulters. Nary an electrode... Well, except the organ and guitar MG

Barry Manilow Marry Mann Cynthia Weill

This has been going on for decades across the river in Brazzaville, Congo. MG

Very funny - particularly from a perspective of over here. The video Claude referenced has gone now. MG

I didn't realise Von had a "Chicago" sound. I always assumed he had a very individual, highly penetrating, sound and that there wasn't a bunch of other Chicago sax players with a similar approach. Looking for some hints, here; I have much to learn about Chicago stuff. MG

Yes - lovely day yesterday. Took a walk into Tonyrefail and wore my padded jacket, as it's been so cold lately. Boy, was I sweating when I got home! MG