The Magnificent Goldberg

Aha! A clue! MG

Have a very good day! And thanks for the many photographs with which you've enlivened the board, and enriched us all. MG

Yeah, porcy - I should have known that from experience. Combine that with the Fact that the Bristol store is the only one in Western England and the effect of the 21% sale and a day of madness is a dead cert. Habitat used to be the same in the seventies. MG Back in those days we weren't an highly industrialized country yet, fortunately Only a highly industrialised country can produce Ferraris and Maseratis, and the drivers to run them past the post first! MG

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Yeah, porcy - I should have known that from experience. Combine that with the Fact that the Bristol store is the only one in Western England and the effect of the 21% sale and a day of madness is a dead cert. Habitat used to be the same in the seventies. MG

He's there as the ultimate deterrent. "Last night and night before Twenty-four robbers at my door I got up and let 'em in Hit 'em on the head with a rollin' pin" (Or bottle of gin, as per Fats Waller, but I don't know that Chef is a gin man.) MG

Yes, I bought a few of his albums in the early/mid sixties - by 1970, poverty had forced me to flog them all, one of those decisions I don't regret. MG

Thanks to everyone. I've really found it difficult to sort out Hopkins - he recorded so much and there are fifty million compilations from unknown sources out there. I'll see if I can get the Aladdin set and then go for some of the Ace Modern material. Always wanted to get into him - he was a big influence on Melvin Sparks. MG

I'm not familiar with Miles Davis' work, so I can't comment to the point. But I have the 3 Cannonball albums you mention, and funnily enough have listened to them all in the last few weeks, and I'd say that, to me, Cannonball's music didn't really change much between the band's early work on Riverside (eg "In San Francisco", "Dirty blues", "Lighthouse") and this material (or "Country preacher" or "Walk tall"). I expect I'm listening from a different perspective, so I'll be interested to see what others say about this. MG

I suspect an empty number. Those cuts were from two sessions - eventually released as "In memory of" and "Mr Natural". The same thing seems to have happened with Hank Mobley's two sessions that were eventually released as "A slice of the top" and "Straight no filter". Originally, "A slice of the top", "Hank's other bag" and "There's a lull in my life" were scheduled to be issued on 4241 with the three tracks done at the "Straight no filter" session. The Andrew Hill "One for one" session (4233) was also not issued at the time and eventually appeared under Sam Rivers' name as "Involution". Jackie McLean's "Jacknife" (4223) and "High frequency" (4236) also failed to appear and were eventually issued on a twofer in the late seventies. These numbers all were around the time of the sale to Liberty. Blue Notes always took a long time between recording and issue (sometimes a very long time). The very interesting recent thread on track order mentions somewhere that Alfred Lion put a lot of thought into running order. And so, evidently, does Chuck Nessa. In a sense, I think you often can't title an album until you've got the running order sorted. But you put it in the schedule and give it a number, since you have to be a bit organised, even if you're making jazz records And some of the work in progress was dumped by Liberty. MG

Haven't got any Lightnin' Hopkins. Haven't heard any, as a matter of fact. Have a suspicion that the guy's just too rural to be of interest to me. Talk to me. MG

Ah, so it's OK for me to spend the next ten worrying about the BFT programming Though whether it'll make any discernable difference... MG

OK Guv. I'm glad to say that I now know better than to dismiss any suggestion of yours. MG

What lovely news to get up to in the morning! Congratulations to all of you. MG

I have an eighties LP reissue - German WB. I haven't played this for quite a little while. Daughter and grandson visiting most of today, so I'll line this up for tomorrow. MG Finally got around to this. I agree about the stereo separation - it's as if there's nowt in the middle; everything is coming out of one speaker or the other (this sounds silly). And it's also peculiar to hear Elvin's solo on Africa - one of his drums (the bass drum I think) seems to have been fed into the left channel, but the rest of the kit is in the right. My copy, I see from close examination of the writing in the runoff, is a DMM job, by WEA German in the eighties. So the position wasn't improved by then. I've got to say, though it's a bit peculiar, I don't object to it. There's nothing in the sleeve notes of my copy to say who recorded this or who produced it. I can't imagine RVG recording it like this. Could it be one of the Creed Taylor jobs, before he went to Verve? MG

Three tenor players this evening Stanley Turrentine - ZT's blues - BN DMM Maxwell Davis & his tenor sax - Aladdin (Official Denmark) John Coltrane - Africa/Brass - Impulse (WEA Germany) MG

Thanks to the help of Agustin, I've established that Concha Buika has another album coming out in Spain on 6 May!!!!! Now all I have to do is find somewhere to buy it! It's not on any Amazon yet. MG

Thanks very much for this Conrad - in particular for pointing out where some of these fabulous things aren't very typical of the bands' usual work - and also, where they are typical!!! There's a damn lot of work gone into this, it's clear. Thanks very much. MG

The big horn - The history of the honkin' and screamin' saxophone disc 3 - Boogie's the thing disc 4 - More bounce to the ounce Phew! MG

This was put out on LP way back when, and in 2000, Freshsound applied their business model to it: Big Joe comes out for "Shake Rattle and Roll" He's also on "Feelin' happy". A wonderful session. First Hamp Hawes I ever bought, back in '79. Sonny Criss' playing on "Shake rattle & roll" is just wonderful - the essence of everything - Rock & Roll, R&B, Jazz - all rolled into one. He should have been one of the most hugely popular jazz musicians of all time. MG

A few more hints from experienced hands - either producers or radio people - would be very welcome. I'm presently wrestling with the track order of a future BFT At the moment, I'm just trying to put myself in the position of someone hearing the stuff for the first time. But that's hard if you're familiar with the music yourself. MG

Is Charles Hampton the same guy as Riley Hampton, who did quite a bit of R&B arranging? MG

Yep. a few hundred blues/r&b/gospel/+ some jazz 45s stored in boxes in the garage. Me too - I keep mine on the second from top shelf of my main LP rack. MG

So did I - out into the back garden for a fag MG