The Magnificent Goldberg

I haven't heard the record...just LOVED the description!!! That painted an aural picture I can't get outta my mind! All that said, I'm a HUGE Gloria Coleman fan. Definately going to get the CD. Number one...she hasn't recorded all that much, especially as a leader. And secondly, it's on Pete Fallico's label and he's a bad cat for making this record and deserves the support! I agree; both to your assessment of the description and to all the rest. I don't care what the record's like, really. Hoping it will turn up this lunchtime. MG

I was listening to a lot of swing band stuff yesterday, including a 3 disc set of Ellington's 1940-1942 Victor material, which I hadn't listened to for about a year. I've got to say, having read Larry's book in between times makes a difference! Thanks Larry. MG

That was really nice, David -- and I mean nicely done as well as generous. "Jazz a la Kart," though -- eek! On the other hand, there is a 1941 Basie recording "Feather Merchant" (a very good one IIRC, comp. by Jimmy Mundy) that was meant to be a play on Leonard Feather's name (it also was a pre-existing slang term for someone who likes to sleep a lot). Please pardon my penchant for terrible puns (and that one was conscious, as opposed to the many that tumble out of my mouth without thinking), not to mention jests--any possible second volume of your superlative criticism would be worthy of a far better title. Re: "Feather Merchant" (which I've not heard), I'm a bit groggy now from combined cold/afternoon nap/insufficient caffeine, but I think there were a # of instrumentals from the 1940s/50s era that had punning titles along those lines...especially odes to DJs, a topic I once covered on a Night Lights show after Oscar Treadwell passed away. Another one was Sir Charles Thompson's handsome "Robbins' Nest," for DJ Fred Robbins. That post-Lester 1941 edition of the Basie Band (with Don Byas on tenor) was so fine -- "Harvard Blues," "Fiesta in Blue," "Down Down Down," "Feather Merchant" et al. BTW, has there ever been much examination of Jimmy Mundy's work? "Feather Merchant" and "Fiesta in Blue" are both his. Born 1907, died 1983, Mundy wrote a lot of fine stuff for a lot of bands (Goodman, Hines, Basie, James, et al.), but I don't have a good sense of what it all amounts to, probably because he mostly wrote for other people (he briefly had his own band), and I think he did so for a rather long time. Among his compositions is "Travelin' Light." I see now that Schuller refers positively to Mundy in many places in "The Swing Era," but I'd still like to see a comprehensive estimate of his work and style. Mundy wrote the arrangements for Illinois Jacquet's "Soul explosion" - his greatest album in my view - and "Sonny Stitt & the big brass". MG

Were any of those Zorn gigs recorded? MG

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By the time this was issued in the US they stopped importing the nasty Pathe pressings and manufactured them at Wakefield, the outfit that I used when I had a choice. Great Rugby League team they have there. MG

Probably 'Customer Support Manager' Surely that would be Chuck MG

Finishing up a swing bands day with Erskine Hawkins - Vol 3 1941-1946 - RCA France MG

Still working. Hope that's cracked it, Jim. MG

He lived to a good age! Wel, no one gets out of it alive. RIP and thanks for many enjoyable films. MG

I think that's true of many of us. I think only women grow up. MG and then only some of us do, MG! How kind! My wife wouldn't be so kind. MG

Seems to be working... cross fingers. MG

Thanks folks - putting that Jordan into an Amazon UK order later today. MG

Thanks. I thought Sabir Mateen was from thereabouts. MG

I think that's true of many of us. I think only women grow up. MG

Looks like a Chicago gig... Has she moved from Philadelphia? MG

Never heard of this!!!! Anyone know anything about it? MG

I have to agree with two caveats. I love Braith and this is REALLY quirky. If youre into Braith, this goes to #1. The Clifford Jordan I've never heard. I also didn't know it was easily available. Where has it been reissued. please? MG

Jimmie Lunceford - Life is fine (1935-1945) - Quadromania lined up next Duke Ellington - Sir Duke (1940-1942) - Sugarbeat ( ) MG

Cor! I really love that marble floor, Conrad! MG

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Interesting thanks, Guy. What the article doesn't talk about is the continual need for revision in the economic and legal relationships between different interests. It seems to me that disconnects between those needs and action have some impact - certainly an embuggerance factor in trying to measure what's going on. MG

Thanks for that hint Aggie. Let's see. MG Yes, it works. Brill.

Ernie Andrews - Soul proprietor - Dot Don Patterson - Holiday soul - Prestige Bobby Timmons - Holiday soul - Prestige Bobby Forrester - The organist - Dobre And many more! MG

Doesn't seem likely if the stuff remains unissued, as it usually does, by the official label. The reissues are normally priced at what the market will bear and that probably means a fairly hefty profit margin, which enables discounting. MG