The Magnificent Goldberg

Oh well... It WAS only a B side. The A side was the uptempo 'Fire', which was OK. MG

Yes, wholly agreed. Felix del Rosario and La Negra are not doing any more the same stuff than Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane - but just as MUCH the same sort of stuff. But the alternatives to 'Jazz' and 'Latin Music' are each dozens and dozens of genres and drawing definite lines between them also seems to me counterproductive, (or productive of pointless argument), particularly as influences spread widely. But I can live with genres, so long as it's understood that they're merely intended to let people know the general direction of what you're thinking about. And this applies pretty precisely to 'African Music', too, though sometimes there are very significant cultural differences between different kinds of music (eg Mbaqanga and Mbalax). MG

Blossom Dearie Cherry Wainer Footfruit

I think Mike Weil, who knows more about this than I do, would say nothing we've talked about in this thread is Salsa Don't let that stop you, though. MG

Can't say Jiminez scorches me as much as some of the singers from the Dolminican Republic in the 70s/80s. Try finding some Joseito Mateo, (supposedly the real king of Merengue), Frank Cruz (singer with Felix del Rosario - who's thought of as the king), and Cuco Valoy. Plenty of del Rosario and Valoy available on downloads from Amazon. Band is fine, but not exceptional. Try looking for Hermanos Aranga (USA, contemporary). MG

Ronald Reagan Gil Scott-Heron Stephen Crane

Did she sing 'Insane asylum'? MG

Andy Amos Amos Brearly

You've got the tune right, Bill. And you're also right about it not being Randy playing it. MG

Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel Foxy Brown

Interesting guy. I think I first heard him with Jimmy Witherspoon, on 'Blues around the clock' in '64. Just to note that the Hayes & Laughton gospel music discography (1943-1969), only owns up to Herbie having recorded gospel music with the Clefs of Calvary and the Gate City Singers - all of that stuff on TruSound, produced by Ozzie Cadena. MG

Quite right, Bill, it's Camille Howard. I've been wanting to get that one in for years. MG

Coupé Cloué (Cut and Nail - Henri Gesner - Haitian footballer & singer/guitarist/bandleader) Jacques Clousseau David Niven

Gotta say, I don't listen to ANY country music any more (since the sixties). So I'm not in the overlapping bit MG

They seem to go everywhere. Always think of Mosaic first. Perhaps an e-mail to them... MG

Happy Birthday, Dan. MG

Hurricane Higgins Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson Alan Breeze

Yeah, I wrote to Mosaic some years ago, proposing a Caravans set of United and Savoy material (Savoy bought up all the United gospel material and left the secular stuff for others - Delmark?), but they never responded. So many superstars in that group... But I doubt if Malaco would have leased the stuff anyway. Their output is MUCH less than fifteen-twenty years ago now. Rev James Cleveland is another Savoy artist whose work merits a set. A lot of his albums are still available and some as downloads on Amazon. MG

People who can turn a profit can do that. Sonny Stitt didn't have a recording contract from the early mid-fifties until he died. And made more albums for which he was PAID than just about any other jazzman. Even earlier, Rev J M Gates' manager wouldn't let him sign a contract, so he recorded for practically every company around in the 1920s. I do hope the alliance between Mosaic and Savoy Jazz indicates that Muse material owned by Savoy might be a possibility for Mosaic box treatment. MG

Ignacio Mieres Ignacio Camacho Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Right, thanks Jim, I didn't look it up. MG

Yeah, now you've mentioned it was a prefix, I can get it. The VDJs weren't a forerunner to OJCs, however. OJC was started in the early seventies; can't be sure whether Prestige was still owned by Bob Weinstock then, but maybe, 'cos the early issues were all, as I recollect, Prestige items. There couldn't have been any VJD CDs as early as that. OK, to the point. The Lord discography, though no one would say it's exhaustive, doesn't list any VJD issues of Jug's albums. MG

Ida Lupino Lupino Lane The Alley Cats

I think it does depend on who you listen to most. I can usually, if not invariably, identify by sound Willis Jackson, Jug, Jaws, Houston Person, Stan Turrentine, Ben Webster, Illinois, Don Wilkerson, David Newman, Arnett Cobb, Booker Ervin, Clifford Scott, Eddie Chamblee, Harold Vick, Sonny Stitt (though by his flow, not his sound, I think), Ike Quebec, King Curtis, Pharoah Sanders, Plas Johnson and Teddy Edwards. Other well known people less often, though sometimes or even often I can get lucky with Coleperson Hawkins, Buddy Tate and a few others. But those are mostly people I listen to a hell of a lot more than the GREAT tenor players (except Booker Ervin, who possibly has THE most distinctive sound and whom I listen to a bit). MG

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