The Magnificent Goldberg

Damascus - Les McCann MG

Does "Alexandria, Virginia" by Bill Jennings count? Tune from Rangoon - Martin Denny MG

And Everest? MG

Ah, I was just going to put in "New Delhi". Here are a few others Song of India - Eddie Chamblee Marrakesh blues - Randy Weston Nights in Medina - Randy Weston Nights in Zeralda - Manu Dibango (I don't know where Zeralda is, but it's NOT in Cameroun) Sudan - Idris Muhammad By the Red Sea - Idris Muhammad Morroco - Lynn Hope Black Nile - Wayne Shorter Upper and Lower Egypt - Pharoah Sanders Medina - Bobby Hutcherson Cold Turkey - Ray Bryant Cold Turkey - James Booker (a different one) China gates - Sun Ra Ethiopian knights - Donald Byrd (near the Middle East ) Calcutta cutie - Horace Sliver Tokyo - Kankawa Nightlife in Tokyo - Harold Mabern Israel - Nat Adderley MG

The Tokyo blues - Sliver Midnight in Moscow - Kenny Ball Hong Kong blues - Hoagy Tokyo express - Red Holloway MG

There's often nothing better, or funnier, than a joke in extremely bad taste. MG

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Interesting. This is not meat and potatos for me, though I'm well aware of the significance of these recordings, and have a few on a cheapo comp. One of the things the cheapo does for me is give me a cross section of Basie from that period - crap, interesting stuff and music to blow you away - and this is good. Would this compilation be too one-sided, I ask myself. MG

As a member of the elite, you are allowed to stay here: But it's not free, even for members of the Elite, because there's this singer hanging about. MG

Art Farmer/Benny Golson, with Curtis Fuller - Back to the city - Contemporary Teddy Edwards - Teddy's ready - Contemporary (Fantasy pressing) Hank Mobley/Cedar Walton - Breakthrough - Cobblestone (Muse reissue) MG

I recall mentioning this in the Clifford Scott thread I think. Also Andy Ennis, who is on the Bill Doggett album "Wow!" - he takes the solo on "Booty butt". I didn't realise you could get those two on one CD. May consider upgrading my LPs. MG

Don't forget - get the Hampton, Parlan and Turrentine boxes soon. MG

That's about the mark. Of course, I have forked out Police-level money when the gig's been in London. But that takes into account the train fare and a cheapo overnight in the Hotel California (I kid you not). And there are very, very, few musicians I'd do that for - Les McCann was the most recent. MG

But that's the selling point, fans of bands like The Police & Genesis don't really have alot of contemporary options if that's the type of music they love. Bands from the 70's & 80's will continue to sell for years to come. I guess I'm comparing it to the package shows that were going around here a few years ago (8-10 years ago, I'd say), with bands like the Searchers, the Swinging Blue Jeans, Mud and other such sixties/seventies bands/singers, which, if you were nostalgic enough enough, you could get into for a tenner ($20). I can readily understand paying small change to see that kind of thing. Indeed, it's the sort of money I've paid to see Reuben Wilson, Bobby Bland, Pee Wee Ellis & etc, when they've turned up locally. MG

(And, yes, I've seen it!) MG

Joe Morris George Freeman Johnny Griffin

I've posted a link to this thread on the Blindman's Blues Forum, where there are several serious collectors who may be interested. http://blindman.forumhoster.com/index.php?showtopic=22974 MG

Well, I doubt if stuff recorded by firms like Specialty, Peacock or Chess, for example, can be what this project is interested in. Those firms, and some others, all ended up in the hands of other companies - generally because they were interested in the other stuff that had been recorded by the original companies - and if owned by Universal or Concord, can't be regarded as lost. Even so, what of artists like the Cherebin Gospel Singers, the Stripes of Glory, Ralph Skipper (inc in my BFT), or Little Sammy Stevens and the Gospel Organ (and what I wouldn't pay for that fabulous single!), who each made only one 45 for Peacock/Songbird and which are somewhere in the Universal vaults. Isn't it true to say that material is, to all intents and purposes, lost? (Even though I don't think that is the focus of the project.) But there have always been lots of labels specialising in Gospel, or which did little of any interest apart from Gospel, that no one would have thought of buying. And those labels just disappear into the ether. Who owns the masters of small labels like Missouri? Or Colt? Or much larger ones like Bibletone, which issued hundreds of Gospel and Sacred (and some Classical) recordings between 1945 and 1958? Or Tennessee/Republic, which issued hundreds of singles (inc R&B & C&W) between 1950 and 1956? I have a strong feeling, seeing their entry in the ARLD dating guide, that there may have been more Bibletone issues than Specialty Gospel singles. Whether any of it is any good, I can't say - I've never come across any. But I can't see a company lasting 13 years making nothing but crappy Gospel and Sacred recordings; there must have been some good stuff in there. MG

Ginger Rodgers Fred Astaire The Five Stairsteps

It seems quite extraordinary to me that such huge numbers of people are prepared to pay these prices to see old geezers like those doing essentially what they were doing thirty-odd years ago. MG

The Skatalites - Return of the big guns - Island MG

Well, I suspect there may be a lot of stuff that never came out on LPs (or even that did) from the sixties that is "lost" to the extent that it doesn't and, but for this project never would, exist in digital form. Sure, collectors have got this stuff - Hayes & Laughton probably know (or knew) who. But it's not much good if it can't be generally accessed. MG

But a guy whose nickname was Justix? MG

I see - Universal in Japan are reissuing the same old stuff but this time with a difference - higher prices! Concord lures! MG

Who's prepared to take bets on whose side he is on? MG