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The Magnificent Goldberg

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  1. Abdul Tee-Jay S E Rogie Koo Nimo (All Palm Wine Guitarists)
  2. The problem is that choosing a second favorite genre does not in anyway imply "closing ears to a broad spectrum of music". I didn't realise "favourite" was what you meant by "important". I couldn't chose a second favourite genre any more than I could choose a first favourite genre. All I can do is say that I've got more Jazz albums than Mbalax albums; more Mbalax than Gospel, & etc. Largely a function of availability and price. But I don't buy all the Jazz albums I come across; I DO buy all the Mbalax albums I come across. So, if there were more Mbalax albums easily available and if there were fewer Jazz albums around, Mbalax might be more important than Jazz in my collection. MG
  3. If you'd heard Greer's Sittin' in with version of "Rockin' with Big John", you'd know that polish isn't the issue. Being completely at ease, relaxed, comfortable, yet preaching the blues at the same time, is. Er... listening to music IS vicarious; particularly listening to foreign music. MG
  4. Jimmy McGriff - Countdown - Milestone orig Jimmy McGriff - City lights - JAM orig Jimmy McGriff - Black & blues - Groove Merchant, South African pressing Jimmy McGriff - At the Apollo - Collectables MG
  5. Clifton Webb Jack Webb Bud Powell
  6. Very nice. Here's another Aussie set of responses. MG
  7. Gardening and DIY TV programmes over here are full of jazz backgrounds. My wife watches them and I had to stop and watch when in one programme there were Grant Green's "Selma march", Jimmy Smith's "Back at the Chicken Shack" and Nat Adderely's "Work song". All in one programme! A few years ago, there was a beautiful TV ad for Renault Clio featuring Jimmy Smith's "Organ grinder swing", with a hammer (or was it a Renult?) smashing a huge pane of glass exactly in time with Grady Tate's cymbal, propelling JOS into the stratosphere! I've tried unsuccessfully to find that on Utube, because it's brilliant! MG
  8. I think in English most of the time, but when I'm planning a trip to Paris or Africa, I tend to practice by thinking in French - as also when I'm there. MG
  9. I interpreted the question as about quantity, not about how much you like various kinds of music. It seems silly to me to say that I prefer, for example, Mbalax to Mbaqanga. But it also seems silly to me not to distinguish between them (and there are practical reasons for doing so, anyway). So with me, Mbalax is followed by Gospel, Djeliya, R&B, Soul/Funk/Disco and Ska/Reggae. And I voted "Something else", of course. But this says something more about price and availability than about my taste. Mbalax and Djeliya albums are very cheap in West Africa and Paris; so when I visit, I buy a lot. MG
  10. Richard Wess Frank Wess Wes Montgomery
  11. I think you've got a point, Steve, though I've only listened to the CD once. But comparing the RCA Victor version of "Rockin' with Big John" with my memories of the version on Sittin' in with, as George Clinton said, "No compute". My imediate reaction was disappointment that the first version hadn't been included, even though it's nit-picking. But it's nonetheless true that BJG was a hell of a player and this CD does him justice. I do have a tendencey to write off the major companies when it comes to making really greasy music but I shouldn't forget that it was RCA Victor who recorded Piano Red, and then it was OkeH who recorded Dr Feelgood & the Interns". MG
  12. I can't think of anyone meeting that description. MG
  13. Wayne Shorter Shorty Baker Too Short
  14. I think it's a fortuitously poor sample. MG
  15. Both. Every time I blinked, it would go the other way. Er... MG
  16. Jacques Courcil Jacques Denjean Jack the Ripper
  17. Better get the Mosaic before it goes... MG
  18. One of my favourites, along with "Christmas with Etta Jones" and "Christmas with Houston Person & friends". They were very good at Christmas music. MG
  19. I've been reading that. It's very funny. Not wholly accurate in some places, but usually near enough. MG
  20. Well done Aggie. Two nations divided by a common language. MG
  21. Nilsson (Schmilson) (don't know how to spell it) Fred Neil John Neil
  22. On the related subject of the proportion of jazz musicians on R&B recordings from the post-war period, here's a list of sidemen on a Cousin Joe boxed set, covering 1945-1955, that I got last year. Hot Lips Page, tp Dick Vance, tp Leonard Hawkins, tp Shad Collins, tp Thomas Jefferson, tp Lemon Boler, tp (who?) Dickie Wells, tb Tyree Glenn, tb Tony Scott, cl Mezz Mezzrow, cl Sidney Bechet, sops Pete Brown, as Earl Bostic, as Joe Harris, as Ray Abrams, ts John Hardee, ts Al Sears, ts Lee Allen, ts Clarence Hall, ts Herb Hardesty, ts Sam Butera, ts Harry Carney, bars Sam Price, p Leonard Feather, p Kenny Watts, p Ernie Washington, p Billy Kyle, p George Parker, p Hank Jones, p Paul Gayten, p Steve Henderson, p Salvador Doucette, p Danny Barker, g Billy Butler, g Jimmy Shirley, g Al "Buck" Casey, g Ernest McLean, g Edgar Blanchard, g Lloyd Trotman, b Leonard Gaskin, b Pops Foster, b Frank Fields, b Warren Stanley, b Al Matthews, b Jimmy Jones, b Percy Joell, b Big Sid Catlett, d J C Heard, d Arthur Herbert, d Eddie Nicholson, d Robert Green, d Woodie Nichols, d Kenny Clarke, d Dorothea Smith, d Alonzo Stewart, d Earl Palmer, d Of course, Cousin Joe was from New Orleans, and had played jazz since the early thirties, which explains the presence of so many New Orleans musicians on his records. (There are also a few unknowns spattering his discography.) But I don't think it was all that uncommon for jazz musicians to play on R&B records from the period. Many of the top R&B artists had a jazz background. Louis Jordan, Jimmy Witherspoon and Wynonie Harris are good, but not exceptional examples. Others, from the West Coast, who'd played in Texas and other western Territory bands included Roy Milton, Charles Brown, Ivory Joe Hunter, Amos Milburn, Johnny Otis and Joe Liggins. MG Oh yes, one might also mention that, back in Chicago, Red Holloway and Harold Ashby were in the Otis Rush band, during his Cobra period. Eddie Chamblee and Stanley Turrentine were with Lowell Fulson, and so on.
  23. Got this today! Together with Bull Moose Jackson's "Bad Man Jackson", on Proper. (Greer was Jackson's replacement in the Lucky Millinder band, and they two CDs were both in Spillers when I went in, so how could I leave the Jackson behind? The Greer, as Jim said, is very, very well recorded, particularly when put up against the Jackson King material. My only disappointment with the Greer is that it's all RCA Victor/Groove material - so his first recording for Bob Shad's Sittin' in with label of "Rockin' with Big John" isn't included. That is so much more laid back and satisfying than the RCA Victor one - a true classic that's missing. But this is definitely picking nits. MG
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