The Magnificent Goldberg

My landlady's cat did it to a Dakota Staton LP in 1962. Still haven't replaced it... MG

Picked this up in Cardiff this afternoon. Have to admit, it was the sleeve that attracted my attention. But also the fact that it's a mid fifties (actually 1955) Atlantic album and that as well as singing, Mooney played the Hammond organ on it. This is very nice stuff indeed. Mooney is kind of a Nat Cole singer, but not an imitator, and perhaps an influence on Mel Torme, I guess (he got started in the late 1920s). He started playing organ in the late '40s. His main influences were Fats Waller and Milt Buckner. There's a very obvious Buckner influence in this album. Apparently he died in 1975. Anyone else got any interest in this? MG

I like the three LPs he did after getting back out of jail in '69- Brother Jug, The boss is back and the black Cat (my fave) but I've not heard this one. How does it compare? http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:jcftxqyaldje That's a pretty fair review, though how they manage to get a Michel Legrand song composed for the biopic into the Billie Holiday repertoire is a miracle of ignorance! MG

Most Trips were reissues. But there are a few Willis Jacksons, a Randy Weston and this, that I'm pretty sure were never out before. No doubt there were others. The sleeves say the label was a division of Springboard Int. MG

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I like the three LPs he did after getting back out of jail in '69- Brother Jug, The boss is back and the black Cat (my fave) but I've not heard this one. How does it compare? It's very good indeed. Some tracks are absolute blasters - eg the title track. It's included in the twofer "Fine and mellow". The other LP in the CD isn't so good, though it did have its moments, such as "Tin shack out back". But it's also got a couple of Jug's worst cuts ever. Overall, there's more positive than negative on the CD - and some of the positive is so damn good... MG

You gotta keep in mind that time in the JazzCave moves at a veeeeeeeeeeeeery slow pace... Yeah. It's also true that you can trace back from Gerald Allbright to Grover Washington Jr to King Curtis (and then Big Jay McNeely, Illinois Jacquet, Lester Young) - but... If Mosaic Contemporary actually thought about the possibilities, they might see that some of these contemporary musicians, upon whom much scorn is poured, can actually play, but don't make all that much money when they do. Therefore they don't do it all that often. So giving them an opportunity to do so might make some money for Mosaic and might be welcome to the musicians (even though they're contracted elsewhere - as James Brown was, but still made jazz albums for Smash). MG

The article doesn't come up when I try to access it. But from the title, it seems that what used to amaze me is normal behaviour. I was amazed that senior people, earning about $200,000 a year, would fiddle their travel claims for the sake of a grand or so, and risk losing everything! And some of them did lose everything! Am I just extremely risk-averse? MG

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What King Curtis is that, Brad? It'd be a damn sight more interesting than what's on the website. MG it's 'Live At Fillmore West' Oh shit! I've found it on Jim's link and it's got all those extra tracks... OK - that is a worthwhile reissue. But contemporary? No more contemporary than Teddy Edwards' "Heart & soul" - well, not MUCH more. MG

I didn't know that. I had the one on Trip. Was that the abridged version? MG

Strange that wasn't issued on OJC. It does look nice. Not for $38, though. MG

"Bar wars" is the best album Gator ever made - and one of the greatest Soul Jazz albums by anyone - it has been issued on CD twice, but deleted now. "Y'understand me" was recorded by Black & Blue and is out in France on CD with extra trax ("Definitive B&B sessions" series). Brill! "Lockin' horns" has one side of Gator and one of Von Freeman playing with Gator's band (the third track is a tenor battle). Excellent! Houston Person's "Wildflower" and "The nearness of you" are his best late seventies albums. "Wildflower" was reissued on CD but deleted now. There's very little bad stuff here. The trick is to know what's available on CD - quite a few are. See the "Legends of Acid Jazz" thread. And look at the OJC catalogue. I see he's added new LPs since yesterday... MG

Grassella Oliphant - The grass roots - Atlantic (UK) stereo MG

I've got a couple like this - African ones - they came new like that. I'll try them on the PC. MG

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Still haven't got round to Dick. At present, rereading Harry Turtledove's Darkness series, since I just got the final volume (a bit tardily). MG

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IQ tests are very questionable. Over here, they are generally perceived to be loaded (inadvertently) in a way that results in middle and upper class kids doing better than those from poorer backgrounds. That may well have some kind of impact on this type of analysis. I'm heavily unconvinced. MG

This gets my vote as "post of the year"! MG

What King Curtis is that, Brad? It'd be a damn sight more interesting than what's on the website. MG

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