The Magnificent Goldberg

I see no information that would lead me to a correct conclusion about this album: no personnel; nothing to indicate where it was recorded, or why, or by whom. Do you have any details? System Krush have issued an apparently well-meaning statement " a fair-trade principle, focused on the preservation and promotion of traditional music from West Africa. By bringing this music to the world market", which doesn't incline me to buy their stuff. I'm greatly in favour of the exploitative model for record companies as their owners take care that the music they produce meets the needs of the community in which the artists live. Recordings made for Europeans don't make it, as far as I'm concerend. I see that Lobi Traore, whom I also like a lot, has made three albums for them. Again you can't see who's with him, where, when or why the album was made. This, however, was clearly made for a local audience. (The Bar Bozo album seems to me the equivalent of a Prestige album, compared to a Blue Note.) MG

Indeed. I like people with commercial affectations. Shows concern for the audience, as well as a potentially money-making gimmick. MG

Yeah, Willis Jackson's band with Frank Robinson, Pat Martino, Carl Wilson and Joe Hadrick (Yusef Ali) was definitely one of those. MG

Oh PIX please TTK. I'm gasping to see these! MG Interesting. Are they on different labels? Or is one a subsidiary of the other?

Ah! I'd better see if I can get this, then. MG Oh, is this only a concert? Not an album? MG

Breakfast in South Africa with Spokes Mashiyane - Sweet sax sweet flute - Quality 1962 Reggie Msomi, Spokes Mashiyane & Lemmy Special Mabaso - Top hits of the big three - New Sound 1962 Reggie Msomi - Soweto groovin' - Soul Jazz Pop 1976 Next Amagugu - Ubhek'uZulu - Skyline 1974 MG

He didn't need the walking stick. Like the turban and the Dr, it was a commercial affectation. MG

I love 'em both. Wish he'd done more, but he obviously could have, had he wished. So... MG

I saw Dr Lonnie in 2000 at the Brecon Jazz Festival, here. He's the only musician ever who got me so excited I couldn't help screaming. RIP. MG

Joy was a strange little label though. A budget subsidiary of President records, set up after President had got rights to Vee-Jay material. But I see the Vee-Jay version also has Buhaina on the sleeve. A compilation... Well, we all don't know as much as we think we know. MG

Lionel Hampton Big band - Clef 1955 Erskine Hawkins - Horizons du jazz no 17 - RCA Victor DCG-P - Diz delights - RCA Victor MG

Not so many using the SAME image though. I thought there'd be more than a couple of examples. MG

It's somewhere on the web as a DL. Amazon maybe. MG

There's a thread for covers from the same photo shoot, with those Hutcherson sleeves in it MG

Never HEARD of this guy, but what a personnel list! With breakfast, some real wake-up music Big Jay McNeely - Big Jay in 3D - Federal Amos Milburn - Just one more drink - Aladdin (Route 66) Erskine Hawkins - Swinging in Harlem - Vocalion (Tax) Now Stanley Turrentine - New time shuffle - BN Next Jimmy McGriff's greatest organ hits - Sue (UA GB - two more tracks than the US version) MG

Just finished Von Freeman - Doin' it right now - Atlantic 1972 Now Bill Harman - Focus - Muse 1984 next John Stubblefield - Midnight over Memphis - Denon 1979 MG

In 1979, Tchico Tchicaya, a well known Congolese singer, spent some time in Nigeria, and made five albums there for the Gabonese label Namaco ( a subsidiary of Decca West Africa) which were released in France on Sonafric - and only allowed himself to be photographed once. The first four are Sonafric issues, the last is a Namaco issue (but the Sonafric version is the same) - Here's the Sonafric version And the 45 version on Namaco Namaco was obviously staffed by professional cheapskates. MG

Just listening to these two Earl Hines and wig albums and thought it would be interesting to see if we could find a lot. MG

Surprised these haven't come up. Gene Ammons - Free again Maynard Parker - Midnight rider MG

No one's told me that. MG

Damn good question. MG

Breakfast with Prince Dixon & the Jackson Southernaires - Mind your own business - Hightone 1984 Delois Barrett Campbell & the Barrett Sisters - God so loved the world - Creed 1972 Now Donald Vails Choraleers - He promised a new life - Savoy 1984 Just starting Vince Guaraldi - Jazz impressions of Black Orpheus - Fantasy 1962 MG

Overdosing on Nat King Cole transcriptions this morning. (And until mid-afternoon - the two four disc sets work out at nine and a half hours!) The complete early transcriptions of the King Cole Trio 1938-41 - Vintage Jazz Classics The King Cole Trio The MacGregor years 1941-45 - Music and Arts MG MG

Juvenalia Turgidus, that Shtellar lumineshensh of the shilver shcreen, now known as The face on the cutting room floor - Most misshed hits - Mouth records, Eswatini edition MG

AH!!! I've been wondering when he'd bring out a new album. Oh, and Willie Jones III !!! Thanks for posting. MG PS Anyone know where this is available for download?