The Magnificent Goldberg

C'mon MG, you know you NEED that GG one! Nope - I WANT it - but not that badly. And there's postage on top... MG

I hope Rooster is going to tell us what happened in a day or so... MG

Twennynine fuckin dollars!!!!!! I'll stick Spillers Records, the world's oldest record shop, Ts, for about half that!!!! MG

It isn't available in my "Edit profile information" thing. Do I need to do lots more gratuitous posts? MG seems you need 10'000, yes... By the looks of it. MG

Ask yourself: what would you rather do, drown in beer or have your head cut off? I'd go for the beer...may do that right now... Do slugs get euphoric? If we knew they did, then drowning in beer might be better than a quick death. Has anyone measured drunkenness in slugs? MG

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Alex Deutsch George Garzone Jamaaldeen Tacuma

Is beer more humane than cutting their heads off? MG

Teddy Brannon Ray Abrams Paul Gayten

My wife (the gardener around here) goes out every evening about this time (dusk) killing slugs. She stays out until she's got 20. This evening, she just came in and reported that she'd only found 17! She must be winning! What do you do about slugs in the garden? MG

Teddy Edwards - Heart & soul - Contemporary orig (stereo) Don Patterson - Why not - Muse orig next Billy Larkin & the Delegates - Ain't that a groove - World Pacific orig (stereo) MG

Nor I. But I'm happy with almost anything (except a screwed up tape). Easy to please is best. MG

Over the years, I bought over 300 albums from Tower, which makes it the fourth most important source of my collection. I hope he makes it - and that he opens one up here! MG

A very good one, Kevin!!!! MG

Ray Charles - My kind of jazz - Tangerine orig stereo have to follow up with Ray Charles - Genius + soul = jazz - HMV Mono MG

Another great one I forgot about - I love it that it's an economics text book on his lap... MG

I've always been fond of the Black Druid thing... That LP is the shizznit. It's the Blu Blax Bland! MG

Looks like piano hammers. That's what I thought. But it's so nicely curved, I thought it had to be something else. MG

Blanche Calloway Blondie Chalky White

Milli Vanilli Millie Small Tiny Parham

This is good to hear. I only bought my first Anderson album last year. MG

I want the Milburn, please! MG

1 This sounds African, but I can’t identify what language it is. Doesn’t really have a South African feel to it. A blues-like song, sung by a woman with an interesting voice. Sounds like a forties recording. 2 Swing band, but not swing era – the drummer isn’t using the bass drum much. Pretty good Hawkins-like tenor solo. My guess, having heard the next track, is that the drummer is the same man, and that would make this one South African, too. But this doesn’t sound at all South African. 3 This sounds authentically South African. A post-war swing band, I guess. Very nice indeed. 4 I know this tune; Dixieland material but can’t put a title to it. Kwela flute puts this into South Africa again. Very interesting. Like the girl’s voice. 5 More from SA. Guitar with someone tap-dancing on a floorboard As the tune develops, the rhythm actually begins to sound too complex for SA, but the feel is still SA. Very wild bit of guitar playing at the end! 6 More from SA. Guitar intro leading to SA band. Sounds like a sixties recording. Quite a lot of wow on the tape, but the alto player is all over his instrument. I think this guy isn’t Kippie, though he does have a similar sound. Perhaps it’s earlier than the material I’ve heard. The sound my be defeating me. Tenor player is also all over his sax. Slightly easier to date the tenor player from Joe Henderson influences. Late sixties early seventies, I’d guess. Very exciting stuff, this. I wonder if the tenor player is Ricky Ford but, if so, I’d expect some Abdullah Ibrahim piano, but there isn’t any. Good guitarist, though. Dunno who these guys are, but it’s damn good! 7 Terrible sound. Another SA band, live. I get a strong Mongezi Feza feeling about the trumpet player, though the sound makes it hard to be positive (and I also haven’t heard a great deal by him). Is the tenor player Basil “Mannenberg” Coetzee? I’m waiting for the piano player… No piano player. The ensemble work is WILD! The impact of the band as a whole must be something like the people in KC experienced hearing the Basie band in the thirties. 8 Another live job from SA. OK, that’s Abdullah on piano. A tune I don’t know (I don’t think I know). I think the alto player may be Robbie Jansen – he certainly plays as frantically as Robbie. Trumpet player spitting FIRE! Who, I don’t know. The trombonist reminds me of the guy who played with Charles Earland sometimes, Clifford Adams, I think. But it CAN’T be him. 9 More Abdullah live. As it starts, I think I recognise elements of the tune; late eighties vintage, I feel. Something from “Water from an ancient well”, perhaps. He had Cecil McBee with him in those days, and this could be him on bass. This is very exciting for a piano/bass duet! Oh, Abdullah’s bringing in bits of other tunes, now. Kind of like a greatest hits medley! “Can they keep up this for another ten minutes?” I ask myself. Actually, though I love it, I’ve had enough after ten minutes. Different if you were there, of course. Two white missionaries tied up in hut in Africa. “The drums! The drums! I can’t stand the drums!” “Don’t worry white man. You’re all right so long as the drums are playing. It’s when they stop, you should worry.” “What happens when they stop?” “Bass solo.” OK, here comes, I suspect, Carlos Ward on flute. A bit different to his work with the ‘70s Funk band Brick! (Course, it could be John Stubblefield.) Oh yes, yet another of Abdullah’s greatest hits incorporated! Glad I didn’t stop listening at ten minutes! 10 More live Abdullah. The long intro sounds like it’s going to be one of his old tunes. Oh yes, I do know the tune. Can’t think of the title at present. Carlos Ward on alto, I think. I like the shouts of encouragement from, I guess Abdullah. I always thought Carlos absorbed the idiom very well. Can’t work out who the tenor player would be – candidates are Ricky Ford, John Stubblefield and Basil Coetzee. Probably Stubblefield. But sometimes it does sound like Basil. Yes, I think it’s Basil. Which puts this gig into the early nineties. 11 Another SA band. Very prominent bass player. I think I hear Abdullah’s shouts again, though he’s not doing much on the piano. And the band sounds South African, not American. I’ll be very interested to see who this is. Well, another delightful bunch of stuff, Ubu! Thanks very much! MG

Well, you got one fan here. Also for the bonus disc, which I'm going to post about in a mo. MG

What IS that thing called, (love)? MG The image says it all! Great cover by Gill Hadasway to a splendid good-humored album by Jackie and Roy with backing from Barney Kessel, Red Mitchell and Shelly Manne. I meant, what's the thing the feet are standing beside? MG