The Magnificent Goldberg

A couple for Brother Ray as well, right? I'd forgotten, but you're right. "You are my sunshine" I think was one of them. Was "Don't set me free" another? MG

The jackets of the Mainstream gatefold were made of slim cardboard (like some of the BN gatefolds from the 60s and 70s) and did not endure rough treatment as often was the case for those vinyls. The Impulse gatefolds have withstood the time much better. Those were made of thickened cardboard. The Unipak US ones are as you say, Brownie - though my copy of the Dave Hubbard is pretty good still. The ones issued in UK by Pye (more conventional design) are a bit better, I think. Still not as good as the Impulse or Atlantic gatefolds. MG

GW was pretty good at writing orchestral accompaniments for vocalists. He did some superb backings for Sam Cooke in about '63 - including a great blues - "Cool train" - and probably the A side, "Frankie & Johnny". Wish I still had that single. MG Oh, and I had a Julie London album - "Feeling good" I think, with his arrangements.

I'd guess Cannonball leading the field. MG of course! i knew i was overlooking someone (besides the numbers i guessed were way to high i suppose...) Bet Paul Desmond would have been well up the list. MG

That's right. Authenticity is not racial, it's experiential. Sometimes it's hard for white musicians to get that experience. On his AAJ thread, which I know you've read SS, Pat Martino had some interesting experiences and observations to make regarding the period when he was playing with Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff. But for goodness sake, anyone who listens to him, Ronnie Cuber, Gene Ludwig and hundreds of others, knows that that experience is THERE and informing the music, just as it was with Gator, Brother Jack etc etc... MG

No time to read. See yer after dinner. MG

We used to have a couple of fishtanks when my daughter was young. The cat used to sit next to the tank and try to hex the fish out - but there was a lid on it But I'll swear the cat hexed the fish to death after a few years. Now we have three different coloured goldfish in the pond in the garden; and ten tadpoles my wife got from a friend a few weeks ago. Suddenly a frog appeared - NOT from the tadpoles, they're still just about tadpoles. MG

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I'd guess Cannonball leading the field. MG

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It's definitely a better brand for Hard Bop than anything anywhere. But it's not a better brand for Soul Jazz than Prestige. It's not a better brand for Soul than Stax. It's not a better brand for Gospel than Specialty. MG Maybe I wasn't clear. High-selling artists like Norah Jones, Van Morrison, and Al Green are obviously interested in releasing new music under the Blue Note brand. I don't think there's any such parallel interest in releasing new music under the Prestige, Stax or Specialty brands. Guy Ah, I see - do you think those people chose Blue Note or was it EMI who did the deciding? MG

It's more rational to think in terms of customers buying some shares in Mosaic, should EMI want to sell their 50%. MG

That's mostly true, though Fantasy have issued material like the first 2 Mar-Keys LPs and Albert King's first Stax LP, that I can mention off the top of my head. However, the big selling Stax material mostly came after 5/68 - Ike Hayes, Johnny Taylor, Staples, Soul Children, Little Milton, Albert King, Dramatics, Rance Allen. That's interesting - can you explain a bit more please? It's definitely a better brand for Hard Bop than anything anywhere. But it's not a better brand for Soul Jazz than Prestige. It's not a better brand for Soul than Stax. It's not a better brand for Gospel than Specialty. MG

That doesn't sound right to me - you're just comparing the jazz catalogue of Fantasy with BN. But Fantasy had Stax as well as CCR. Stax stuff will sell for as long as Hank Mobley stuff, but more. MG

No - I just wasn't convinced by Rupees MG

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Also in "Truckin' & trakin" - but there isn't a copy of the sleeve on the web. MG

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A friend sent me these bits from the UK Child Support Agency files recently: MG

Yes it is. Oh, and another I'm very keen on is Truckin' & Trakin' (another with David Newman) - Beehive (not reissued on CD) MG

Grover Washington Jr - Reed seed - Motown orig Bobby Timmons - Chicken & dumplin's - Transatlantic UK Jimmy McGriff - Fly dude - People UK Abdullah Ibrahim- African marketplace - ELektra Germany next Little Milton - L'age d'or de Chicago series - Vogue France MG

None are available at present. About 3hr28min playing time altogether. You'd think they'd make a good Mosaic select, wouldn't you? Particularly since MC fucked up the original CD reissues - forgot to include one track in the correct reissue and didn't discover another until later. MG The stray track on "After Hours"? What are the others again, the one with Jug, the one with Webster, and what's the fourth? A *great* select, I'd say! Groovin' with Jug Groove (with McCann & Webster) After hours Something special (with McCann & Clifford Scott) This CD also contains 1 track that was on the "Tell it like it is" LP that should have been included in "After hours" and 1 from the "Groove" session, that wasn't found until after the CD reissue of "Groove". MG

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