The Magnificent Goldberg

Lionel recorded some serious early '70s funk for Brunswick, which I heard in about '73/'74 and thought that I'd better get. But I didn't. MG

Lottavinyl Stanley Turrentine & Milt Jackson - Cherry - CTI UK Chester Thompson - Powerhouse - Black Jazz Illinois Jacquet - Genius at work - Black Lion Illinois Jacquet - Desert winds - Jazz Reactivation (UK reissue) Les McCann - Spanish onions - Pacific Jazz orig mono Les McCann - Doin' the shampoo at the Village Gate - Pacific Jazz orig mono Melvin Sparks - Sparkling MG

Thanks - I didn't know he'd played with ToP and Santana. Thought the only recording he'd made was "Powerhouse". MG

Mama Cass Elliot Gould Morton Gould

They're sour MG

Coincidentally, today I found two Ray Bryant LPs on Sue Records, in very nice condition, which I purchased. I THINK I have all the Sue albums. Only 1 on LP, though. Some of the Columbia material features the likes of Buddy Tate and in spite of titles like "Dancing the big twist" is really nice. MG What I found are: Groove House--Sue LP 1016 (possibly the heaviest vinyl I've ever owned) Cold Turkey--Sue LP 1032--"The Hit Single 'Shake a Lady' Included in this Album" it says on a sticker on the cover--Ray Bryant had a hit single? Little Susie part 4 - Signature (Bob Thiele's label) #12 R&B The Madison time pt 1 - Columbia #5 R&B, #30 pop Sack of woe - Columbia #22 R&B He also had two hit albums Gotta travel on - Cadet #5 R&B, #111 pop Slow freight - Cadet #18 R&B, #193 pop. MG

I think quite a few of the fifties Savoy jazz LPs were done at RVG's. Ozzie Cadena was the guy responsible, I think. He got RVG to do a number of gospel albums I understand. Perhaps Malaco would do an RVG series of the gospel material MG

My main bitch with Fantasy (otherwise a Fantastic company) was their very annoying habit of cutting tracks out of CD reissues. MG

Having about 20 of these tracks, I really want more! So much music; so little money MG

"Andre Preview" Ernie Wise Eric Morcambe

Coincidentally, today I found two Ray Bryant LPs on Sue Records, in very nice condition, which I purchased. I THINK I have all the Sue albums. Only 1 on LP, though. Some of the Columbia material features the likes of Buddy Tate and in spite of titles like "Dancing the big twist" is really nice. MG

Bobby Parker, too - now there's a blast from the past. I saw him live in the late '60s. Chess is where you should start with Guy, as Scott says. Also, he made a number of excellent recordings teamed with Junior Wells (and usually under Wells' name. "Hoodoo man blues" on Delmark is a great classic, as is "It's my life baby" on Vanguard. Sad to say, I don't have any blues recordings by Gatemouth; only a jazz album, with Paul Bryant and Plas Johnson which is wonderful. MG

If she's doing the cooking and (somehow) preventing you from jogging 20 km a day MG

Not a chance, believe me! With rare exceptions, secondhand CDs at PJC start at €12 Phew! Long time since I was there! MG

I believe these are two different Chester Thompsons. One is a drummer, the other an organist, who made the "Powerhouse" album. Haven't played it in a while. Thanks for the reminder. It's great! MG

The World's Shortest Fairy Tale... Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "NO!" And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, camping, drank martinis, always had a clean house, never had to cook, did whatever the hell she wanted, never argued, didn't get fat, travelled more, had many lovers, didn't save money, and had all the hot water to herself. She went to the theatre, never watched sports, never wore fricken lacy lingerie that went up her ass, had high self esteem, never cried or yelled, felt and looked fabulous in sweat pants! THE END

Marvin Stamm Marvin Rainwater Marvin, the Paranoid Android

Grew up on this stuff... Still have the original ten-inchers of the session. The date was reissued a few years ago in the Vogue/BMG series: Thanks for that. I see Amazon.fr are doing it for 6.99 euro. I guess I'm unlikely to beat that price second hand in Paris Jazz Corner in a couple of weeks, am I, Brownie? MG

Yes, Bertrand. Brasil '66 was the first in the US to do it, to my knowledge, with lyrics by Lani Hall (their lead singer) and called it Empty Faces. Mark Murphy covered it on his third Muse album Sings with a great solo by Randy Brecker. Stanley also recorded it for CTI without Astrud. It's the bonus track on "Salt song", which coincidentally I'm listening to now. MG

A "Proper" Wolff job would be an almost complete collection of "hit or miss" prints and decent notes. (but I had to read it twice!) MG

I adore his albums recorded for Columbia, Sue & Cadet! He gets such a groove going on them! MG

There's a great tenor player called Arnold Sterling working in Baltimore/DC. He played with McGriff in the '80s. I think he's been working with a drummer called Gary Jenkins and sometimes a singer called George V Johnson. Gary runs a mean little band; well worth seeing I'd say. I can't find anything quite current on the web except re Johnson, and only April & June. MG

I've got a CBS Associated copy (whatever that is). I got it for Stanley (and because it was real cheap). Hardly ever play it - Astrud doesn't do a thing for me. There are one or two tracks on which Stanley is great, as you'd expect. MG

I've got a CD with 20 of those RCA cuts. Don't know about the sound but the music is hottersell! MG

There was an album recorded in Paris, with Clifford Scott in the band. Titles were something like: Crazy More crazy Still crazy More crazy still I used to have two of them on an EP. Is this stuff still around? MG