The Magnificent Goldberg

Foreigner The Strangers The Stranglers

His widow is co-owner. MG

Essex Woman The Essex Stan Stead

Was that your only income at the time, Chuck? Looks incredibly low. I think the $ was about 3 to the £ at the time, so I was earning your monthly average per week! (Mind you, I was doing an 84 hour week!) MG

Arnett Cobb Eddie Chamblee Illinois Jacquet

That was his second - a LOT worse than his first. There's some moderately interesting stuff on 'It's all right', the one before 'Comin' in the back door', but quite a bit of junk, too. MG

Lee Perry Ndiaga Mbaye Ndeye Mbaye

Wow! That's some lineup... I'm not at all familiar with this album, but will definitely be on the lookout for it. Apparently, there's a second album from the same sessions, Drum Song, also released on Galaxy. Here are the details from jazzdiscography.com: Date: October 10-12, 1978 Location: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA Label: Galaxy Philly Joe Jones (ldr), Charles Bowen (ss, ts), Harold Land (ts), Blue Mitchell (t, fh), Slide Hampton (tb), Cedar Walton (p), Marc Johnson (b), Philly Joe Jones (d) a.a-01 Trailways - 6:54 (Philly Joe Jones) / arr: Slide Hampton Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5122 — Advance! (1979)b.a-02 Invitation - 6:57 (Bronislau Kaper, Paul Francis Webster) Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5122 — Advance! (1979)c.a-03 Helena - 5:56 (Atlee Chapman) / arr: Philly Joe Jones Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5122 — Advance! (1979)d.b-01 Midnight Waltz [aka Twilight Waltz] - 10:58 (Cedar Walton) Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5122 — Advance! (1979)e.b-02 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - 8:12 (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5122 — Advance! (1979)f.c-01 Our Delight - 6:13 (Tadd Dameron) / arr: Slide Hampton Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5153 — Drum Song (1985)g.c-02 I Waited For You - 5:43 (Walter 'Gil' Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5153 — Drum Song (1985)h.c-03 Bird - 6:32 (Slide Hampton) / arr: Slide Hampton Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5153 — Drum Song (1985)i.d-01 Two Bass Hit - 5:16 (Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis) / arr: Slide Hampton Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5153 — Drum Song (1985)j.d-02 Hi-Fly - 7:44 (Randy Weston) Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5153 — Drum Song (1985)k.d-03 Drum Song - 6:19 (Slide Hampton) / arr: Slide Hampton Galaxy LP 12": GXY 5153 — Drum Song (1985)All titles on: Milestone CD: MCD 47094-2 — Drum Songs (2002)Charles Bowen (ss) on a, k; (ts) on c, f, h-j; Harold Land (ts) on a-c, f, h-i, k; Blue Mitchell (t) on b-c, e-f, h-i, k;(fh) on a; Slide Hampton (tb) on a, c, f-i, k. I have 'Drum song' on vinyl and it's very nice. MG

Killer Joe Mack the Knife Terminator X

The People of the Black Circle Conan Robert E Howard

Cobber Matey Buddy

Eugene Barr Jug Jill & the Boulevards Very odd UK single I used to have. MG

Ramblin' Jack Elliot Woody Guthrie Will Geer

Thanks for responding, anyway. I'm glad you enjoyed it and heard stuff you never heard of before. MG

Yoshi's Yoshie Akiba Mory Kante

Oh, one for me, please, Jeff. MG

Merlin Mervyn Peake Marvin the Paranoid Android

Bunker Hill Bunky Green Bunk Johnson

I've only bought 2 LPs this year - In Paris. One was cheap - Al Grey's Thinking man's trombone. The other was pretty expensive (by MY standards - 21 GBP) - that was Perez Prado's first LP; a 10" on RCA Victor LPM 21. I thought I'd find a load of ole vinyl from the Dominican Republic and Haiti - but not a sausage. Do you have a secret source of cheap Latin material from those countries? MG

Geoffrey Wheeler (host of Top of the Form) Fats Domino The String-a-longs

I'm a big fan of Syllart Records. Most played label in my collection for the last 2 years. Sterns e-mailed me about a new issue yesterday, so I downloaded it from Amazon, and went off into the web, catching up with what had been going on since Ibrahima Sylla's death in 2013. So the firm is now led by Binetou Sylla, a twenty-five year old babe, Ibrahima's oldest child, and his widow, not, surprisingly, his brother Baila Sylla. So here's Binetou, definitely a nice front lady for the firm: She's not JUST a babe. She has an MA in history and was pursuing a PhD before her father named her head of the business 7 months before he died. What's just come out - on 15 October - is this album that Ibrahim produced, or mostly produced, before his death: After a quick listen (and I DO admit to having been a bit distracted sometimes by Binetou's photo :)) I think it's the best she's done since 'Sa kunu sa' in 1992 - certainly better than the ones she'd previously recorded for Syllart. Binetou is starting slowly. She may have grown up with this music all around her and the artists visiting her father's home, but she's been pursuing an academic course in life, not working with her father. Apparently, she's visiting West Africa every 2 to 3 months, looking for new stuff. But she doesn't feel under pressure to produce material before she feels ready and is focusing for the moment on raising the profile of Syllart and its products that are being reissued in the west. She's said, however, that she's working on completing an album by Ablaye Ndiaye that her father hadn't finished. So it's still worth watching Syllart Records. MG

Chase Harry Leader Joe Loss

Well, it's a BIG thank you to Jim, for unravelling all that! Don't know how you do that, I was doing image searches on Google for ages and only turned up what I posted earlier. THANK YOU JIM!!!!! MG Ruppli's PR discography gives 'Chasin the bongo' as the title, and I think that'll be right. MG

Lord! Well, I knew I was missing a lot of stuff by ignoring the west coast stuff - so thanks to you ALL. (Sorry though, it ain't gonna make me start listening to it :)) MG

I haven't seen him for decades, but haven't forgotten that occasion. PS HB MG