The Magnificent Goldberg

Billy Butterfield & the Benny Simkins band - Watch what happens - Flyright orig Benny Simkins Sextet - Linger awhile - Flyright orig Danny Moss & Geoff Simkins - Straighten up and Flyright - Flyright orig MG

Wild Bill Hickock Wild Bill Davis Chris Columbus

I do my best. I always play some Patton originals everyday just to make sure the organ doesn't forget them. Yes yes - I don't find that in the slightest bit odd. MG

Rev Isaac Douglas & the First Tabernacle of Deliverance Choir - I'm never left alone - AVI reissue MG

Power to the People is a studio album, not a concert. Guy The live album is "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". I didnt know there were extra tracks from that. Like to hear them all on one CD - or two even. MG MG I believe that all of the extra tracks from the box were included in the single cd reissue of the live album when it came out as a single. Ah thanks - that had better go on my infinite list. MG

Red Price Don Storer Cherry Wainer (first jazz organist I ever heard)

Power to the People is a studio album, not a concert. Guy The live album is "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". I didnt know there were extra tracks from that. Like to hear them all on one CD - or two even. MG

I wonder if Keith Richards could be persuaded to cremate them... MG

Wee Willie Harris (haven't thought of him in decades!) Terry Dene Tommy Steele

Henry Addington, first Viscount Sidmouth Paddington Bear Pooh

LOTS of heritage. Gangbe Brass Band of Benin looks interesting. And the Amazones... MG

Only on LP. MG

Yeah, I just heard "Blue John" is sold out. So I'm just getting "Bottoms up". Oh well. MG

Funny; been playing a bit of Pharoah this morning. "Spirits" on at this moment. Always loved his playing. NO ONE plays the blues like Pharoah! And goes right back to Illinois Jacquet, Gator Tail, Arnett Cobb and the other honkers. I've bought all the Impulses except "Village of the Pharoashs" - but not on day of issue stuff - and didn't keep "Summum" or "Wisdom through music". Only bought "Elevation" last year. Bought - and kept - all the Theresas. I prefer most of them to most of the Impulses. "Rejoice" is a miracle, I feel. So is "Lord let me do no wrong". Also have the ESP, "Izipho Zam", the one on India Navigation, called "Pharoah", which is very nice. Never bought his Arista album "Love will find a way"; his 4th and biggest hit album (unsurprisingly). But the Timeless and Venus albums and are all great to listen to. I really like his work with Bill Laswell, particularly "The trance of seven colours", with Maleem Mahmoud Ghania, which I've also been playing this morning. But "Message from home" is wonderful - "Our roots belong to Africa" - yessir! (Though "Save our children" seemed a bit mealy-mouthed to me and I gave up on him until last year.) To me, the Sanders' I love most are: Karma Rejoice Pharoah Sanders Live Lord, let me do no wrong Message from home As a sideman, I love his work on Benny Golson's "This is for you John" and on the Elvin Jones/McCoy Tyner "Reunion". And then there's his stuff with Trane... MG

Happy Birthday! (Are there really people here who are only 47?) MG

Just don't snort them, that might actually kill you :-) All right. MG

As a series, the twofers were started by Prestige, shortly before Fantasy bought the company - about the time Prestige moved off the 7000 series onto the 10000 seres. Then they were extended to Fantasy's other labels - Milestone and Fantasy at the time. Then BN and other labels copied them. MG

If I ever hear of Grant Green Jr saying something like that, I'll burn all his recordings. (Though he did relate an extraordinary story in the GG biography.) MG

I can imagine how you must feel! A wonderful thing! Oh, would he have used it when he was doing gigs farther afield? I saw him in England in the early '90s (or thereabouts). He came over for a one nighter! MG

CLASSIC!!!! oh man that is hilarious ... you're gonna have to print out this thread for her and read it to her prom guests. Read it to her boy friends - the ones you think are "unsuitable" when she's 14. MG

MG, I always liked the Skyes except the Armando Perraza. I don't believe that I recall the one you mention by Chuck Rainey. I would compare Skye to Verve. Production values were excellent. I never heard anything that would turn people off, so maybe you would consider them all to be "lackadaisical", but I believe that almost everyone here on this board would like them when in a mellow mood. They're solid jazz. At the prices dccblowout.com is offering, how can you go wrong? edit for typo It was called "The Chuck Rainey coalition", I remember now - knew there was an R in it. I seem to remember that Tom Mackintosh had something to do with it. Everything was OK, but it never took off - for me, anyway. MG

The "Blue Note Works" TOCJ-15XX, TOCJ-16XX, TOCJ-40XX, TOCJ-41XX, TOCJ-42XX and TOCJ-43XX series were all mastered by Toshiba engineers, not by McMaster. I just dug a couple out - TOCJ1610 & 1612 - 1610 says "tape transfers by Tony Sestanovich". I thought he was a BN/EMI man. 1612 doesn't say anything. MG Some tape transfers may have been done by American engineers, but I was repeatedly told by several contacts that the mastering of all Japanese "Blue Note Works" CDs was done by Japanese Toshiba engineers. Is that something different, then? I thought that mastering was what it meant. MG

I have read that it was Milt Jackson who first put the motor on a very slow setting. MG, my favorite Tjader album has always been Plugs In. Although as I recall Armando Peraza is on congas, it does not have the Latin feel that most of Tjader's albums had. I think you would like it. See my post above from last week about my ordering a CD copy of it. As I stated, there is a $25 minimum order, so you might as well get all three of his Skye albums (like I did) while you are at it. I had Chuck Rainey's Skye LP in the '60s; forget the title; something beginning with R. It seemed a bit lackadaisical to me. So I was going to give the Skye Tjaders a miss. Am I too prejudiced against Skye on not very much evidence? MG

The "Blue Note Works" TOCJ-15XX, TOCJ-16XX, TOCJ-40XX, TOCJ-41XX, TOCJ-42XX and TOCJ-43XX series were all mastered by Toshiba engineers, not by McMaster. I just dug a couple out - TOCJ1610 & 1612 - 1610 says "tape transfers by Tony Sestanovich". I thought he was a BN/EMI man. 1612 doesn't say anything. MG

My daughter used to lie on the floor in fronnt of the TV, with her feet on my LPs. You could move them slightly, if you pushed at the top, and so she'd lie there, pushing at them idly while watching TV. And after a while, I found that the sleeves of my early '60s GRANT GREEN LPs were badly scuffed - even Japanes albums like "Matador, "Oleo" and "Gooden's corner"! ARRRGGGHHH! She was born in 1972, and those Japanese LPs didnt come out until late 1979, so she must have been 8 or 9. Just think what you have to look forwrd to, Jim! MG