The Magnificent Goldberg

Up with this thread. Just been watching a DVD of the Scott/Dennerlein combo playing a festival in Bern - was this the one The King was at? Good stuff, especially their duets. ELVIS went to see Rhoda Scott ?..... Nearly choked on my hot chocolate, Zen. MG

Remembering that Late said Ben Webster's birthday is today, Ben Webster - Atmosphere for lovers and thieves -Polydor Black Lion Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins - Blue saxophones - Verve Polydor UK reissue next Les McCann in San Francisco - Liberty reissue MG

Indeed - I find that I am stocking up partly with 'retirement' in mind. Just think of all those CDs and LPs that MG and Brownie are playing every day. Better than being a grumpy old man. MG

He could make an album called "Hootin' & Pootin'" MG

While some of that is happening, I think with many folks here you do the math with the following factors: life expectancy with good hearing, amount of time for listening, square footage of storage space available, and current inventory of cds. If you own several thousand CDs (heck, even just 1000) and you're over 40, there's a chunk of music that may never get played again. Might as well start culling the collection (to free up space & cash to buy more! ) I think your numbers are way off Q. And with retirement, one has more time to listen to music. I play an average of in the region of 3,000 different albums in a year. That, naturally, allows for newies to be played quite a lot, and the total is sensitive to the number of new albums I buy. But there are only 36 albums that I haven't listened to for ten years or more, most often because they're a bit fucked, y'know. MG

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Oh boy! And hasn't Rodney Jones improved? Wonder when it was done. MG I don't think that's Rodney Jones since the video states it is "Mel Henderson" and Lonnie Smith and the poster has two other movies up from the same club, same date, with Yoron Israel on drums. That must mean Mel Henderson is the guitarist. I didn't see any names - no doubt you're right. But he DOES look like Rodney Jones. So, Mel Henderson's pretty damn good, then. Never heard of him. MG Just nipped out for another shufti at the video. NOW I see the name! What a thicko!

Curtis Amy Select all 3 discs MG

Oh boy! And hasn't Rodney Jones improved? Wonder when it was done. MG

It seemed a bit quiet, to me, or is it my computer? Was that Eddie Harris on soprano? He only played 4 notes on tenor at the end, not enough to recognise him by. MG

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Joe Thomas & Bill Elliott - Speak your piece - Sue orig mono (and exceedingly heavily played ) Harold Vick - Straight up - RCA Victor orig mono Dynagroove (what's supposed to be wrong with Dynagrooves?) MG

Oh, and I was right - a bit - about some hifi specialist labels being in there. Great to mine some of that stuff. Heroic, when you think of how much other stuff you'd have had to have listened to while doing it MG

Thanks so far Vint. I always wanted to buy "Mumbles" but never got round to it. I think it's about time. MG

Hey, has that got the great "Sock it to 'em J B pts 1 & 2" by Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers? MG

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This bit of the news item sounds a lot like what you get from CD Baby, when they post your records off to you Playing Jimmy Forrest - Out of the Forrest - Palo Alto orig - with Randissimo! Jimmy Forrest & Al Grey - Live at Ricks' - Aviva orig next Walter Bishop - Coral Keys - Black Jazz orig MG

Absolutely - all his work is filtered through pain. And it's incredible that what comes out is joy! I simply can't understand how musicians do what they do. MG

Never heard Little Joe Blue. That makes me really want to. Thanks Jim. MG

Fabulous! Fabulous! Fabulous! Fabulous! Fabulous! And what a great solo from Wild Bil Davis, too. I loved the way Wild Bill stopped playing, and the expression on his face, when Jaws screamed in! Oh yes! Thanks Brownie! MG

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That made me think of a photo I've seen somewhere of Ron Levy, with the B B King band - not an action photo, a posed photo where they're all standing in a group. And there's this young, long-haired, middle class white guy in the centre like a pimple. And he made it for 10 years - gotta RESPECT that. MG

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Blue Mitchell MG

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