The Magnificent Goldberg

Do celebrate, won't you! And make it a good one! MG

Missed this news earlier. It's really nice to see someone getting the IDEAL job for them. There's nothing better. All the very best FFA. MG

Segun Adewale - Adewale play for me - Sterns 1003 (one of their first LPs - licensed from Adewale records) MG

I knew a guy who used to do that. He ran a gay cafe in West Hampstead in the early '60s. When he took his trousers off, you knew it was closing time. MG (Well, for SOME customers it wasn't.)

People got something to say, they'll say it. People haven't got something to say, they'll say it. Can you tell the difference? Next case! MG

First Flight Aussie dry red wine, with prawns & beef (etc) in black bean sauce. Nobbad. I don't mind cheap wine and beer. But I DO like good tea. MG

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I didn't know Sondheim wrote a song called "People". The Streisand one is by Jules Styne & Bob Merrill. I've tried looking for one by Sondheim on AMG, but there are about a trillion recordings of that title. Note with interest that one of them was writen by Chris Foreman MG

Oh wow! One of my favourite Fatheads, that is. MG

What a mess! Andy's right about the insurance companies. Stick to your guns. MG

My last packages of Japanese Victors have turned up! Whoopie! Shirley Scott – Soul searching Very nice! Introducing the fabulous Trudy Pitts On a first listen, this seems a lot better than “These blues of mine”. Mongo Santamaria - Mongo explodes Good Mango Santamania! Shirley Scott & the Latin Jazz Quintet – Mucho mucho Super stuff, ending with a 14 minute blues! MG

Alexei Sayle Ullo John! Gotta new motor? Fish People

Are those "A date with" Japanese CDs still available? MG

Sure it was an accident? MG

12030 Clarke & Burke Jazz Young Blood Mike F. has it listed as such.......but the '93 Jpn cd (SV-0211) has Chuz Alfred as the leader (the one and only time for him, yes?). I have this CD. The original sleeve reproduced in it doesn't actully have a leader; the front is simply called "Jazz young Blood" which obviously didn't refer to Kenny Clarke or Vinnie Burke in 1955. The reverse lists Alfred's name first - before Ola Hansen's - and this seems to me odd because you'd normally expect a trombonist to be lested before a tenor player. Anyway, the Michel Ruppli Savoy discography (which I don't have, but borrowed from the library many years ago) lists this as a Chuz Alfred album. I guess the Savoy files must have revealed that he was paid as leader. It's Alfred's only album, but I have a 78 on Savoy by him, Buckeye bounce/Caravan; 1158. It was recorded, I seem to remember, the year before and, to judge from the matrix numbers (SCA334 & 335), in California. I think this previous session produced 4 tracks, but I don't have the other 78. This is quite a different style of playing; the A side is very much in the honkers and screamers mode while "Caravan" is a wonderful groover, years ahead of its time (and the reason I bought the CD). MG

Click here for a list - no years of recrding or issue, unfortunately. Yes, the 14XXX series, as it says in the discography, is mostly Gospel music. The one that looks like a jazz album - 14471 The Gospel soul of Houston Person - is actually a Gospel album, in which Houston and his band play with the Atlanta Philharmonic Choral and the Ogletree Brothers. That was recorded in 1978. (Funnily enough, I was playing it yesterday.) The Savoy 14XXX series seems to have come to an end now - the last number I can trace is 14849 "God is faithful" by LaShun Pace, from 2001. There was also a 7XXX series, started in the mid-seventies when the twofers began to be popular. That seems to have reached 7129 "I owe you the praise" by the Georgia Mass Choir, in 2002. Savoy is a much more important Gospel label than a jazz label. The only secular recording from the seventies, which hasn't been reissued on CD as far as I know, and isn't in that listing anyway, was "Home in the country" by Pee Wee Ellis - SJL3301 - recorded in 1977 and produced by Bob Porter. That was when Arista had acquired the whole company from Herman Lubinsky's heirs. Clive Davis didn't know what to do with the company, which was making huge money but in an area he didn't know. So he split it and sold the secular material, under the trademark of Savoy Jazz, to Nippon Columbia, and the Gospel material to Malaco. MG

And my wife complains because I never learned to drive! MG

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Les McCann & Gerald Wilson - McCann/Wilson - UK Fontana issue with rubbish sleeve Mono Stanley Turentine - ZT's blues - BN Pathe Marconi issue - such a beautiful album - gotta get this out more! Jimmy Dawkins - Blisterstring - Delmark orig Billy Larkin & the Delegates with Clifford Scott - Blue lights - Aura orig stereo MG

This morning, the postman brought my first batch of stuff from Japanese Victor’s new set of Fantasy reissues Freddie Roach – My people (soul people) King Curtis – Soul meeting John Wright – Nice ‘n’ tasty Nice stuff! I didn't have the John Wright already; the others I had on LP. MG

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Houston Person - The nearness of you - Muse orig John Coltrane - Coltrane plays the blues - Atlantic, '80s pressing Joe Henderson - Canyon lady - Milestone orig MG

I think you're wrong there. IN Britain, in the early '60s, EMI 45s were issued in paper sleeves with adverts for record-related products on the back - EMItex record cleaing material, the Record Mail, EMI record tokens. And there were some with ads for LPs. By the late '60s, these had been replaced by ads for make-up. I think EMI knew who was buying all the pop singles. MG That's what I thought, but I wasn't able to explain. Pop singles vs Rock Album, I'll bet the most of the buyers of Pink Floyd Lps or Stones or Bowie were males. personally I had some girlfriends, I mean friends, really interested in music, and few of them turn their interest in a passion. That's would an issue worth investigating for a psychiatrists. On the other end collecting something, or shopping compulsion, is transgender. Oh, and don't forget all those ladies who used to chuck their knickers at the likes of Illinois Jacquet. Now, if jazz musicians were STILL playing music that made ladies want to chuck their panties on stage... MG The same psychiatrist of the article can you explain that females usually grown up and became adult, we, childish male, never come through the teen ager hood. Though I doubt our friends of the band would be happy if Chuck would chuck his panties on stage... BTW some of my above female friends spend the same amount of money I spend in records in clothes or shoes. Well, that's what Chuck regards as listening to jazz for social reasons. MG

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