The Magnificent Goldberg

Here's another winning thread. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...62&hl=radio MG

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Oh - I must dig out a couple. Thanks for telling us. MG

Phew! 80 winners = 80 spare promos? MG

Oh well, now I've GOT to get this out and give it a listen. MG

Yes, I got mine more or less as soon as they came out, so of course the first would have more of an impact. MG

Congratulations to y'all, from a miserable would-be winner if Concord had extended their sale to aliens. How come there were SO MANY winners, though? MG

I sort of don't understand the question. The number of times I visit depends on how many e-mail notifications I get that threads to which I've subscribed have had responses posted on them. I imagine that the board software keeps a record of that. Usually a few times a day I'll have a shufti at today's active posts to see what's new. MG

Yes, I've got that one, too. A very good album, essentially similar to "Planet Groove". I think the title is actually "Maceo: soundtrack" - though I don't think the film has ever emerged. Looking closely at the spine, it says "Maceo Parker", then "Maceo", then MM801046. So I guess it's just called "Maceo". MG

Always loved that Ray Draper cover. MG

Bo Rhambo Sam "The Man" Taylor Sil Austin

Dizzy Gillespie - Swing low sweet Cadillac - Impulse German WB issue MG

Desi Arnaz Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Jr

Jerry Lee Lewis Brenda Lee Eager Brenda Lee

George Segal Bob Koester Chuck Nessa

We all pay closer attention to some things than most. That's what makes life very, very, interesting. MG

Absolutely - Ozzie was a very important producer at Savoy. It was his idea to use RVG for recording Gospel music at Savoy. And of course he also produced the few Gospel albums that Prestige issued on the TruSound label. Don Schlitten was a different kind of producer at Prestige, which is why I didn't include him in my list. Don was mainly producing Bop and Hard Bop albums, not following the Esmond Edwards model, which was by and large Soul Jazz, and what Prestige was better known for than any other label. MG

According to this thread the '63 and the '69 were supposed to come out last year. Only '63 did. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry412209 MG

On AAJ a couple of months ago, we did a bit of comparative work on the price of petrol here and in the US. Here's the result. Yes, you're right MG, we do have it much easier in terms of gas tax. Thanks for providing those numbers. So if you pay $4.58 per gallon just in tax that's more than 10 times what we pay! It varies a little from state to state, but not much. Here in Maryland I pay $0.42 per gallon. Here's a chart with 2002 data (don't think it's changed much since then): http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/st...tate_2002.html The price of gas around here right now is about $2.25 per gallon. But if you think we have it cheap wait til you hear how much they're paying in Venezuela! Somewhere or other, I've seen that Americans use three times as much petrol as Britons. But the population density of the UK is over 7 times greater than that of the US, so the average distance of all journeys in America should be seven times greater than in the UK and you should be using 7 times as much petrol as us. Well, perhaps not, but it's clear to me that the price of petrol here isn't doing much to depress demand. MG

In fact, insofar as Joe Fields' labels Cobblestone, Muse and HighNote/Savant, have assumed the mantle of Prestige, Esmond's legacy continues to the present. MG

They missed off the list most of the early Willis Jackson Prestige material; Baby Face Willette's "Mo rock"; Jimmy Ponder's "While my guitar gently weeps" and loads of other stuff. Esmond really took Bob Weinstock's place as a producer in the late '50s and guided the company away from the jam sessions that Bob loved to a slightly more structured approach, a bit more akin to Blue Note, but focusing on tenor players whose work appealed more to a black audience: Arnett Cobb; Jaws and the Cookbooks; Jimmy Forrest; King Curtis; Gator Tail; Hal Singer; and of course Jug. As a result of this focus, he got into organ players - McDuff; Scott; Young. It shouldn't be forgotten that it was Esmond who first produced Larry Young. (And, after he left Prestige for Argo, he continued to record Young, under Thornel Schwartz' name.) All that really set the tone for Prestige. The main Prestige producers who followed Esmond - Ozzie Cadena; Cal Lampley; Bob Porter - were just sewing in the fields Esmond had ploughed. Esmond really created '60s/'70s Prestige. That made him a MAJOR hero for me. (And of course, he produced one of my all time favourite disco albums - "Warm and Sonny" by Sonny Criss.) This is a really sad day. RIP. MG

I never liked any of that pop/rock stuff. I was surprised that Stevie was as popular with the pop/rock fans as he was - I suspect it wasn't so much that they thought he was great but that they were so surprised that something like that (and Marvin Gaye) was coming out of Motown, which was a dirty word to that group of people. MG

"Swing low sweet Cadillac" is my favourite Diz album. The interplay with Candy Finch on "Kush" is some of the most exciting music I've ever heard. Did you notice that "Mas que nada" was included in at least one Acid Jazz compilation? I think I'll get it out and play it later. MG

Someone from Baltimore may well mention Mickey Fields. MG

Getting warmer here - pond has thawed out today. But a little bit of rain, unsurprisingly. MG