The Magnificent Goldberg

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Of course, if youse wanna see the stuff Chris is posting, come on over to AAJ - there are a few non-Libs over there, too, so it's not all one-sided. MG

I thought that was the Chad Mitchell Trio or the Kingston Trio or some such group, not Johnny Cash. MG

This list looks very English-oriented. The Ram John Holder write up is a dead giveaway. Nobody who wasn't around on that scene in 1960-62, and I had a bit to do with making that market, would know that Ealing and Richmod were the centre of British Blues developments. This is probably written by some guy I used to know back then. MG

I've never seen one of those. I have one or two Riv/Jzlds like that. But I always thought BN used a completely different manufacturer to the other jazz companies. MG

Yeah right... I'd rather sell my music collection... And I don't groove Oh, you must do - you've got all those Harold Mabern albums... MG You seem to know more than I do - which Mabern albums?? Sorry Hans - I was getting you confused with someone else. MG

Mike German Bill English Raven Dane

This passed me by. I only had a couple of African singles in '63 - one by Miriam Makeba, the other by a white South African ("Talkin' Joburg blues") whose name I've forgotten - perhaps one or two others, which I've entirely forgotten now. Oh, "Tom Hark", of course. This looks interesting - the early development of Mbaqanga - if one is interested in Mbaqanga. I suppose I should be, but most of that stuff I've got is from the jazz side - Ibrahim, Masekela, Pukwana, Rachabane, Coetzee, Jansen, Mpale - can't listen to EVERYTHING. (Though I'd like to.) MG

That's very funny. Some of the Dead's spacier recordings from the 1966--72 period could sound like what you said. I also once won a very early Phillip Glass album by correctly identifying the Paul Winter Consort as the group that the members of Oregon were in, before they started Oregon. The Phillip Glass album was not all that interesting. It was from long before he became well known. I recollect now that Gillette said "and you can't get much more stupid than that!" He never worked with me, though. MG

Oh goodness, those Groove Merchants look interesting, if expensive. MG

Yeah right... I'd rather sell my music collection... And I don't groove Oh, you must do - you've got all those Harold Mabern albums... MG

In '72 or '73, Charlie Gillette, the R&B historian, had a Blues, R&B & Soul radio show on Radio London, Sunday lunchtimes. He used to play obscure stuff and give a prize to the first one to identify it. I never won anything at that. But one week, he offered a prize for the correct answer and also A PRIZE FOR THE STUPIDEST ANSWER. Well, I didn't know what the hell he played, so I went for the stupiest answer I could think up quickly, which was Arnold Schoenberg accompanied by Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines. And I won a Bo Diddley LP! (He'd played something by Grateful Dead) MG

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I've got a Chiaroscuro album of his on order; my first by him. That saddens me a lot. Chewy - in the 70s, Jay made quite a few mainstream recordings for the French label Black & Blue, and probably other continental firms. I've no knowledge of a disco album MG

Sorry to say "Got to get it" is my least favourite Timmons. There's a femme voc group on some tracks which doesn't improve things. And Tom Mackintosh's arrangements don't seem entirely suitable for Timmons' style to me. Got to give Orrin credit for trying to put Bobby into a different context and he plays OK. But it just doesn't gel for me. MG

US Treasury. Amilcar Cabral Agostino Neto Samora Machel

Ok - just one. Accent On The Blues Jim, for having absolutely no interest in this thread, you sure post to it a lot! But, if I recall croeectly, Jim said he had no interest in formulating a desert island 10, not in the thread as such. That's a good word, I think I'll leave it like that. MG

There was a thread about upcoming projects, but damned if I can find it now. MG

Oh well! See, on my desert island, I can have everything that matters to me. Y'all just gonna have 10 things. Just 10. I rest my case. Come on, this is just FUN, for goodness sake! MG

Gladys Hampton Hampton Court Hampton Wick

The Brothers Four The Brothers Johnson The Brothers Karamazov

Felix Gross Larry Groce The Rt Hon Sir Edward Heath

Picks submitted by Red They're also overrated in his opinion... MG

I'm easy on timing - I'll go along with everyone else. MG

I have a theory that the people who love Soul Jazz got into it through a love of R&B and Soul. MG