The Magnificent Goldberg

I haven't got it, but I think I have all but the material with Brownie (and a couple of odd trax) and I love it all! In these albums, Lou is a master of classic alto playing - the bop Benny Carter. MG

You don't have to. But a musician has to be concerned for his audience. MG

Never heard of this Spoon 1957 date. Looks like my first Mosaic Single. What label did it originally issue on? Anyone know? MG

Stanley did the notes to Grant Green's "Carryin' on", "Alive" and Reuben Wilson's "Blue Mode". Probably others I can't think of at present. MG

That often happens when you put a needle on the tracks. Or so I've heard... Just to try again to get the sleeve to come out I love the album. Yes, it's not QUITE as good as his top stuff but the difference is so marginal as to be not worth worrying about. Don't buy it yesterday - buy it in 1970! MG

He was also on this I treasure Pharoah screaming, over and over, "Walter Booker on bass! Walter Booker on bass!" And don't forget Walter was also the composer of that lovely tune, recorded by so many musicians, "Book's Bossa". RIP Shitty week. MG

Oh I agree. I think it's his rhythm that makes his playing so funky. (And yes, I know it's more than funky, but it IS blindingly funky.) MG

Why do you say that? Or is it a goak? MG Max CD-R storage capacity 800 MB (= ridiculous), standalone recorders -> inflexible. A high quality sound card is a better investment. Ah... So how do you get your LPs and K7s on it, if your room isn't designed so the hifi is anywhere near the computer? Is there a remote way of doing it? MG

Why do you say that? Or is it a goak? MG

Wow! Thanks for that Tranemonk - I guess I've goot at least part of the answer now. MG

This one turned up this morning - "Apala messenger" by Haruna Ishola & his Apala Group. Very many thanks to Rod for putting me on to its availability. I've been looking for a good compilation of Haruna Ishola's work from the '60s and '70s and this is great. I only had a couple of tracks I taped off the radio many years ago. Ishola was the leading exponent of Apala music, popular among the northern Yoruba who generally follow Islam. Very different from the Highlife that is more popular along the southe coast of West Africa. MG

I'm sure that's not right! Afroman likes TALL CANS! MG

Nice analysis thanks Jim. I read in Ira Gitler's book "Swing to Bebop" that it was Diz and Klook who developed Bebop rhythm, while they were working together in Lucky Millinder's band. This must have been a bit before Bird emerged. Diz also reported somewhere (can't remember where, might have been ths same book) a conversation he had with Monk in which they were reminiscing about the old days and who taught them this or that. "And what did you learn from me?" Diz asked. Monk replied, "nothin'". Your post made me think about Mbalax, the popular music of the Wolofs (and Serer) in Senegal. Traditional Mbalax, which became very popular again in the late '90s, as politics shifted towards religion, is rhythmically a good deal more straightfroward than modern Mbalax, because it was based around street parades, often with a religious purpose. But, as the Senegalese music scene shifted in the late '70s from the Jazz and Latin styles of Dexter Johnson's Star Band, Star Band No 1 and Orchestre Baobab to using more indigenous music, particularly with the breakaway from those bands to the formation of new bands like Etoile de Dakar and Youssou N'dour's Super Etoile de Dakar, the music took traditional Mbalax and kind of infiltrated some of those other rhythms into it, producing something that, by the late '80s, Youssou N'dour said "white people can't dance to". No more true than Amiri Baraka saying of Bebop "YOU can't dance to it". But no less true, either. Even Bird and Diz are rhythmically straightforward compared to early '80s Mbalax. MG

Here's a link to a Guardian article by Mick Hucknall, lead singer of Simply Red. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/st...1954727,00.html MG

Nor was mine, when I had it. I gave it to a friend when the CDs came out. MG

I'm going to play "Hop skip and jump" - Gene Krupa's band. Then I'm going to think seriously about the Mosaic. RIP MG

George Freeman (and Von) - New improved funk - People UK edition of GM George Freeman - Man & woman - GM orig Houston Person - Basics - Muse orig MG

I've got the two volume "Jazz classics" album (BLP1201 & 2). Is the material that isn't on those LPs as good? MG

I believe the UK national anthem was written by Sir Arthur Sullivan, who also wrote some operattas. I believe the South Africn national anthem started off as the ANC anthem. And I have been told it was written by Jonas Gwangwa, which must make it the only national anthem to have been written by a jazz musician. MG

Donald Dean Les McCann Leroy Vinnegar

Nah - they'll just hold it in Cardiff. MG

Nkosi sikelel' iAfrica (South Africa) That's for "official" anthems. Unofficially, Avery Parrish's "After hours" used to be known as the black national anthem. Slightly more officially, "Lift every voice" is the anthem of the NAACP. MG

You'll like this Jim. It's a seal of approval from a Japanese mag called "Soul Jazz". MG Not Soul Jazz, but the famous Swing Journal. It OUGHT to have been Soul Jazz MG

Oh I know the difference. One of my former staff was called Dash. You should have heard him trying to get people to understand his e-mail address! He told us his mother was called Dorothy .- MG

Grrrrrr! (Brrrrr) MG