The Magnificent Goldberg

The alto players have returned! Sonny Stitt - Sonny's back - Muse orig (though Sonny is mainly on tenor) Hank Crawford - Hank Crawford's back - Kudu Polydor UK edition MG

Pharoah Sanders - Africa - Timeless orig Clare Fischer - Great white hope - Revelation orig Georgia Mass Choir - Yes he can - Savoy orig MG

I'm just trying this in itunes. I wasn't offered any kind of option when I uploaded the first track. After it had finished, I right clicked on the title and it offered me the option of converting it to AAC. Is that the right format to burn a CD from, so it plays on anything? MG Go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Importing. "Setting" should be High Quality For burning CDs, "Import Using" can basically be any of those options EXCEPT mp3. Thanks. MG

Got this on now - just listened to Lee Morgan's "Rajah". Hugh Brodie is groovin'! MG

This is an extremely rare set. In fact, Lon has the only existing copy. Indeed - MC will never stop regretting that he let even one copy of a record of Stitt playing electrified sax (and particularly a hit album) out of the building. MG

Bela Lugosi Christopher Lee Peter Cushing

Assam MG

This turned up yesterday Very nice live and broadcasts stuff from the '40s, and a GTJ album from the '50s. MG

I LIKE his photos on CTI sleeves! Idris Muhammad's "House of the rising sun" is fabulous! "Mister magic" too. MG

An impressive list! MG

I'm just trying this in itunes. I wasn't offered any kind of option when I uploaded the first track. After it had finished, I right clicked on the title and it offered me the option of converting it to AAC. Is that the right format to burn a CD from, so it plays on anything? MG

Who IS that woman? MG Helen Gurley Brown . A woman who never needs a Halloween costume ! And she wrote "Sex & the single woman"? MG

Some of his sleeves are really splendid. When he hits, he really hits. Wes Montgomery - A day in the life & Road song Stanley Turrentine - Sugar & Don't mess with Mr T Jimmy Ponder - All things beautiful (better than the album) MG

NOW I see! The credits said Dr DOmento. Spelling mistake or does Barrett Hansen have some competition? MG

I think he was a pretty good photographer, for aught that I know, but his photographs all too often didn't match well with the music in the albums (rarely a problem with BN or Atlantic). I don't know whether Creed Taylor specified the kind of photo he wanted, if he just gave Turner a title or if Turner just produced a few snaps every so often and Taylor picked one. Very often it seems the latter. MG

Who IS that woman? MG

The sandwich vendor MG

What a nice thread! MG

I agree 100% Rep; Massey wasn't a giant but was a good musician who wrote some pretty good tunes. I got this years ago because I wanted to hear how he did "These are soulful days", which I had by Don Patterson. It's an album that's always satisfying to listen to. I only wish it also contained "A pilgrim's funny farm", another good one he wrote, which Lee Morgan recorded on "The Rajah"; but I guess he didn't write that until later. Glad you picked this. I'll pull it and Rajah off the shelves. MG

Horace Parlan - Us 436,158,236 MG

What's really interesting is that the gig attracted so many without publicity. Or without apparent publicity, I should say. Someone must have been able to tap into a young people's gossip/rumour circuit somehow. And the earlier gig must have failed because no one was able to do that. Were the people local to the bar's normal catchment or did they come from all over the city? MG

My wife keeps asking why I keep bursting into laughter ("I'm going to castle"). I say, "you wouldn't think it was funny". MG

"Of love and cheesy peas", isn't it? MG

Nope, but it's on my list for next month! Thanks for this info. MG