The Magnificent Goldberg

Young men from Memphis - Down home reunion - UA King Jap issue Earl Turbinton - Brothers for life - Rounder orig Reuben Wilson - A groovy situation - BN UA orig MG

Well, a very “lively” set Tom. And including some really interesting things. Thanks for this. 1 A really swinging vibes, bass drums combo! Lovely bass player! Now who could the vibes player be? My best guess is that it’s Milt Buckner, but could be Dany Doriz. I like this a lot, whoever it is. 2 Wow! At first I thought it was an alternative take of “Black apostles” from Sonny Criss’ “Sonny’s dream”. But that ain’t Criss playing. It’s someone good, though not quite as nasty and slurry as Sonny. And then along comes Teddy Edwards. Well, he WAS on Sonny’s recording. So this is a live version of the tune. And I really don’t know this pianist, who’s really got something to say. So I played it again, but got out my copy of Sonny’s dream in between and just checked that I wasn’t going crazy. Nope, definitely not Sonny Criss. And I noticed in the notes that the tune was written for “Black Arthur”. Aha! Could it be Arthur Blythe? And maybe Horace Tapscott? I haven’t got much Blythe but I think it could be. This is really nice! 3 I vaguely recognise this tune. I think it’s Abdullah Ibrahim on piano. Lovely rhythm to this. Then it breaks, not very smoothly, into straight fours and the tenor player comes in. And there’s a little bit more of a South African feel to it for a short time. But I think the tenor player is not South African. Don’t know who, though. 4 Oh wow again! Another cut from “Sonny’s dream”. Must be same concert. This one is “Sandy & Niles”. Super solo from Teddy! Don’t know who the guitarist is. He seems to get a bit lost at the end of his solo. Then back to the pianist. This solo isn’t quite as stretching as the one on “Black apostles”. I’m just guessing it’s Tapscott because he wrote these tunes, haven’t the faintest idea really. 5 This flute player isn’t terribly interesting to me. Nor the bass player and drummer. No, this ain’t for me. 6 I recognise this tune vaguely; can’t place it. It seems as if it’s quite well known. Everyone sounds as if they’re just playing. The tenor player’s overblown bit sounds completely arbitrary. Another one I don’t like at all. 7 Accordion and tenor playing “Saving all my love for you”. Lovely! I should recognise the tenor player, but I don’t. Some time during this, I wondered if it wasn’t a harmonium, but concluded that it was an accordion. 8 Cecil Taylor! Very, very exciting! How does the drummer make that funny scraping sound during his solo? I’ve always been excited by Taylor’s music, whenever I’ve heard it, but I don’t like it at all. So I haven’t heard much of it. This maintains the interest all the way through. And I still don’t like it. 9 Is this another Abdullah Ibrahim? A lot like him, but perhaps someone else. Doesn’t grab me like other Ibrahim stuff I’ve heard. 10 “Yesterdays”. A nice performance. The bass player keeps the mood going, but I think I could have done without his solo. Actually, I’m not sure whether the sax is alto or soprano; sometimes it sounds like one, sometimes the other. The tone is a bit straight. Interesting approach to use mainly live performances. But now I've read your first post, and see you're using stuff that's hanging on the web, I understand it. Good approach. Hah! and not liable to be expensive when I find out who's doing what. Mind you, there’s a lot more here that I find very interesting than that I actually like. Thanks very much Tom. On to disc 2 tomorrow MG

Souleymane Faye - Grand ass Rev Jasper Williams - I fell in love with a prostitute Funkadelic - America eats its young Funkadelic - Free your mind and your ass will follow Maceo Parker - Life on planet groove Sonny Lester - How to strip for your husband Ben Webster - Atmosphere for lovers and thieves Gil Scott-Heron - The revolution will not be televised MG

Good luck! MG

PS - I should point out that the 12.5% tax rate for corporaations is still a subsidy (albeit a legal one). The Irish Government has decided to subsidise corporate businesses (not small owner-operated businesses or professional partnerships) at the expense of other businesses and the population at large. MG

Fitzgerald's analysis is mostly right. And as far as I can remember from studies of the Irish economy that I made while I was at work, there was no great cutback in education. Indeed, the re-focusing of Irish Development Agency activity on financial services was accompanied by a refocusing of education policies to match. Some things Dr F omits. The Irish have maintained close links with their diaspora - much closer than the Welsh or Scots. To what extent this may have been influenced by the IRA and its search for funding I do not know. But what it meant was that the IDA was able to follow up contacts and draw inward investment from the USA to a much greater extent than we were in Wales (and we did very well by comparison with a lot of Britain). Second, although Ireland was a member of the EU and subject to the same regulatory regime with regard to business subsidies as the other countries, it did not follow the rules and was, in effect, given a free pass for many years. So, for example, the tax regime initially targeted inward investors by offering them big reductions. Then specific geographical areas (the old port area of Dublin and Shannon Airoport are specific examples) were designted in which the tax regime was virtually zero. These sorts of tax breaks are illegal under EC rules. My colleagues and I tried for years to get the European Commission to let Wales do the same, but were only able to get them to stop letting Ireland do it. So then Ireland developed the idea of a generally low corporation tax, offsetting the tax loss by higher personal taxes. (It is, of course, unsurprising that Dr F leaves out these details.) These huge subsidies to industry do work. However, the deadweight that Irish academic studies found in evaluating them was huge. In other words, almost (but not quite) all of the money was being paid to encourage firms to do what they were probably going to do anyway. But anyone who thinks that providing huge subsidies to industry is the right wing way is greatly mistaken. A third point was the emigration FROM Ireland. What that turned out to lead to was a generally younger population. (This has been boosted subsequently by the immigration into Ireland.) One of the things a generally younger population does is make education policy work much more quickly through the economy as a whole. MG

The search by artist function is quaintly eccentric. I put in "Johnny Lytle" and got one hit "Alex Reece". Why didn't I get thousands? MG

That's Brighton! Struth! MG

Surely there are/were black oldies stations? Last time I was in Newark (a decade ago, I'll admit) there was a NYC station - don't ask which - that was on everywhere and was mostly playing oldies - proper oldies - Jerry Butler, Sam Cooke, Jimbo, Don Covay, Ree, Denise LaSalle, Green, Stax, Motown etc etc. MG PS As I recollect, Roberta Flack was a DJ on it, doing smooth soul stuff. Most appropriate, I thought.

Christopher Robin Alice The guards at Buckingham Palace

Better than "Sepia Sinatra" or even "The black Baudelaire". Dame as the rest of us - grow old. MG

Stanley Turpentine Discs 4 & 5 MG

Up for MG! Sorry - I missed your earlier post for some reason. This is by a long chalk the least played of my Clare Fischer albums. I've played it fewer than a dozen times in over 35 years. But as I was listening to it yesterday - first time I'd gone through it since 1985 - I enjoyed it more than I'd remembered. I wasn't aware of any overdubs, though they're definitely there - in other words, they're not done so's you particularly notice them. Of course, if you want to listen to it and identify what he's doing all the time, they'd no doubt be apparent. But they needn't spoil your listening pleasure. I'm going to get this out a bit more in the next few months to see what happens. MG

Charlie Parker - Bird symbols - UK Summit MG

CPE Bach? MG

Who What I Don't Know Gee thanks Matthew Gee Daddy G

Meant to post these here earlier Following the recent Clare Fischer thread Cal Tjader - Huracan - Crystal Clear Clare Fischer - First time out - Pac Jazz orig mono Clare Fischer - Great white hope - Revelation orig stereo (but only one musician) Now Sonny Criss - Up up & away - Prestige blue label orig Cootie Williams - Original Hit recordings 1944 - Phoenix Jazz MG

Enthusiastically second Brownie on the Teddy Edwards! The Smith/DeFrancesco is OK. Some say JOS does stuff on this that he'd never done before. I dunno, I'm not that detailed a listener to this; don't really like Joey De much. You should be able to find a thread about this album somewhere around here with comments by some proper experts. MG

With us it was food! Our daughter wouldn't bloody well eat! We were going nuts! It's SO worrying! But she survived to raise two little horrors of her own, who are both really nice, except sometimes. MG

Leon Spencer Jr Winston Spencer Churchill Sir Anthony Eden

Judy Garland Hank Garland Red Garland

Excellent idea! That's a lifetime endeavour. And you'll have a very hard time finding a bad album among the hundreds he recorded Well, this says it's bad... But I think it's just BAAAAD! MG

Absolutely right all through Lazaro MG

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